Decolonisation and the Law School - Dreaming Beyond Aesthetic Changes to the Curriculum

This book explores strategies, approaches, tools, challenges, and reflections that animate the conversation around decolonisation in UK law schools.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Foluke I (University of Bristol Adebisi
• Assisted by: Foluke I Adebisi (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2025
• EAN: 9781032771205
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3277120-5
• No. of pages: 114
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; EDUCATION / General, European History, LAW / General, LAW / Legal History, Social & cultural history, EDUCATION / Curricula, LAW / Legal Education, LAW / Research, Colonialism & imperialism, Systems of law, British & Irish history, Legal History, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism, Moral and social purpose of education, Social Law, Teaching of a specific subject, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence, Law & society, Moral & social purpose of education, Law and society, sociology of law, Legal system: general, Legal systems: general, Social law and Medical law