Indigenous Legal Orders, Legal Pluralism, and the Coloniality of Method Across Comparative Law, International Law, IP, and Trade Governance Webinar Now Online

News from Paolo Davide Farah, University of Tulsa College of Law: 

The webinar Indigenous Legal Orders, Legal Pluralism, and the Coloniality of Method Across Comparative Law, International Law, IP, and Trade Governance.

The webinar brought together an outstanding group of scholars to explore how Indigenous legal orders challenge dominant legal epistemologies and invite us to rethink foundational assumptions embedded within international law, comparative law, intellectual property, cultural heritage governance, technology governance, development, and global governance more broadly.

I was happy to moderate and contribute to the discussion featuring:

• Professor Chidi Oguamanam (University of Ottawa)
• Professor Elena Baylis (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
• Professor Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci (Hofstra University School of Law)
• Professor Dana G. Jones (North Carolina Central University School of Law)

The conversation addressed a range of interconnected themes, including Indigenous knowledge systems, legal pluralism, cultural heritage and repatriation, intellectual property, governance theory, artificial intelligence, structural bias, epistemic governance, and the future of global governance in an increasingly multipolar world.

Watch the Webinar Recording

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-DGGXPwRZI

Read the Full Post-Webinar Reflection

https://paolofarah.wordpress.com/2026/06/02/indigenous-legal-orders-legal-pluralism-and-the-coloniality-of-method-in-global-governance-reflections-from-the-abila-cle-webinar/

Additional Information, Speaker Biographies, and Suggested Readings

https://paolofarah.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/abila-cle-webinar-series-indigenous-legal-orders-legal-pluralism-and-the-coloniality-of-method-in-global-governance/

I hope these materials will be of interest to those working on Indigenous rights, legal pluralism, international law, comparative law, intellectual property, cultural heritage, governance, artificial intelligence, and related fields.

With best wishes,

Paolo

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https://paolofarah.wordpress.com/

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Webinar: Conversation with Professor James Boyd White

 

“Mosaic: an Approach to Law and Literature” – A conversation piece with James BOYD WHITE - With the support of the ISLL (Italian Society of Law and Literature) and the ATFD (Portuguese Association for Legal Theory, Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, the Portugueses IVR Section), the UCILeR, the University of Coimbra Institute for Legal research  (within its research area "Law and Time") will welcome, on the next May 12th, at 3pm (4pm in Italia), Professor James Boyd White (L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor Emeritus of Law, University of Michigan Law School). 

The webinar will integrate the lecture "Mosaic", a sequence of brief comments (which will bring some "surprises"!) and a dialogue with the audience. It is a unique opportunity to hear the author of Keep Law Alive considering (with an unmistakable perspective) some of the great challenges that the contemporary world imposes on Law.. 

Free participation upon registration at: https://www.fd.uc.pt/inscricao/ (or https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdYDSi7e5H6a3C9flvMMstDgBlojC7Y7I0DKRXEpOyDOSC_PA/viewform).

After registration the link will be sent.