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Guest Speaker: Dr Eddie Bruce-Jones, Birkbeck, University of London

Title: Race, Law and the Academy

Description: This lecture examines conceptual, practical and political dimensions of research on race in the legal academy. Bruce-Jones will draw on his own work and experience, as well as the work of other Black scholars, around the legal concept of race in Europe, historical studies of British colonialism and interdisciplinary examinations of race at the intersection of law and the humanities. The lecture will address central questions including: What is critical race theory and why is it such a big deal? How do legacies of colonialism impact the conditions of research? And how might we think about the ethical and intellectual demands of race-related research?

Bio: Dr Eddie Bruce-Jones is Executive Dean of the School of Law at Birkbeck, University of London. He is a member of the New York Bar and Associate Academic Fellow of the Inner Temple. He is author of Race in the Shadow of Law: State Violence in Contemporary Europe (2017). Bruce-Jones is currently the principal investigator of an AHRC-funded project on the archives of the British colonial indentureship period. He serves on the Boards of Directors of the Institute of Race Relations (UK) and Rainbow Migration (UK), and the Advisory Board of the Centre for Intersectional Justice (Germany). He has advised various intergovernmental and civil society organisations on issues of racism and human rights, including the Office of the UN High Commission on Human Rights and the Equality Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He is an editor of the Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law and advisor to the European Law Open.