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Prof. Renisa Mawani speaks at the Centre for Law & Social Justice Annual Lecture: “The Ship, the Slave, the Legal Person”

What might a reading of the ship and the slave as juridical figures reveal about the history of legal personhood? Renisa Mawani reads the ship and the slave as central characters in the history of legal personhood, a reading that highlights the interconnections between maritime law and the laws of slavery, and foregrounds the changing intensities of Anglo imperial power and racial violence in shaping the legal person.

Laurence RalphThe Inaugural Racial (In)Justice Lecture: Laurence Ralph

Laurence Ralph presents the Inaugural Racial (In)Justice Lecture at a co-sponsored event by the UBC Department of Anthropology and Sociology. Ralph will present his recently published book, The Torture Letters,  which focuses on what it means to be policed in America today, moving from his own experiences with racial profiling as a teenager to the horrific history of police torture in Chicago.