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Jan 18, 2023 · consider the basis of the commitment to decolonise (including why should we decolonise? Is it desirable or necessary? And if necessary, what level of priority should it be given?); understand what decolonisation in law schools requires, in terms of both pedagogy and curriculum;
Mar 25, 2024 · Legal pedagogy has been complicit in the poor treatment of Indigenous people, often by creating legal fictions to ‘explain’ the gaps in law that would otherwise be evident. Lawyers and law schools can and should stop being complicit and help to reverse this aspect of colonisation.
Oct 30, 2020 · Nowhere is the association between law and society more overt than in legal education. Understanding the postcolonial nature of law helps us trace better connections between race and postcolonial coloniality and the enduring legacy of postcolonial law.
Feb 14, 2017 · For decolonised education to be introduced, the existing system must be overthrown and the people it’s supposed to serve must define it for themselves.
- Brenda Wingfield
Dec 1, 2020 · Nandini Boodia-Canoo uses Mauritius as an example of why legal historical research should include colonial law. Teleola Cartwright and Nick Cartwright reflect on how positionality of academics affects their recommended progress through decolonial praxis.
- Foluke Adebisi
- 2020
Nov 18, 2021 · We suggest the process of diversifying international legal curriculum becomes a neurotic behaviour that reinvigorates international law while reiterating its Eurocentricity as the foundation of international legal praxis, knowledge, and pedagogy.
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Jul 30, 2021 · In the context of legal education, there is a particularly heightened risk of this happening due to law’s internal complexities. This short piece seeks to set out the importance of grasping the specific nature of legal knowledge and learning, and the consequences for a transformational decolonising pedagogy.