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