Registration: Conference “Radhabinod Pal: A Trailblazer of TWAIL in Decolonizing India?”
The International Criminal Law Research Unit is delighted to announce the one-day conference Radhabinod Pal: A Trailblazer of TWAIL in Decolonizing India? The hybrid event will take place on 20 November 2024 from 9:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. (CET) at the International Nuremberg Principles Academy and online. You can find the programme here.
The conference is part of a research project on Radhabinod Pal, the Indian judge of the so-called International Military Tribunal for the Far East (1946-1948), that has been conducted at ICLU since 2021. The project revolves around a corpus of widely unknown and unpublished texts by Pal, which shed new light on the judge often described as the only true representative of the so-called Global South on the bench of the major Japanese war crimes trial. Preliminary results of the project raise questions as to whether Pal was in fact a precursor of so-called Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL). His general thinking and his legal consciousness may have absorbed perspectives from the Global North far more strongly than his widely known dissenting opinion at the Tokyo Tribunal suggests. The conference will serve as a platform to discuss these preliminary results and questions raised with experts on Pal and his contemporary context.
Please register below and indicate whether you would like to attend the conference in person or online. In-person capacity is limited and will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis. The Zoom link for online participation will be sent the day before the event.
Registration for “Radhabinod Pal: A Trailblazer of TWAIL in Decolonizing India?”