Dr Mohsen al Attar is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland. His research interests oscillate between Third World legal studies, intellectual property law and legal pedagogy, with emphasis on the development of emancipatory pedagogical methods in the practice of international legal education. For the forthcoming year (2012/13), he has been appointed a Visiting Professor at McGill University Faculty of Law where he will be teaching two critical courses on international law entitled ‘Rethinking International Law’ and ‘Intellectual Property Law and Its Discontents’. A compilation of his work is available at www.mohsenalattar.org. He invites dialogue and exchange of ideas via email at m.alattar@auckland.ac.nz. In the spirit of decolonisation efforts everywhere, a luta continua…