1st Edition
Decolonisation and the Law School Dreaming Beyond Aesthetic Changes to the Curriculum
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 student–staff 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 rights
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
Biography
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.
