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23 J. Hist. Int'l L. 1 (2021)

handle is hein.journals/jhintl23 and id is 1 raw text is: JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF BRILL INTERNATIONAL LAW 23 (2021) 1-3 N IJ H O F F brill.com/jhil Towards a History of the Decolonization of International Law. An Introduction to the Special Issue Natasha Wheatley Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA nwheatley@princeton.edu Samuel Moyn Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale Law School, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Professor of History, School of Arts and Sciences, Department of History, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA samueL moyn@yale.edu Abstract After an age of excitement of historians and lawyers with renewed interest in the imperial origins and settings of international law, recent scholarship has begun to turn to the history of the field's decolonization. The Third World Approaches to International Law movement, of course, arose out of and continues to call for a decolo- nization of international law. But the fact is that, as of today, we know very little in his- torical terms about how this transition began. The historiography of the achievements, forms, and personnel - as well as the legacy and limits - of the attempted creation of a genuinely postcolonial international law remains in its infancy. Keywords decolonization - third world approaches - international law and empire After an age of excitement of historians and lawyers with renewed interest in the imperial origins and settings of international law, recent scholarship has © KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2021 1 DOI:10.1163/15718050-12340178