A free flowing discussion with area experts on international law, human rights, legal history. For more content, visit allaboutil.wordpress.com.
Illiterate: An International Law Podcast with Aman Kumar
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A free flowing discussion with area experts on international law, human rights, legal history. For more content, visit allaboutil.wordpress.com.
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Recent Episodes
September 25, 2025
Establishment of the ILC with Keri van Douwen
<p>In this episode, Keri van Douwen talks about her paper on the process and deliberations for establishing the International Law Commission. Our discussion is based on Keri's paper published in the Leiden Journal of International Law.</p><p><br></p><p>Keri van Douwen, "<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/leiden-journal-of-international-law/article/seventeen-men-at-lake-success-in-search-of-the-international-law-commission/68E38B28FFDFF4BF58FC95DC0BA3EE33" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Seventeen Men at Lake Success: In Search of the International Law Commission</a>", Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 37, Issue 3 (2024), 557–579.</p>
August 22, 2024
Caste, Slavery and International Law
<p>In this episode, we discuss criminalization of tribes through legislations in colonial India. We also discuss how the British colonisers deliberately kept Caste away from any international discussion about abolition of slavery.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Ahmed Memon, <a href="https://academic.oup.com/lril/article/12/1/23/7634334"><em>‘English in taste, Indian in blood’: caste hegemony in the making of British international legal thought</em></a>, London Review of International Law, (2024), Volume 12, Issue 1, pp. 23–45</p> <p>Rupa Viswanath, "<a href="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-pariah-problem/9780231163064" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">The Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India</a>", Columbia University Press (2014)</p>
August 10, 2024
Sanskrit, Aryan Invasion Theory and International Law
<p>In this episode, we discuss the influence of Sanskrit on the British imperial thoughts on international law. We talk about the Aryan Invasion theory and how the Britishers used it to perpetuate their ideology of racial superiority in India.</p> <p>Ahmed Memon, <a href="https://academic.oup.com/lril/article/12/1/23/7634334"><em>‘English in taste, Indian in blood’: caste hegemony in the making of British international legal thought</em></a>, London Review of International Law, (2024), Volume 12, Issue 1, pp. 23–45</p>
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