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Methodologically and theoretically innovative, this monograph draws from Marxism and deconstruction bringing together the textual and the material in our understanding of international law. Approaching 'civilisation' as an argumentative pattern related to the distribution of rights and duties amongst different communities, Ntina Tzouvala illustrates both its contradictory nature and its pro-capitalist bias. 'Civilisation' is shown to oscillate between two poles. On the one hand, a pervasive 'logic of improvement' anchors legal equality to demands that non-Western polities undertake extensive domestic reforms and embrace capitalist modernity. On the other, an insistent 'logic of biology' constantly postpones such a prospect based on ideas of immutable difference. By detailing the tension and synergies between these two logics, Tzouvala argues that international law incorporates and attempts to mediate the contradictions of capitalism as a global system of production and exchange that both homogenises and stratifies societies, populations and space.

Methodologically and theoretically innovative, this monograph draws from Marxism and deconstruction bringing together the textual and the material in our understanding of international law. Approaching 'civilisation' as an argumentative pattern related to the distribution of rights and duties amongst different communities, Ntina Tzouvala illustrates both its contradictory nature and its pro-capitalist bias. 'Civilisation' is shown to oscillate between two poles. On the one hand, a pervasive 'logic of improvement' anchors legal equality to demands that non-Western polities undertake extensive domestic reforms and embrace capitalist modernity. On the other, an insistent 'logic of biology' constantly postpones such a prospect based on ideas of immutable difference. By detailing the tension and synergies between these two logics, Tzouvala argues that international law incorporates and attempts to mediate the contradictions of capitalism as a global system of production and exchange that both homogenises and stratifies societies, populations and space

"This book offers an international breadth of historical and theoretical insights into recent efforts to 'decolonise' legal education across the world. With a specific focus on post/decolonial thought and anti-racist methods in pedagogy, this edited collection provides an accessible illustration of pedagogical innovation in teaching and learning law. Chapters cover civil and common law legal systems, incorporate cases from non-state Indigenous legal systems, and critically examine key topics such as decolonization and anti-racism in criminology, colonialism and the British Empire, and court process and indigenous justice. The book demonstrates how teaching can be modified and adapted to address long-standing injustice in the curriculum. Offering a systematic collection of theorical and practical examples of antiracist and decolonial legal pedagogy, this volume will appeal to curriculum designers and law educators as well as at undergraduate and post-graduate law level teaching and research"--

International law international law and revolution : 1917 and beyon / Kathryn Greenman, Anne Orford, Ntina Tzouvala and Anna Saunders -- Looking eastwards : the Bolshevik theory of imperialism and international law / Ntina Tzouvala and Robert Knox -- Lenin at Nuremberg : anti-imperialism and the juridification of crimes against humanity / Amanda Alexander -- Excluding revolutionary states : Mexico, Russia and The League Of Nations / Alison Duxbury -- Law, class struggle and nervous breakdowns / Mai Taha -- Microcosm soviet constitutional internationality / Scott Newton -- Law and socialist revolution : early soviet legal theory and practice / Owen Taylor -- Intervention : sketches from the scenes of the Mexican and Russian revolutions / Dino Kritsiotis -- Mexican revolutionary constituencies and the Latin American critique of us intervention / Juan Pablo Scarf -- Mexican post-revolutionary foreign policy and the Spanish civil war : legal struggles over intervention at the league of nations / Fabia Fernandes Carvalho Veçosos -- 1917 : property, revolution and rejection in international law / Kate Miles -- 1917 and its implications for the law of expropriation / Daria Davitti -- Contestations over legal authority : the Lena Goldfields Arbitration 1930 / Andrea Leiter -- The Mexican revolution : alien protection and international economic order / Kathryn Greenman -- Animated by the European spirit' : European human rights as counterrevolutionary legality / Anna Saunders -- Human rights, revolution and the 'good society' : the Soviet Union and the universal declaration of human rights / Jessica Whyte.