Taking stock of TWAIL histories

International Community Law Review

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 355-362

  Mickelson, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL); TWAIL history; TWAIL vision statement

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349131934     PISSN: 18719740     EISSN: 18719732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/187197308X366605     Document Type: Review

References (10)

1. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, to take stock means "to make an inventory of the merchandise, furniture, etc., in one's own . . . possession, recording its quantity and present value, or to make a carefulestimate of one's position withregard to resources, prospects, or the like."
2. This is sometimes referred to as "TWAILI". As will be discussed further in Section 4, infra, however, "TWAILI" and "TWAILII" are frequently used to refer to "generations" of Third World scholarship as well as the fi rst TWAIL conferences. The third TWAIL conference at Albany Law School was specifically entitled TWAILIII.
3. Karin Mickelson, "Seeing the Forest, the Trees and the People: Coming to Terms with Developing Country Perspectives on the Proposed Global Forests Convention", in: Canadian Council on International Law (ed.), Global Forests and International Environmental Law (1996) pp. 239-264.
4. Karin Mickelson, "Rhetoric and Rage: Third World Voices in International Legal Discourse", 16 Wisconsin International Law Journal (1998) pp. 353-419.
5. George H.W. Bush, "Toward a New World Order", speech given to a joint session of the United States Congress, 11 September 1990.
6. Antony Anghie and B.S. Chimni, "Third World Approaches to International Law and Individual Responsibility in Internal Conflict", in: Steven R. Ratner and Anne-Marie Slaughter (eds.), The Methods of International Law (2004) pp. 185-210.
7. Antony Anghie and B.S. Chimni, "Third World Approaches to International Law and Individual Responsibility in Internal Conflict" The Methods of International Law (2004) Ibid. at p. 187; see also footnote 5 on that page.
8. David Kennedy, "The TWAIL Conference: Keynote Address", 9 International Community Law Review (2007) pp. 333-344, 335. Kennedy also notes that these scholars were in rebellion against "the tradition of third world professional assimilation and intellectualinvisibility associated with the eighties and nineties."
9. See e.g. Madhav Khosla, "The TWAIL Discourse: The Emergence of a New Phase", 9 International Community Law Review (2007) pp. 291-304.
10. I am indebted to Pooja Parmar for drawing this point to my attention, and for her thoughtful comments on this section.