Decolonisation, Anti-Racism, and Legal Pedagogy

This book offers an international breadth of historical and theoretical insights into recent efforts to 'decolonise' legal education across the world.

Autorentext

Foluke I Adebisi is an Associate Professor in Law at the University of Bristol, UK.

Suhraiya Jivraj is a Reader in Law and Social Justice at the University of Kent, UK.

Ntina Tzouvala is an Associate Professor at the Australian National University College of Law and a Global Fellow at the Centre for International Law of the National University of Singapore.

Inhalt

Foreword Introduction: Decolonisation, Anti-Racism, and Legal Pedagogy Part 1 Questioning the Decolonising Project in Law Schools: Limitations & Critique Chapter 1: Abolish the Law School: To decolonise is disingenuous Chapter 2: The Pedagogy of Memory and Forgetfulness in the aftermath of the #MustFall moment in South Africa Chapter 3: The recognition of Pasifika decolonial pedagogies as inclusive practice in law schools and critical legal scholarship Part 2 Private Law: Teaching Obligations and Property Chapter 4: Decolonizing Objective Theory: Race and Coloniality in US Contract Law Chapter 5: Degrees of Coloniality: Rethinking property law in (Northern) Ireland Chapter 6: Teaching property critically in disparate parts of the former British Empire Chapter 7: Towards Decolonising the Ordinary Person and Discursive Spaces in Legal Education Chapter 8: Reinventing Wrongs: A Subversive, Anti-Racist Pedagogy for Tort Part 3 Public Law: International Law, Human Rights and the Courts Chapter 9: Unmasking Indigenous Invisibility: Reforming the Pedagogy of Terra Nullius Chapter 10: Decolonising Civil Procedure: Court Process as Continuing Colonisation and Tool for Indigenous Justice Chapter 11: Teaching International Law Against Racism & Empire Chapter 12: Divesting Religion from Rights: Teaching Freedom of Religion through Anti-Racist Pedagogy Chapter 13: Pedagogy as Advocacy: The Role of Anti-Racist and Decolonial Pedagogy in Advancing Social Justice Part 4 Socio-legal education: Designing subjects that address complicities of law with power Chapter 14: Inspiring Anti-Racist Lawyers through Clinical Legal Education Chapter 15: Decolonization and Anti-racism in Criminology: Student perceptions on faculty teaching practices Chapter 16: Troubling Law's Traditional Canon by Teaching Law and Race