Bibliography

A regularly updated bibliography on decolonial legal studies and decolonial theory

Decolonial Legal Theory

Achiume, E. Tendayi. Migration as Decolonization. Stanford Law Review 71, (2019): 1509-1574.

Aassunção, Anna, Carolina Tavares, Daniela de Melo Crosara, Jackeline Caixeta Santana and Rosa Maria Zaia Borges. "Ego conquiro e o conhecimento jurídico de lugar nenhum: aportes decoloniais para metodologias de um porvir". In Decolonialidade a partir do Brasil, Vol. 7, by Paulo Henrique Borges da Rocha, José Luiz Quadros de Magalhães and Sílvia Gabriel Teixeira(orgs.), 47-77. São Paulo: Dialética, 2021.

Baldi, César Augusto. “De/colonialidade, Direito e Quilombolas: Re-Pensando a Questão.” In Direito Socioambiental: Uma Questão para a América Latina, edited by Carlos Frederico Marés de Souza Filho, Heline Sivini Ferreira and Caroline Barbosa Contente Nogueira, 31–83. Curitiba: Letra da Lei, 2014.

Baldi, César Augusto. “Descolonizando o ensino de direitos humanos?” HENDU – Revista Latino Americana de Direitos Humanos 5, no. 1 (2014): 8–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.18542/hendu.v5i1.1913.

Baldi, César Augusto. “From Modern Constitutionalism to New Latin American Decolonial Constitutionalism.” The CLR James Journal 23, no. 1-2 (2017): 307–322. https://doi.org/10.5840/clrjames2017231/252.

Barreto, José-Manuel. “Decolonial Thinking and the Quest for Decolonising Human Rights.” Asian Journal of Social Science 46, no. 4–5 (2018): 484–502.

Barreto, José-Manuel. “Eurocentric and Third-World Histories of Human Rights: Critique, Recognition and Dialogue.” In Critical perspectives on human rights, edited by Birgit Schippers and José-Manuel Barreto, 159-178. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.

Barreto, José-Manuel. “Decolonial Strategies and Dialogue in the Human Rights Field: A Manifesto.” Transnational Legal Theory 3, no. 1 (2012): 1-29. https://doi.org/10.5235/TLT.3.1.1.

Barreto, José-Manuel. “Visiones Europeas y Tercermundistas de la Historia del Derecho Internacional: La Crisis del Paradigma Estado-Céntrico.” Estudios Sociales (forthcoming, 2019).

Barreto, José-Manuel. Epistemologies of the South and Human Rights: Santos and the Quest for Global and Cognitive Justice. Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 21, No. 2 (2014): 395-422. https://doi.org/10.2979/indjglolegstu.21.2.395

Becker, Anne. “Decolonial human rights education: changing the terms and content of conversations on human rights.” Human Rights Education Review (2021). http://doi.org/10.7577/hrer.3989.

Bello, Enzo. “O Pensamento Descolonial e o Modelo de Cidadania do Novo Constitucionalismo Latino-Americano.” Revista de Estudos Constitucionais, Hermenêutica e Teoria do Direito 7, no. 1 (2015): 49–61.

Bragato, Fernanda. “Human Rights and Eurocentrism: An Analysis from the Decolonial Studies Perspective.” Global Studies Journal 5, no. 3 (2013): 49–56. https://doi.org/10.18848/1835-4432/CGP/v05i03/40854   

Bragato, Fernanda and Mantelli, Gabriel Antonio Silveira. “Comentário ao Capítulo 2: A PósColonialidade do Direito Internacional – Abordagens Pós-Coloniais e Descoloniais no Direito Internacional.” In Direito Internacional: Leituras Críticas, edited by Michelle Ratton Sanchez Badin, Fábio Costa Morosini and Arthur Roberto Capella Giannattasio, 101–112. São Paulo: Almedina, 2019.

