Postcolonialism, Decolonisation and Beyond

Online guest lecture “Postcolonialism, Decolonisation and Beyond” 
by Professor Folúkẹ́ Ifejola Adébísí (University of Bristol). 

The lecture is part of the bachelor course ‘Law & Society’ at the Faculty of Law and Criminology, but external guests are invited to attend.

Folúkẹ́ Adébísí is a Professor at the University of Bristol Law School. Her scholarship focuses on decolonial thinking in legal education at the intersection with the history of changing ideas of the 'human'.

Her lecture will be inspired by her book Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility. In the book she examines the implication of law and legal knowledge in both colonialism and the racialised hierarchies which create and preserve acute global disparities and injustices. This examination is connected to recent debates around decolonisation of knowledge in higher education, and explores what decolonisation actually means, also specifically in relation to legal knowledge. The book unsettles some specific premises upon which legal knowledge is engaged in law schools, recognising the tensions that exist between abiding with the standards of the discipline and producing future worlds that break from colonial logics that are often predicated on those standards. It sheds light on how theories and praxes of decolonisation can inform teaching, researching, and practising of law to produce legal knowledge for flourishing futures.

Registration required by 24 April 2024 (Students of the Law & Society course do not need to register)

Registered guests will receive a Teams link in the week before the lecture 

Read more: 

Professor Folúkẹ́ Adébísí: personal blog

The Critical Legal Thinking (CLT) blog - conversations on the book Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility.

with Katie Biles (first chapters)

with Beth Kamunge-Kpodo (rest of the book)