Santy Kouwagam
Postdoc
- Name
- Dr. S.U. Kouwagam
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- 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
- Kouwagam S.U. (2023), Memenangkan konflik pertanahan: keahlian pengacara, korupsi, dan kelemahan Negara Hukum. Jakarta: Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia.
- Kouwagam S.U. (2022), Can affordable homes be healthy?: Legal strategy, socio-legal studies, and activism in Indonesia, The Indonesian Journal of Socio-Legal Studies 2(1): 1-19.
- Kouwagam S. & Lunanta L.P. (2021), Review of: H. Pols, P. Setiawan, C.R. Marchira, Irmansyah, E. Sri Tyas Suci, M.-J. DelVecchio Good & B.J. Good (eds) (2019), Jiwa Sehat, Negara Kuat: Masa Depan Layanan Kesehatan Jiwa di Indonesia. Jakarta: Kompas Press. Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 177(1): 155-156.
- Kouwagam S. (22 April 2020), Indonesian lawyers in crisis: The ugly truth in times of corona. Leiden Law Blog. [blog entry].
- Kouwagam S. & Bedner A. (2020), Indonesia: Professionals, Brokers and Fixers. In: Abel R.L., Hammerslev O., Sommerlad H. & Schultz U. (Eds.), Lawyers in 21st Century Societies. Vol. 1: National Reports. Oxford: Hart Publishing. 735-752.
- Kouwagam S.U. (23 June 2020), How lawyers win land conflicts for corporations: Legal Strategy and its influence on the Rule of Law in Indonesia (Dissertatie. Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law, Faculty of Law, Leiden University) Meijers-reeks no. MI-350. Supervisor(s): Bedner A.W. Benda-Beckmann-Drooglever Fortuin C.E. von.
- Kouwagam S. (2019), Belajar naik kuda di Belanda. In: Suryani A.J., Siregar A. & Sudarmoko K. (Eds.), Oleh-oleh dari Leiden. Jakarta: Kosa Kata Kita.
- Kouwagam S.U. (2019), Review of: Suryomenggolo J. (2019), At a Moment’s Notice: Indonesian Maids Write on Their Lives Abroad: NIAS Press. Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 175(4): 598-599.
- Kouwagam S.U. (23 November 2017), Indonesian tycoon vs. Goldman Sachs: 1-0. Leiden Law Blog. [blog entry].
- Kouwagam S.U. (7 April 2016), The Panama Papers as a warning for Indonesian Law on Public Housing Savings. Leiden Law Blog. Leiden: Leiden University. [blog entry].
- Kouwagam S.U. (5 August 2015), The Achilles’ heel of lawyers’ privileges. Leiden Law Blog. Leiden: Leiden University. [blog entry].