Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan, LLM. (Maastricht University), is a lecturer at Griffith College Dublin since September 2017. He is the son of Tamil refugees, and born and raised in Germany. He considers himself a ‘new German’. His next book will engage with Third World Approaches to International Law, and is on the subject, ‘Taming the Beast – encountering fascism and racism through international law’.