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.
Sarah Riley Case talks with Usha Natarajan about the foundational link between racism and ecological harm and how to repair relations between peoples and planet. They discuss Sarah’s research on recovering third world ecologies, making reparations, and reconceptualizing the human, and conclude by considering the crucial situation in Palestine.
Famine has been declared in Gaza. Palestinian civil society and allied institutions have issued a unified call for the deployment of a diplomatic humanitarian convoy to break the siege of Gaza. This is a statement from international lawyers in support of that call.
Maryam Jamshidi refutes the US government’s newfangled claim that UNRWA is not entitled to immunity from suit under the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations.
What is the role of the (legal) intellectual in social transformation today, amid escalating environmental and economic injustice, and the rise of racist regimes worldwide? How should the tactics of third world anti-imperialists evolve amid the disintegration of US power and the mass suffering inflicted by the death throes of US imperialist and capitalist hegemony? While international laws and institutions have contributed to structuring and reproducing suffering across the global south, what role (if any) can law play towards structuring a world order for peace and ecological stability based on respectful interrelations? Vijay Prashad discussed these issues and more with Usha Natarajan and John Reynolds online on 23 April 2025.