LAWS 3310
Race and Law
This course explores theorizations and intersections of race and law in legal studies. Particular attention to case studies, institutional, structural, and systemic racism, the currency of “race” in legal categories and in the work of legal actors in multiple areas of law.
2026
Readings
- Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer, 'What Is Racial Domination?' (2009) 6(2) Du Bois Review 335-355.
- Makau Mutua, 'What Is TWAIL?' (2000) 94 Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting 31-40.
- James Thuo Gathii, 'Imperialism, Colonialism, and International Law' (2007) 54(4) Buffalo Law Review 1013- 1066.
- Shiri Pasternak, 'Jurisdiction and Settler Colonialism: Where Do Laws Meet?' (2014) 29(2) Canadian Journal of Law and Society 145-161.
- Antony Anghie, 'Colonialism and the Birth of International Institutions: The Mandate System of the League of Nations,' in Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
- Adom Getachew, 'From Principle to Right: The Anticolonial Reinvention of Self-Determination,' in Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (Princeton University Press, 2019) 71-106.
- Radhika V. Mongia, 'Historicizing State Sovereignty: Inequality and the Form of Equivalence' (2007) 49(2) Comparative Studies in Society and History 384-411.
- International Court of Justice, Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian 6 LAWS 3310 Fall 2026
2026
Topics
- Assigned Reading/Listening
- Assigned Readings
- focuses on the conceptualization of race within the media, with particular attention to
- centers on the intersections of Indigeneity, the politics of recognition, and the colonial
Prerequisites & course information
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 credit in LAWS at the 2000 level. Lectures three hours a week.