Event Title
Concurrent Session 1D. Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) and Teaching Justice: Overcoming Exclusionary Assumptions
Location
Room 460
Start Date
5-10-2012 1:10 PM
End Date
5-10-2012 2:10 PM
Description
Explores how to increase access to global justice by focusing on TWAIL scholarship, teaching methodologies, and activism. TWAIL’s central focus is to expose the injustice promoted by international law and suffered by populations of the Global South. Presenters argue that justice is supported by promoting the perspectives and history of subordinated populations. Presenters refer to TWAIL’s focus on how law impacts populations in Global South, with exclusions such as unequal treaties, international borders created by colonialism, unbalanced legal frameworks of multilateral organizations, and law’s role in war and displacement. Presenters discuss how to teach international law as force for emancipation, humanizing political struggles, expanding rights-based claims, and re-framing notions of security.
Concurrent Session 1D. Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) and Teaching Justice: Overcoming Exclusionary Assumptions
Room 460
Explores how to increase access to global justice by focusing on TWAIL scholarship, teaching methodologies, and activism. TWAIL’s central focus is to expose the injustice promoted by international law and suffered by populations of the Global South. Presenters argue that justice is supported by promoting the perspectives and history of subordinated populations. Presenters refer to TWAIL’s focus on how law impacts populations in Global South, with exclusions such as unequal treaties, international borders created by colonialism, unbalanced legal frameworks of multilateral organizations, and law’s role in war and displacement. Presenters discuss how to teach international law as force for emancipation, humanizing political struggles, expanding rights-based claims, and re-framing notions of security.