1st Edition

Decolonisation, Anti-Racism, and Legal Pedagogy Strategies, Successes, and Challenges

Edited By Foluke I Adebisi, Suhraiya Jivraj, Ntina Tzouvala Copyright 2024
296 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers an international breadth of historical and theoretical insights into recent efforts to "decolonise" legal education across the world. With a specific focus on post- and decolonial thought and anti-racist methods in pedagogy, this edited collection provides an accessible illustration of pedagogical innovation in teaching and learning law. Chapters cover civil and common law... Read more

Foreword 

Penelope Andrews  

Introduction: Decolonisation, Anti-Racism, and Legal Pedagogy

Foluke Adebisi, Suhraiya Jivraj, and Ntina Tzouvala

Part 1 Questioning the Decolonising Project in Law Schools: Limitations and Critique    

Chapter 1: Abolish the Law School: To Decolonise Is Disingenuous 

Phoebe Boateng, Aysha Mazhar, and Sophia Hayat Taha

Chapter 2: The Pedagogy of Memory and Forgetfulness: A Critical Review of Selected Aspects of the LLB Curriculum in South Africa 

Ntando Sindane

Chapter 3: The Recognition of Pasifika Decolonial Pedagogies as Inclusive Practice in Law Schools and Critical Legal Scholarship

Bridget Fa'amatuainu 

Part 2 Private Law: Teaching Obligations and Property

Chapter 4: Decolonizing Objective Theory: Race and Coloniality in US Contract Law 

Chaumtoli Huq 

Chapter 5: Degrees of Coloniality: Rethinking Property Law in (Northern) Ireland

Amanda Kramer and Alice Panepinto

Chapter 6: Teaching Property Critically in Disparate Parts of the Former British Empire

Cristy Clark, Sarah Keenan, and John Page

Chapter 7: Towards Decolonising the Ordinary Person Test in Legal Education

Fady Aoun, Louise Boon-Kuo, and Tanya Mitchell 

Chapter 8: Reinventing Wrongs: A Subversive, Anti-Racist Pedagogy for Tort

C. P. McGrath

Part 3 Public Law: International Law, Human Rights, and the Courts 

Chapter 9: Unmasking Indigenous Invisibility: Reforming and Decolonising the Pedagogy of Terra Nullius

Asmi Wood

Chapter 10: Decolonising Civil Procedure: Court Process as Continuing Colonisation and Tool for Indigenous Justice

Kate Ogg

Chapter 11: Teaching International Law Against Racism and Empire

Ntina Tzouvala

Chapter 12: Divesting Religion from Rights: Teaching Freedom of Religion through Anti-Racist Pedagogy

Sahar Ahmed  

Chapter 13: Pedagogy as Advocacy: The Role of Anti-Racist and Decolonial Pedagogy in Advancing Social Justice 

Gulika Reddy

Part 4 Socio-legal Education: Designing Subjects that Address Complicities of Law with Power

Chapter 14: Inspiring Anti-Racist Lawyers through Clinical Legal Education

Sumayyah Malna 

Chapter 15: Decolonization and Anti-racism in Criminology: Student Perceptions on Faculty Teaching Practices 

Tamara O’Doherty, Helene Love and Marsha-Ann Scott

Chapter 16: Troubling Law’s Traditional Canon by Teaching Law and Race

Foluke I Adebisi and Yvette Russell

Biography

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.