Mr Christopher Carl Gevers -

Telephone: +27 31 260 2555
Email: gevers@ukzn.ac.za
Campus: Howard College
Building & Room: HC Building – Suite G, 1st Floor

Biography

Christopher teaches international law, Jurisprudence/legal theory and Foundations of Law in the School of Law. His research focusses on Pan-Africanism, International law & ‘decolonisation’, Third World Approaches to International Law, Critical Race Theory, and Law & Literature. Since 2015 he has been a faculty member of the Institute for Global Law & Policy at Harvard Law School, and has held visiting Fellowships at the University of Oxford and Harvard Law School. At present he is co-convening an interdisciplinary project on ‘Literature & International Law At the Edge’, with Prof. Joseph R. Slaughter (Columbia University), Prof. Vasuki Nesiah (New York University) and Prof. Gerry Simpson (London School of Economics & Political Science). His more recent publications appear in the Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law (2020), the London Review of International Law and Alternation.

Academic Qualifications

LLB (UKZN)
MSc (London School of Economics and Political Science)
PhD Candidate (Melbourne Law School)

Research Interests

International law & ‘decolonisation’
Third World Approaches to International Law
International Criminal Law
Critical Race Theory
Law and Literature
Pan-Africanism

Recent Publications and Papers

‘”Unwhitening the World”: Rethinking Race and International Law’, 67(6) UCLA Law Review (forthcoming).
‘International Law, literature and worldmaking’, in Shane Chalmers & Sundhya Pahuja (eds.) Routledge Handbook of International Law and the Humanities (Routledge: 2021)
South Africa, International Law and ‘Decolonisation’, 33 Alternation (2020).
‘The Role of the International Criminal Court in Africa: The Epic Fails?’ (with Max du Plessis), in Jeremy Sarkin & Ellah T.M. Siang’andu (eds.) Africa’s Role and Contribution to International Criminal Justice (Intersentia: 2020)
‘”Literal Decolonization”: Reading African Legal Scholarship through the African Novel’, in Dann & Bernstoff (eds.) The Battle for International Law: South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era (Oxford: 2019)
‘Sifting through the ‘successful failures’ and ‘failed successes’ of international law’ (with D. Desai & AH Khan), 7(2) London Review of International Law (2019)
‘Prosecuting the Crime Against Humanity of Apartheid: Never, Again’, African Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (2019)
‘The Africa Blue Books’ at Versailles: The First World War, Narrative, and Unthinkable Histories of International Criminal Law’, Tallgren & Skouteris (eds) New Histories of International Criminal Law – Re-Trials (Oxford: 2019)
‘Africa & International Criminal Law’ in Heller et al (eds), The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Justice (Oxford: 2019)
‘”To Seek With Beauty to Set the World Right”: Cold War International Law and the radical ‘imaginative geography’ of Pan-Africanism’ in Craven, Pahuja & Simpson (eds) International Law & the Cold War (Cambridge: 2019)
‘South Africa’s Foreign Policy and the International Criminal Court: Of African Lessons, Security Council Reform, and Possibilities for an Improved ICC’ (with M du Plessis), in J Warner & T Shaw African Foreign Policies in International Institutions (2018)

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