The revolutionary past: Decolonizing Law and Human Rights

Authors

  • Peter Fitzpatrick Birkbeck, University of London

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/rechtd.2013.52.01

Abstract

Combining a radical revision of the historical formation of occidental law with perspectives derived from decolonial thought, this paper advances a deconstruction of occidental law. That deconstruction is then brought to bear on human rights. Although occidental law and human rights are shown in this way to be imperial in orientation, that same deconstruction reveals resistant elements in law and in human rights. These are elements which the decolonial can draw on in its commitment to intercultural transformation.

Key words: human rights, post-colonialism, decolonization.

Author Biography

Peter Fitzpatrick, Birkbeck, University of London

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Published

2013-11-23

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 2 (2013): July/December

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