Abstract

Colonial injustice has suffered from the effects of amnesia in international law. Law has served as an instrument to justify injustice in the past and to silence its contemporary effects. The rise of the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement, TWAIL scholarship and the current debate on racism, slavery and return of cultural colonial objects illustrate the ongoing effects of colonialism. Some seemingly neutral principles and institutions of international law contribute to colonial amnesia. This contribution argues that it is time to revisit this status quo. It draws on emerging case law, scholarship and practices to identify news ways of relational engagement with the past. It suggests a re-reading of three fundamental dimensions of post-colonial engagement with colonial injustice: intertemporality, legal subjectivity and the approach towards cultural colonial objects. It claims that international criminal law has only a modest role in relation to colonial crimes. However, some wider lessons and methods from the field of transitional justice may help to mitigate contemporary dilemmas and contribute to a more post-colonial international law.

中文翻译：

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面对殖民失忆症以殖民不公和文化殖民对象为对象建立新的关系

摘要

遗忘症在国际法中造成了殖民不公。法律已成为证明过去的不公正行为并消除其当代影响的手段。“黑人生活问题”运动的兴起，TWAIL奖学金以及当前有关种族主义，奴隶制和文化殖民物体的归还的辩论，说明了殖民主义的持续影响。一些看似中立的国际法原则和制度促成了殖民失忆症。这一贡献表明，现在该重新审视这种现状了。它利用新兴的判例法，奖学金和惯例来确定与过去建立关系的新闻方式。它建议重新解读殖民主义后与殖民地不平等的三个基本维度：跨时代，法律主体性和对文化殖民对象的态度。它声称，国际刑法在殖民地犯罪方面仅起很小的作用。但是，过渡时期司法领域的一些较广泛的经验教训和方法可能有助于减轻当代的困境，并有助于建立更后殖民的国际法。