Professor Folúkẹ́ Adébísí (University of Bristol Law School) will give an online guest lecture “Postcolonialism, Decolonisation and Beyond” for the Law & Society bachelor course at the UGent Faculty of Law and Criminology on 25 April, 13-16h CET.
Her lecture will be inspired by her book:
Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility.
External guests are invited to attend. More info and registration:
https://www.ugent.be/re/epir/nl/actueel/agenda/copy_of_postcolonialism.htm
A Teams link will be sent before the lecture.
Interested individuals are encouraged to become members of the work-in-progress group.
To join, please send an email to anna.pivaty@ru.nl expressing your interest. BackgroundThe above-mentioned theoretical approaches call us to reconsider our thinking about (the nature of the) law and legal regulation. For example, they expose ‘blind spots’ of legal regulation stemming from the need for generalisation and categorisation. Consequently, calls are made for more individualised or contextualised (‘customised’) approaches to law-making. Frequently raised criticisms of these contextualised approaches, however, are that they disrupt legal certainty and fail to provide sufficiently clear guidance of action for state institutions and government officials.