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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
George R.B. Galindo
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PLACING TWAIL SCHOLARSHIP AND PRAXIS
Editors' introduction to Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) special issue of the Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice (Vol. 33:3, 2016) - Conspiring in Cairo & Canada: Placing TWAIL Scholarship and Praxis.
Sujith Xavier +3 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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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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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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Understanding TWAIL: A Critical Approach to International Law
Mainstream approaches to international law do not provide the necessary point of view to expose the colonial and postcolonial origins of the discipline and to deconstruct the modern international legal regime based on “sovereign inequality.” Even looking
Şahin Eray Kırdım
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Customary Law in the Postmodern World (Dis)order [PDF]
B.S. Chimni's thought-provoking article presents a welcome opportunity to reflect on both the value and the shortcomings of custom as a source in contemporary international law.
Andreas Paulus, Matthias Lippold
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Postcolonial Approaches to International Human Rights Law: The TWAIL Case
In the first two decades of the 2000s, TWAIL (Third World Approaches to International Law) attracted considerable attention in academia with its critical approach to international law.
Elif Çağla Yıldız
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This article presents, from perspectives of confronting the multiple forms of colonialism, the diagnosis that capitalism and colonialism also structure inequalities in the way knowledge is elaborated and, specifically, how internatio-nal law is taught ...
Bruno Lopes Ninomiya +1 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 ...
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