Decolonisation

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The Rooms We Wanted

An Elective, or a Foundation?

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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Decolonial “And”

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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From Inside Ethics Review Boards

Matilde Masetti Placci Bhavinee Singh Morshed Mannan Rebecca Tapscott

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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A Form to Be Signed

Matilde Masetti Placci Bhavinee Singh Chloe Young

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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Beyond the Traditional Framework

Matilde Masetti Placci Bhavinee Singh Rohini Sen

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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Writing from the Margins

Matilde Masetti Placci Bhavinee Singh Ahmed Raza Memon

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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The Rooms We Wanted

Matilde Masetti Placci Bhavinee Singh Btissam Boulakhrif

In July 2025, the University of Edinburgh published Decolonised Transformations, the findings of a four-year long inquiry into its own history of enslavement, eugenics and colonialism, for which the University...

Book Review

Clarifying the Norm, Questioning the Structure: A Review Of Tom Spark’s Self-Determination in the International Legal System

Tom Sparks is the Director of Just Access and is an international lawyer and legal consultant based in Heidelberg, Germany. He holds a PhD in international law from Durham University....

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The Decolonisation That Never Was

Dorothy Makaza-Goede

On 31 October 2025, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopted Resolution 2797 endorsing Morocco’s autonomy proposal for Western Sahara as “a realistic, serious and credible basis” for resolving the...

Interview

(Re)Searching for SWAIL. Part II

Patryk I. Labuda Marek Jan Wasiński Polina Kulish Hendrik Simon

This is Part II of the interview. Part I is available here. The conversation also appears in the CEU Review of Books. The relationship between SWAIL and TWAIL was a...

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(Re)Searching for SWAIL. Part I

Patryk I. Labuda Marek Jan Wasiński Polina Kulish Hendrik Simon

This is Part I of the interview. Part II is available here. The conversation also appears in the CEU Review of Books. Dear Patryk, dear Marek, in February of this...

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Putting the Cart before the Horse?

On 3rd October 2024, Mauritius and the United Kingdom published a Joint Statement on both governments’ websites (UK.gov and govmu.org). This political agreement addresses the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands,...

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Germany Has to Grant Reparations for Colonial Crimes

On 24 April 2023, several United Nations Special Rapporteurs started publishing their joint communication with the German government (AL DEU 1/2023) and the Namibian government (AL NAM 1/2023), on violations...