Decolonisation and the Law School

Foluke I. Adebisi is Professor of law at the University of Bristol Law School. Her scholarship on decolonisation and legal pedagogy responds to the question of what it means to be human.

Introduction: Decolonisation and the law school: presences, absences, silences… and hope 1. Trust, courage and silence: carving out decolonial spaces in higher education through student–staff partnerships 2. “Law”, “order”, “justice”, “crime”: disrupting key concepts in criminology through the study of colonial history 3. Creating the law school as a meeting place for epistemologies: decolonising the teaching of jurisprudence and human rights 4. Researching colonialism and colonial legacies from a legal perspective 5. “Why is it my problem if they don’t take part?” The (non)role of white academics in decolonising the law school 6. Decolonising the master’s house: how Black Feminist epistemologies can be and are used in decolonial strategy 7. The ignored heritage of Western law: the historical and contemporary role of Islamic law in shaping law schools