Border Justice: Bodies as Evidence

The human body lies at the heart of many urgent contemporary legal debates. However, not all bodies are granted equal status or agency under the law. Drawing upon a range of practices and perspectives from the arts, humanities, law and activism, this lecture series questions how the law perceives and deals with the human body. It explores how body-based knowledge can expose the ambiguities and loopholes of legal structures and facilitate the exploration of alternative models of justice