LCP4801
ASSIGNMENT 2
DUE DATE: AUGUST 2025
, LCP4801 Assignment 2 2025
SEMESTER 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.
(Makau W. Mutua, What Is TWAIL?, University at Buffalo School of Law, Digital Commons @ University at Buffalo School
of Law, Faculty Scholarship, 2000)
1.2 What informed the development of the TWAIL movement?
The TWAIL movement was informed by the historical realities of colonialism and the
imperial origins of international law. Scholars and countries from the Global South observed
that:
International law was originally created and shaped by European colonial powers to serve
their imperial and mercantilist goals.
Colonised nations were treated as lacking sovereignty and legal personality, which justified
their conquest and domination.
ASSIGNMENT 2
DUE DATE: AUGUST 2025
, LCP4801 Assignment 2 2025
SEMESTER 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.
(Makau W. Mutua, What Is TWAIL?, University at Buffalo School of Law, Digital Commons @ University at Buffalo School
of Law, Faculty Scholarship, 2000)
1.2 What informed the development of the TWAIL movement?
The TWAIL movement was informed by the historical realities of colonialism and the
imperial origins of international law. Scholars and countries from the Global South observed
that:
International law was originally created and shaped by European colonial powers to serve
their imperial and mercantilist goals.
Colonised nations were treated as lacking sovereignty and legal personality, which justified
their conquest and domination.
