Mia Swart describes the pivotal role of Judge Trindade in bridging diverse jurisdictions by citing the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the African Court of Human and People’s Rights at the International Court of Justice to foster a more comprehensive and unified approach to global human rights protection.
Category Archive: TWAILR: Reflections
Godwin Eli Kwadzo Dzah delves into the historical roots of the ‘new’ human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment in international law, highlighting Africa’s pioneering contributions and challenging the marginalisation of its role in the evolving global narrative.
Gervaise Savvias reflects on how critical understandings of race are side-lined in international criminal law by the prevailing influences of neo-colonialism, neo-imperialism, and capitalism. International criminal law simply reflects existing inequalities and cannot be expected to be a driving force for racial justice.
Vasuki Nesiah traces how the movement for the NIEO represented the formerly-colonized challenging the hierarchies of knowledge and governance that was embedded in the world’s economic and racial orderings.
Incidental to her travel to Lisbon in July 2022 alongside others who attended the 2022 Law and Society Association’s annual meeting, Anamika Misra reflects upon the persistence of the Portuguese colonial legacy, approaching the visibility of this legacy in the streets of Lisbon.
As part of our ongoing reflections on Teaching International Law, Abhijeet Shrivastava and Rudraksh Lakra reflect on their recent experience as Jessup mooters. They explore how the institutional expectations of Jessup mooting and broader context of international law discourage certain arguments about decolonization.
Towards Remedying the Transcivilizational Neglect: Revisiting the Story of the Spanish Requerimiento
Using Yasuaki Onuma’s ‘Transcivilizational Perspective on Internacional Law’, Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui & Mohd Imran explore the emergence of the Spanish Requerimiento in the sixteenth century as a way to interrogate the absence, in the discipline’s historiography, of the encounter between European international law and its Muslim “other” in early modernity.
Through the lens of recent political developments, Ahmed Raza Memon analyzes the complex entanglement of social orders within Pakistan, where persistent colonial legacies interweave through local sociological realities in ways that resonate across the postcolonial world.
Shahd Hammouri reflects on the paradoxes of how freedom of speech is curtailed in certain contexts – thinking about critiques of neoliberalism in Jordan, critiques of settler colonialism in Palestine, and critiques of patriarchy by Arab feminists.
Margot E Salomon reflects on the positive environmental, economic and legal outcomes that ensue when alternative forms of economic organisation are recognised as an important and protected part of such communities’ culture.