Colonialism, Empire, and Race: Critical Conversations on Law, Movements, and the University

This symposium will feature two roundtable conversations exploring the entanglements of law, colonialism, and racialisation. Bringing together scholars whose work interrogates the global afterlives and continuities of empire, the panels will examine how legal regimes both shape and are shaped by colonial and racial hierarchies, and how social movements and anticolonial traditions challenge the limits of legal reform.

Together, we hope to reflect on the possibilities and constraints of radical transformation: How might law be mobilized against the very structures it has produced? What forms of knowledge, struggle, and world-building open new pathways toward justice? The event aims to cultivate a critical, interdisciplinary space attentive to race, gender, class, and the ongoing demands for reparations and decolonial futures.