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International Law and Argumentation: Navigating Constraints and Seeking New Orientations

Informal Logic
It is widely recognized in legal scholarship that international law functions as an argumentation practice, but its purpose remains debated. Some argue it legitimizes legal facts, while others believe it persuades actors to adopt specific positions.
Ronnie Haidar
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Truth Eaters: TWAIL and Transitional Justice in Sri Lanka

AJIL Unbound
Every May 18, mourners gather near the sandy beaches of Mullivaikkal, a small strip between Chundikulam and Mulltaitivu in the Northern province of Sri Lanka, to commemorate the 2009 genocide against the Tamils.
Sujith Xavier
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Rejoinder: Twailing International Law

Michigan Law Review, 2000
In this article, I argue that a defining characteristic of discussions of legitimacy within liberal internationalism and neo-conservative realism is that they do not engage with the colonial history and its legacies for the developing world and the private order of the market place.
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Decolonizing International Law: between demystifications and resignifications

Revista Brasileira de História & Ciências Sociais
In the search for the existence of alternatives for how legal relations in International Law are established today, this text starts from the need to demystify International Law as a universal normative set (part I), so that it can thus look into the ...
Tatiana de A. F. R. Cardoso Squeff, Gabriel Pedro Dassoler Damasceno   +1 more
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DO COLONIALISMO AO PÓS-COLONIALISMO EUROPEU: O PAPEL DO DIREITO INTERNACIONAL NA DOMINAÇÃO

Prim@ Facie, 2017
O presente artigo explora, através de um estudo eminentemente bibliográfico, o papel que o passado colonialista desempenha nos debates legais contemporâneos no íntimo de uma perspectiva imperialista e dominadora dentro da grande área que é o Direito ...
Taís Vasconcelos Cidrão, Alexandre Antonio da Silva, André Studart Leitão   +2 more
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CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES OF THE SOUTH: INDIGENOUS WATER RIGHTS IN CHILE - ANOTHER STEP IN THE “CIVILIZING MISSION?

The Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, 2017
This article explores the struggles of indigenous rights based on the adoption of the 1980 Chilean Constitution, under an authoritarian frame, that resulted in water being considered as a commodity and, therefore, subject to radical market rules that ...
Amaya Álvez Marín
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Uma crítica contra-hegemônica da perspectiva de direitos humanos da proteção social [PDF]

Revista Direito GV
Resumo O artigo apresenta uma crítica contra-hegemônica à perspectiva de proteção social fundamentada em direitos humanos, argumentando que o direito internacional dos direitos humanos reproduz uma racionalidade moderna divisora/supressora que ...
Heloisa Pinheiro de Castro Simão
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To the Outermost Parts of the Galaxy: Imagination’s Puissance in Decolonizing International Law

Mimbar Hukum
This paper examines how imagination, despite its historical instrumentalization as a colonial methodology in international law as revealed in Koskenniemi’s To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth, can be repurposed as a decolonial tool. By drawing a temporal
Rafsi Azzam Hibatullah Albar
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Decentralization as Decolonization: The Emerging Multipolar Order of Global Health Security

AJIL Unbound
Since the 1960s, Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) scholars1 have argued that decolonization requires more than formal sovereignty; it demands equal participation by low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), particularly post-colonial ...
Loyce L. Pace, Ngozi A. Erondu
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Descolonização do direito internacional

Conversas & Controvérsias, 2022
Esse artigo apresenta, desde perspectivas de enfrentamento às múltiplas formas do colonialismo, o diagnóstico de que o capitalismo e o colonialismo também estruturam desigualdades na maneira como o conhecimento é elaborado e, especificamente, como o ...
Bruno Lopes Ninomiya, Gabriel Antonio Silveira Mantelli   +1 more
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