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.
In this Reflection, Manas Raj Singh argues that the 2025-26 U.S.-India tariff dispute did not mark the collapse of a rules-based order but rather exposed the enduring coercive structures that have long underpinned international economic governance. Drawing on TWAIL scholarship, he traces how different legal instruments have repeatedly constrained the policy autonomy of states in the Global South.
Amrisha Tripathi describes how Israel’s ongoing genocide in Palestine has exposed a foundational crisis within the post-war international legal order, particularly the systematic collapse of jus cogens. Crucially for TWAIL, Tripathi applies her critique to India, considering India’s pivot from anticolonial solidarity to transactional realpolitik with Israel.
Recording of Shahd Hammouri’s remarks at the May 2026 ‘Humanity at a Crossroads’ symposium on the invisibility of, and lack of reaction to, Israeli atrocities in Lebanon over recent months.
Recordings from a May 2026 symposium on the enduring influence of Edward Said’s ideas.
Margot E Salomon reflects, through a human rights lens, on the possibilities of systemic economic reconfiguration across the spheres of land, food, and natural resources.
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.