IGLP Fall 2024 Advanced Faculty Colloquium

The IGLP Fall 2024 Advanced Faculty Colloquium brought together long-time collaborators to revisit, debate, and deepen shared understandings of colonialism, postcolonialism, settler-colonialism, anticolonialism, and decoloniality through a sustained engagement with foundational and contemporary scholarship.

Readings examined how law constituted colonial difference through sovereignty, race, property, labor, gender, and political economy—across contexts including India, Africa, the United States, Haiti, South Africa, and Palestine. Participants also considered questions of temporality, memory, and periodization, reflecting on how colonial structures endure, mutate, or are resisted in the so-called “postcolonial” present. Together, the materials foregrounded law’s role not only in imperial domination and economic dependency, but also in shaping identity, governance, and possibilities for resistance.