Mohsen al Attar is a Reader in International Law, Head of the Department of International Relations, and Associate Dean at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. His research explores the power dynamics inherent in international law and the potential for other universals to emerge. His previous appointments were at the University of Auckland, Queen's University Belfast, Warwick University, and University College London.Claire Smith is an international lawyer specialising in accountability for gross violations of human rights and international crimes. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam researching the role of actors in the epistemological construction of victim participation at the International Criminal Court. She obtained her LLM (with distinction) from the University of Essex and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Otago.

• Mohsen al Attar and Claire Smith: Beyond Silence: Confronting Racial Hierarchies in International Law Part I. Situating International Law's Racism Problem 1: Mohsen al Attar: The Racialized Epistemology of International Law: From White Ignorance to Black Dignity 2: Folúkẹ'& Ifejola Adébísí: Disrupting International Law's Colonial Afterlives of Human Property: Educating for a World Beyond Racial Capitalism and Unending Apartheids 3: Jason Haynes: Racialized Extractivism: A Tale of Fetishism, Narcissism, Primitive Accumulation, and Expropriation 4: Harrison Otieno Mbori: The Inequalities of Sovereign Equality 5: Sarah Riley Case and Frédéric Mégret: The Colour of Jus Cogens Part II. The Tools, Techniques, and Technologies of Legalized Racial Inequality 6: Shahab Saqib: Race as Citizenship Personified: Illuminating the Ghosts of Racial Discrimination in International Law 7: Dimitrios A Kourtis: A Racialized Existence: Lessons from Palestine and the Genocide Convention 8: Faisal al-Asaad: Settler Colonialism, Race, and International Law: Lessons from the Frontier 9: Jinan Bastaki: Survive the Journey Only to Succumb to International Refugee Law 10: Nciko wa Nciko: How the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement Fail Climate and Racial Justice: Time for the Kampala Convention? Part III. A Right to be Free From Racism 11: Raghavi Viswanath: The Intersection of Race and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights 12: Tess Sheldon, Ruby Dhand, and Roxanne Mykitiuk: Racialized Ableism and the Need for Intersectional Discourse and Action 13: Paulina Jimenez Fregoso: De-essentializing Race: Intersectionality as a Feminist Approach in International Human Rights Law 14: Karla Schröter: Colonial Fantasies in the European Court of Human Rights Part IV. Antiracism in the Pluriverse 15: Suraj Girijashanker: Indian Approaches to Racism and Related Forms of Subordination under International Law: A Question of Interest Convergence 16: Saul Takahashi: Japan: International Law as the Outward Looking Weapon 17: Henrique Weil Afonso: Decolonial Fissures: Looking from and Beyond Brazil's Colour Lines 18: Yang Han: Norm Entrepreneurship at the UN: Addressing Racial Equality Across Borders and the South-North Divide Part V. Taking the Struggle(s) Forward 19: Darryl Li: From Captives to Enslaved: International Law and the Making of the (Non)Human 20: Kamya Vishwanath: Bodies of Knowledge: Re-framing Emancipation in International Law through Dalit Praxis 21: Radha D'Souza: Racism, (Neo)Colonialism, and International Law: A Field in Search of a Philosophy? 22: E Tendayi Achiume, Asl)iÜ Bâli, and S Priya Morley: Conceptualizing Race and Resisting Racism in International Law 23: Claire Smith: Unburdening White Women: Antiracist Feminist Praxis as Revolution 24: Dylan Asafo: The Slow and Benevolent Violence of International Law: An Oceanian Perspective

Mohsen al Attar is a Reader in International Law, Head of the Department of International Relations, and Associate Dean at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. His research explores the power dynamics inherent in international law and the potential for other universals to emerge. His previous appointments were at the University of Auckland, Queen's University Belfast, Warwick University, and University College London.Claire Smith is an international lawyer specialising in accountability for gross violations of human rights and international crimes. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam researching the role of actors in the epistemological construction of victim participation at the International Criminal Court. She obtained her LLM (with distinction) from the University of Essex and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Otago.

• Mohsen al Attar and Claire Smith: Beyond Silence: Confronting Racial Hierarchies in International Law Part I. Situating International Law's Racism Problem 1: Mohsen al Attar: The Racialized Epistemology of International Law: From White Ignorance to Black Dignity 2: Folúkẹ'& Ifejola Adébísí: Disrupting International Law's Colonial Afterlives of Human Property: Educating for a World Beyond Racial Capitalism and Unending Apartheids 3: Jason Haynes: Racialized Extractivism: A Tale of Fetishism, Narcissism, Primitive Accumulation, and Expropriation 4: Harrison Otieno Mbori: The Inequalities of Sovereign Equality 5: Sarah Riley Case and Frédéric Mégret: The Colour of Jus Cogens Part II. The Tools, Techniques, and Technologies of Legalized Racial Inequality 6: Shahab Saqib: Race as Citizenship Personified: Illuminating the Ghosts of Racial Discrimination in International Law 7: Dimitrios A Kourtis: A Racialized Existence: Lessons from Palestine and the Genocide Convention 8: Faisal al-Asaad: Settler Colonialism, Race, and International Law: Lessons from the Frontier 9: Jinan Bastaki: Survive the Journey Only to Succumb to International Refugee Law 10: Nciko wa Nciko: How the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement Fail Climate and Racial Justice: Time for the Kampala Convention? Part III. A Right to be Free From Racism 11: Raghavi Viswanath: The Intersection of Race and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights 12: Tess Sheldon, Ruby Dhand, and Roxanne Mykitiuk: Racialized Ableism and the Need for Intersectional Discourse and Action 13: Paulina Jimenez Fregoso: De-essentializing Race: Intersectionality as a Feminist Approach in International Human Rights Law 14: Karla Schröter: Colonial Fantasies in the European Court of Human Rights Part IV. Antiracism in the Pluriverse 15: Suraj Girijashanker: Indian Approaches to Racism and Related Forms of Subordination under International Law: A Question of Interest Convergence 16: Saul Takahashi: Japan: International Law as the Outward Looking Weapon 17: Henrique Weil Afonso: Decolonial Fissures: Looking from and Beyond Brazil's Colour Lines 18: Yang Han: Norm Entrepreneurship at the UN: Addressing Racial Equality Across Borders and the South-North Divide Part V. Taking the Struggle(s) Forward 19: Darryl Li: From Captives to Enslaved: International Law and the Making of the (Non)Human 20: Kamya Vishwanath: Bodies of Knowledge: Re-framing Emancipation in International Law through Dalit Praxis 21: Radha D'Souza: Racism, (Neo)Colonialism, and International Law: A Field in Search of a Philosophy? 22: E Tendayi Achiume, Asl)iÜ Bâli, and S Priya Morley: Conceptualizing Race and Resisting Racism in International Law 23: Claire Smith: Unburdening White Women: Antiracist Feminist Praxis as Revolution 24: Dylan Asafo: The Slow and Benevolent Violence of International Law: An Oceanian Perspective