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As promised, some snapshots from attempts to decolonise IL
Seminar 1: we discussed the ICJ's Lotus case on sovereignty via a feminist lens, w the rewritten judgment by C Chinkin, G Heathcote, @edajones16 and @HenryRGJones. Fab on intersectionality. https://www.bloomsburyprofessional.com/uk/feminist-judgments-in-international-law-9781509914456/ https://twitter.com/CSchwobelPatel/status/1317053712733536256
Seminar 1: we discussed the ICJ's Lotus case on sovereignty via a feminist lens, w the rewritten judgment by C Chinkin, G Heathcote, @edajones16 and @HenryRGJones. Fab on intersectionality. https://www.bloomsburyprofessional.com/uk/feminist-judgments-in-international-law-9781509914456/ https://twitter.com/CSchwobelPatel/status/1317053712733536256
Seminar 2: on treaties, we discussed unequal treaties and compared the Treaty of Nanking w the Cotonou Partnership Agreement.
Note: students were shocked that this was the 1st time they read the treaty - in the week K Badenoch claimed the curriculum does not need decolonising..
Note: students were shocked that this was the 1st time they read the treaty - in the week K Badenoch claimed the curriculum does not need decolonising..
Seminar 3: On states and recognition, we discussed, among others, Palestine and Israel not recognising one-another and the legal consequences for one and not the other.
We also discussed Susan Marks on non-state actors https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/leiden-journal-of-international-law/article/statecentrism-international-law-and-the-anxieties-of-influence/EB0A10F556F5B5112780435EF7A60D2C
We also discussed Susan Marks on non-state actors https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/leiden-journal-of-international-law/article/statecentrism-international-law-and-the-anxieties-of-influence/EB0A10F556F5B5112780435EF7A60D2C
Seminar 4: On self-determination, we discussed the narrowing from concept to right. https://academic.oup.com/ejil/article/27/3/719/2197255
We also discussed the ICJ's Chagos Archipelago decision in this light - part. in the context of the idea of the 'fall of self-determination' per @AdomGetachew's work
We also discussed the ICJ's Chagos Archipelago decision in this light - part. in the context of the idea of the 'fall of self-determination' per @AdomGetachew's work
