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The Law Teacher - Volume 54, Issue 4 2020

The Law Teacher is an international journal publishing research on all aspects of legal education including the teaching of law at all academic levels.

This issue is devoted to discussions on decolonising the Law School. Articles include:

Decolonising the law school: presences, absences, silences… and hope
Trust, courage and silence: carving out decolonial spaces in higher education through student–staff partnerships
“Law”, “order”, “justice”, “crime”: disrupting key concepts in criminology through the study of colonial history
Creating the law school as a meeting place for epistemologies: decolonising the teaching of jurisprudence and human rights
Researching colonialism and colonial legacies from a legal perspective
“Why is it my problem if they don’t take part?” The (non)role of white academics in decolonising the law school
Decolonising the master’s house: how Black Feminist epistemologies can be and are used in decolonial strategy
The ignored heritage of Western law: the historical and contemporary role of Islamic law in shaping law schools

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Law Teacher Vol 54(4)

Sector Activity

There is growing discussion of decolonising the law curriculum in the sector. The following resources reflect some of activity that has taken place across the sector.

If you are aware of work in the sector that you'd like to highlight, please pass on details to Lee Snook, Law Librarian

African Skies Blog
Blog by Foluke Ifejola Adebisi. Senior Lecturer at Law School, University of Bristol, exploring issues of decolonisation and diversification in law
Black Lives Matter: Review of a selection of Socio-Legal journals
In the hope that it will be of value to colleagues within the socio-legal community the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (CSLS) has recently undertaken a review of six major sociolegal journals from 2005-2020. The goal of the exercise was to identify socio-legal scholarship that touches upon issues of ethnicity, discrimination, race, colour,
intersectionality, colonialism, diversity and critical race theory. This is intended as a resource
for lecturers, researchers and students.
Towards Anti-racist Legal Pedagogy: A Resource
This Social and Legal Studies Association (SLSA) funded project is aimed at assisting teachers to develop anti-racist pedagogy in their teaching in five of the six foundation subjects currently required for a qualifying law degree (QLD).
UCL LLM Module on Decolonizing Law
This module considers whether and how law can be ‘decolonized’, through a detailed consideration of, a) colonial and post-colonial history and theory, b) the application of post-colonial ideas to international law in particular, c) the substantive issues of redress and reparation for colonialism and other equivalent forms of domination, both in and of themselves, and the abuse and exploitation associated with them. Case studies considered include the ‘Rhodes must fall’ movement; the Caribbean campaign for reparations for slavery and the slave trade; the restitution of Nazi-appropriated art; and the return of artefacts from museums, art galleries and universities.

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The Law Teacher - Volume 54, Issue 4 2020

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