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Rethinking International Law: A TWAIL Retrospective

European Journal of International Law, 2023
Abstract This EJIL Foreword is a personal retrospective of the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) movement. It provides an account of the origins of TWAIL and the political and intellectual context in which it emerged during the 1990s.
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The international law of jurisdiction: A TWAIL perspective

Leiden Journal of International Law, 2021
AbstractThe concept of jurisdiction is a relatively undertheorized category of international law. Mainstream international law scholarship advances an ahistorical and asocial account of the rules of jurisdiction in international law. The present article contends that any serious understanding of the categories and rules of jurisdiction, in particular ...
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What is TWAIL?

Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting, 2000
The piece seeks to conceptualize the insurgent movement in international law known as Third World Approaches to International Law. Driven by scholars from the Third World, TWAIL rejects the traditional tenets and assumptions of traditional international law and argues for a re-imagination of the law of nations to purge it of racial and hegemonic ...
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TWAIL: Past and Future

International Community Law Review, 2008
AbstractWhile TWAIL could be viewed as a methodology, it is a methodology that is still being developed. The work of current TWAIL scholars on particular areas of international law is of special importance to TWAIL as these studies will hopefully reveal particular ways in which the relationship between international law and the Third World plays out ...
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TWAIL: An Epistemological Inquiry

International Community Law Review, 2008
AbstractThis paper argues that a particular critical conceptualization based on a focus on Third World peoples, their resistance and their histories offered by TWAIL holds immense potential for formulating alternative international legal theories, in general, and human rights theories in particular.
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'Taxing' TWAIL: A Preliminary Inquiry into TWAIL's Application to the Taxation of Foreign Direct Investment

International Community Law Review, 2008
AbstractThird World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) provides a theoretical and methodological framework for unpacking international law's exclusion and marginalisation of Third World peoples. While TWAIL scholarship has explored a number of areas, there is hardly any TWAIL literature exploring the relationship between international law and ...
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TWAIL as Naturalized Epistemological Inquiry

Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, 2007
Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) scholarship provides a trenchant critique of the contemporary international law regime, using concrete historical and cultural evidence to demonstrate that the central doctrines of international law are highly Eurocentric and, therefore, not representative of the values and beliefs of a large portion ...
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TWAIL Pedagogy – Legal Education for Emancipation

The Palestine Yearbook of International Law Online, 2009
Earlier this year, Galal Nassar asserted that universities, once the “guardians of debate and intellectual freedom”, were quickly becoming places “where young people learn how to keep their mouths shut.” In this he is correct and though it might at first appear counter-intuitive, Western law schools have been leading the reformative charge.
Mohsen al Attar, Vernon Tava
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A TWAIL Perspective on WTO’s Trade Facilitation Agreement

2021
The objective of this study is to evaluate World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA). The author reviews the negotiation history and text of the TFA from a Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) perspective. Special focus is provided on India’s participation in the negotiation process.
Bafna, N., Bafna, N.
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