Affiliation:
1. Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom..
Abstract
In this article, I share some thoughts about the afterlives of Karen Knop’s work within the space of the classroom, a space she inhabited with humility, interest, and care. I am approaching this as an ode to her, not only as a brilliant scholar but also as a wonderful teacher, supervisor, and mentor. Every year, I teach ‘The Canon of Self-Determination,’ a chapter from Knop’s 2002 book Diversity and Self-Determination in International Law. Through this chapter, students learn about the trial as a space of political contestation and of rupture and continuity and as a space that opens a conversation with the past as it is constantly shaped and reshaped by the present. Knop was concerned with the question of decolonization in international law and how, through the courtroom, anti-colonial lawyers put international law itself on trial. In this article, I want to think about the enduring significance of teaching this text every year.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
Reference41 articles.
1. Karen Knop, ‘Re/Statements: Feminism and State Sovereignty in International Law’ (1993) 3:3 Transnat’l & Contemp Probs 293 at 344.
2. Karen Knop, Diversity and Self-Determination in International Law (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002) at 109–211 [Knop, Diversity and Self-Determination].
3. Western Sahara, Advisory Opinion, [1975] ICJ Rep 12.
4. Knop, Diversity and Self-Determination, supra note 2 at 1.
5. Ibid at 8.