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'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).

Jane Addams: Positive Peace from the Everyday to the International (2023)
Book Chapter
Grady, K., & Heathcote, G. (2023). Jane Addams: Positive Peace from the Everyday to the International. In I. Tallgren (Ed.), Portraits of Women in International Law: New Names and Forgotten Faces? (99-108). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198868453.003.0007

Jane Addams, born 6 September 1860—died 21 May 1935, was an important early feminist theorist of international law, linking domestic and international activism, identifying labour rights, citizenship, arms control, and gender equality as components o... Read More about Jane Addams: Positive Peace from the Everyday to the International.

Abandoning the Idealised White Subject of Legal Feminism: a manifesto for silence in a Lusophone register (2023)
Journal Article
Heathcote, G., & Kula, L. (2023). Abandoning the Idealised White Subject of Legal Feminism: a manifesto for silence in a Lusophone register. Global Constitutionalism, 12(3), 469-494. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2045381722000284

Through an account of white feminisms and white privilege, this article examines the tensions between local and international knowledge frames. The article considers the possibility of a feminist approach to global constitutionalism and argues for a... Read More about Abandoning the Idealised White Subject of Legal Feminism: a manifesto for silence in a Lusophone register.

Disordering International Law (2022)
Journal Article
Kelsall, M. S. (2022). Disordering International Law. European Journal of International Law, 33(3), 729-759. https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chac054

This article examines critical approaches to liberal internationalism in international law. It argues that, despite ongoing disavowals of the liberal international legal order, most critical international lawyers are yet to let go of liberal vocabula... Read More about Disordering International Law.

Formalisation of Land Rights in Africa: Impact on Security of Land Tenure (2022)
Book Chapter
Lokhandwala, Z. (2022). Formalisation of Land Rights in Africa: Impact on Security of Land Tenure. In I. Tshabangu (Ed.), Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Future of Africa and Policy Development (186-210). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8771-3.ch011

Numerous African countries have undertaken land rights formalisation programmes since 1970-80. These programmes are within the context of a larger theoretical debate for and against the formalisation of property rights. Programmes vary based on diver... Read More about Formalisation of Land Rights in Africa: Impact on Security of Land Tenure.

War and order: rethinking criminal accountability for the Iraq War (2021)
Journal Article
Grady, K. (2021). War and order: rethinking criminal accountability for the Iraq War. London Review of International Law, 9(2), 245-267. https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lrab010

Public calls for the criminal accountability of UK and US politicians for the 2003 Iraq war are part of the war’s legal legacies. This article questions whether criminal sanction can be a corrective to war by considering whether the relationship betw... Read More about War and order: rethinking criminal accountability for the Iraq War.

Towards a Carceral Geography of International Law (2021)
Book Chapter
Grady, K. (2021). Towards a Carceral Geography of International Law. In S. Pahuja, & S. Chalmers (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of International Law and the Humanities. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003170914-33

This chapter provides a preliminary sketch of the relationship(s) between international law and carceral space. It draws on legal and carceral geography to explore how practices of, and ideas about, incarceration travel between different legal spaces... Read More about Towards a Carceral Geography of International Law.

‘Poisonous Flowers on the Dust-heap of a Dying Capitalism’: The United Nations Code of Conduct on Transnational Corporations, Contingency and Failure in International Law (2021)
Book Chapter
Kelsall, M. S. (2021). ‘Poisonous Flowers on the Dust-heap of a Dying Capitalism’: The United Nations Code of Conduct on Transnational Corporations, Contingency and Failure in International Law. In K. Heller, & I. Venzke (Eds.), Contingency in International Law: On the Possibility of Different Legal Histories. Oxford University Press

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.

Worldings of "Us" and of Tumbleweeds: On Spillage and Matter in a Messy, Intersubjective Here (and Elsewhere) (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2020, June). Worldings of "Us" and of Tumbleweeds: On Spillage and Matter in a Messy, Intersubjective Here (and Elsewhere). Paper presented at Thinking Like Tumbleweeds: Bodily Genres and the Vitality of Beings at Large, RAI2020: Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future, SOAS University of London

Thinking along with tumbleweeds, this paper proposes an ontoepistemic perspective on spillages and mattering in human and non-human worldings that challenges recent resurgences, in anthropological and other social theory, of a dialectical divide betw... Read More about Worldings of "Us" and of Tumbleweeds: On Spillage and Matter in a Messy, Intersubjective Here (and Elsewhere).

