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Critical Approaches

02 May

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05 Apr

Mohsen al Attar and Ata R. Hindi, with Claire Smith* What has Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reaffirmed for racialised scholars of international law? For one, we’re reminded of the limitless capacity of international lawyers to centre themselves and the discipline we hold dear, come what may. Once more, we are in crisis, jeremiads flowing with the freedom of disciplinary self-importance. What...

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17 Mar

[Shaimaa Abdelkarim is a lecturer at Birmingham Law School. Farnush Ghadery is a Senior Lecturer in Law at London South Bank University. Jay Ramasubramanyam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University, Toronto. Rohini Sen is a PhD candidate at Warwick School of Law and an Assistant Professor at the Jindal Global Law School. Kanad Bagchi is a Doctoral...

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07 Mar

[Sergey Sayapin is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean at KIMEP University’s School of Law (Almaty, Kazakhstan).] The recent days have seen what is likely the most flagrant breach of the prohibition of the use of force since the Second World War. Commentators have already discussed a few aspects of this blatant act of aggression – such as the importance of...

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07 Feb

What is the difference between a Marxist and a TWAILer (except for the class element)?Julia Emtseva, Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute* Posed on twitter, this question about Third World Approaches to International Law triggered a flurry of responses. 'Many TWAILers are grounded in historical materialism'; 'it’s about the ‘ultimate’ power relations…to TWAIL, it’s empire-colony, or race'; and 'most TWAIL draws heavily...

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