Adil Hasan Khan’s reflection celebrates Antony Anghie’s formative TWAIL text, drawing on Khan’s presentation at the ‘Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law: 20 Years On’ Conference organised by the Laureate Program on Global Corporations and International Law in Naarm/Melbourne on 7 and 8 August 2025.| TWAILR
This online lecture series seeks to foster interdisciplinary and historically-inflected discussions about how international law both shapes, and is shaped by, struggles over natural resources. In Semester 2, the lecture series will focus on resources struggles in the context of occupation around the world. We will collectively explore how struggles over resource plunder and exploitation shape the dynamics of occupation, and how peoples under occupation are contesting extraction and asserting...| TWAILR
Recording of Panel Discussion: Almost two years into a genocide that has sought to devastate all Palestinian life in Gaza, this move to conditionally recognize a Palestinian state comes across as a response essentially out of time. While this attempt at redeeming a liberal international legal order is no doubt far too little, far too late, what might a Palestinian national liberation movement tactically salvage and repurpose from this irredeemable wreck, and what should they approach with cau...| TWAILR
Almost two years into a genocide that has sought to devastate all Palestinian life in Gaza, this move to conditionally recognize a Palestinian state comes across as a response essentially out of time. While this attempt at redeeming a liberal international legal order is no doubt far too little, far too late, what might a Palestinian national liberation movement tactically salvage and repurpose from this irredeemable wreck, and what should they approach with caution? This panel critically exa...| TWAILR
Fia Hamid-Walker reflects on the transformation of the Balinese legal system under Dutch colonial rule, and argues that it was not merely a shift in legal form but a deliberate act of colonial legal violence, where legal narratives were deployed to undermine Indigenous authorities and impose political domination.| TWAILR
Issue 06 is out now with articles on space resource exploitation, non-performative restorative justice, sanitary regulation of food production, global regulation of data, preventing illicit financial flows, desensitization to wartime violence, the suspicious 'magic' of AI + 1 key TWAIL text now in Spanish.| TWAILR
Mohamed Thahir Sulaiman explores how the Global South has challenged mainstream notions of what it means for a state to be specially affected when it comes to customary international law formation. Sulaiman argues that the doctrine of specially affected states can be used to counteract hegemonic international law and amplify the voices of the Global South in shaping customary international law.| TWAILR
Benjamin P. Davis talks to Usha Natarajan about Ben's book on the inspirational Caribbean poet, Édouard Glissant. What we can learn from Glissant about human rights? What does Glissant mean by the 'right to opacity'? Is it necessary and possible to know the Other? How do we 'choose our bearing' and engage in ethical academic and legal praxis amid neoliberal institutions that are in varying degrees complicit in genocide, famine, violence, and suffering?| TWAILR
Jake Okechukwu Effoduh and Miracle Okumu Mudeyi interrogate the coloniality of AI, the extractive political economy of data, and the structural inequalities embedded i…| TWAILR
Maryam Jamshidi reflects on the U.S. government’s latest attack on the UN through its sanctioning of UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, and argues that the sanctions violate internatio…| TWAILR
Dialogue about the link between racism and ecological harm and how to repair relations between peoples and planet: recovering third world ecologies, making reparations, and reconceptualizing the human.| TWAILR
Famine has been declared in Gaza. Palestinian civil society and allied institutions have issued a unified call for the deployment of a diplomatic humanitarian convoy to break the siege of Gaza. Thi…| TWAILR
Transcript of online panel discussion on 29 Nov 2023 published in three parts: 1. Influences, 2. Role of Law, 3. Academic Freedom, BDS & Tactics.| TWAILR
Ardi Imseis discusses his new book on ‘The United Nations and the Question of Palestine: Rule by Law and the Structure of International Legal Subalternity’ with John Reynolds of the TWA…| TWAILR
Maryam Jamshidi refutes the US government’s newfangled claim that UNRWA is not entitled to immunity from suit under the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations.| TWAILR
What is the role of the (legal) intellectual in social transformation today, amid escalating environmental and economic injustice, and the rise of racist regimes worldwide? How should the tactics o…| TWAILR
A roundtable discussion involving Sumedha Choudhury, Julia Dehm, André Dao, Haris Jamil, Richard Joyce, Adil Hasan Khan, Tanvee Nandan, Dianne Otto and Saika Sabir, expressing their indebtedness to…| TWAILR
This video essay by Ruth Buchanan and Olaoluwa Oni is a film about what the films and other visual materials on the SDGs suggest about the hierarchies that organize the modern international order.| TWAILR
Issue 5 is out now, including articles on Bob Marley, the neoliberal transformation of the Indian state, teaching international economic law in Africa, children of African Irish descent, settler co…| TWAILR
Alaa Hajyahia reflects on the similarities and differences across interconnected sites of repression and resistance when it comes to Palestine solidarity on campuses in the United States and Israel…| TWAILR
On 15 October 2023, over 800 scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies and genocide studies signed a public statement warning of the possibility of genocide being perpetrate…| TWAILR
