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Introduction: TWAIL - on praxis and the intellectual [PDF]
AbstractThis Special Issue emerges from the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) Cairo Conference in 2015 and addresses the conference theme, ‘On Praxis and the Intellectual’, by focusing on different aspects of the intellectual as a political actor.
John Reynolds +2 more
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The Peculiar Double-Consciousness of TWAIL [PDF]
Shunning the Eurocentrism that colours much mainstream scholarship, TWAIL has centred in international legal scholarship the views of peoples historically marginalised in the imperial-colonial process. In a single generation, its interventions have shifted perceptions of international law across the academy, forcing scholars to account for the ...
Al Attar, Mohsen
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Periodizations are political acts. They produce temporalities that do not necessarily coincide with chronology. TWAIL (Third World Approaches to International Law) scholars have generally endorsed the division of TWAIL into two generations. Whereas TWAIL I was composed by scholars that thought and wrote about international law during the decolonization
George R.B. Galindo +1 more
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A TWAIL critique of intellectual property and related disputes in investor‐state dispute settlement
Abstract This article analyses intellectual property (IP) disputes in investor‐state dispute settlement (ISDS) through the lenses of Third World approaches to international law (TWAIL) and how a reformist TWAIL approach might be used to address the concerns related to IP‐ISDS disputes. It has three objectives.
Pratyush Nath Upreti
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Abstract Ten years since the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, we have witnessed an increasing trend in Europe toward the adoption of mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence. Focusing on due diligence legislation from France, Germany, Norway, and the EU, this article examines the extent to which these ...
Olga Martin-Ortega, Fatimazahra Dehbi
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TWAIL: a Paradox within a Paradox [PDF]
Abstract What insight do critical perspectives bring to international legal theory? In the following article, I answer this question through an examination of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL). Troubled by geopolitical imbalance in the enterprise of international law, a group of critically minded scholars sought to expand the scope of
Attar, Mohsen
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Scholarship as Dialogue? TWAIL and the Politics of Methodology [PDF]
Scholars of International Criminal Law (ICL) and Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) rarely speak to each other and part of the reason for this is often divergent approaches to methodology. Thus, this article begins with an exploration of the ways in which international lawyers (mis)conceive methodology in their work so as to account ...
Burgis-Kasthala, Michelle
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TWAIL Pedagogy: Un-Learning Colonial Ways of Teaching International Law
The blog post "Modern legal education: critique and transformation through TWAIL pedagogy" argues that mainstream legal education's Eurocentric approach obscures societal nuances and historical injustices in international law.
al Attar, Mohsen +1 more
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