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23 J. Hist. Int'l L. 1 (2021)

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BRILL               INTERNATIONAL LAW 23 (2021) 1-3
N IJ H O F F                                                     brill.com/jhil
Towards a History of the Decolonization of
International Law. An Introduction to the Special
Issue
Natasha Wheatley
Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Princeton University,
Princeton, NJ, USA
nwheatley@princeton.edu
Samuel Moyn
Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale Law School, Yale University,
New Haven, CT, USA
Professor of History, School of Arts and Sciences, Department of History,
Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
samueL moyn@yale.edu
Abstract
After an age of excitement of historians and lawyers with renewed interest in the
imperial origins and settings of international law, recent scholarship has begun to
turn to the history of the field's decolonization. The Third World Approaches to
International Law movement, of course, arose out of and continues to call for a decolo-
nization of international law. But the fact is that, as of today, we know very little in his-
torical terms about how this transition began. The historiography of the achievements,
forms, and personnel - as well as the legacy and limits - of the attempted creation of a
genuinely postcolonial international law remains in its infancy.
Keywords
decolonization - third world approaches - international law and empire
After an age of excitement of historians and lawyers with renewed interest in
the imperial origins and settings of international law, recent scholarship has

© KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2021 1 DOI:10.1163/15718050-12340178

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