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Third World approaches to international law

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Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) is a critical school of international legal scholarship [1] and an intellectual and political movement . It is a “broad dialectic opposition to international law” , which perceives international law as facilitating the continuing exploitation of the Third World through subordination to the West. TWAIL scholars (known as TWAIL-ers ) seek to change this oppressive system , through the re-examination of the colonial foundations of international law .


  1. ^ O. Okafor, (2005). “Newness, Imperialism, and International Legal Reform in Our Time: A TWAIL Perspective”, Osgoode Hall Law Journal 43(1 & 2), p. 177