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Santy Kouwagam

Postdoc

Name
Dr. S.U. Kouwagam
Telephone
+31 71 527 2727
E-mail
s.u.kouwagam@law.leidenuniv.nl
ORCID iD
0000-0002-6053-3365

Santy Kouwagam is a postdoc at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society.

Santy used to practice law at a private commercial law firm in Jakarta and has handled numerous cross-border cases and commercial transactions. Santy studied law at Universitas Hasanuddin, Indonesia. She obtained her Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree (cum laude) in International and Comparative Law from University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, the United States).

In Pittsburgh, Santy was involved at the Family Law Clinic representing indigent litigants and certified by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to provide legal services. She also volunteered as a clerk at the Allegheny County Office of the Public Defender, and at a non-profit organization which provide legal assistance to refugee and asylum seekers. 

Santy completed her PhD at Van Vollenhoven Institute (2020). Her doctoral thesis is entitled “How lawyers win land conflicts for corporations: Legal Strategy and its influence on the Rule of Law in Indonesia". Santy founded Stichting Socio-Legal Consulting in 2019, a non-profit organisation providing legal aid for people and companies with ties to Indonesia in “regular" cases such as divorce, child custody, inheritance, and housing disputes. She is currently working on journal articles and several projects based on her research, and she is preparing a research project regarding care obligations and laws of succession.

Postdoc

  • Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
  • Instituut voor Metajuridica
  • Van Vollenhoven Instituut

Work address

Kamerlingh Onnes Building
Steenschuur 25
2311 ES Leiden
Room number B1.14

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