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Author: Claire Smith

01 May

Beyond Containment – Confronting Racial Hierarchies in International Law: Rehearsals in Emancipation

[Raghavi Viswanath is a postdoctoral researcher and teaching fellow at College of Law at SOAS. Claire Smith is an editor of Emancipating International Law and a PhD candidate at UvA.] Emancipating International Law announces a lofty aspiration. Departing from academic scholarship about race, it invites readers to think about international law and race. In particular, how racism and racialisation enable violent legal...

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