ASSIGNMENT 2 2025
DUE AUGUST 2025
, LCP4801
ASSIGNMENT 2 2025
DUE: AUGUST 2025
Question 1
Following a conference on decolonising international law, your line manager, a senior
legal advisor, informs you that the TWAIL movement enjoyed a great deal of attention. He
asks you to provide responses to the following questions, which will form part of his report.
1.1 What does the acronym TWAIL stand for?
TWAIL stands for Third World Approaches to International Law. It is a critical legal
movement that challenges the traditional structure and function of international law,
particularly how it has historically disadvantaged non-Western states and peoples.
(Mutua, M. (2000). What is TWAIL? Proceedings of the 94th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International
Law, 31–38.)