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The law is heavily implicated in creating, maintaining, and reproducing racialised hierarchies which bring about and preserve acute global disparities and injustices. This essential book provides an examination of the meanings of decolonisation and explores how this examination can inform teaching, researching, and practising of law.
It explores the ways in which the foundations of law are entangled in colonial thought and in its [re]production of ideas of commodification of bodies and space-time. Thus, it is an exploration of the ways in which we can use theories and praxes of decolonisation to produce legal knowledge for flourishing futures.
“It is rarely the case that a legal book is published that becomes an instant classic. Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility is such a book. It is a landmark publication that deserves to be and no doubt will be widely read by all who come into contact with legal education." Social & Legal Studies
“Adébísí’s book convincingly paves the way for a guided and comprehensive interrogation of colonialism within Euro-modern legal knowledge. One can certainly hope that European universities and legal scholars in the Global North pick up where Adébísí has left off and engage in the long-overdue decolonial work to create the potential for spaces with a pluriversity of knowledges.” European Journal of Legal Studies
Introduction: Setting the Scene of the Law School and the Discipline
1. Theories of Decolonisation or to Break All the Tables and Create the World Necessary for Us All to Survive
2. What Have You Done, Where Have You Been, Euro-Modern Legal Academe? Uncovering the Bones of Law’s Colonial Ontology
3. Defining the Law’s Subject I: (Un)Making the Wretched of the Earth
4. Defining the Law’s Subject II: Law and Creating the Sacrifice Zones of Colonialism
5. Defining the Law’s Subject III: Law, Time, and Colonialism’s Slow Violence
6. The Law School: Colonial Ground Zero – A Colonial Convergence in the Human and Space–Time
Conclusion: Another University Is Necessary to Take Us towards Pluriversal Worlds