Creating the law school as a meeting place for epistemologies: decolonising the teaching of jurisprudence and human rights

How do we create spaces within British law schools, for genuine engagement with decolonised methodologies and epistemologies? This paper examines an attempt to decolonise the curriculum in the rewriting of a module entitled “Justice, Law, and Human Rights”, taught at the University of Dundee. I will reflect on the process of choosing the module topics and readings, and the successes and challenges of the course. I will consider the challenges of whether and how a non-Indigenous Australian can teach a decolonised law curriculum in Scotland. How does a teacher trained in Eurocentric and settler-colonial international law teach law, particularly in the colonial centre of the United Kingdom? How do we create space in a law school for Indigenous and non-Indigenous laws to meet?.