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.
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.
This online lecture series seeks to foster interdisciplinary and historically-inflected discussions about how international law both shapes, and is shaped by, struggles over natural resources. In Semester 2, the lecture series will focus on resources struggles in the context of occupation around the world. We will collectively explore how struggles over resource plunder and exploitation shape the dynamics of occupation, and how peoples under occupation are contesting extraction and asserting ownership and sovereignty over resources as part of a broader resistance movements. Speakers will examine resource struggles under occupation in Greenland, West Papua, Palestine, Kashmir, Bougainville and Western Sahara to consider the different forms of political contestation they produce and how resource struggles might be mobilised to enliven political possibilities for self-determination and decolonisation.