All Outputs (4)

'Race and UK Public Law' (Introduction to Special Series) and 'Race and the UK Constitution: On the Disappearance Irrelevance and Permanence of Race and Racism in the UK' (Submission to Special Series) (2025)
Journal Article
Kumar, V. (2025). 'Race and UK Public Law' (Introduction to Special Series) and 'Race and the UK Constitution: On the Disappearance Irrelevance and Permanence of Race and Racism in the UK' (Submission to Special Series). Public Law, April, 201-214.

This collection seeks to address a persistent blind-spot in United Kingdom (UK) constitutional theory and scholarship by offering a diverse series of contributions underscoring the importance and relevance of race, racialisation and racism in UK cons... Read More about 'Race and UK Public Law' (Introduction to Special Series) and 'Race and the UK Constitution: On the Disappearance Irrelevance and Permanence of Race and Racism in the UK' (Submission to Special Series).

On Scripts and Sensibility: Cold War International Law and Revolutionary Caribbean Subjects (2020)
Journal Article
Kumar, V. (2020). On Scripts and Sensibility: Cold War International Law and Revolutionary Caribbean Subjects. German Law Journal, 21(8), 1541-1569. https://doi.org/10.1017/glj.2020.91

Through a literary-theatrical reading of international legality, this Article challenges the “settled script" produced by international legal scholars to frame and assess the legality of two historical events—the Grenada Revolution (1979–1983) and th... Read More about On Scripts and Sensibility: Cold War International Law and Revolutionary Caribbean Subjects.

Revolutionaries (2019)
Book Chapter
Kumar, V. (2019). Revolutionaries. In J. D'Aspremont, & S. Singh (Eds.), Concepts for International Law: Contributions to Disciplinary Thought (pp. 773-795). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783474684.00056

Where do concepts belong? Who decides? How is it decided? And, if one recognizes the inherent temporality of concepts and their pasts, when is it decided? Focusing on the concept of revolutionaries, this chapter has two aims. First, recognizing that... Read More about Revolutionaries.

International Law, Kelsen and the Aberrant Revolution: Excavating the Politics and Practices of Revolutionary Legality in Rhodesia and Beyond (2016)
Book Chapter
Kumar, V. (2016). International Law, Kelsen and the Aberrant Revolution: Excavating the Politics and Practices of Revolutionary Legality in Rhodesia and Beyond. In N. M. Rajkovic, T. Aalberts, & T. Gammeltoft-Hanse (Eds.), The Power of Legality: Practices of International Law and their Politics (pp. 157-187). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781316535134.007

Although there have been many attempts to decipher the enigmas which inhere in Kelsen’s unfathomably vast body of work on international law, I explore a different mystery in this Chapter namely: how revolution - a homeless, aberrant, and pathological... Read More about International Law, Kelsen and the Aberrant Revolution: Excavating the Politics and Practices of Revolutionary Legality in Rhodesia and Beyond.