‘Spotlight on Theatre’ in Law and Humanities: Arts Reviews connect important new plays performed at...

Swimming in the afternoon: adapting Kafka’s The Trial

Recent anniversary productions of The Trial have demonstrated that Kafka's literary and juridical imagination remains a generative resource for wider legal critique. This essay examines two recent ...

The theatre metaphor in renaissance legal thought: law, power, and space

The metaphor of theatrum mundi occupied a central place in early modern culture, both in Western literature and in legal thought, providing a powerful way of imagining law as at once spectacle and ...

Queer of colour utopias – how lesbian feminist vampires can help

Fictional works that engage with issues of oppression and marginalization hold utopian potential for queer racialized persons. Queer of colour utopianism is integral for the materialization of quee...

Thank you for listening: creative practices and cultural adaptation tensions among Hong Kong...

This essay explores how migrant artists from Hong Kong have used creative practices to adapt to life in the UK. Through personal narratives expressed in songwriting, theatre, and blogging, it highl...

Embodying Kevin A: notes on identity, creativity & prison

I have only ever known one Kevin, and only then for a very brief period of time. He is Kevin A., and I met him in prison whilst taking part in an eight-day lyric writing workshop, in early January ...

Art, time and femicidal violence: visualizing continuum thinking through feminist performance art

Extensive and important work has been undertaken to address femicidal violence and frame it as a human rights violation, yet, femicidal violence persists across the world, severely impacting women’...

Kafka: The Making of an Icon, an exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York City, USA,...

Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 20, No. 1, 2026)