Issue 06 is out now with articles on space resource exploitation, non-performative restorative justice, sanitary regulation of food production, global regulation of data, preventing illicit financial flows, desensitization to wartime violence, the suspicious ‘magic’ of AI + 1 key TWAIL text now in Spanish.
Drawing on the tradition of TWAIL engagement with the praxis, Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín traces how his liminal identities (between Europeanness and non-Europeanness) have shaped his scholarship as a Latin American researcher situated in Europe while working in the archives in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Veronica Kiang examines the rising demand for gold in technology and its disproportionate effects on West African nations in the Communauté Financière Africaine (CFA) franc zone. In unraveling how imperialism continues to manifest in the “Technocene”, she argues that racial capitalism and extractivist practices function to further entrench enduring colonial hierarchies, as the case of West Africa illustrates.
In the closing keynote conversation of the 2025 Toronto TWAIL Conference organized by Osgoode Hall Law School, on 6 September 2025, Ọláolúwa Òní engaged Balakrishnan Rajagopal on the conference theme: A Structured Ambivalence? A Multidisciplinary International Conference on Third World Approaches to International Law and Governance in a Time of Global Crises.
Open Letter of Scholars in Support of UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
Jake Okechukwu Effoduh interviewed Usha Natarajan on 5 September 2025 for the opening keynote conversation of the Toronto TWAIL Conference ~ ‘A Structured Ambivalence? TWAIL and Governance in a Time of Global Crises’ at Osgoode Hall Law School. They discussed resisting the diverse attempts to undermine radical scholarship, considering in particular Palestine, environmental and migration crises, and #MeToo in academia.
Hussein Badreddine réflechit à la légalité du blocus maritime de Gaza et l’arraisonnement des navires tentant d’acheminer de l’aide humanitaire au peuple Gazaoui. Badreddine examine la légalité de ces arraisonnements commis par les autorités Israéliennes à la lumière du droit international humanitaire, en considérant à la fois les conflits armés internationaux et les conflits armés non internationaux.
Please join us on Wednesday 19 November 2025 for an important webinar on Genocide in the Age of Economic and Physical Coercion.
Jessica Elias tackles the gaps limiting the formal international courts in The Hague and explains how people’s tribunals can address them. Reflecting on the Gaza Tribunal, the author argues that this legal space offers a valuable comprehensive approach to the assault on the people of Gaza.
A transnational workshop to build feminist knowledge and practice— across borders, disciplines, and struggles (English / Spanish / Arabic).
Adil Hasan Khan’s reflection celebrates Antony Anghie’s formative TWAIL text, drawing on Khan’s presentation at the ‘Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law: 20 Years On’ Conference organised by the Laureate Program on Global Corporations and International Law in Naarm/Melbourne on 7 and 8 August 2025.