This special issue is part one of a two-part edited collection on interrupting the legal person, and what this means. The chapters in this volume interrogate th

Examines pretrial rituals of accusation that enabled colonial law and order to support possessive settler-colonialism across western Canada.

In India, a man spent 54 years behind bars in pretrial detention, waiting for a trial that would never happen because his file had been lost. In Nigeria, one st

Every year, millions of people across Europe - innocent and guilty - are arrested and detained by the police. For some, their cases go no further than the polic

This volume presents and critiques the distorted effects of the international human rights movement's focus on the fight against impunity.