Congrats to Laura Primeau on the recent defence of her thesis proposal. Laura’s doctoral dissertation, “Mobilizing the Law: Indigenous Resistance to the Mayan Train in the South of Mexico,” is supervised by Prof. Cristina Rojas and Prof. Laura Macdonald and examines the role of human rights in indigenous opposition to the Mayan Train project in Mexico. It adopts a critical approach rooted in pluriversal theory to illuminate ways in which Mayan people and organizations navigate international, regional and national human rights instruments to contest the representation of their territories as a lifeless asset. Laura’s research combines literature on jurisgenesis inspired by Robert Cover with literature inspired by Andean indigenous cosmovisions to open new avenues for conceptualizing the relationship between human rights and decolonization movements.