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The law is heavily implicated in creating, maintaining, and reproducing racialised hierarchies which bring about and preserve acute global disparities and injustices. This essential book provides an examination of the meanings of decolonisation and explores how this examination can inform teaching, researching, and practising of law. It explores the ways in which the foundations of law are entangled in colonial thought and in its [re]production of ideas of commodification of bodies and space-time. Thus, it is an exploration of the ways in which we can use theories and praxes of decolonisation to produce legal knowledge for flourishing futures.

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“It is rarely the case that a legal book is published that becomes an instant classic. Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility is such a book. It is a landmark publication that deserves to be and no doubt will be widely read by all who come into contact with legal education."" Social & Legal Studies “Adébísí’s book convincingly paves the way for a guided and comprehensive interrogation of colonialism within Euro-modern legal knowledge. One can certainly hope that European universities and legal scholars in the Global North pick up where Adébísí has left off and engage in the long-overdue decolonial work to create the potential for spaces with a pluriversity of knowledges.” European Journal of Legal Studies ""The book, I believe, is about hope for producing flourishing, newer meaningful anticolonial worlds for all, beyond law schools and universities, and yields suggestions for their materialisation through decoloniality from within the neoliberalised law school. Decolonisation, thus, is neither to merely diversify the face of coercive power nor to become a new master. "" Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies “The themes of hope and humanity thread the chapters together in beautifully written prose that often reads like poetry. While the grounded narrative makes the arguments digestible, the evocative language makes the book a meal demanding to be remembered."" Modern Law Review ""Decolonisation and legal knowledge is a rich and strong contribution in this regard. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in understating European legal knowledge production, its racial and colonial foundations but also possibilities of reimagining it otherwise.” Nordic Journal of Law and Justice

"“It is rarely the case that a legal book is published that becomes an instant classic. Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility is such a book. It is a landmark publication that deserves to be and no doubt will be widely read by all who come into contact with legal education."" Social & Legal Studies “Adébísí’s book convincingly paves the way for a guided and comprehensive interrogation of colonialism within Euro-modern legal knowledge. One can certainly hope that European universities and legal scholars in the Global North pick up where Adébísí has left off and engage in the long-overdue decolonial work to create the potential for spaces with a pluriversity of knowledges.” European Journal of Legal Studies ""The book, I believe, is about hope for producing flourishing, newer meaningful anticolonial worlds for all, beyond law schools and universities, and yields suggestions for their materialisation through decoloniality from within the neoliberalised law school. Decolonisation, thus, is neither to merely diversify the face of coercive power nor to become a new master. "" Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies “The themes of hope and humanity thread the chapters together in beautifully written prose that often reads like poetry. While the grounded narrative makes the arguments digestible, the evocative language makes the book a meal demanding to be remembered."" Modern Law Review ""Decolonisation and legal knowledge is a rich and strong contribution in this regard. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in understating European legal knowledge production, its racial and colonial foundations but also possibilities of reimagining it otherwise.” Nordic Journal of Law and Justice"

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Folk Adbs is Associate Professor at the University of Bristol.

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