Centre for Research on Race and Law

Description

Launched in 2017, the Centre for Research on Race and Law brings together work in Birkbeck's School of Law and further afield on the conceptual and practical connections between race and law. Many other disciplines consider various issues through the lens of race, but it is much rarer for race to be used as an explicit analytical framework within the discipline of law.

The Centre believes that law as a discipline in Britain and the Global North has traditionally failed to address questions of race, despite considerable societal interest, instead focusing on questions of equality as confined to the fields of human rights or discrimination law.