Dr. Maria Francesca Cavalcanti

Maria Francesca is the principal researcher of the LOLA project and an Assistant Professor of Jurisprudence at Tilburg University. This project emerged from her interests in legal pluralism and the intersections of law, anthropology and ecology. She has worked closely with Giorgia Pavani and Silvia Bagni at the Centro di Studi sull’America Latina of the University of Bologna, which reflects the project’s focus on Latin America’s culture and legal tradition. In this way, Maria Francesca sees LOLA’s relevance in its critical engagement with dominant legal paradigms and its potential to
challenge and enrich Western legal thought.