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