Irene Wieczorek (Editor), Summer Ahmed, Chris Bevan, Nart Karacay, Morgan Lim, Petra Minnerop, Sandra Mogeni, Mohamed-Moshen-Aly, Astha Sanghavi, Kristiyan Stoyanov, Miranda (Qianyu) Wang, Malek Tamer-Mohamed-Moshen-Aly
This working paper on ‘Decolonising Legal Education at Durham Law School’ has a general dissemination purpose, with two specific objectives. The first is to provide an introduction to the specialised literature on decolonisation of the higher education curricula, especially legal curricula, to interested colleagues, and students, who are new to this. This is naturally without the ambition of portraying the authors of this working paper as experts of the ever-expanding decolonising literature – none of the authors’ primary research field is colonial or post-colonial studies, Black studies, or Critical Race Theory – but simply by offering the understanding of the field we have at the moment based on the research we have carried out so far. The document thus attempts to summarise the key and fundamental concepts in this field of study, and of students and staff activism, as understood by the authors of the paper. The second objective is to discuss some concrete steps on how a decolonised approach would play out in law modules. Three case studies were assessed within the scope of the project: Land Law, Climate Change Law and Policy, EU Constitutional Law and Introduction to EU Law.
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