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, Ayobami Aluko argues that the crisis facing international law is not merely institutional or doctrinal, but moral. Against the technocratic and managerial tendencies that continue to shape global governance, Aluko advances Decolonial Legal Humanism (DHL) as a framework for reimagining law through dignity, reciprocity, and moral repair, offering a relational response to the enduring realities of climate coloniality and global injustice.
Raniyal Niyada P argues that the proposed ITPGRFA ‘Package Deal’ marks a shift from sovereignty-based access and benefit-sharing towards an access-management framework. Through a TWAIL lens, the reflection explores how reforms concerning Digital Sequence Information, crop expansion, and subscription-based benefit-sharing may deepen existing inequalities in the governance of plant genetic resources.
Environmental Adjudication in the Anthropocene: Legal Imagination and the Management of Unequal Harm
Gustavo Leite Neves da Luz reflects critically on a series of advisory opinions across different international courts and tribunals over recent years on the burning question of state responsibilities to address climate change and environmental harm.
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.