Introduction: The long-awaited change in the making Following in the footsteps of most recent calls by African legal scholars, in this blog I share my own reflections on what should…
Category: Decolonizing Law and Legal Studies
Introduction: The events of 31 July 2026 and preliminary remarks On Thursday, 30 July 2026, roughly 50,000 to 60,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta. The…
Introduction On 3 April 2026, within the framework of the Séminaires Boussoles at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Université catholique de Louvain, Nina Bries Silva and I…
The Dawn of a New Era for Reparatory Justice? On 25 March 2026, the UN General Assembly adopted a historic Declaration, designating the transatlantic slave trade as “the gravest crime…
Introduction Recent climate events illustrate the growing human impact of climate change.[1] However, the legal framework governing state responsibility remains fragmented. This short piece argues that while climate treaties provide…
I. Background Ethiopia has constructed the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile River in the Benishangul-Gumuz region, some 14 kilometres east of its border with Sudan. This…
COMMENT Isabelle Zundel 30 July 2021 Inspired by the contributors on the series “Decolonizing Law and Legal Studies” so far, I would like to stress the point Prof. Hamoudi made…
COMMENT Prof. Dr. Luke Mason 30 July 2021 It is hardly a radical proposition to suggest that decolonisation is an essentially contested concept. Indeed, it is partly the pluralistic nature…
COMMENT Prof. Dr Haider Hamoudi 16 July 2021 A few years ago, in a book on the crisis of legitimacy facing the international rule of law movement, I wrote a…
ANALYSIS Prof. Dr Bernd Kannowski 09 July 2021 What is decolonisation? By decolonisation we mean the processes of replacement that lead to the end of colonial rule, but above all…