Dr. John Reynolds spoke this week at an international conference in Duke Univesity (United States) on Emergency Legal Cultures: British Imperial Legacies. The conference brought together legal and literary scholars to discuss the practice and form of emergency legislation in imperial and post-imperial contexts, and to interrogate the impact of emergency legislation over cultural production.
The conference addressed the linkages between emergency legislation in the British Empire and its postcolonial nation states, with a particular focus on Israel/Palestine and India/Pakistan. John’s paper was on ‘Repressive Inclusion: Racial Sovereignty and (Post)Colonial Emergency Legalism’. His book on Empire, Emergency and International Law was published in 2017 by Cambridge University Press and was awarded the IALT Kevin Boyle Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship.