Eddie Bruce-Jones

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Teaching

The following are indicative syllabi for courses I have had the opportunity to teach over the past fifteen years.

Race, Law and Literature
(Birkbeck, SOAS)
T. Morrison, “Recitatif”; C. Adichie, “The American Embassy”, O. Vuong, “Aubade with Burning City”, K. Crenshaw et. al., Critical Race Theory: The Writings that Formed the Movement; S. Hartman, “Venus in Two Acts”; G. Bahadur, Coolie Woman; T. Morrison, Beloved; A. Ghosh, A Sea of Poppies; A. Krog, Conditional Tense; G. Lewis, “Birthing Racial Difference”. M. N. Philips, Zong.

Law, Rights and Social Change
(SOAS)

Cultures of Human Rights
(Birkbeck)

Transformative Lawyering
(Birkbeck)

Law of the European Union
(Birkbeck)

Critical Perspectives on International Law
(Boston U/ KCL)

Human Rights in Europe
(Boston University)

Critical Migration Law
(Birkbeck)

Equality and the Law
(Birkbeck/ KCL)

I have taught at UK universities for fifteen years, and prior to that, I taught for three years in prisons in Boston and New York. I have taught as a visiting scholar at King’s College London, Central European University, Humboldt University, and Boston University.

Some of my publications related to teaching and pedagogy include:

“Race” in Aileen McColgan, Discrimination Law: Texts, Cases and Materials. 2023 (teaching text)

“The Queer Demands of Postcoloniality” 2021 (review essay)

"Refugee Law in Crisis: Decolonizing the Architecture of Violence" 2018 (article)