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Vasanthi Venkatesh is an Associate Professor at the University of Windsor, specializing in Law, Land, and Local Economies. Her research focuses on law, resistance, and social movements, with particular attention to labor migration, citizenship, racialization, colonialism, and discrimination. She conducts interdisciplinary comparative studies of law within political, economic, global, and historical contexts. Venkatesh administers the Migrant Farmworkers Clinic in Windsor Law, which is dedicated to the legal rights of migrant workers in Canada. Additionally, she serves on the Leadership Committee for Equitable Livelihoods at the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) 2021, leveraging her expertise in migrant labor rights within food systems. She holds a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, where her dissertation explored the socio-legal dynamics of dispossession and unfree labor in agricultural systems across Canada and Occupied Palestine. Venkatesh is also developing a book manuscript that examines the ongoing legacies of the global plantation complex and racialized borders in agricultural law. Her scholarly work integrates critical race theory, anti-colonial scholarship, and empirical methods across various publications, addressing themes such as labor migration, racial justice, and gender violence in the context of global law reform.
Includes Mechanical, Automotive, and Materials Engineering streams.