Research Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL)

Edited by Antony Anghie, Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, Singapore and S.J. Quinney School of Law, University of Utah, USA, B.S. Chimni, Distinguished Professor of International Law, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India, Michael Fakhri, Professor, School of Law, University of Oregon, USA, Karin Mickelson, Associate Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, Canada and Vasuki Nesiah, Professor of Practice in Human Rights and International Law, Gallatin School, New York University, USA

• Contents1 Introduction 1Antony Anghie, Bhupinder Chimni, Michael Fakhri, Karin Mickelsonand Vasuki NesiahPART ONE CONCEPTS, CONCERNS, AND CONNECTIONS2 TWAIL coordinates 10Luis Eslava3 Race 23E. Tendayi Achiume4 Imperialism 34Antony Anghie5 Settler colonialism 46Noura Erakat and John Reynolds6 Global justice 55B.S. Chimni7 World peace 66Dianne Otto8 Histories 80Liliana Obregón9 Tradition 92Adil Hasan Khan10 Critiquing TWAIL 105Umut Özsu11 Pedagogy 112Mohsen al Attar and Rafael Quintero GodínezPART TWO THEMES AND ORIENTATIONS12 Feminisms 126Rohini Sen*13 Marxism 141Robert Knox14 Indigenous peoples’ struggles 156Roger Merino15 Postcolonial studies 170Vasuki Nesiah16 Law and economics 182Dina I. Waked17 Queer theory 195Vanja Hamzić18 Literature 206Helena Alviar García19 Religion 217Ratna Kapur*PART THREE TWAIL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW20 Customary international law 230George R. B. Galindo21 Treaties 241Guilherme Del Negro22 General principles of law 253Prabhakar Singh23 Personality 263Rose Sydney Parfitt24 States and self-determination 276Mohammad Shahabuddin25 International organizations 288Guy Fiti Sinclair26 Human rights 301Makau Mutua27 Human rights and the UN system 312Obiora Chinedu Okafor28 International criminal law 323Asad G. Kiyani29 The use of force 336Markus Gunneflo30 The law of armed conflict 346Michelle Burgis-Kasthala*31 Environment 359Karin Mickelson32 Trade law 371Donatella Alessandrini33 Development 384Shane Chalmers and Sundhya Pahuja34 Food sovereignty 397Michael Fakhri35 Foreign investment law 408Nicolás M. Perrone36 Transnational labour law 421Adelle Blackett37 The corporation 433Grietje (River) Baars and Simge Haznedaroglu*38 Migration 448Usha Natarajan39 The law of the sea 460Endalew Lijalem Enyew40 Transitional justice 481Sujith Xavier41 Emergency 496John Reynolds42 Intellectual property rights 509Titilayo Adebola43 The family 522Cyra Akila ChoudhuryPART FOUR CHALLENGES PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE44 Slavery 535Lindsay Massara and Michelle McKinley45 Apartheid 547Christopher Gevers46 The question of Palestine 561Hadeel S. Abu Hussein47 Global public health 571Aziza Ahmed and Jason Jackson48 Informal labour 579Kerry Rittich49 Sovereign debt 593James Thuo Gathii and Harrison Otieno Mbori50 Climate change 607Sumudu Atapattu and Carmen G. Gonzalez

‘The Research Handbook on TWAIL is a towering achievement and a brilliant, must-read addition to the canon of international law. Unlike other Research Handbooks that are frequently dated before they appear, the contributions in this volume provide an urgent and timely reckoning with core concepts and themes at the heart of international law's past, present, and potential. Drawing on the expertise and lived experiences of scholars and practitioners across generations and continents, the Research Handbook charts a critical tradition that is at once rooted in anti-colonial resistance and determinedly forward-looking. Bringing together the leading TWAIL scholars, this collection of essays provides a fresh take on a radical archive while breaking new conceptual ground in surveys of everything from settler colonialism and apartheid to food sovereignty and transnational labor law. All the while, the Research Handbook authors challenge us to imagine new forms of global justice beyond inherited frameworks. In a moment marked by legal, political, and ecological crisis, and written in the shadow of genocide, this book stands as a powerful resource – and a call – to think together, again and otherwise.’