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Please join the Political Science Department as they host Jothie Rajah, Research Professor with the American Bar Foundation.

This is a celebration event for Jothie Rajah of the American Bar Foundation to mark the release of her book 'Discounting Life: Necropolitical Law, Culture, and the Long War on Terror.' 

Jothie Rajah is Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. Her research lies at the intersections of law, language, and power. She is in-coming Book Review Editor for Law & Society Review, and has been a founding member and past coordinator of the Law and Society Association Collaborative Research Network on British Colonial Legalities and a member of the consultancy team working on translating Lao laws as part of a United Nations Development project. In addition to two monographs, her research articles have been widely published in peer reviewed journals, edited collections, and legal handbooks, including the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies; Law, Text, Culture; the Journal of Law, Culture and the Humanities; the Transnational Law Journal; and The Routledge Handbook on Law and Society.

Her latest book, Discounting Life: Necropolitical Law, Culture, and the Long War on Terror, analyzes the United States’ justification for post-9/11 “War on Terror” through cultural and media framing, which authorized and legitimized the discounting of some lives so that others—American nationals—may live.