Book Pre-Launch: Emancipating International Law: Confronting the Violence of Racialised Boundaries (OUP, 2025)
Emancipating International Law: Confronting the Violence of Racialised Boundaries (OUP, 2025), edited by Mohsen al Attar and Claire Smith, critically examines the entanglements of race, racism, and international law. Across twenty-four chapters, authored by scholars from across the world, reveals how racial hierarchies and white supremacy are embedded within the discipline’s doctrines, institutions, and frameworks. In its own way, each contribution challenges the orthodoxy of international legal scholarship and offers insights for dismantling systemic oppression.
Highlights of the event: – The value and limitations of critical scholarship (Radha D’Souza) – The Global Race Equality norm (Yang Han) – The racialised character of the UN Guiding Principles on IDPs (Nciko Wa Nciko) – The anti-colonial origins of Covenant on ESC rights and its reactionary evolution (Raghavi Viswanath) – An overview of the book, as well as the Rhodes Must Fall campaign, both in SA and later in the UK (Mohsen al Attar)
Each of the speakers will speak for 10-12 minutes to their chapter or to the theme more broadly, followed by a Q&A section. The event will last 90 minutes. All welcome.
Date:
30 April 2025, 17:00
Venue:
Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details:
Lecture Hall
Speakers:
Dr Mohsen al Attar (Xi'an Jiaotong - Liverpool University),
Claire Smith (University of Amsterdam),
Dr Radha D’Souza (Westminster Law School),
Nciko Wa Nciko (Amnesty International),
Dr Raghavi Viswanath (School of Oriental and African Studies),
Yang Han (University of Oxford),
Dr Jinan Bastaki (NYU Abu Dhabi),
Dr Shahab Saqib (University of Birmingham),
Dr Jason Haynes (Birmingham Law School)
Organising department:
Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)
Organiser:
Yang Han (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
yang.han@sant.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Yang Han
