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.
Jeena Shah examines the ‘security-first’ and ‘capital-driven’ colonial features of Security Council Resolution 2803. Adopted in November 2025, it endorsed President Donald J. Trump’s ‘Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict’ and granted international legitimacy to the establishment of the Board of Peace. Explaining how Resolution 2803 violates the peremptory norm of self-determination, Shah argues for its illegality.
Webinar launching the archive of the United Nations Centre for Transnational Corporations (UNCTC) — 7 July 2026.
Grace Tsegakele reflects on African states’ responses to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and argues that their varied voting patterns at the United Nations General Assembly are best understood not as inconsistency or indifference, but as an expression of structured ambivalence, a strategic and historically informed approach to international legal observance.
As part of the TWAILR symposium on the United Nations Centre for Transnational Corporations (UNCTC), Shahd Hammouri reflects on the legacy and relevance of the UNCTC for contemporary questions around corporate accountability in contexts of war, apartheid and occupation.
As part of the TWAILR symposium on the United Nations Centre for Transnational Corporations (UNCTC), River Baars reflects on a series of documents leading up to the establishment of the UNCTC, reading them alongside the work of Walter Rodney, and argues that radical anti-capitalist positions were foreclosed from the very outset of the UNCTC.
As part of the TWAILR symposium on the United Nations Centre for Transnational Corporations (UNCTC), Kalika Mehta reflects on a series of internal UNCTC ‘overview’ reports to chart a shift from an explicitly political, NIEO inspired project of disciplining transnational corporations in the service of redistribution towards a more depoliticised, technocratic language of managing and measuring their effects.
As part of the TWAILR symposium on the United Nations Centre for Transnational Corporations (UNCTC), Caitlin Murphy reflects on corporate ‘counter-strategies’ to the Third World’s NIEO agenda through the lens of a 1978 report produced jointly by the UNCTC and the UN Industrial Development Organisation on transnational corporations and the processing of raw materials.
As part of the TWAILR symposium on the United Nations Centre for Transnational Corporations (UNCTC), Wanshu Cong reflects on UNCTC analysis of cross-border data flows and what it revealed about the structural asymmetries between global North and South.
Guest editors André Dao and Shahd Hammouri introduce a special TWAILR symposium reflecting on the archive and legacy of the United Nations Centre for Transnational Corporations.
Abstracts due May 18, 2026 with notification of acceptance by May 30, 2026. Email submissions to srilankaconference2026@gmail.com