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.
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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?
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.
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.
A roundtable discussion involving Sumedha Choudhury, Julia Dehm, André Dao, Haris Jamil, Richard Joyce, Adil Hasan Khan, Tanvee Nandan, Dianne Otto and Saika Sabir, expressing their indebtedness to the Palestinian scholars they had read together.
Issue 5 is out now, including articles on Bob Marley, the neoliberal transformation of the Indian state, teaching international economic law in Africa, children of African Irish descent, settler colonial logics in Nigeria, transnational labour mobility + 2 key TWAIL texts now in Spanish.
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Michael Fakhri, will present his latest report to the UN General Assembly on 18 October 2024. The report is on ‘Starvation and the right to food, with an emphasis on the Palestinian people’s food sovereignty’, and is illustrated by the artist Omar Khouri.
Binish Ahmed provides clarity into the ways racism functions to dehumanize, discriminate against, and erase Kashmiris and their narratives.
This book review by Malini Chidambaram dives into Joel Bakan’s critique of modern corporations, especially those that cloak themselves in social responsibility.