Decolonisation and the Law School

This book explores strategies, approaches, tools, challenges, and reflections that animate the conversation around decolonisation in UK law schools.

Autorentext

Foluke I. Adebisi is Professor of law at the University of Bristol Law School. Her scholarship on decolonisation and legal pedagogy responds to the question of what it means to be human.

Inhalt

Introduction: Decolonisation and the law school: presences, absences, silences and hope, Foluke I. Adebisi 1. Trust, courage and silence: carving out decolonial spaces in higher education through studentstaff partnerships, Ahmed Raza Memon and Suhraiya Jivraj 2. Law, order, justice, crime: disrupting key concepts in criminology through the study of colonial history, J.M. Moore 3. Creating the law school as a meeting place for epistemologies: decolonising the teaching of jurisprudence and human right, Sophie Rigney 4. Researching colonialism and colonial legacies from a legal perspective, Nandini S. Boodia-Canoo 5. Why is it my problem if they don't take part? The (non)role of white academics in decolonising the law school, Nick Cartwright and T.O. Cartwright 6. Decolonising the master's house: how Black Feminist epistemologies can be and are used in decolonial strategy, Oluwaseun Matiluko 7. The ignored heritage of Western law: the historical and contemporary role of Islamic law in shaping law schools, Imranali Panjwani