Didi Herman is Emeritus Professor at the University of Kent, UK. She is the author of, amongst other things: (2011) An Unfortunate Coincidence: Jews, Jewishness and English Law, Oxford University Press; (2003) Globalizing Family Values: The Christian Right's International Activism (co-author Buss, D), University of Minnesota Press.

Connal Parsley is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent, UK. His research spans the fields of critical jurisprudence, political theory and visual cultural studies. He is the translator of Roberto Esposito's Categories of the Impolitical (2015) Fordham University Press, and co-director of the AHRC Law and the Human network.

1. Introduction.- 2. The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Abolition.- 3. Bodies, Medicine and Otherness.- 4. Researching Racialised Bodies in Higher Education: From Statistics to Storytelling.- 5. Exploring the Law/Bodies/Space Regulatory Conundrum.- 6. Reading the Body that was not Written.- 7. Working with an Example of the Body: Legal Thinking as Method in Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies.- 8. Writing from Within the Body as a Research Process.- 9. Afterword.