Research Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL): (Research Handbooks in International Law series)

This Research Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) with chapters exploring different facets of TWAIL scholarship. It covers major doctrines and topics of international law, as well as TWAIL perspectives on central historical and theoretical debates. Expert authors present key insights into various themes that intersect with international law including economics, post-colonialism, religion, development, treaties, and human rights. The Research Handbook underscores the cornerstone concepts of TWAIL and examines their relationship with intellectual traditions such as Marxism and feminism. Contributing authors outline TWAIL’s perspectives on core areas of international law such as customary international law, treaties and human rights, as well as important contemporary issues, including debt, climate change, and public health. Ultimately, the Research Handbook showcases an expanded and enriched vision of international law, assessing how alternate methodologies can lead to a fairer legal system. Encompassing an authoritative overview of the legacy and future of TWAIL, this Research Handbook is of vital importance to scholars and students of international law, international relations, legal theory, and development studies. It is also an essential reference for lawyers and policymakers in the field.

Table of Contents:
Contents 1 Introduction 1 Antony Anghie, Bhupinder Chimni, Michael Fakhri, Karin Mickelson and Vasuki Nesiah PART ONE CONCEPTS, CONCERNS, AND CONNECTIONS 2 TWAIL coordinates 10 Luis Eslava 3 Race 23 E. Tendayi Achiume 4 Imperialism 34 Antony Anghie 5 Settler colonialism 46 Noura Erakat and John Reynolds 6 Global justice 55 B.S. Chimni 7 World peace 66 Dianne Otto 8 Histories 80 Liliana Obregón 9 Tradition 92 Adil Hasan Khan 10 Critiquing TWAIL 105 Umut Özsu 11 Pedagogy 112 Mohsen al Attar and Rafael Quintero Godínez PART TWO THEMES AND ORIENTATIONS 12 Feminisms 126 Rohini Sen* 13 Marxism 141 Robert Knox 14 Indigenous peoples’ struggles 156 Roger Merino 15 Postcolonial studies 170 Vasuki Nesiah 16 Law and economics 182 Dina I. Waked 17 Queer theory 195 Vanja Hamzić 18 Literature 206 Helena Alviar García 19 Religion 217 Ratna Kapur* PART THREE TWAIL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW 20 Customary international law 230 George R. B. Galindo 21 Treaties 241 Guilherme Del Negro 22 General principles of law 253 Prabhakar Singh 23 Personality 263 Rose Sydney Parfitt 24 States and self-determination 276 Mohammad Shahabuddin 25 International organizations 288 Guy Fiti Sinclair 26 Human rights 301 Makau Mutua 27 Human rights and the UN system 312 Obiora Chinedu Okafor 28 International criminal law 323 Asad G. Kiyani 29 The use of force 336 Markus Gunneflo 30 The law of armed conflict 346 Michelle Burgis-Kasthala* 31 Environment 359 Karin Mickelson 32 Trade law 371 Donatella Alessandrini 33 Development 384 Shane Chalmers and Sundhya Pahuja 34 Food sovereignty 397 Michael Fakhri 35 Foreign investment law 408 Nicolás M. Perrone 36 Transnational labour law 421 Adelle Blackett 37 The corporation 433 Grietje (River) Baars and Simge Haznedaroglu* 38 Migration 448 Usha Natarajan 39 The law of the sea 460 Endalew Lijalem Enyew 40 Transitional justice 481 Sujith Xavier 41 Emergency 496 John Reynolds 42 Intellectual property rights 509 Titilayo Adebola 43 The family 522 Cyra Akila Choudhury PART FOUR CHALLENGES PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE 44 Slavery 535 Lindsay Massara and Michelle McKinley 45 Apartheid 547 Christopher Gevers 46 The question of Palestine 561 Hadeel S. Abu Hussein 47 Global public health 571 Aziza Ahmed and Jason Jackson 48 Informal labour 579 Kerry Rittich 49 Sovereign debt 593 James Thuo Gathii and Harrison Otieno Mbori 50 Climate change 607 Sumudu Atapattu and Carmen G. Gonzalez

About the Author :
Edited by Antony Anghie, Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, Singapore and S.J. Quinney School of Law, University of Utah, USA, B.S. Chimni, Distinguished Professor of International Law, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India, Michael Fakhri, Professor, School of Law, University of Oregon, USA, Karin Mickelson, Associate Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, Canada and Vasuki Nesiah, Professor of Practice in Human Rights and International Law, Gallatin School, New York University, USA

Review :
‘The Research Handbook on TWAIL is a towering achievement and a brilliant, must-read addition to the canon of international law. Unlike other Research Handbooks that are frequently dated before they appear, the contributions in this volume provide an urgent and timely reckoning with core concepts and themes at the heart of international law's past, present, and potential. Drawing on the expertise and lived experiences of scholars and practitioners across generations and continents, the Research Handbook charts a critical tradition that is at once rooted in anti-colonial resistance and determinedly forward-looking. Bringing together the leading TWAIL scholars, this collection of essays provides a fresh take on a radical archive while breaking new conceptual ground in surveys of everything from settler colonialism and apartheid to food sovereignty and transnational labor law. All the while, the Research Handbook authors challenge us to imagine new forms of global justice beyond inherited frameworks. In a moment marked by legal, political, and ecological crisis, and written in the shadow of genocide, this book stands as a powerful resource – and a call – to think together, again and otherwise.’ ‘TWAIL has forever changed the way we teach, research, and think about international law. The insights of these scholars, and of the forebears to whose work they direct renewed attention, are profound, often disturbing, and absolutely crucial to the pursuit of planetary justice. This volume encompasses, for the first time, a vast swath of the TWAIL scholarly landscape, bringing together new essays by established and emerging scholars that will be illuminating to newcomers and insiders alike and are set to become essential reference-points for the study of law and its place in world affairs.’ ‘What do we know of international law, if we only international law know? This dazzling new volume — in equal parts the distillation of a vibrant intellectual movement and an urgent political project — inspires us to ground “what is” inquiries about international law, in further, crucial questions: what are the contexts of international law, what work does it do, who is it for (and from), and what, if at all, can it become?’