Burdon, Peter, Georgina Drew, Matthew Stubbs, Adam Webster and Marcus Barber. Decolonising Indigenous water ‘rights’ in Australia: flow, difference, and the limits of law. Settler Colonial Studies 5, no 4 (2015): 334-349.

Colaço, Thais Luzia, and Eloise da Silveira Petter Damázio. Novas perspectivas para a antropologia jurídica na América Latina: o direito e o pensamento decolonial. Florianópolis: FUNJAB, 2012. Novas perspectivas para a antropologia jurídica na América Latina : o direito e o pensamento decolonial - Volume IV (ufsc.br)

Correas, Oscar, Daniel Sandoval and Alma Melgarito, eds. Movimientos sociales y procesos constituyentes contemporáneos en México y América Latina. Mexico: Ediciones Coyoacán & Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2015.

Dastile, Nontyatyambo and Agozino, Biko. Decolonizing Incarcerated Women’s Identities through the lens of Prison Abolitionism. South African Crime Quarterly 68 (2019): 21-32. DOI: 10.17159/2413-3108/2019/v0n68a5622

de Souza Lima, José E. and Roberto J. C. Kosop. 'Decolonial turn and the law: beyond colonial restrains (Giro Decolonial e o Direito: Para Além de Amarras Coloniais), Revista Direito e Práxis (2018): 2596-2619. https://www.scielo.br/pdf/rdp/v10n4/en_2179-8966-rdp-10-4-2596.pdf.

De Sousa, Santos, B. "Postcolonialism, Decoloniality, and Epistemologies of the South." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Retrieved 4 Dec. 2021. https://oxfordre.com/literature/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.001.0001/acrefore9780190201098-e-1262.

Dhanda, Amita and Archana Parashar. Decolonisation of legal knowledge. New Delhi: Routledge, 2009.

Dolhare, María Itatí, and Sol Rojas-Lizana. “The Indigenous Concept of Vivir Bien in the Bolivian Legal Field: A Decolonial Proposal.” The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 47, no. 1 (2018): 19–29. https://doi.org/10.1017/jie.2017.31.

Dunford, Robin. “Toward a Decolonial Global Ethics.” Journal of Global Ethics 13, no. 3 (2017): 380–97. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449626.2017.1373140.

Fitzpatrick, Peter. “The Revolutionary Past: Decolonizing Law and Human Rights.” Revista de Estudos Constitucionais, Hermenêutica e Teoria Do Direito 5, no. 2 (2013): 97–105. https://doi.org/10.4013/rechtd.2013.52.01.

Frisso, Giovanna Maria. “Third World Approaches to International Law: Feminists’ Engagement with International Law and Decolonial Theory.” In Research Handbook on Feminist Engagement with International Law, edited by Susan Harris Rimmer and Kate Ogg, 479–98. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785363924.00038.

Geduld, Allison. “Decoloniality, ubuntu and human rights in South Africa: a bridge to social justice.” KAS African Law Study Library 7, no. 3 (2020):381–390. https://doi.org/10.5771/2363-6262-2020-3-381.

Geslin, Albane, and Emmanuelle Tourme Jouannet, Le droit international de la reconnaissance, un instrument de décolonisation et de refondation du droit international ?, Confluence des droits [en ligne]. Aix-en-Provence : Droits International, Comparé et européen, 2018.

Gomes, Camilla de Magalhães. “Os Sujeitos do Performativo Jurídico – Relendo a Dignidade da Pessoa Humana nos Marcos de Gênero e Raça.” Revista Direito e Práxis 10, no. 2 (2019): 871–905. https://doi.org/10.1590/2179-8966/2018/30194.

Gutierrez, Encarnación Rodriguez. Migration, Domestic Work and Affect: A Decolonial Approach On Value And The Feminisation Of Labor. New York: Routledge, 2010. Madlingozi, Tshepo. Mayibuye iAfrika? Disjunctive Inclusions and Black Strivings for Constitution and Belonging in ‘South Africa’. Thesis, University of London, 2018. http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/id/eprint/367.

