Divers Paths to Justice - English - Forest Peoples Programme

Divers Paths to Justice: Legal pluralism and the rights of indigenous peoples inSoutheast AsiaAbout the authorsMarcus ColchesterSophie ChaoMarcus Colchester is English and received hisdoctorate in Social Anthropology from theUniversity of Oxford. He is Director of the ForestPeoples Programme. Marcus has over thirty years’experience working with forest peoples in thehumid tropics. His expertise is in indigenouspeoples, social and political ecology, standardsetting, human rights, environment, developmentland tenure, policy reform and advocacy, FPIC andconflict resolution. Marcus has worked intensivelyon logging, plantations, palm oil, extractiveindustries, dams, colonisation and protected areas.Sophie Chao is French and Chinese. She holds a BAin Chinese and Tibetan studies and a Masters inSocial Anthropology from the University of Oxford.Sophie has worked as a consultant for the Literacyand Non-Formal Education Division at UNESCO(Paris) and is Assistant to the Director of the ForestPeoples Programme (UK). Her areas of research arelegal and human rights, land tenure, responsiblefinance, customary law, legal pluralism and palm oilexpansion in South East Asia.Ramy BulanDr. Ramy Bulan is Associate professor of Law at the Faculty of Law,University Malaya where she teaches Equity and Trust (includingAdministration of Estates) and Jurisprudence. Ramy is currently Director ofthe University of Malaya Centre of Malaysian Indigenous Studies (CMIS)and has also headed the Centre For Legal Pluralism and Indigenous Law158