Before joining Northumbria, Lars Waldorf taught law at Essex, Dundee, York, and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. He has worked mostly on accountability and empowerment in Rwanda and then Sri Lanka. In an earlier life, he was a poverty and civil rights lawyer in the US.
Lars has been Principal Investigator on two AHRC-funded grants -- -- that helped empower people with conflict-related disabilities in Sri Lanka and Nepal through a combination of inclusive dance and rights education. He is also a member of the AHRC Peer Review College.
His current research and impact work brings together art, law, and resistance studies in the aftermath of Sri Lanka's 2022 occupy movement. As part of that, he is co-curating with Dr Nilanjana Premaratna for GemArts at the Gateshead Central Library in June and July 2024.
Human rights, law and humanities, legal empowerment, peacebuilding, resistance studies, transitional justice
- Affective Justice for an Ineffective Transition: Visceral, Vicarious Responsibility in Paangshu and Demons in Paradise, Waldorf, L., Premaratna, N. 3 Nov 2025, Contemporary Sri Lankan Literature and Art, London, Routledge
- Artful Struggles: Art in the Aftermath of the Aragalaya-Porattam, Waldorf, L., Premaratna, N. 3 Nov 2025, Contemporary Sri Lankan Literature and Art, London, Routledge
- Resistance to illiberal peacebuilding: towards a new research agenda, Olivius, E., Waldorf, L., Åkebo, M., Premaratna, N. 28 Aug 2025, In: Conflict, Security and Development
- ‘This coconut was the one that finally worked’: cursing for peace and justice in Sri Lanka, Waldorf, L., Premaratna, N. 3 Apr 2025, In: Peacebuilding
- Performing/Informing Rights: Mixing Inclusive Dance and Human Rights Education for Disabled People in Sri Lanka and Nepal, Waldorf, L., Marambio, H., Blades, H. 30 Jan 2024, In: Journal of Human Rights Practice
- Illiberal peace-building in Asia: a comparative overview, Smith, C., Waldorf, L., Venugopal, R., McCarthy, G. 2 Jan 2020, In: Conflict, Security and Development
- Between transition and transformation: Legal empowerment as collective reparations, Waldorf, L. 8 Feb 2019, From Transitional to Transformative Justice, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
- Legal Empowerment and Horizontal Inequalities after Conflict, Waldorf, L. 4 Mar 2019, In: Journal of Development Studies
- Apotheosis of a warlord: Paul Kagame, Waldorf, L. 1 Jan 2017, Warlord Democrats in Africa, Uppsala, Bloomsbury
- Inhumanity's law: Crimes against humanity, RtoP and South Sudan, Waldorf, L. 1 Jan 2016, In: International Politics
Beth Tomlinson Woman, Life, Freedom: Exploring the Entanglements of Law, Resistance, and Misogyny in Post-Revolutionary Iran. Start Date: 01/10/2025
- Law PhD January 16 2014
- Law June 01 1989
- Government BA June 01 1985
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