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Attar, Mohsen (2020) TWAIL : a paradox within a paradox. International Community Law Review, 22 (2). pp. 163-196. doi:10.1163/18719732-12341426
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1163/18719732-12341426
Abstract
What insight do critical perspectives bring to international legal theory? In the following article, I answer this question through an examination of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL). Troubled by geopolitical imbalance in the enterprise of international law, a group of critically minded scholars sought to expand the scope of legal scholarship. They would do so by growing a scholarly community sensitive to Third World concerns in their engagement with international law. Movements are known to collapse just as quickly as they sprout and it is testament to TWAIL’s force that, twenty years on, it is still gaining momentum. Self-described as a theory, method, sensibility, movement, and, as per the moniker, approach, TWAIL’s place in legal theory remains ambiguous. Drawing on a range of TWAIL scholars as well as journeymen commentators, I investigate, first, how its scholars represent TWAIL’s theoretical credentials and, second, where its contribution fits in the field.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration K Law [Moys] > KC International Law |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | International law , International law -- Developing countries , Postcolonialism, Law and economic development | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | International Community Law Review | ||||||
| Publisher: | Brill | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1871-9732 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 29 May 2020 | ||||||
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 August 2019 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 29 May 2021 | ||||||
| Volume: | 22 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 163-196 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1163/18719732-12341426 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
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