(2020) 1 TWAIL ReviewISSN 2563-6693Published under a Creative Commons licence. Antony Anghie ~ ‘Welcoming the TWAIL Review’ ~ pages 1–6 ★ View article TWAILR Editorial Collective ~ ‘A Journal for a…

On 15 October 2023, over 800 scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies and genocide studies signed a public statement warning of the possibility of genocide being perpetrate…

Text and signature link for this public statement.

Scholars and practitioners of law, international relations and politics express their grave concern over the integrity of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.

Sujith Xavier & Ntina Tzouvala introduce our series of reflections on ‘Teaching International Law: Between Critique and the Canon’.

‘We recognize our role and responsibility as scholars to theorize, read, and write on the very issues unfolding in Palestine and among all oppressed nations today.’

In the spirit of the rigorous intellectual debate that Judge Cançado Trindade created, fostered and enjoyed, we would welcome Reflections on his international law legacy from the point of view of t…

Godwin Eli Kwadzo Dzah delves into the historical roots of the ‘new’ human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment in international law, highlighting Africa’s pione…

Watch the recordings of our ongoing Decolonise Palestine Teach-In series, plus some other teach-ins and resources from friends of TWAILR.

(2021) 2 TWAIL ReviewISSN 2563-6693Published under a Creative Commons licence.  E. Tendayi Achiume & Tamara Last ~ Decolonial Regionalism: Reorienting Southern African Migration …

Issue 4 is out now, addressing among other things Palestine, pandemics, contraception & Third World Feminisms + 3 key TWAIL texts now in Spanish.

Call for short papers: we invite submissions that reflect on the challenges of teaching international law critically. We encourage our contributors to focus especially on the question of the ‘canon…

Victor Kattan reflects on the politics of citation, and the failure of the International Criminal Court’s Prosecutor to cite Palestinian sources in a recent submission to the Court on Palesti…

Ntina Tzouvala discusses her book, ‘Capitalism as Civilisation: A History of International Law’, with John Reynolds.

Our third issue of the journal is now available.

Statement published on 29th November 2022 to mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

A running list of commentary on the Covid-19 pandemic from perspectives and sensibilities broadly relevant to third world approaches to international law.

Amaka Vanni reflects on the role of international trade and investment law in the creation of intellectual property rights that sacrifice the life and health of the poor and racialised at the altar…

Asad G. Kiyani reflects on the decision of the International Criminal Court’s Pre-Trial Chamber not to authorize an investigation into crimes allegedly committed in Afghanistan, and considers…

Transcript of online panel discussion on 29 Nov 2023 published in three parts: 1. Influences, 2. Role of Law, 3. Academic Freedom, BDS & Tactics.

Julia Dehm, Carmen Gonzalez & Usha Natarajan respond to 4 questions about academic praxis and the role of the international lawyer in a time of systemic social, economic and ecological meltdow…

Mohammad Shahabuddin elucidates in a new book why minorities are often marginalized in postcolonial states, through identifying three visions of the postcolonial state, and tracing the operations o…

Srinivas Burra reflects on teaching critical international law in a Third World classroom.

Abstract. This article argues, from the perspective of third-world approaches to international law (TWAIL), that the limitations of the Guiding Principles

Shrimoyee Nandini Ghosh reflects on the historical trajectories and consequences of the international community’s domestication of Kashmir, and maps how the Indian legal order serves to simul…

Jeena Shah explores the global efforts to hold President Biden accountable for complicity in genocide. As one of the drafters of the amicus brief supported by a score of international organizations…

Compiled by Babatunde Fagbayibo

In January 2020, E. Tendayi Achiume & Aslı Ü. Bâli convened the UCLA Law Review symposium, ‘Transnational Legal Discourse on Race and Empire’. In this reflection, they situate the symposium wi…

Summer academy at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, 17-21 July 2023. Call for applications by 29 January 2023.

Amaka Vanni reflects on the role of international trade and investment law in the creation of intellectual property rights that sacrifice the life and health of the poor and racialised at the altar…

As part of the Publishers for Palestine initiative, TWAILR is proud to release an ebook collection of writings on Palestine that we have published since we started the journal four years ago.

Introducing the TWAIL Review. Our gratitude to Rajshree Chandra and Kush Gayasen, Janki Devi Memorial College, Delhi University, India, for translating our Introduction into Hindi. Original English...