Madlingozi, Tshepo. “On Settler Colonialism and Post-Conquest Constitutionness: The Decolonising Constitutional Vision of African Nationalists of Azania/South Africa.” (forthcoming).

Mahao, Nqosa L. Can African juridical principles redeem and legitimise contemporary human rights jurisprudence?, The Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa 49, no 3 (2016): 455-476.

Mantelli, Gabriel Antonio Silveira and Almeida, Julia de Moraes. “Entre o Pós-colonial, o Decolonial e o Socioambiental: Leituras Sociojurídicas na América Latina.” Sociedade em Debate 25, no. 2 (2019): 11–23.

Mantelli, Gabriel Antonio Silveira and Sanchez Badin, Michelle Ratton. “Repensando o Direito Internacional a Partir dos Estudos Pós-Coloniais e Decoloniais (Rethinking International Law From Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies).” Revista Prim@ Facie 17, no. 34 (2018): 1–33. https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.1678-2593.2018v17n34.35667.

Martins, Fernanda Rezende and Tatiana de A. F. R. Cardoso Squeff. “A apropriação do discurso do desenvolvimento sustentável como instrument de manutenção da colonialidade sobre os recursos naturais”. Revista de Direito Econômico e Socioambiental 11, no. 3 (2020): 30-53.

Mayblin, Lucy. Asylum after Empire: Colonial Legacies in the Politics of Asylum Seeking. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017.

Merino, Roger. “Comparación Jurídica Desde El Sur Global: Genealogía De Un Proyecto Crítico.” Themis, Revista de Derecho Año LIII, Núm. 73, (2018): 131–45.

Merino, Roger. Comparative Law from Below: The construction of a critical project in Comparative Legal Studies. Saarbrücken: Lambert, 2012.

Merino, Roger. “Reimagining the Nation-State: Indigenous Peoples and the Making of Plurinationalism in Latin America”. Leiden Journal of International Law 31, no. 4 (2018): 773–92. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0922156518000389.

Merino, Roger and Areli Valencia, eds. Descolonizar el Derecho: Derechos humanos y Estado Plurinacional. Lima: Palestra, 2018.

Mignolo, Walter D. “The Making and Closing of Eurocentric International Law: The Opening of a Multipolar World Order.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 36, no. 1 (2016): 182–95. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-3482219.

Mlambo, Nelson, Artwell Nhemachena, and Jairos Kangira, eds. Displacement, Elimination and Replacement of Indigenous People Putting into Perspective Land Ownership and Ancestry in Decolonising Contemporary Zimbabwe. Baltimore, Maryland: Project Muse, 2019. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/64309/.

Montanaro, Mara, “Décoloniser le droit : un défi politique et épistémologique”, Contretemps – Revue de Critique Communiste (2021). https://www.contretemps.eu/decolonial-postcolonialisme-droit-epistemologie/.

Mosaka, Tshepo Bogosi, “A Decolonial Legal Method”, The South African Law Journal 138, Issue 4 (2021): 761-798. https://doi.org/10.47348/SALJ/v138/i4a5.

Motshabi, Khanya B. “Decolonising the University: A Law Perspective.” Strategic Review for Southern Africa 40, no. 1 (May 1, 2018): 104-15.

Munshi, Sherally. Comparative Law And Decolonizing Critique. The American Journal of Comparative Law 65 (2017): 207-235. Nesiah, Vasuki. “Placing International Law: White Spaces on a Map.” Leiden Journal of International Law 16 (2003): 1-35. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1740768.

Nhemachena, Artwell, Tapiwa V. Warikandwa, and S. K. Amoo (eds.). Social and Legal Theory in the Age of Decoloniality: (Re-)Envisioning Pan-African Jurisprudence in the 21st Century. Baltimore, Maryland: Project Muse, 2018.

Nishiyama, Hidefumi, “Decolonial encounter with neo-nationalism: The politics of indigeneity and land rights struggles in Okinawa”, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (2022): 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12582.

