The following articles, featured in Volume 38 of Temple’s International and Comparative Law Journal (TICLJ) during the 2023–2024 academic year, were written by legal scholars and practitioners. These contributions offer expert insight and analysis on a wide range of international and comparative legal issues, advancing the journal’s mission to promote thoughtful, globally engaged scholarship.
Foreword
By Philippe Sands
Introduction to Symposium on The Last Colony
By Jeffrey L. Dunoff
The Heart and Heartbreak of International Law
By Rachel López
The Last Colony? Coloniality and the Legitimacy Crisis in International Legal Praxis
By Obiora Chinedu Okafor
The Last Colony of the Mind: Narrative, Legal Advocacy, and the Decolonization of Legal Knowledge
By Ayodeji Kamau Perrin
“We Did That:” The United States’ Role in Preventing the Chagos Archipelago from Exercising the Right to Self-Determination
By Diane F. Orentlicher and Morton H. Halperin
National Security’s International Empire (Or, What We Talk About When We Won’t Talk About Self-Determination)
By Christopher J. Borgen
Situating Sovereignty: Judge Donoghue’s Lone Dissent in The Chagos Advisory Opinion
By Peter G. Danchin
What Figures Lurk on Madame Elysè’s Path? Reflections on Phillippe Sands’ The Last Colony
By Diane Marie Amann
The Art of Fiction: Neocolonialism, Narrative Ethics, and International Law
By Jonathan H. Marks
Who Gets to Speak? International Lawyering and Chagossian Voices in The Last Colony
By Sebastian von Massow
Storytime
By Jeffrey Dunoff
Nitpicking Justice
By Dan Bodansky
Chagos and “The Intelligence of a Future Day”
By Jorge Contesse
The Participant and Personality in International Law: A Reflection on The Last Colony – A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy by Phillipe Sands
By Elizabeth Nwarueze
Justice for the Chagossians: What Role for Criminal Law?
By Margaret M. deGuzman
La Cour! La Mer!
By Mark A. Drumbl
Two Island Stories
By Jean Galbraith