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17 Int'l Theory 1 (2025)

handle is hein.journals/intheory17 and id is 1 raw text is: International Theory (2025), 17 (1), 1-28 doi:10.1017/S1752971924000113 InIt1rnain RESEARCH ARTICLE Law, time, and (in)justice after empire: Germany's objection to colonial reparations and the chronopolitics of deflection Sinja Graf International Relations Department, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK Email: sgraf@lse.ac.uk (Received 10 October 2023; revised 8 August 2024; accepted 9 October 2024; first published online 13 January 2025) Keywords: colonial reparations; chronopolitics; political time; deflection; genocide; Germany; Namibia Introduction Debates on reparations for colonial atrocities highlight the relationship between international law, time, and (in)justice. As law remains a key vocabulary for con- testations over colonial reparations, the question arises whether international law can facilitate redress for colonial violence as a particular form of historical injustice.! 'In a post-colonial context, this question reflects core concerns of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), which ask whether international law can serve the interests of 'Third World' peoples in pursuing an anti-imperial world order given international law's capacity for reproducing © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommrons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unre- stricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.