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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2025
1 I owe this expression to the extraordinary fecundity of Upendra Baxi's mind. See Upendra Baxi, The Future of Human Rights 160–99 (2d ed. 2006).
2 Antony Anghie, Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law (2004); U. Oji Umozurike, International Law and Colonialism in Africa (1979).
3 Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965, Advisory Opinion, 2019 ICJ Rep. 95, paras. 150–54 (Feb. 25) especially; GA Res. 1514 (XV), Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (Dec. 14, 1960).
4 See, e.g., Chimni, B.S., International Institutions Today: An Imperial Global State in the Making, 15 Eur. J. Int'l L. 1 (2004)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Bandung, Global History, and International Law (Luis Eslava, Michael Fakhri & Vasuki Nesiah eds., 2017); Gathii, James Thuo, Imperialism, Colonialism and International Law, 54 Buff. L. Rev. 1013 (2007)Google Scholar; Obiora Chinedu Okafor, The Last Colony? Coloniality and the Legitimacy Crisis in International Legal Praxis, 38 Temple Int'l & Comp. L.J. __ (forthcoming 2024); Phillipe Sands, The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy (2022); Ralph Wilde, International Territorial Administration: How Trusteeship and The Civilizing Mission Never Went Away (2008).
5 For TWAIL writings that make this point, see Karin Mickelson, Rhetoric and Rage: Third World Voices in International Legal Discourse, 16 Wisc. Int'l L.J. 353, 412–14 (1998); Vasuki Nesiah, Book Reviews, 24 Eur. J. Int'l L. 707 (2013). See also Nathaniel Berman, Passion and Ambivalence: Colonialism, Nationalism, and International Law (2012).
6 Here, I draw on Anthony Gidden's theory of structuration. See Anthony Giddens, The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration (1984).
7 Obiora Chinedu Okafor, The International Law of Secession and the Protection of the Human Rights of Oppressed Sub-state Groups: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, 1 Nigerian Y.B. Int'l L. 143 (2017).
8 Nils Gilman, The New International Economic Order: A Reintroduction, 6 Humanity 2, 5 (2015).
9 Upendra Baxi, Human Rights in a Post-Human World 124 (2009).
10 Gathii, James Thuo, Africa and the Radical Origins of the Right to Development, 1 TWAIL Rev. 28 (2020)Google Scholar.
11 Baxi, supra note 9
12 Mickelson, Karin, Hope in a TWAIL Register, 1 TWAIL Rev. 14 (2020)Google Scholar.
13 Okafor, Obiora Chinedu, Praxis and the International (Human Rights) Law Scholar: Toward the Intensification of TWAILian Dramaturgy, 33 Windsor Y.B. Access Just. 1 (2016)Google Scholar; Christopher Okigbo, Collected Poems 25 (1986).
14 African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, 520 UNTS 217 (1982).
15 Katangese Peoples’ Congress v. Zaire, Merits, Comm. No. 75/92, IHRL 174 (Afr. Comm'n Hum. Peoples’ Rights 1995)
16 Reference Re Secession of Quebec, (1998) 2 SCR 217 (Can.).
17 See, e.g., Baxi, supra note 1
18 Ann Weymouth Genova, Oil and Nationalism in Nigeria, 1970–1980, at 237 (Ph.D. Thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 2007).
19 Okafor, Obiora Chinedu, Newness, Imperialism, and International Legal Reform in our Time: A TWAIL Perspective, 43 Osgoode Hall L.J. 171 (2005)Google Scholar; Okafor, Obiora Chinedu, Critical Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL): Theory, Methodology, or Both?, 10 Int'l Cmty. L. Rev. 371 (2008)Google Scholar.