Worldings that Spill and that Matter (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2020, March). Worldings that Spill and that Matter. Paper presented at Feminism and Materialism in International Relations, International Studies Association Annual Convention, Honolulu, HI, USA

Against the rise of a whole host of new takes on the primacy of the ontological in solving ostensibly epistemological questions—evidenced, for example, in certain expositions of the ontological turn in social anthropology, the speculative turn in ‘co... Read More about Worldings that Spill and that Matter.

Pakistan's Cold War(s) and International Law (2019)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2019). Pakistan's Cold War(s) and International Law. In M. Craven, S. Pahuja, & S. Gerry (Eds.), International Law and the Cold War (447-466). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108615525.020

Against a great deal of contemporary Cold War scholarship, this chapter argues that Pakistan’s complex relations with the United States—as well as with the Soviet Union, China, India and Afghanistan—place it firmly at the centre of global Cold War po... Read More about Pakistan's Cold War(s) and International Law.

Migration (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V., & Thomas, C. (2019, November). Migration. Presented at Lunch Roundtable, IGLP Retreat, Chatham, Cape Cod, MA, USA

On Triple Dispossession in Louisiana: Initial Thoughts (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2019, October). On Triple Dispossession in Louisiana: Initial Thoughts. Presented at Beyond Inequality Workshop, Cape Cod, MA, USA

I feel that my current research on eighteenth-century intersections of global capitalism, slavery, colonial legality and gender diversity in the Atlantic world, and their contemporary relevance, speaks to quite a few questions raised in the brief mem... Read More about On Triple Dispossession in Louisiana: Initial Thoughts.

Binaries, Intersected: The Trouble of Global Governance in Post-colonial Mali (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2019, October). Binaries, Intersected: The Trouble of Global Governance in Post-colonial Mali. Presented at discussion on Vasuki Nesiah’s ‘Trigger: Gender as Tool and Weapon’, Inaugural Annual Lecture on Gender Studies and Law, SOAS University of London

I could not think of a better, more engaging and more urgent way to celebrate the inception of the annual SOAS Lecture on Gender Studies and Law! What Vasuki has just given us is, indeed, a masterclass in decolonial feminist critique of the emergent,... Read More about Binaries, Intersected: The Trouble of Global Governance in Post-colonial Mali.

A Turn to Governance: Feminist Conundrums and Pakistan’s Neoliberal Future Past (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2019, August). A Turn to Governance: Feminist Conundrums and Pakistan’s Neoliberal Future Past. Presented at Panel on Feminist Theories and Epistemologies from the Global South, Symposium on Critical Approaches to International Law, Griffith College Dublin, Ireland

Feminist theories and epistemologies from the global south comprise a vast array of critical praxis, which has maintained a complex and often ambiguous web of relations with transnational feminist movements. On the one hand, in their attempts to dece... Read More about A Turn to Governance: Feminist Conundrums and Pakistan’s Neoliberal Future Past.

The Wordsmiths of Time: Gender Variance, Social Status and Distemporalities in “Eighteenth-Century” Greater Senegambia (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2019, August). The Wordsmiths of Time: Gender Variance, Social Status and Distemporalities in “Eighteenth-Century” Greater Senegambia. Paper presented at Panel on Distemporalities: Collisions, Insurrections and Reorientations in the Worlding of Time, On Time: The Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, Helsinki, Finland

My talk today proceeds from a chapter in a book that has now been quite long in the making, based on my critical historical and anthropological research of ‘eighteenth- century’ West African communities and subjectivities whose gender-variance, sexua... Read More about The Wordsmiths of Time: Gender Variance, Social Status and Distemporalities in “Eighteenth-Century” Greater Senegambia.

On Freedom beyond the Liberal Paradigm: Reading Ratna Kapur’s Gender, Alterity and Human Rights (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2019, May). On Freedom beyond the Liberal Paradigm: Reading Ratna Kapur’s Gender, Alterity and Human Rights. Paper presented at Author Meets Reader Session, Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC, USA

Here comes, at long last, a book on human rights that clears the way for going forward outside the self-centred, self-referential and self-sufficient circle of human rights scholarship—an academic genre that, even at its most critical, always already... Read More about On Freedom beyond the Liberal Paradigm: Reading Ratna Kapur’s Gender, Alterity and Human Rights.