Oxford LibGuides: International law: from 1945 to date: Decolonization & re-balancing

Decolonisation and reassessment of values

Brattle Report Reparations for Transatlantic Chattel Slavery in Pro Bono Paper
Open access. June 2023 Prepared for The University of the West Indies and The American Society of International Law’s Second Symposium on Reparations Under International Law

The following list of books is arranged alphabetically by their titles:

The Absolutely Indispensable Man Ralph Bunche, the United Nations, and the Fight to End Empire by Kal Raustiala
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this book online via title link
ISBN: 9780197602232
Publication Date: 2022
Calibrating Colonial Crime : Reparations and The Crime of Unjust Enrichment by Joshua Castellino
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 9781529241822
Publication Date: 2024
Critical International Law : postrealism, postcolonialism, and transnationalism by Prabhakar Singh (Editor); Benoit Mayer (Editor)
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this book online via title link
ISBN: 9780199450633
Publication Date: 2014
Print copy is at Internat 500 S617.5a if preferred
Decolonising International Law : development, economic growth and the politics of universality by Sundhya Pahuja
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link.
ISBN: 9780521199032
Publication Date: 2011
Print copy is at Internat 500 P141.5a if preferred
Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights by A. Dirk Moses; Marco Duranti; Roland Burke
Call Number: Request from Closed Stacks to read in Bodleian Reading Room of your choice
ISBN: 9781108749701
Publication Date: 2022
International Environmental Law and the Global South by Shawkat Alam (Editor); Sumudu Atapattu (Editor); Carmen G. Gonzalez (Editor); Jona Razzaque (Editor)
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link.
ISBN: 9781316621042
Publication Date: 2016
Print copy is at Internat 610 A318.5b if preferred
The International Legal Order's Colour Line by William A. Schabas
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this via title link
ISBN: 9780197744475
Publication Date: 2023
The Making of International Human Rights: the 1960s, decolonization, and the reconstruction of global values by Steven L. B. Jensen
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this book online via title link
ISBN: 9781107112162
Publication Date: 2016
Print copy is at Internat 570 J54.5a
Reparations for Slavery in International Law by Katarina Schwarz
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this book online via title link
ISBN: 9780197636398
Publication Date: 2022
The Right to Exclude: a critical race approach to sovereignty, borders, and international law by Justin Desautels-Stein
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this via title link
ISBN: 9780198862161
Publication Date: 2023
Print copy at Internat 570 D442.7a

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