Amaka Vanni reflects on the role of international trade and investment law in the creation of intellectual property rights that sacrifice the life and health of the poor and racialised at the altar of corporate profitability.
Sujith Xavier & Ntina Tzouvala introduce our series of reflections on ‘Teaching International Law: Between Critique and the Canon’.
Renisa Mawani & Sebastian Prange reflect on teaching an aqueous history of international law.
Srinivas Burra reflects on teaching critical international law in a Third World classroom.
Mark Fathi Massoud reflects on an interdisciplinary approach to teaching international law: expose students to diverse theories in the field, encourage them to persuade, and create space for them to engage.
Ata R. Hindi reflects on teaching international law in Palestine, to Palestinians.
Jing Min Tan reflects on the invisible labour of students that are challenging and decolonising an institution where canons are defined.
Neve Gordon & Nicola Perugini discuss their new book, ‘Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire’ with Ayça Çubukçu, Noura Erakat & John Reynolds.
Rahul Rao in conversation with Danish Sheikh and Ntina Tzouvala on Rahul’s recent book ‘Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality’ (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Professor Adelle Blackett asks ‘what happens when labour law is forced to see itself in historically rooted, relational, and contextualised terms’? While refusing continuity for its own sake, Blackett stresses the need for developing spaces in which alternative and counter-hegemonic narratives about the purpose of (labour) law are taken seriously – those emerging from labour law’s peripheries in colonised land, dispossessed and disenfranchised people in the global South and North. On 31 August 2020, Amin Parsa and Niklas Selberg from Lund University conversed virtually with Professor Blackett to discuss the trajectory of her research and teaching on decolonisation of labour law, as well as the Othering of labour law by even the most progressive factions of international legal scholarship.