ABSTRACT
This chapter calls for the abolition of the colonial law school. Using scholarly personal narrative as a method and drawing upon the lived experiences of three early career legal scholars, it argues that attempts to decolonise the law school are disingenuous. We argue that when “management” purports to decolonise, what occurs is the co-optation, marketisation, and sanitisation of the work, thereby colonising the decolonising process. Draining PoC and Black labour, the parasitic nature of white middle-class leaders re-creates and reproduces the very structures they claim to want to reform. We offer resistance by practising abolition of the colonial law school. Educating ourselves in our own time, we create our own space where our knowledge of the law far outstrips what we were offered in the law school, thus changing our methods of legal learning. The chapter combines reflections, poetry, and advice from the authors for those who wish to engage with the creative hopeful side of abolition. We conclude by demanding an end to the law school as it stands.
