What is it about?
This chapter argues that law schools have a responsibility to educate students on racialisation and coloniality as both continue to influence knowledge construction as well as laws, policy making and enforcement. Law has often been used in a way that subverts its purported functions of justice and equality. Thus, we address the importance of centring a race-conscious critique as well as the impact that law schools could have upon their students and society should they choose to adopt a decolonial approach to teaching and research.
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Why is it important?
We argue that the purposes of law schools should include teaching our students to participate in and commit to being part of imagining a world where racial injustice, climate inequalities, and extreme global poverty are no more. Therefore, legal education must continually reinvent possibility.
Perspectives
We do not know what futures our actions will bring about. But we are impelled by hope and only one assurance that our inaction will see the harms we describe here continue. This remains an uncertain and laborious task. Different jurisdictions have different colonial histories, which means that fitting in contextual decolonial approaches within wider geopolitical narratives requires significant scholarship from law teachers wishing to adopt a decolonial perspective.
Dr Foluke Ifejola Adebisi
University of Bristol
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This page is a summary of: Reinventing possibility, September 2022, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781003322092-4.
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