Third World approaches to international law

Third World approaches to international law (TWAIL) is a critical school of international legal scholarship[1] and an intellectual and political movement.[2] It is a "broad dialectic opposition to international law",[3] which perceives international law as facilitating the continuing exploitation of the Third World through subordination to the West. TWAIL scholars (known as TWAIL-ers[4]) seek to change what they identify as international law's oppressive aspects,[2] through the re-examination of the colonial foundations of international law.[2]

  1. ^ O. Okafor, (2005). "Newness, Imperialism, and International Legal Reform in Our Time: A TWAIL Perspective", Osgoode Hall Law Journal 43(1 & 2), p. 177
  2. ^ a b c M. Mutua, (2000) "What is TWAIL?", Proceedings of the 94th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law: pp.31-40, p. 38
  3. ^ M. Mutua, (2000) "What is TWAIL?", Proceedings of the 94th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law: pp.31-40, p. 31
  4. ^ L. Eslava, and S. Pahuja, (2011). "Between Resistance and Reform: TWAIL and the Universality of International Law", Trade, Law and Development 3(1), p. 26