This course critically investigates the historical and contemporary entanglements between race, gender and the law, and attends to how the law and institutions come to matter for racialized communities. Topics and themes include the gendered afterlives of settler colonialism and slavery in the legal system, state violence, colonialism, policing, prisons, and migration controls. The course also engages the law through Black, Indigenous, anti-colonial, queer and trans feminist critique and explores alternative approaches to justice.