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.

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Oct 5th, 1:10 PM Oct 5th, 2:10 PM

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.