International Law and the Global South

Shubhangi Agarwalla

This takes seriously the idea that international law has both imperial and emancipatory tendencies. This means revising the general theory of international law and unveiling its global history; questioning the functioning of the international order and the role of international lawyers within it; re-theorising the state and revising current discourses of constitutional order.

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International Law and the Global South

May 12, 2020
1 hours
74 MB

This is the audio of the session on Critical Perspectives to International Law that Sagnik Das and I, Shubhangi Agarwalla, took via Zoom. International law has been subject to so much well-deserved criticism, and yet remains a compelling moral language for issues of global justice. The Classical Understanding of International Law has had the unintended consequence of legitimising an expanding domain of international intervention into the Third World. Interesting, neither Sagnik nor I, both Indian students who completed our undergraduate law degrees from India, were introduced to Critical scholarship that challenges these interventions during our time at l...

International Law and the Global South

Critical Perspectives to International Law

Shubhangi Agarwalla

00:00 -01:19:44