Raniyal Niyada P argues that the proposed ITPGRFA ‘Package Deal’ marks a shift from sovereignty-based access and benefit-sharing towards an access-management framework. Through a TWAIL lens, the reflection explores how reforms concerning Digital Sequence Information, crop expansion, and subscription-based benefit-sharing may deepen existing inequalities in the governance of plant genetic resources.
international law
Environmental Adjudication in the Anthropocene: Legal Imagination and the Management of Unequal Harm
Gustavo Leite Neves da Luz reflects critically on a series of advisory opinions across different international courts and tribunals over recent years on the burning question of state responsibilities to address climate change and environmental harm.
In this Reflection, Manas Raj Singh argues that the 2025-26 U.S.-India tariff dispute did not mark the collapse of a rules-based order but rather exposed the enduring coercive structures that have long underpinned international economic governance. Drawing on TWAIL scholarship, he traces how different legal instruments have repeatedly constrained the policy autonomy of states in the Global South.
Amrisha Tripathi describes how Israel’s ongoing genocide in Palestine has exposed a foundational crisis within the post-war international legal order, particularly the systematic collapse of jus cogens. Crucially for TWAIL, Tripathi applies her critique to India, considering India’s pivot from anticolonial solidarity to transactional realpolitik with Israel.
Recording of Shahd Hammouri’s remarks at the May 2026 ‘Humanity at a Crossroads’ symposium on the invisibility of, and lack of reaction to, Israeli atrocities in Lebanon over recent months.
Jeena Shah examines the ‘security-first’ and ‘capital-driven’ colonial features of Security Council Resolution 2803. Adopted in November 2025, it endorsed President Donald J. Trump’s ‘Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict’ and granted international legitimacy to the establishment of the Board of Peace. Explaining how Resolution 2803 violates the peremptory norm of self-determination, Shah argues for its illegality.
Grace Tsegakele reflects on African states’ responses to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and argues that their varied voting patterns at the United Nations General Assembly are best understood not as inconsistency or indifference, but as an expression of structured ambivalence, a strategic and historically informed approach to international legal observance.
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.
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.
Please join us on Wednesday 19 November 2025 for an important webinar on Genocide in the Age of Economic and Physical Coercion.