Decolonisation of legal knowledge / editors, Amita Dhanda, Archana Parashar.

Contributed papers presented at the Critical Legal Studies Conference held in September 2007, at Hyderabad, India.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Decolonization of knowledge: whose responsibility?/ Amita Dhanda and Archana Parashar -- Development and the limits of state politics: rethinking emancipatory politics in contemporary Africa / Michael Neocosmos -- The successful failing of legal theory / Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos -- Power and responsibility: the curse of Spider-Man / Francesca Dominello -- International laws and the discontented: Westernisation, the development and the underdevelopment of international laws / Gbenga Oduntan -- The female diaspora: interrogating the female trafficked migrant / Sharron A. FitzGerald -- Sexualised economics: divorce and the division of farming property in Australia / Malcolm Voyce -- Responsibility for legal knowledge / Archana Parashar -- The governance of power: taxing choices/ Radha Arun -- The ability to respond: responsibility of regulatory institutions / Vijaya Nagarajan -- The power of one: the law teacher in the academy / Amita Dhanda.

The premise of this book is that legal theory in general, and criticial legal theory in particular, do not facilitate the identification of choices being made in the different facets of law -- whether in the enacting, interpreting, administering or theorising of law.