Dr S D Lulz

I am a Lecturer (Education and Research) at the Exeter Law School (Streatham Campus). I have been developing my teaching and research broadly in legal theory at the intersection of law, magic, technology, and the land.

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Research supervision:

SD welcomes PhD research proposals for critical research projects in legal theory or law and humanities, especially on themes of law, culture, knowledge production/epistemic justice, legal aesthetics, digital labour, magic/spirituality, land/ecology or computational technology.

SD currently supervises the following PhD candidates:

- Aileen W. Kimuhu. Project Title: Go Tell It on the Mountain: Traditional Knowledge, Knowledge Ownership, and Belonging

SD is also able to supervise LLB and LLM dissertations on law, media, and technology themes as well as on theoretical approaches in land and environmental law.

Biography:

S D Lulz (he/it) joined Exeter Law School as a Lecturer (Education & Research) at the start of November 2022. Prior to this, it defended its doctoral dissertation (summa cum laude) at the Faculty of Law, Humboldt University of Berlin (HU). At HU, it was also a member of the graduate school network Unity and Difference in the European Legal Area at the European Law School as well as associated with the Chair for Public and Comparative Law.

SD completed its LLM in European and European Legal Studies from Europa-Kolleg, University of Hamburg and has worked as a legal research & policy consultant within the civil society space in India, engaging with governments, industry, and academia predominantly on digital rights, access to knowledge (A2K) and the regulatory politics of internet and media technologies. It has also served as a Visiting Lecturer at the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media, Bangalore and taught at HU Berlin and NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad.

Currently, SD is working on a monograph that synthesises Indigenous theories of knowledge with critical theory to map and critique the construction of data as an object/subject of governance within the modern Western legal form. SD's research interests lie in exploring the entangled politics of law, technology, and anthropocenes—particularly in bringing decolonial Indigenous, anticaste and queerfeminist praxes into conversation with the expanding field of law and technology. In doing so, it seeks to engage with environmental law, property law (including intellectual property), information law and space law as well as initiate transdisciplinary discourses with historians, geographers, anthropologists, and artists. It is also interested in reimagining the presents and futures of legal education with likeminded politically invested and critically-oriented legal academics, practitioners, and students.

Short Bio

• 11/2022–present: Lecturer(E&R), University of Exeter
• 10/2017–03/2022: DAAD-GSSP Scholar and Doctoral Researcher, Humboldt University of Berlin. Doctoral Thesis titled: "Unsettling Data: Law's Representationalism and the Politics of Exclusion," summa cum laude
• 10/2016–09/2017: L.L.M. in European and European Legal Studies, Europa-Kolleg, University of Hamburg, summa cum laude. Recipient of the German Academic Exchange Scholarship (DAAD)
• 06/2014–09/2016: Legal Consultant, Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore & New Delhi
• 08/2014–12/2015: Visiting Lecturer, Indian Institute for Journalism and New Media, Bangalore
• 05/2015–11/2015: Sarai Fellow for Short-Term Research on Social and Digital Media, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi
• 06/2013–11/2015: Legal Consultant, Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore
• 01/2013–06/2013: Legal Consultant, Software Freedom Law Center, New Delhi
• 12/2012–2/2013: Research Intern, National Judicial Academy, Bhopal
• 07/2008–04/2013: B.A., L.L.B. (Hons.), National Law Institute University, Bhopal