Tradition

Adil Hasan Khan

Chapter 9 in Research Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), 2025, pp 92-104 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Through an engagement with the scholarship of Talal Asad this chapter introduces TWAILers to a productive way of conceiving ‘tradition’. Self-consciously written as a participant heir of a tradition – a TWAIL tradition – that the chapter proceeds to describe as a ‘living tradition’ which contains several repertoires of ethical training and cultivating relationships that enable us to practically live international law as a specific ‘way of life’. These repertoires are embedded in modes of conducting the practical activity of writing international legal scholarship. The ‘major repertoire’ trains TWAILers into infinite responsiveness to international law's ‘others’ through a cultivation of the ethical virtues of faith and hope, while the ‘minor repertoire’ trains TWAILers into living within institutional limits through a cultivation of the ethical virtue of prudence. It concludes by drawing attention to an emergent repertoire of TWAIL training into the ethical virtue of courage.

Keywords: Tradition; Practice; Practical; TWAIL; Virtues; International legal writing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781789901511
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