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Emancipating International Law: Confronting the Violence of Racialised Boundaries

Author: Mohsen al Attar; Claire Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198935575
Published In: May 2026
Format: Hardback
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While mainstream international legal scholarship has long treated race as a peripheral concern-or a historic injustice to be remembered but not redressed-this volume argues that racialisation is foundational to the discipline, underpinning its doctrines, epistemes, and interlocutors. Emancipating International Law explores the many ways racial hierarchy, systemic oppression, and global white supremacy shape international law. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, the collection moves beyond qualifying whether international law is racist to explore how racial hierarchies are embedded in its structures and continue to evolve through legal and institutional practice.

Divided into five sections, the book begins by situating international law's racialised boundaries within its colonial, capitalist, and chauvinist afterlives, exposing how white ignorance and race-thinking underpin legal norms, from sovereignty to jus cogens. It then examines racial stratification across legal institutions, including investment law, refugee law, and the Genocide Convention. The third section extends this critique to human rights, revealing the ways in which even an emancipatory paradigm can bolster racial injustices. The penultimate section unpacks racial hierarchies in disparate societies, including Brazil, India, and Japan, as well as the frontiers of nation-states. The volume concludes with a powerful discussion of the role of activism and alternative epistemologies in racial justice struggles, and the limits of international law's capacity for anti-racist transformation.

Aimed at scholars, practitioners, and students of international law, critical legal studies, and anti-colonial theory, this book advances an understanding of international law that is aimed at dismantling its racialised structures.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Beyond Silence: Confronting Racial Hierarchies in International Law, Mohsen al Attar and Claire Smith

Part I. Situating International Law's Racism Problem

1:The Racialized Epistemology of International Law: From White Ignorance to Black Dignity, Mohsen al Attar

2:Disrupting International Law's Colonial Afterlives of Human Property: Educating for a World Beyond Racial Capitalism and Unending Apartheids, Folúkáº¹'& Ifejola Adébísí

3:Racialized Extractivism: A Tale of Fetishism, Narcissism, Primitive Accumulation, and Expropriation, Jason Haynes

4:The Inequalities of Sovereign Equality, Harrison Otieno Mbori

5:The Colour of Jus Cogens, Sarah Riley Case and Frédéric Mégret

Part II. The Tools, Techniques, and Technologies of Legalized Racial Inequality

6:Race as Citizenship Personified: Illuminating the Ghosts of Racial Discrimination in International Law, Shahab Saqib

7:A Racialized Existence: Lessons from Palestine and the Genocide Convention, Dimitrios A Kourtis

8:Settler Colonialism, Race, and International Law: Lessons from the Frontier, Faisal al-Asaad

9:Survive the Journey Only to Succumb to International Refugee Law, Jinan Bastaki

10:How the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement Fail Climate and Racial Justice: Time for the Kampala Convention?, Nciko wa Nciko

Part III. A Right to be Free From Racism

11:The Intersection of Race and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, Raghavi Viswanath

12:Racialized Ableism and the Need for Intersectional Discourse and Action, Tess Sheldon, Ruby Dhand, and Roxanne Mykitiuk

13:De-essentializing Race: Intersectionality as a Feminist Approach in International Human Rights Law, Paulina Jimenez Fregoso

14:Colonial Fantasies in the European Court of Human Rights, Karla Schröter

Part IV. Antiracism in the Pluriverse

15:Indian Approaches to Racism and Related Forms of Subordination under International Law: A Question of Interest Convergence, Suraj Girijashanker

16:Japan: International Law as the Outward Looking Weapon, Saul Takahashi

17:Decolonial Fissures: Looking from and Beyond Brazil's Colour Lines, Henrique Weil Afonso

18:Norm Entrepreneurship at the UN: Addressing Racial Equality Across Borders and the South-North Divide, Yang Han

Part V. Taking the Struggle(s) Forward

19:From Captives to Enslaved: International Law and the Making of the (Non)Human, Darryl Li

20:Bodies of Knowledge: Re-framing Emancipation in International Law through Dalit Praxis, Kamya Vishwanath

21:Racism, (Neo)Colonialism, and International Law: A Field in Search of a Philosophy?, Radha D'Souza

22:Conceptualizing Race and Resisting Racism in International Law, E Tendayi Achiume, AslıÜ Bâli, and S Priya Morley

23:Unburdening White Women: Antiracist Feminist Praxis as Revolution, Claire Smith

24:The Slow and Benevolent Violence of International Law: An Oceanian Perspective, Dylan Asafo

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