Decolonial Perspectives Archives

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The Rooms We Wanted

An Elective, or a Foundation?

25.09.2026

Matilde Masetti Placci Bhavinee Singh Siddharth Peter de Souza

This blog post concludes the symposium “The Rooms We Wanted: What a Year of Decolonisation Seminars Revealed about a Law School”, reflecting on the Decolonisation Seminar Series at the University...

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The Rooms We Wanted

Decolonial “And”

24.09.2026

Matilde Masetti Placci Bhavinee Singh Hilda Tizeba Sukru Kagan Surucu

This blog post is part of the symposium “The Rooms We Wanted: What a Year of Decolonisation Seminars Revealed about a Law School”, reflecting on the Decolonisation Seminar Series at...

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Teaching International Law Vol. 1

Teaching International Law as World-Making

16.09.2026

Nora Jaber

In the spring of 2024, I participated in a series of teach-outs on international law and Palestine at the student encampments that spread across university campuses in the United Kingdom...

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Teaching International Law Vol. 1

The Human Rights Clinic as Contested Ground

15.09.2026

Ramya Jawahar Kudekallu

Recently, while leading a seminar class on the fundamentals of International Human Rights Law, I was lamenting before my students on the US government’s latest flagrant dismissal of human rights...

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Teaching International Law Vol. 1

To teach international law, including international human rights law, from a critical perspective is to confront a foundational paradox immediately. The discipline routinely presents itself as a universal framework of...

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Teaching International Law Vol. 1

Decolonial Feminist Pedagogy Beyond the Master’s House

14.09.2026

Dorothy Makaza-Goede

Every semester, at the conclusion of my lectures on various themes under public international law, I return to Audre Lorde's well-known observation that "the master's tools will never dismantle the...

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Progress and International Law: A Cursed Relationship?

Agenda 2030 Between the Ideology of Progress and the Reality of Poverty and Exploitation

21.09.2023

Matheus Gobbato Leichtweis

Adopted in 2015, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development promises to eliminate poverty and promote sustainable development, peace, and prosperity for all by 2030. The Agenda introduced 17 Sustainable Development...

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Rectifying the Coloniality of Omission

16.05.2023

Alexandra Lily Kather

On the 24 February 2023, the German Federal Ministry of Justice published a white paper outlining proposals of legislative amendments that in its view seek to develop and strengthen international...