Legal Humanities Undergraduate Research Symposium

Sponsored by the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Welcome to the 2020-2021 Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Legal Humanities!

We are excited to share with you our research in the legal humanities—an emerging field that examines how the law both constitutes and shapes the social world, reflecting and shaping societal values, aspirations, and notions of justice. We are a group of interns, who have worked together with our collaborators to bring you this symposium featuring our various research projects. Our topics range widely, touching on issues of empire and gender, enslavement and sexual abuse, anxiety in modern democracies, transitional justice, the gig economy, Palestinian liberation, and the criminalization of Latino male youth. You can find each contributor’s research project by clicking one of the tiles below.

Due to the ongoing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have decided to share our research through this interactive website.

Please join us for our launch event on April 30 at 3.00pm via Zoom. See our program here.

Our internship and this symposium are sponsored by the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.