‘We recognize our role and responsibility as scholars to theorize, read, and write on the very issues unfolding in Palestine and among all oppressed nations today.’

This book brings together Indigenous, Third World and Settler perspectives on the theory and practice of decolonizing law. Colonialism, imperialism, and settler colonialism continue to affect the...

Gervaise Savvias reflects on how critical understandings of race are side-lined in international criminal law by the prevailing influences of neo-colonialism, neo-imperialism, and capitalism. Inter…

Noura Erakat & John Reynolds reflect on Palestinian efforts to engage the International Criminal Court, in the context of Israeli settler-colonialism and both its spectacular and structural vi…

Neve Gordon & Nicola Perugini discuss their new book, ‘Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire’ with Ayça Çubukçu, Noura Erakat & John Reynolds.

Adil Hasan Khan unpacks the colonial histories of the project of modernity in India and transcends the distinction between secular and anti-secular. He envisions a relationship between law, religio…

Through the lens of recent political developments, Ahmed Raza Memon analyzes the complex entanglement of social orders within Pakistan, where persistent colonial legacies interweave through local...

A watchlist compiled by Ernesto Hernández-López.

‘We recognize our role and responsibility as scholars to theorize, read, and write on the very issues unfolding in Palestine and among all oppressed nations today.’

Paola Andrea Acosta Alvarado, Amaya Álvez Marín, Laura Betancur-Restrepo, Fabia Veçoso & Daniel Rivas-Ramírez reflect on the practice of teaching international law in the specific academic set…

Noura Erakat in conversation with John Reynolds on Noura’s book ‘Justice for Some: Law & the Question of Palestine’ (Stanford University Press, 2019)

Shahd Hammouri reflects on the mainstream institutional normalisation of Israel’s genocidal violence against Palestinians.

Srinivas Burra reflects on teaching critical international law in a Third World classroom.

Margot E Salomon reflects on the positive environmental, economic and legal outcomes that ensue when alternative forms of economic organisation are recognised as an important and protected part of …

A short message from the TWAIL Review editorial collective as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to unfold.

Matiangai Sirleaf reflects on the importance of rendering whiteness visible in scholarship, connecting this to the aggressions of whitesplaining and whitewashing – and how both function to st…

Christiane Wilke reflects on the possible gaps in the ICC’s engagement with Afghanistan through the lens of the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan’s Annual Report on the Protect…

Julia Dehm, Carmen Gonzalez & Usha Natarajan respond to 4 questions about academic praxis and the role of the international lawyer in a time of systemic social, economic and ecological meltdow…

Compiled by Ernesto Hernández-López

Amar Bhatia interviews Beverly Jacobs, Jeffery G. Hewitt, and Sylvia McAdam (Saysewahum) about international law and the continuing system of Indigenous treaties, ceremonies and protocols that pred…

Israel's onslaught against Palestinians has raised a significant number of legal questions regarding the legality of the operation, the regulation of the use of force, as well as the charge of...

In January 2020, E. Tendayi Achiume & Aslı Ü. Bâli convened the UCLA Law Review symposium, ‘Transnational Legal Discourse on Race and Empire’. In this reflection, they situate the symposium wi…

Through the lens of recent political developments, Ahmed Raza Memon analyzes the complex entanglement of social orders within Pakistan, where persistent colonial legacies interweave through local...

Shahd Hammouri recalls Allende’s speech and traces the spirals of history – the discourse and conduct – that over time led to the gradual exclusion of economic and corporate matte…

J. Kēhaulani Kauanui discusses her monograph, ‘Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism’, with Ntina Tzouvala.

Shahd Hammouri reflects on the paradoxes of how freedom of speech is curtailed in certain contexts – thinking about critiques of neoliberalism in Jordan, critiques of settler colonialism in P…

Natsu Taylor Saito in conversation with Ntina Tzouvala on the recently-published ‘Settler Colonialism, Race, and the Law: Why Structural Racism Persists’.

Lorenzo Cotula draws on the 1952 Abu Dhabi Arbitration to show how the legal infrastructure that maintains global extractive industries endures, expands and thrives even in the face of climate change.

Pallavi Arora and Sukanya Thapliyal offer an incisive overview and critique of the ongoing struggles over the regulation of e-commerce at the World Trade Organization.

That’s what science fiction does; it uses the future as a blank canvas on which to project concerns that occupy society right now. The real future – the actual future – is unknowable. But for scien…