Ali Hammoudi joined Windsor Law as an Assistant Professor in 2024. He had previously held positions as Law Foundation of Ontario Scholar, and Ianni Fellow at Windsor Law. Prior to that he was Postdoctoral Fellow at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law.
Dr. Hammoudi holds a PhD from Osgoode Hall Law School of York University. He is a critical legal scholar and historian, who uses Marxist and Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) methodologies to engage with questions on the interconnections between law, labour relations and capitalism in relation to the Global South and Turtle Island. He has published widely in numerous reputable journals on topics as varied as, the history of international law, international labour law, comparative legal theory and the legal history of the Middle East and Iraq.
As a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Hammoudi undertook research on how Third World oil-producing states struggled for the revision of oil concessionary agreements in the Middle East and Latin America with the aim of decolonizing the international legal order in the context of the New International Economic Order (NIEO).
Dr. Hammoudi’s book manuscript entitled Manufacturing Sovereignty: International Law, Labour Struggle and the Making of Iraq, is forthcoming with Hart Publishing. It is a legal and labour history of modern Iraq, which examines how international law was developed to manufacture the required sovereignty to establish an Iraqi state, and legitimize its political and economic control, especially oil extraction, by Western powers after its independence from the mandate process. The book investigates the various ways that certain legal doctrines affected the production and governance of infrastructural spaces of capitalist accumulation and labour exploitation, particularly, the Iraqi Petroleum Company camps, the oil pipeline network, the railway system and the Port of Basra. It consequently details the role of the labour movement’s revolutionary organizing efforts against these imperial structures.
Prior to pursuing his doctoral studies, Dr Hammoudi articled at the Ontario Human Rights Commission with a secondment at the Human Rights Legal Support Centre.