We are very happy to bring you Issue 05 of the TWAIL Review. This issue includes Matheus Gobbato Leichtweis’s TWAIL reading of Bob Marley; S. Ali Malik’s interrogation of the neoliberal transformation of the Indian state; Jane Ezirigwe’s examination of pedagogy and the teaching of international economic law in Africa; Conrad Bryan’s reflections on his own experiences, research and campaigning in pursuit of justice for children of African Irish descent; Ọláolúwa Òní’s review essay on Folúkẹ́ Adébísí’s Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge which argues for an understanding of Nigeria’s settler-colonial logics; and Christiana Essie Sagay’s TWAIL analysis of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.

Issue 5 concludes with Spanish translations of two crucial TWAIL texts read during the 2023 TWAILR Academy in Bogotá — Kamari Maxine Clarke’s The Rule of Law Through Its Economies of Appearances: The Making of the African Warlord, and Usha Natarajan & Kishan Khoday’s Locating Nature: Making and Unmaking International Law. We hope these enduring texts can enrich new generations of scholars across the Spanish-speaking world. 

Producing a fully independent, free-access journal for our community of readers around the world involves a lot of care and labour. We are immensely grateful to our authors and translators for their their work, their writing, and their patience with us. We are likewise hugely thankful to all of our peer-reviewers for their generosity with their time and invaluable contributions, to our advisory board for their support and encouragement, and to our own institutions for their support. 

The contents of this issue and all the articles are freely available to read and download via the links here. We very much hope you like it, please do share it far and wide, and we look forward to receiving your submissions for Issue 06 and beyond.