Almost two years into a genocide that has sought to devastate all Palestinian life in Gaza, this move to conditionally recognize a Palestinian state comes across as a response essentially out of time. While this attempt at redeeming a liberal international legal order is no doubt far too little, far too late, what might a Palestinian national liberation movement tactically salvage and repurpose from this irredeemable wreck, and what should they approach with caution? This panel critically examines this urgent question at a time of immense danger and devastation.
Fia Hamid-Walker reflects on the transformation of the Balinese legal system under Dutch colonial rule, and argues that it was not merely a shift in legal form but a deliberate act of colonial legal violence, where legal narratives were deployed to undermine Indigenous authorities and impose political domination.
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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.
Mohamed Thahir Sulaiman explores how the Global South has challenged mainstream notions of what it means for a state to be specially affected when it comes to customary international law formation. Sulaiman argues that the doctrine of specially affected states can be used to counteract hegemonic international law and amplify the voices of the Global South in shaping customary international law.
Benjamin P. Davis talks to Usha Natarajan about Ben’s book on the inspirational Caribbean poet, Édouard Glissant. What we can learn from Glissant about human rights? What does Glissant mean by the ‘right to opacity’? Is it necessary and possible to know the Other? How do we ‘choose our bearing’ and engage in ethical academic and legal praxis amid neoliberal institutions that are complicit in genocide, famine, violence, and suffering?
Jake Okechukwu Effoduh and Miracle Okumu Mudeyi interrogate the coloniality of AI, the extractive political economy of data, and the structural inequalities embedded in […]
Maryam Jamshidi reflects on the U.S. government’s latest attack on the UN through its sanctioning of UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, and argues that the sanctions violate international treaties on immunities and should be challenged in U.S. courts.
تتحرّر فلسطين، سنكون جميعنا أحرارًا بشكل حقيقي. لذا، وبالإيمان الذي تعلّمناه منكم، نؤكّد أنّنا سننال الحريّة جميعًا، من الماء إلى الماء
Webinar, 2 July 2025.