In my last post I talked about momentum. One way you can get momentum is from an outside push, from a source of inspiration. It can be a post you read, a story in the news, a new book someone recommends.
For me, inspiration this week came in the form of a talk by Professor Foluke Adebisi, given to the Law and History Network.1 Professor Adebisi addressed the issue of decolonisation and legal knowledge, the topic of one of her recent books. In the talk she covered law’s coloniality, how it informed and is informed by the ‘logics’ of the colonial project- even as it obscures them. All this in the context of how the law school understands and teaches the law.
What inspired me?
The challenge to think differently about how law is taught, and about how the law school understands itself.
The way in which discussions of the law school and knowledge show how engagement can be a way for the law school to not only share knowledge out, but find and understand other knowledges, other epistemologies (and ontologies…)
The connections I could draw with other scholarship I have read and used- on law and critique, on decentering the law, on law and time, law and the body…
The possibilities that engaging with Professor Adebisi’s work- and those she cites- creates.
So, next writing round will focus on getting those topics into the ‘skeleton’ draft- as headings and short paragraphs, so I don’t forget them. And use that as a launchpad- more momentum!
- Thanks to Russell Sandberg- https://bsky.app/profile/sandbergrlaw.bsky.social ↩︎
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