Renisa Mawani is a Professor of Sociology and recurring Chair of the Law and Society Program at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) where she has been since 2003. She works in the fields of critical theory, colonial legal history and has published widely on law, colonialism, migration, and legal geography. She is the author of two books, Colonial Proximities(2009) and Across Oceans of Law (2018) and a series of articles, which have been published in Law and Society Review, Law and Social Inquiry, and Annual Review of Law and Social Science, and elsewhere. With Iza Hussin, she is co-editor of “The Travels of Law: Indian Ocean Itineraries” published in Law and History Review (2014). She has been actively involved in LSA, serving as chair of the Dissertation Prize Committee, as member of the Program Committee and the Herbert Jacob Book Prize Committee, and as a member on the editorial board of Law and Society Review.

Twitter: @renisamawani