Promise of International Law: A Third World View (Including a TWAIL Bibliography 1996–2019 as an Appendix)

2020 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 165-187
Author(s):  
James Thuo Gathii
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Third World ◽  
World View ◽  
College Of Law ◽  
Washington College

Thank you very much Professor Padideh Ala'i for that very kind introduction. I would also like to thank you Dean Camille A. Nelson of the Washington College of Law and the Society for this really special honor of inviting me to give the Grotius Lecture this year. I also thank the President of the Society, Catherine Amirfar, for her leadership and stewardship. My thanks too to my friend, Fleur Johns, for accepting to be the discussant for this lecture. Like you, I look forward to her response very much.

Disciplinary Privilege and the Promise of Decampment: A Response to James Thuo Gathii's “The Promise of International Law: A Third World View”

2020 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 187-191
Author(s):  
Fleur Johns
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Third World ◽  
World View ◽  
Legal Scholarship

It is an immense privilege to respond, as discussant, to James Gathii's 2020 Grotius Lecture.1 I have known and admired Professor Gathii and his work for decades. He is one of those people who manages to combine great accomplishment in international legal scholarship and practice with an unswerving commitment to teaching, collegiality, and mentoring. In these, and in other ways, James Gathii walks his talk. And his talk, as you have heard, is challenging.

Self-Determination and Territorial Integrity: Southern Cameroons and the Republic of Cameroun

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 629-653
Author(s):  
Valerie Muguoh Chiatoh
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Third World ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Territorial Integrity ◽  
Present Issue ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Relationship

African states and institutions believe that the principle of territorial integrity is applicable to sub-state groups and limits their right to self-determination, contrary to international law. The Anglophone Problem in Cameroon has been an ever-present issue of social, political and economic debates in the country, albeit most times in undertones. This changed as the problem metamorphosed into an otherwise preventable devastating armed conflict with external self-determination having become very popular among the Anglophone People. This situation brings to light the drawbacks of irregular decolonisation, third world colonialism and especially the relationship between self-determination and territorial integrity in Africa.

Relativistic particle interactions: a Third World view

1981 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Balachandran ◽  
G Marmo ◽  
N Mukunda ◽  
J Nilsson ◽  
A Simoni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Relativistic Particle ◽  
World View ◽  
Particle Interactions

Legal Perspectives

2018 ◽  
pp. 78-103
Author(s):  
José E. Alvarez
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Third World ◽  
Legal Positivism ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Soft Or ◽  
International Court Of Justice ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
International Court ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Legal Frameworks

This chapter surveys how international legal scholars have catalogued and sought to explain the legal impact of the UN even though its political and judicial organs have not been delegated the power to make law. It explains how the UN attempts to adhere to, but also challenges, the traditional sources of international law—treaties, custom, and general principles—contained in the Statute of the International Court of Justice. It enumerates how the turn to UN system organizations—amidst newly empowered non-state actors, increasing resort to ‘soft’ or ‘informal’ norms, and recourse to institutionalized processes—have led to distinct legal frameworks such as process or deliberative theories, interdisciplinary ‘law and’ approaches, feminist and ‘Third World’ critiques, and scholarly work that renews attention to or revises legal positivism.

scholarly journals Enacting Twailian Praxis in Nonacademic Habitats: Toward a Conceptual Framework

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 20-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
International Law ◽  
Third World ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Peasant Movements

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.

scholarly journals Coronavirus Is A Biological Warfare Weapon

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 01-06
Author(s):  
Robert Skopec
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
World Health ◽  
Biological Weapons ◽  
Biological Warfare ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
College Of Law ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The University ◽  
Biological Weapons Convention ◽  
The U.S

Dr. Francis Boyle, who drafted the Biological Weapons Act has given a detailed statement admitting that the 2019 Wuhan Coronavirus is an offensive Biological Warfare Weapon and that the World Health Organization (WHO) already knows about it. Francis Boyle is a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He drafted the U.S. domestic implementing legislation for the Biological Weapons Convention, known as the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, that was approved unanimously by both Houses of the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President George H.W. Bush.

scholarly journals A questão desenvolvimentista na segunda metade do século XX: um olhar desde as TWAIL (Third World Approaches to International Law)

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrique Weil Afonso
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Third World

O objetivo do presente trabalho é analisar a tradição crítica do Direito Internacional no contexto da segunda metade do século XX no tocante aos desafios da inserção dos novos países à sociedade internacional de Estados. Para tanto, foi empreendido estudo qualitativo, amparado em bibliografia técnica e análise documental, nos contornos do recorte temporal assinalado. As Abordagens do Terceiro Mundo para o Direito Internacional (TWAIL, na sigla em inglês) consistem em movimento teórico de variadas influências, mas cujo propósito central é investigar as causas históricas, econômicas, políticas e culturais da perpetuação do subdesenvolvimento e da injustiça globais. São contempladas duas gerações de teóricos do movimento, a primeira compreendendo os desafios da emancipação política e desenvolvimento das décadas de 1960 e 1970, e a segunda, as dificuldades de proposição de alternativas institucionais e normativas favoráveis aos interesses do designado Terceiro Mundo no pós Guerra Fria. Constatou-se, após o exame das contribuições destas gerações, o que se denominou de armadilhas à emancipação dos países em desenvolvimento, que hoje precisam integrar a agenda do movimento.

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