Colonial Wrongs and Access to International Law edited by Morten BERGSMO, Wolfgang KALECK, and Kyaw Yin HLAING. Brussels: Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, 2020, xxx + 622 pp. Hardcover: £34.76. doi: unknown.
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The centrality of colonialism in the emergence and functioning of international law has been at the forefront of “ postcolonial ” and “ third world ” interventions to the discipline. These interventions have highlighted the need to depart from international law ’ s Eurocentric underpinnings and pluralize its normative framework. However, distinct from this tradition, Colonial Wrongs and Access to International Law identifies historic “ colonial wrongs ” and highlights the urgent need to address these through available or suitably forged frameworks within existing international law. Several authors of this anthology are thus international (criminal) lawyers or scholars who focus on resolving the issue of