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Enacting Twailian Praxis in Nonacademic Habitats: Toward a Conceptual Framework

Part of: Theorizing TWAIL Activism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Obiora Chinedu Okafor*
Affiliation:
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada; United Nations Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, Geneva, Switzerland
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The roles that Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) scholars could play in political and/or socio-economic struggles beyond the academy, and the relationships of these scholars to politicians, diplomats activists, civil servants, peasant movements, civil society, and other nonacademic actors are issues as important to TWAIL as they are understudied and underenacted. The three essays in this TWAIL Symposium take up this theme of praxis.

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Symposium on Theorizing TWAIL Activism
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AJIL Unbound , Volume 110 , 2016 , pp. 20 - 24
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2016

References

1 See Conference Program, Third World Approaches to International Law: On Praxis and the Intellectual 1.

2 Okafor, Obiora Chinedu, Newness, Imperialism, and International Legal Reform in Our Time: A TWAIL Perspective, 43 Osgoode Hall L.J. 171, 176–177(2005)Google Scholar.

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8 See Call for Papers, Third World Approaches to International Law Conference, University of Windsor and Conference Program, Third World Approaches to International Law: On Praxis and the Intellectual ; See also, Okafor, supra note 2; Mickelson, Karin, Taking Stock of TWAIL History, 10 Int’l Community L. Rev. 355, 357 (2008)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Eslava, Luis & Pahuja, Sundhya, Between Resistance and Reform: TWAIL and the Universality of International Law, 3 Trade, L. & Dev. 103, 109 (2011)Google Scholar.

9 See Parmar, Pooja, TWAIL: An Epistomological Inquiry, 10 Int’l Community L. Rev. 363 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

10 Compare, e.g., Chang, Robert S., Richard Delgado and the Politics of Citation, 11 Berkeley J. Afr.-Am. L. & Pol’y 28 (2009)Google Scholar.

11 For a restatement and analysis of this vision statement, see Mickelson, supra note 8, at 357-358.

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13 See Upendra Baxi, The Future of Human Rights 41 (2006).

14 See Makau Mutua, Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique (2008); Balakrishnan Rajagopal, International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements and Third World Resistance (2003); Eslava & Pahuja, supra note 8, at 123.

15 Badaru, Opeoluwa, Examining the Utility of Third World Approaches to International Law for International Human Rights Law, 10 Int’l Community L. Rev. 379, 385–386 (2008)Google Scholar.

16 Okafor, supra note 2; Gathii, James T., TWAIL: A Brief History of Its Origins, Its Decentralized Network, and a Tentative Bibliography, 3 Trade, L. & Dev. 26, 27 (2011)Google Scholar; Mutua, Makau, What is TWAIL?, 94 Asil Proceedings 31 (2000)Google Scholar; Parmar, supra note 9.

17 See Okafor, Obiora Chinedu & Ngwaba, Uchechukwu, The International Criminal Court as a ‘Transitional Justice’ Mechanism in Africa: Some Critical Reflections, 9 Int’l J. Transitional Just. 90, 99-101 (2015)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Obiora Chinedu Okafor & Uchechukwu Ngwaba, Between Tunnel Vision and a Sliding Scale: Power, Normativity and Justice in the Praxis of the International Criminal Court (forthcoming).

18 This issue was addressed in the first of the TWAIL symposia in AJIL Unbound. See Gathii, James T. & Richardson, Henry J. III, Introduction to Symposium on TWAL Perspectives on ICL, IHL, and Intervention, 109 AJIL Unbound 252 (2016)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Kiyani, Asad G., Third World Approaches to International Criminal Law, 109 AJIL Unbound 255 (2016)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, Parvathi Menon, Self-Referring to the International Criminal Court: A Continuation of War by Other Means.

19 See Koskenniemi, Martti, The Place of Law in Collective Security, 17 Mich. J. Int’l L. 455, 465 (1995-1996)Google Scholar.

20 Id. at 465-471.

21 See Eslava & Pahuja, supra note 8, at 109.

22 For example, see Rosenberg, Gerald N., The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? (2d ed., 2008)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

23 See Koskenniemi, supra note 18, at 473.

24 See id. at 473-474.

25 See id. at 475.

26 See Christopher Okigbo, Collected Poems 25 (1986).

27 Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach (1845).