These remarks were delivered at the 114th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, in which the author served as Annual Grotius Lecture Discussant, responding to James Thuo Gathii’s Grotius Lecture: ‘The Promise of International Law: A Third World View’. They address what Third World approaches to international law (TWAIL), and the structural racism of the discipline of international law that TWAIL scholarship makes apparent, demand of scholars proceeding from other epistemic locations.
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Johns: Disciplinary Privilege and the Promise of Decampment: A Response to James Thuo Gathii's 'The Promise of International Law: A Third World View'
Fleur Johns (Univ. of New South Wales - Law) has posted Disciplinary Privilege and the Promise of Decampment: A Response to James Thuo Gathii's 'The Promise of International Law: A Third World View' (ASIL Annual Meeting Proceedings, forthcoming). Here's the abstract: