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The TWAIL Discourse: The Emergence of a New Phase [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Community Law Review, 2007
One of the most important discourses to have emerged in opposition to mainstream international law has been the third world approaches to international law (TWAIL). This discourse may be divided into two historical phases: TWAIL I and TWAIL II. While TWAIL I was characterised by a focus on colonisation and the hegemonic use of international law by ...
Khosla, Madhav, Madhav Khosla
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'Taxing' TWAIL: A Preliminary Inquiry into TWAIL's Application to the Taxation of Foreign Direct Investment

open access: yesInternational 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 ...
Jalia Kangave
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The Future of Women's Rights from a TWAIL Perspective

open access: yesInternational Community Law Review, 2008
AbstractInternational human rights law has yet to deliver on its promise to Third World women. This short essay focuses on the challenges that the concerns of Third World women pose to TWAIL scholars. Considering the continuing marginalisation of many women, the essay suggests the need to strengthen critical feminist TWAIL perspectives in order to ...
Mosope Fagbongbe
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Introduction: TWAIL and the International Law of Jurisdiction.

open access: yesNational Law School of India Review
Introduction: TWAIL and the International Law of Jurisdiction.
Sen, Rohini
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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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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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Foreign Sovereign Immunity Doctrine: A Twail Perspective

SSRN Electronic Journal
As Prof. B.S. Chimni has shown, while the international law of state jurisdiction masquerades as a technical procedural rule, it has long served the capitalist and imperialist interests of Western States—a revelation that aligns with Third World Approaches to International Law (‘TWAIL’).
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