Sujith Xavier, Associate Professor

 

Books

Decolonizing Law: Indigenous, Third World and Settler Perspectives (Sujith Xavier, Beverley Jacobs, Valarie WabooseJeffery Hewitt, and Amar Bhatia, eds.) (Routledge Press, 2021);

Third World Approaches to International Law: On Praxis and the Intellectual (John Reynolds, Usha NatarajanAmar Bhatia & Sujith Xavier, eds.) (Routledge Press, THIRDWORLD Series, 2017) (Republication of 2016 TWQ Special Issue);

 

Journal Special Issues (Guest Editor)

"Locating RDS in the 21st Century; Critically revisiting the SCC decision in R. v. S. (R.D.)" (With Danardo Jones, Reem Bahdi, & Valeria Kuri) [Forthcoming, Journal of Law and Social Policy, January 2024]

“Praxis, International Law and TWAIL” (co-authored with Amar Bhatia, John Reynolds, and Usha Natarajan) in Third World Approaches to International Law: On Praxis and the Intellectual (John Reynolds, Usha Natarajan, Amar Bhatia & Sujith Xavier eds.) (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017) (Reprint of Third World Quarterly)

“Praxis, International Law and TWAIL” (co-authored with Amar Bhatia, John Reynolds, and Usha Natarajan) (2016) 37 (11) Third World Quarterly 1946

“Re-Igniting Critical Race In Canadian Legal Spaces: Introduction To The Special Symposium Issue Of Contemporary Accounts Of Racialization In Canada” (2013) 31(2) Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice

Placing TWAIL Scholarship and Praxis” (with Amar Bhatia, John Reynolds & Usha Natarajan) (2016) 33 (3) Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1;

 

Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Peer Reviewed)

“Truth Commissions, Victims and History: Impunity and Justice in Sri Lanka” (Under review, invited)

“Reading Transitional Justice From ‘Third World’ Perspective” (Under review)

“Collegial Governance or where University Antiracism goes to Die? Race, Racism, and Disintegration in Law School Governance” (Under review)

“Transitional Justice From ‘Third World’ Perspective” in Antony Anghie et al., eds., (Edward Elgar Press, Forthcoming**)

Between Gratitude and Guilt: The Promise of a Better Life in a Settler Colony” in Benjamin Berger et al., eds., (University of Toronto Press, Forthcoming**)

"Indebted Impunity and Violence in a Lesser State: Ethno-Racial Capitalism in Sri Lanka" (co-authored with Amar Bhatia & Adrian A. Smith) (2022) 25:2 Journal of International Economic Law (available online);

"Locating & Situating Justice Pal: TWAIL, International Criminal Tribunals, and Judicial Powers" (2022) 22:2 Asian Journal of International Law (available online);

"Biased Impartiality: A Survey of Post-RDS caselaw on Bias, Race and Indigeneity" (2021) 99:2 Can Bar Rev 354;

"False Western Universalism in Constitutionalism? The 1867 Canadian Constitution & the Legacies of the Residential Schools" in Richard Albert, Paul Daly & Vanessa MacDonnell (eds.), The Canadian Constitution in Transition (University of Toronto Press, 2019);

"Top Heavy: Beyond the Global North & the Justification for Global Administrative Law" (2017) 3-4 Indian Journal of International Law 337;

"Learning from Below: Theorising Global Governance through Ethnographies and Critical Reflections from the Global South" (2016) 33:3 Windsor YB Access Justice 229

"Dark Corners of the World: International Criminal Justice and the Global South" (Co-authored with John Reynolds) (2016) 14 (4) Journal of International Criminal Justice 959;

“Looking for ‘Justice’ in all the Wrong Places: Creating an International or Hybrid Criminal Tribunal for Sri Lanka?” in Amarnath Amarasingam & Daniel Bass eds., Post-War Sri Lanka: Problems and Prospects (Oxford University Press/Hurst, October 2016)

"Theorizing Global Governance Inside-Out: Response to Karl-Heinz Ladeur’s the Emergence of Global Administrative Law and Transnational Regulation" (2012) 3:2 Transnational Legal Theory 268;

"Sri Lankan Presidential Commission of Inquiry (2007): Did it amount to a fair hearing?" (2010) 10 Mexican Yearbook of International Law 497.

 

Journal Articles & Book Chapters

Series Introduction – Teaching International Law: Between Critique and the Canon” (with Ntina Tzouvala) (2020) TWAILR: Reflections #26/2020

"Introduction: Expanding the Circle in Rethinking Decolonizing Law" (with Jeffery Hewitt) in Decolonizing Law: Indigenous, Third World and Settler Perspectives (edited with Beverley Jacobs, Valarie Waboose, Jeffery Hewitt, and Amar Bhatia (Routledge Press, 2021);

Placing TWAIL Scholarship and Praxis” (with Amar Bhatia, John Reynolds & Usha Natarajan) (2016) 33 (3) Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1;

"Introduction: TWAIL - on praxis and the intellectual" (with Usha Natarajan, John Reynolds & Amar Bhatia) (2016) 37 (11) Third World Quarterly 1946 (Selected for Republication as part of Routledge's THIRDWORLD Series);

"Third World Approaches to International Criminal Law" (with John Reynolds & Asad Kiyani) (2016) 14 (4) Journal of International Criminal Justice 916;

"Re-Igniting Critical Race in Canadian Legal Spaces: Introduction to the Special Symposium Issue of Contemporary Accounts of Racialization in Canada" (with Shanthi Senthe) (2014) 31:2 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1.

“Health Care Rights in Canada: The Chaoulli Legacy” (co-authored with Colleen Flood) in Andre den Exter (ed.), International Health Law: Solidarity and Justice in Health Care (Maklu Uitgevers N.V, 2008).

 

Essays, Opinions & Reviews

"Truth, Freedom and Solidarity: A Reflection on Solidarity between Indigenous Peoples and Settler Refugees of Colour" (co-authored with Sylvia McAdam), 28 Magazine

"Water Under the Bridge? The Ebbs and Flows of Decolonization"Völkerrechtsblog, 28.12.2020

"Loving, Working, and Living on Stolen Land: People of Colour, Settler Colonialism & White Supremacy” online, reconciliation blog;

"(Re)Conceptualising Reconciliation: Transitional Justice in Sri Lanka" (05-07-2016) Groundviews;

Racial profiling is an epidemic in Canada (Windsor Star, January 26, 2015).

“Theorizing International Criminal Procedure Review Essay: Christoph Safferling’s International Criminal Procedure (Oxford University Press, 2012)" (2015) 2 Transnational Human Rights Review 134.

"Review of Paul Schiff  Berman, Global Legal Pluralism: A Jurisprudence of  Law Beyond  Borders" (OUP, 2012) (2013) European Journal of International Law 24, 981;

“At the outside-in, From the inside-out” (with Stu Marvel), 2010 OHLS CLPE Research Paper No. 43/2010;

Book Review - Victor Kattan’s From Coexistence to Conquest: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1891–1949.