We are very happy to bring you Issue 06 of the TWAIL Review, which begins with a Spanish translation of a core TWAIL text from the 2023 TWAILR Bogotá Academy syllabus: B.S Chimni‘s formative 2004 article, From Resettlement to Involuntary Repatriation: Towards a Critical History of Durable Solutions to Refugee Problems. We hope the enduring relevance of this text can enrich new generations across the Spanish-speaking world. This translation is followed by 7 original articles: Hussein Badreddine‘s historical analysis of the laws of space resource exploitation that draws inspiration from the original intent of newly decolonized states when drafting the Outer Space Treaty; Laura Acosta-Zárate‘s consideration of what non-performative restorative justice could look like when based on local practices in Colombia and respect for the dignity and agency of human and non-human actors; Daniel Rivas-Ramírez‘s application of a decolonial lens to sanitary regulation of food production in Columbia, critiquing the prioritization of industrialization and the stigmatization of traditional practices; Ewuwuni Onnoghen-Theophilus‘s exploration of the nexus between the regulation of natural resources in international law and the global regulation of data, concluding that it is more beneficial for Global South countries to adopt a domestic data governance regime rather than subscribing to the Data Free Flow with Trust (DFFT) or any other global data governance regime; UnyimeAbasi Odong‘s critique of the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) global standards for the detection and prevention of illicit financial flows as failing to account for Third World socioeconomic and sociocultural contexts and producing prejudicial outcomes for Third World states and peoples; Shahd Hammouri‘s tracing of how the language of international law desensitizes certain forms of wartime violence, such as those imposed collectively or economically in the Global South, and identification of methods more attuned to the realities of contemporary warfare; and Kristen Thomasen & Jeremy Kellen‘s interrogation of the analogizing of artificial intelligence systems with ‘magic’, and how such analogies are situated within an ongoing historic project of enchanted determinism whereby such comparisons inform law, society, and economy in the interests of colonialism, capitalism, and white supremacy..

Producing a fully independent and freely accessible journal for our community of readers around the world involves significant care and labor. We are immensely grateful to our authors and translators for their their diligent and patient work. We are likewise hugely thankful to all of our peer reviewers for their generosity with their time, wisdom, and kind and constructive feedback, to our advisory board for their support and encouragement, and to our own institutions for their support. 

The contents of this Issue are freely available to read and download via the links here. We very much hope you like it, please share it far and wide, and we look forward to receiving your submissions for Issue 07 and beyond.