Decolonial concepts have been brought into contact with many areas of law. Scholars across international law, refugee and asylum law, criminal law, intellectual property law, labour law, property law, data protection law and EU law have considered how decoloniality offers insights into understanding complex problems and offers strategies to address these.  

The Decolonisation and Law Programme (DLP) at the Oxford Law Faculty has four main aims:

  1. to develop empirically and theoretically informed research focusing on the global consequences of European imperialism since 1492
  2. to build research teams comprising researchers from formerly colonised countries across different disciplines and areas of law
  3. to encourage collaboration in knowledge production at the graduate level through blogs, events, education, research dissemination and publications
  4. to encourage knowledge exchange across sectors and disciplines through co-operation with national and international civil society, legal practitioners, policy makers and academics 

The work of the DLP highlights excavation, correction and dissemination. The DLP is committed to create knowledge and provide expertise that enrichens the appreciation of global history and promotes equity in and across contemporary societies. Outputs by the DLP will offer fresh perspectives on complex global and local challenges. We hope our work will encourage scholars across the globe to step back from dominant discourses and reimagine law and legal outcomes.

The DLP is led by Professor Iyiola Solanke, and works closely with the Decolonising Law Discussion Group in the Law Faculty.

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