As part of the TWAILR symposium on the United Nations Centre for Transnational Corporations (UNCTC), Caitlin Murphy reflects on corporate ‘counter-strategies’ to the Third World’s NIEO agenda through the lens of a 1978 report produced jointly by the UNCTC and the UN Industrial Development Organisation on transnational corporations and the processing of raw materials.
As part of the TWAILR symposium on the United Nations Centre for Transnational Corporations (UNCTC), Wanshu Cong reflects on UNCTC analysis of cross-border data flows and what it revealed about the structural asymmetries between global North and South.
Guest editors André Dao and Shahd Hammouri introduce a special TWAILR symposium reflecting on the archive and legacy of the United Nations Centre for Transnational Corporations.
Abstracts due May 18, 2026 with notification of acceptance by May 30, 2026. Email submissions to srilankaconference2026@gmail.com
Watch the webinar: in a timely and critical conversation on the state of humanitarianism in the West Bank today, this webinar traces how humanitarian action has evolved and how these actors operate within a broader landscape of occupation, violence, and structural injustice.
Drawing on the tradition of TWAIL engagement with the praxis, Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín traces how his liminal identities (between Europeanness and non-Europeanness) have shaped his scholarship as a Latin American researcher situated in Europe while working in the archives in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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.