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Navigating Historical and Legal Shortfalls to Resolve the Bawku Chieftaincy Conflict in Ghana through Court-connected Mediation (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
Yidana, N., & Izac-Hassan, E. Navigating Historical and Legal Shortfalls to Resolve the Bawku Chieftaincy Conflict in Ghana through Court-connected Mediation. London

This article examines the conflict between Mamprusis and Kusasis, rooted in chieftaincy disputes and escalating over the years, resulting in the loss of innocent lives, destruction of property, and deterioration of the area's former status as a busin... Read More about Navigating Historical and Legal Shortfalls to Resolve the Bawku Chieftaincy Conflict in Ghana through Court-connected Mediation.

The Force Intervention Brigade in the DRC, Civilian Security and Women Peace and Security (2024)
Journal Article
Heathcote, G., & Kula, L. The Force Intervention Brigade in the DRC, Civilian Security and Women Peace and Security. Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, 15(2), 246-265. https://doi.org/10.1163/18781527-bja10104

This article examines the UN Security Council (unsc) authorised Force Intervention Brigade (fib) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (drc) and the component of the mandate that articulates civilian security as a rationale for justified force. In... Read More about The Force Intervention Brigade in the DRC, Civilian Security and Women Peace and Security.

Corruption, Access to Arbitration for Local Communities: Mitigating the Cost of Corruption and Providing Access to Justice for Local Communities (2024)
Journal Article
Onyema, E. (2024). Corruption, Access to Arbitration for Local Communities: Mitigating the Cost of Corruption and Providing Access to Justice for Local Communities. Arbitration (London), 90(4), 536-554

This paper in the context of the Nigeria v. P&ID decision, examines the impact of corruption in arbitration on local communities, and suggest some remediation in arbitration and shift by the global arbitration community from prosperity, planet and pe... Read More about Corruption, Access to Arbitration for Local Communities: Mitigating the Cost of Corruption and Providing Access to Justice for Local Communities.

Preface (2024)
Book Chapter
Lau, M. Preface. In Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (ix-xi). Brill

Beyond papers: understanding the making of citizenship in the Foreigners’ Tribunals of Assam (2024)
Journal Article
Yesmin, F. (2024). Beyond papers: understanding the making of citizenship in the Foreigners’ Tribunals of Assam. Contemporary South Asia, 32(4), 475-488. https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2024.2413957

This paper questions the hyper fixation on papers in producing citizens or proving citizenship, arguing that not papers but the agglomeration of legal, bureaucratic and social processes produce citizenship in Assam’s Foreigners’ Tribunals (FTs). Base... Read More about Beyond papers: understanding the making of citizenship in the Foreigners’ Tribunals of Assam.

What it Means to be Palestinian: Reflections on Anti-colonial Identities in Times of Excessive Production and Destruction (2024)
Journal Article
Matar, D. (2024). What it Means to be Palestinian: Reflections on Anti-colonial Identities in Times of Excessive Production and Destruction. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 17(3), 246-253. https://doi.org/10.1163/18739865-01703001

In this essay, I argue that during moments of extreme flux and danger, such as the ongoing Israeli war against Gaza, it becomes relevant to consider how Palestinian identity is constructed and performed by a variety of actors, by Palestinians and by... Read More about What it Means to be Palestinian: Reflections on Anti-colonial Identities in Times of Excessive Production and Destruction.

Zionist Settler-Colonialist Identity (2024)
Journal Article
Bresheeth, H. (2024). Zionist Settler-Colonialist Identity. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 17(3), 239-245. https://doi.org/10.1163/18739865-01703008

This essay addresses a poignantly critical question: how did Israel enter into such an unsustainable, illegal, immoral and rather impractical position in the span of a few months following the bloody slaughter of 7 October 2023? It explains the probl... Read More about Zionist Settler-Colonialist Identity.

Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media (2024)
Book
Tawil-Souri, H., & Matar, D. (Eds.). (2024). Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755654291

Palestine has often been defined and constructed in the global imaginary through conflict, resistance, oppression and violence. Its representation is so overridden with conflicting claims and associations that it remains inaccessible, even to Palesti... Read More about Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media.

Race, Law and Liminality: The Poetry of May Ayim (2024)
Journal Article
Bruce-Jones, E. (2024). Race, Law and Liminality: The Poetry of May Ayim. Amerikastudien (Heidelberg), 69(3), 301-312. https://doi.org/10.33675/AMST/2024/3/11

This article examines the poetry of the late Afro-German poet, May Ayim (1960-1996), and the theory and politics of her work at the juncture of law, Blackness, and Germanness. The article demonstrates that Ayim, through the images, themes, and device... Read More about Race, Law and Liminality: The Poetry of May Ayim.

Promesses et limites de la reconnaissance des droits de la nature: Le cas des décisions attribuant la personnalité juridique au Gange et à la Yamuna (2024)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P. (2024). Promesses et limites de la reconnaissance des droits de la nature: Le cas des décisions attribuant la personnalité juridique au Gange et à la Yamuna. In L. Boisson de Chazournes (Ed.), L'effectivité du droit international face à l'urgence écologique (167-188). Collège de France. https://doi.org/10.4000/12nrh