Decolonisation, Anti-Racism, and Legal Pedagogy

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 legal systems, incorporate cases from non-state Indigenous legal systems, and critically examine key topics such as decolonisation and anti-racism in criminology, colonialism and the British Empire, and court process and Indigenous justice. The book demonstrates how teaching can be modified and adapted to address long-standing injustice in the curriculum. Offering a systematic collection of theoretical and practical examples of anti-racist and decolonial legal pedagogy, this volume will appeal to curriculum designers and law educators as well as to undergraduate and post-graduate level law teachers and researchers.

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.

Foreword Introduction: Decolonisation, Anti-Racism, and Legal Pedagogy Part 1 Questioning the Decolonising Project in Law Schools: Limitations & Critique Chapter 1: Abolish the Law School: To decolonise is disingenuous Chapter 2: The Pedagogy of Memory and Forgetfulness in the aftermath of the #MustFall moment in South Africa Chapter 3: The recognition of Pasifika decolonial pedagogies as inclusive practice in law schools and critical legal scholarship Part 2 Private Law: Teaching Obligations and Property Chapter 4: Decolonizing Objective Theory: Race and Coloniality in US Contract Law Chapter 5: Degrees of Coloniality: Rethinking property law in (Northern) Ireland Chapter 6: Teaching property critically in disparate parts of the former British Empire Chapter 7: Towards Decolonising the Ordinary Person and Discursive Spaces in Legal Education Chapter 8: Reinventing Wrongs: A Subversive, Anti-Racist Pedagogy for Tort Part 3 Public Law: International Law, Human Rights and the Courts Chapter 9: Unmasking Indigenous Invisibility: Reforming the Pedagogy of Terra Nullius Chapter 10: Decolonising Civil Procedure: Court Process as Continuing Colonisation and Tool for Indigenous Justice Chapter 11: Teaching International Law Against Racism & Empire Chapter 12: Divesting Religion from Rights: Teaching Freedom of Religion through Anti-Racist Pedagogy Chapter 13: Pedagogy as Advocacy: The Role of Anti-Racist and Decolonial Pedagogy in Advancing Social Justice Part 4 Socio-legal education: Designing subjects that address complicities of law with power Chapter 14: Inspiring Anti-Racist Lawyers through Clinical Legal Education Chapter 15: Decolonization and Anti-racism in Criminology: Student perceptions on faculty teaching practices Chapter 16: Troubling Law's Traditional Canon by Teaching Law and Race