Collaborative Research Networks
Organizers
Foluke Adebisi, Chaumtoli Huq, Sahar Shar, River Baars, Michael Yarbrough, Diego Alcalá Laboy, and Christine Schwöbel-Patel
The CRN on Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire brings together a wide range of scholars engaged in the praxis of embedding the teaching of race, colonialism and empire into their work. The CRN is a space to showcase anti-colonial and anti-racist approaches to teaching so-called ‘foundational’/ ‘core’ / ‘traditional’ law subjects as well as the development of completely new law subjects that directly engage with the intertwinement of race, empire, and law. In response to the absence of the foregoing in legal education, recent years have seen a surge in legal academics and law students making concerted efforts to draw attention to how the histories of racism and imperialism have shaped the character of law – as part of ‘Decolonising the Curriculum’ initiatives or ‘critical legal’ teaching more broadly. As part of this move, the CRN provides a forum for sharing this praxis across vastly different regions and different areas of law. We are interested in sharing experiences of innovative experiments in the teaching of race and empire in law schools and sociolegal studies courses across the world. As such, we particularly want to facilitate conversations with and within the Global South as well as with non-Anglophone countries.