Nóbrega, Flavianne Fernanda and Camilla Montanha de Lima. "How the indigenous case of the Xukuru before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights can inspire decolonial comparative studies on property rights." Brazilian Journal of International Law 18, no. 1 (2021): 353-373.

Noguera Fernández, Albert. Los derechos sociales en las nuevas constituciones latinoamericanas. Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch, 2010.

Pires, Thula Rafaela de Oliveira. “Por uma concepção amefricana de direitos humanos.” In Pensamento Feminista Hoje: Perspectivas Decoloniais, edited by Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda, 298– 318. Rio de Janeiro: Bazar do Tempo, 2020.

Rathore, Aakash Singh, and Garima Goswamy, Rethinking Indian Jurisprudence, Routledge India, 2020.

Riley, Angela R. and Kristen A. Carpenter. Decolonizing Indigenous Migration. California Law Review 109 (2021): 63-139. https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/articles/1319

Rodriguez, Iokiñe. “The Latin American Decolonial Environmental Justice Approach.” In Environmental Justice: Key Issues, edited by Brendan Coolsaet. London New York: Routledge, 2020.

Salaymeh, Lena. Decolonial Translation: Destabilizing Coloniality in Secular Translations of Islamic Law. Journal of Islamic Ethics 5, no 1 (2021): 1-28.

Salaymeh, Lena and Ralf Michaels. “Decolonial comparative law: a conceptual beginning.” with Ralf Michaels, Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht (RabelsZ) 86, no. 1 (2022): 166-88

Salaymeh, Lena. “Women and Islamic law: decolonizing colonialist feminism” Chap. 20 in Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender, edited by Justine Howe, 310-17: Routledge, 2020.

Salaymeh, Lena. “Comparing Islamic and international laws of war: orthodoxy, heresy, and secularization in the category of civilians.” American Journal of Comparative Law, 69:1 (2021): 136-167.

Santana, Jackeline Caixeta and Rosa Maria Zaia Borges. "O Direito Achado na(s) Rua(s) de Paraisópolis: pandemia, linguagem emancipatória e práxis decolonial". In Decolonialidade a partir do Brasil, Vol. 6, by Paulo Henrique Borges da Rocha, José Luiz Quadros de Magalhães and Sílvia Gabriel Teixeira(orgs.), 331-359. São Paulo: Dialética, 2021.

Santos, Boaventura de Sousa. Epistemologies of the South: Justice against Epistemicide. London New York: Routledge, 2016.

Santos, Boaventura de Sousa. “The Resilience of Abyssal Exclusions in Our Societies: Toward a Post-Abyssal Law.” Tilburg Law Review 22 (2017): 237–58. https://doi.org/10.1163/22112596-0220101.

Santos, Boaventura de Sousa. Toward a New Legal Common Sense: Law, Globalization, and Emancipation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, 2nd ed.

Santos, Boaventura de Sousa, Joao Carlos Trindade, and Maria Paula Meneses. Law and Justice in a Multicultural Society: the Case of Mozambique. Dakar: CODESRIA, 2006.

Santos, Boaventura de Sousa “El derecho de los excluidos: justicia indígena, plurinacionalidad e interculturalidad en Bolivia y Ecuador” en: Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Sara Araujo y Orlando Aragón Andrade (Eds.), Descolonizando el constitucionalismo. Más allá de promesas falsas o imposibles, Ciudad de México, Akal, 2021.

Santos, Cecília MacDowell; Carlet, Flávia. ‘Advocacia Popular e Ativismo Jurídico Transnacional. Contornos conceituais à Luz das Epistemologias do Sul’ in: José Ricardo Cunha (ed.). Teorias Críticas e Crítica do Direito. Rio de Janeiro, Lumen Juris, (2022).

Schacherreiter, Judith. Das Landeigentum als Legal Transplant in Mexiko. Rechtsvergleichende Analysen unter Einbezug postkolonialer Aspekte. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014.

