A Conversation on TWAIL and Postcolonial Methods – with Professor Antony Anghie
When: Thursday, April 16, 2026, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Where: Room 313, Third Floor, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
A Conversation on TWAIL and Postcolonial Methods – with Professor Antony Anghie.
This conversation will explore the critical interventions of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) alongside broader postcolonial methodologies, with a particular focus on their relevance for postgraduate research. The session will be dialogical in format, fostering discussion on how TWAIL and postcolonial approaches can be meaningfully incorporated into doctoral projects. Together, we will examine how Western legal frameworks have historically been shaped by imperial and colonial encounters, and how these legacies continue to structure contemporary global issues. The seminar aims to equip early career researchers with both theoretical grounding and methodological tools to critically analyse law’s role in reproducing—or potentially challenging—global inequalities and imperial relations. This session is designed for postgraduate students interested in critical legal studies, human rights, international law, land law, and interdisciplinary approaches that foreground questions of history, power, and resistance. Participants: Professor Antony Anghie (NUS/Utah), Professor Ratna Kapur (Queen Mary), Dr Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa (Queen Mary) and Dimitri Van Den Meerssche (Queen Mary). Recommended reading: Antony Anghie (ed et al) Research Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law, Elgar, 2025.
Speaker(s) description:
- Professor Antony Anghie (NUS/Utah).
- Professor Ratna Kapur (Queen Mary).
- Dr Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa (Queen Mary).
- Dimitri Van Den Meerssche (Queen Mary).