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The Decolonization of International Law: State Succession and the Law of Treaties (2007)
Book
Craven, M. (2007). The Decolonization of International Law: State Succession and the Law of Treaties. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199217625.001.0001

The issue of state succession continues to be a vital and complex focal point for public international lawyers, yet it has remained strangely resistant to effective articulation. The formative period in this respect was that of decolonization: a peri... Read More about The Decolonization of International Law: State Succession and the Law of Treaties.

Some Thoughts on the Emergent Right to Water (2006)
Book Chapter
Craven, M. (2006). Some Thoughts on the Emergent Right to Water. In E. Riedel, & P. Rothen (Eds.), The Human Right to Water. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag

The Empire Writes Back (to Michael Ignatieff) (2004)
Journal Article
Rao, R. (2004). The Empire Writes Back (to Michael Ignatieff). Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 33(1), 145-166. https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298040330010601

This article critiques the re-legitimisation of empire evident in recent writing by Michael Ignatieff. It begins by locating his work within the larger debate on empire emerging today. Focusing first on Ignatieff's more general comments on empire, it... Read More about The Empire Writes Back (to Michael Ignatieff).

Anxious Reconciliation(s): unsettling foundations and spatialising history (2004)
Journal Article
Bhandar, B. (2004). Anxious Reconciliation(s): unsettling foundations and spatialising history. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 22(6), 831-845. https://doi.org/10.1068/d412

In this article I explore the relationship between law, history and reconciliation in the Canadian context. I argue that linear, teleological forms of history are employed by courts to continually reiterate the myth of a legitimate assertion of colon... Read More about Anxious Reconciliation(s): unsettling foundations and spatialising history.

Always on the Defence: The Myth of Universality and the Persistence of Privilege in Legal Education (2002)
Journal Article
Bhandar, B. (2002). Always on the Defence: The Myth of Universality and the Persistence of Privilege in Legal Education. Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, 14, 341-361

Law school curricula and dominant pedagogical approaches reinforce the sense of entitlement and privilege that individuals from historically privileged groups enjoy in the law school context. In this article, the author shows how particular critical... Read More about Always on the Defence: The Myth of Universality and the Persistence of Privilege in Legal Education.