Edited by Jochen von Bernstorff, Chair of International Law and Human Rights, Law Faculty, University of Tübingen, and Philipp Dann, Chair of Public and Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, Humboldt University Berlin

Jochen von Bernstorff is currently the Dean of the Tübingen Law Faculty (since 2018), holds the Chair for Constitutional law, International Law and Human Rights (since 2011), and has taught international law as a visiting professor at the German Federal Foreign Office Academy Berlin, Université Panthéon-Assas (institut des hautes études internationales), Université Aix-Marseille and National Taiwan University Taipei. He has acted as a consultant for the German Government and various UN-institutions on human rights, development and international environmental law issues.

Philipp Dann holds the Chair of Public and Comparative Law at Humboldt University Berlin (since 2014) and is principal investigator in the Cluster of Excellence 'Contestations of the Liberal Script' (since 2019). He holds degrees from Frankfurt University (PhD and post-doctoral Habilitation) and Harvard Law School (LL.M.) and has taught German, European and public international law in Germany, France, India, Kenya, the Sudan and the US.

Assistant Editor: Max Henry Mayer

Max Henry Mayer is academic staff and Ph.D-candidate at the Chair for Constitutional law, International Law and Human Rights at Tübingen University, held by Prof. Dr. Jochen von Bernstorff. He has studied Law at the Universities of Heidelberg, Geneva, San Diego and Tübingen and has received his Law degree (1st State Exam) from Tübingen University in 2015. His thesis is concerned with the theory and history of customary international law.

Bethania Assy
Olivier Barsalou
Jochen von Bernstorff
Bill Bowring
Anna Brunner
Matthew Craven
Philipp Dann
Luis Eslava
Christopher Gevers
Rotem Giladi
Florian Hoffmann
Martti Koskenniemi
Carl Landauer
Umut Özsu
Sundhya Pahuja
Surabhi Ranganathan
Anna Saunders
Guy Sinclair
Prabhakar Singh
Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah
Emamanuelle Tourme Jouannet
Ingo Venzke

"This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of international legal debates between 1955 and 1975 related to the formal decolonization process." - H. W. Micklitz, Journal of Consumer Policy

"In the present moment of heightened scepticism about the liberatory potential of both international law and formal decolonisation, the volume's critical redescription of the tactics employed by Western actors to delegitimise newly decolonised states' efforts to transform international law is highly relevant... As a whole, the volume offers a provocation to pay attention to 'how legal forms emerge and are stabilized as authoritative, and to what might be at stake in that stabilization'... Ultimately, the volume's assessment of Third World actors' varied and overlapping attacks on colonial international law, and the reaction to it, helps us understand the persistent 'oscillation between inclusion and exclusion, recognition and rejection, universalization and particularization' that characterises international law today." - Nicola Soekoe, University of the Witwatersrand, South African Journal of International Affairs