Critical Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL): Theory, Methodology, or Both?

Authors

Obiora Chinedu Okafor, Osgoode Hall Law School of York UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2008

Source Publication

International Community Law Review. Volume 10 (2008), p. 371-378.

Keywords

Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL); theory; methodology

Abstract

This paper engages with the question of whether TWAIL is a theory, a methodology, or both. It takes the mainstream positivist understandings of the concepts of "theory" and "methodology" seriously in order to assess TWAIL scholarship against those (admittedly contingent) measures. It argues that TWAIL offers both theories of, and methodologies for, analysing international law and institutions, before concluding that TWAIL can be usefully thought of in the way suggested by its very appellation: as a broad approach.

Repository Citation

Okafor, Obiora Chinedu. "Critical Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL): Theory, Methodology, or Both?" International Community Law Review 10 (2008): 371-378.

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