Schacherreiter, Judith. “Das Verhängnis von Ethnozentrismus und Kulturrelativismus in der Rechtsvergleichung - Ursachen, Ausprägungsformen und Strategien zur Überwindung.” Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 77 (2013): 272-99. https://doi.org/10.1628/003372513X665658    

Schacherreiter, Judith. “Postcolonial Theory and Comparative Law: On the Methodological and epistemological Benefits to Comparative Law through Postcolonial Theory.” Verfassung und Recht in Übersee (World Comparative Law) Vol. 49 (2016): 291-312. https://doi.org/10.5771/0506-7286-2016-3-291.

Sierra-Camargo, Jimena. “La Importancia de Decolonizar La Enseñanza Del Derecho Internacional de Los Derechos Humanos: El Caso de La Consulta Previa En Colombia.” Revista Derecho Del Estado, no. 39 (2017): 137-86. https://doi.org/10.18601/01229893.n39.07.

Squeff, Tatiana Cardoso, and Gabrial Pedro Moreira Damasceno, Direito Internacional Crítico, Arraes Editors, 2022. Squeff, Tatiana Cardoso. “Le Décolonialisme Comme Matrice Théorique pour la Fondation des Droits de l’Homme”. Latin American Human Rights Studies 1 (2021): 1-26.

Squeff, Tatiana Cardoso. “Overcoming the ‘Coloniality of Doing’ in International Law: Soft Law as a Decolonial Tool”. Revista Dereito GV 17, no. 2 (2021): 1-31.

Squeff, Tatiana Cardoso. “Overcoming the Coloniality of Knowledge in International Law: The Case of Environmental Refugees”. Direito das Políticas Públicas – Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito da Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 1, no. 1 (2019): 67-80.

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Walsh, Catherine. “Interculturalidad, Reformas Constitucionales y Pluralismo Jurídico.” Boletin ICCI ARY-RIMAY: Publicación Mensual Del Instituto Científico de Culturas Indígenas 4, no. 36 (2002). http://icci.nativeweb.org/boletin/36/walsh.html.

Warikandwa, Tapiwa Victor, Artwell Nhemachena, and Nkosinothando Mpofu, eds. Grid-locked African Economic Sovereignty: Decolonising the Neo-Imperial Socio-Economic and Legal Force-fields in the 21st Century, Langaa RPCIG, 2019.

Wolkmer, Antonio Carlos. “Para uma Sociologia Jurídica no Brasil: Desde uma Perspectiva Crítica e Descolonial.” Revista Brasileira de Sociologia do Direito 4, no. 3 (2017): 17–38. https://doi.org/10.21910/rbsd.v4n3set./dez..2017.146.

Xavier, Sujith, Beverley Jacobs, Valarie Waboose, Jeffery G. Hewitt, and Amar Bhatia, eds. Decolonizing Law – Indigenous, Third World and Settler Perspectives, Routledge, 2021.

Zitzke, Emile. “A Decolonial Critique of Private Law and Human Rights.” South African Journal on Human Rights 34, no. 3 (September 2, 2018): 492–516. https://doi.org/10.1080/02587203.2018.1543836.

Zondi, Siphamandla. “The BRICS and the Transformation of Global Governance: A Decolonial Perspective.” Africa Insight 48, no. 4 (2019): 73-86. Legal Education

Adebisi, Foluke. Decolonising the Law School: presences, absences, silences… and hope. The Law Teacher 54, no 4 (2020): 471-474.

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Adebisi, Foluke, “Should We Rethink the Purpose of the Law School? A Case for Decolonial Thought in Legal Pedagogy”, Amicus Curiae 2 2, no. 3 (2021): 428–449. https://doi.org/10.14296/ac.v2i3.5309.

Thomas, Dave S.P., and Suhraiya Jivraj, eds.. Decolonising the University: A Kaleidoscope for Empowered Action. Oxford: Counterpress, 2020.

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