Sujith Xavier, Associate Professor

Books

Decolonizing Law: Indigenous, Third World and Settler Perspectives (Sujith Xavier, Beverley Jacobs, Valarie Waboose, Jeffery Hewitt, and Amar Bhatia, eds.) (Routledge Press, 2021);

Third World Approaches to International Law: On Praxis and the Intellectual (John Reynolds, Usha Natarajan, Amar Bhatia & Sujith Xavier, eds.) (Routledge Press, THIRDWORLD Series, 2017) (Republication of 2016 TWQ Special Issue);

Journal Special Issues (Guest Editor)

"Locating RDS in the 21st Century; Critically revisiting the SCC decision in R. v. S. (R.D.)" (With Danardo Jones, Reem Bahdi, & Valeria Kuri) [Forthcoming, Journal of Law and Social Policy, 2025]

“Praxis, International Law and TWAIL” (with Amar Bhatia, John Reynolds, and Usha Natarajan) (2016) 37 (11) Third World Quarterly 1946

“Placing TWAIL Scholarship and Praxis” (with Amar Bhatia, John Reynolds & Usha Natarajan) (2016) 33 (3) Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1

“Foreword: TWAIL and International Criminal Law” (with Asad Kiyani and John Reynolds), (2016) 14 (4) Journal of International Criminal Justice 916

“Re-Igniting Critical Race In Canadian Legal Spaces: Introduction To The Special Symposium Issue Of Contemporary Accounts Of Racialization In Canada” (2013) 31(2) Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice

Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Anonymous Peer Review; *Editorial Review)**

“Academic Antiracism or where antiracism goes to die? Collegial Governance and Disintegration in Toxic Ivory Towers” (Accepted, Journal of Law and Social Policy, 2025)**

“Between Gratitude and Guilt: The Promise of a Better Life in a Settler Colony” in Benjamin Berger et al., eds., Making Promises: Oaths, Treaties, and Covenants in Multi-jurisdictional and Multi-religious Societies (Forthcoming, University of Toronto Press, 2025)*

“Transitional Justice” in Antony Anghie et al., eds., Third World Approaches to International Law Reader (Edward Elgar Press, Forthcoming, 2025)*

"Truth-Eaters: TWAIL & Transitional Justice in Sri Lanka", American Journal of International Law, Unbound (Invited, Accepted, in press 2025)*

“Harvesting Truth: Transitional Justice in Post War Sri Lanka” in Navigating the Complex Terrain of Accountability in Sri Lanka: a special issue of the PKI Global Justice Journal (2025) 9 PKI Global Justice Journal 2*

“One View of Race & Ethnicity in the International Law on the Americas: From a ‘Regime of Truth’ based on ‘Skin, Hair, and Bone’ to a Dynamic of Indifference” (with Amar Bhatia) in Liliana Obregón Tarazona et al. (eds.), Oxford University Press Handbook on the International Law of the Americas (Oxford University Press, 2023; in press)*

"Indebted Impunity and Violence in a Lesser State: Ethno-Racial Capitalism in Sri Lanka" (with Amar Bhatia & Adrian A. Smith) (2022) 25:2 Journal of International Economic Law 277**

"Locating & Situating Justice Pal: TWAIL, International Criminal Tribunals, and Judicial Powers" (2022) 22:2 Asian Journal of International Law 292**

"Biased Impartiality: A Survey of Post-RDS caselaw on Bias, Race and Indigeneity" (2021) 99:2 Can Bar Rev 354**

"False Western Universalism in Constitutionalism? The 1867 Canadian Constitution & the Legacies of the Residential Schools" in Richard Albert, Paul Daly & Vanessa MacDonnell (eds.), The Canadian Constitution in Transition (University of Toronto Press, 2019)*

"Top Heavy: Beyond the Global North & the Justification for Global Administrative Law" (2017) 3-4 Indian Journal of International Law 337**

"Learning from Below: Theorising Global Governance through Ethnographies and Critical Reflections from the Global South" (2016) 33:3 Windsor YB Access Justice 229**

"Dark Corners of the World: International Criminal Justice and the Global South" (with John Reynolds) (2016) 14 (4) Journal of International Criminal Justice 959**

“Looking for ‘Justice’ in all the Wrong Places: Creating an International or Hybrid Criminal Tribunal for Sri Lanka?” in Amarnath Amarasingam & Daniel Bass eds., Post-War Sri Lanka: Problems and Prospects (Oxford University Press/Hurst, October 2016)*

"Theorizing Global Governance Inside-Out: Response to Karl-Heinz Ladeur’s the Emergence of Global Administrative Law and Transnational Regulation" (2012) 3:2 Transnational Legal Theory 268**

"Sri Lankan Presidential Commission of Inquiry (2007): Did it amount to a fair hearing?" (2010) 10 Mexican Yearbook of International Law 497**

Journal Articles & Book Chapters

“Series Introduction – Teaching International Law: Between Critique and the Canon” (with Ntina Tzouvala) (2020) TWAILR: Reflections #26/2020

"Introduction: Expanding the Circle in Rethinking Decolonizing Law" (with Jeffery Hewitt) in Decolonizing Law: Indigenous, Third World and Settler Perspectives (edited with Beverley Jacobs, Valarie Waboose, Jeffery Hewitt, and Amar Bhatia (Routledge Press, 2021);

“Placing TWAIL Scholarship and Praxis” (with Amar Bhatia, John Reynolds & Usha Natarajan) (2016) 33 (3) Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1;

"Introduction: TWAIL - on praxis and the intellectual" (with Usha Natarajan, John Reynolds & Amar Bhatia) (2016) 37 (11) Third World Quarterly 1946 (Selected for Republication as part of Routledge's THIRDWORLD Series);

"Third World Approaches to International Criminal Law" (with John Reynolds & Asad Kiyani) (2016) 14 (4) Journal of International Criminal Justice 916;

"Re-Igniting Critical Race in Canadian Legal Spaces: Introduction to the Special Symposium Issue of Contemporary Accounts of Racialization in Canada" (with Shanthi Senthe) (2014) 31:2 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1.

“Health Care Rights in Canada: The Chaoulli Legacy” (with Colleen Flood) in Andre den Exter (ed.), International Health Law: Solidarity and Justice in Health Care (Maklu Uitgevers N.V, 2008).