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Professor Eddie Bruce-Jones is the Head of School at the School of Law, Gender and Media at SOAS University of London. He previously served as Executive Dean of the School of Law at Birkbeck, University of London (2010–2023) and practiced law at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, LLP. He holds degrees from Harvard, Humboldt University Berlin, Columbia Law School, and King’s College London. His research focuses on racial equality, migration law, and law-and-humanities approaches to colonial legacies. He leads an AHRC-funded project on British indentureship and is writing a monograph on South Asian indentured labor in the Caribbean. He has held visiting roles at Boston University, Central European University, and the Max Planck Institute. Bruce-Jones serves on editorial boards, advisory councils, and international human rights panels, including the UN OHCHR and German Discrimination Monitor. He has also taught in prisons in Boston and New York.
Education: AB (Anthropology/Afro-American Studies, Harvard), MA/PhD (Social Anthropology, Humboldt Berlin), JD (Columbia), LLM (Public International Law, King’s College London), PGCert (Birkbeck), New York Bar membership.
Research interests span Human Rights Law, British Colonial Indentureship, Law & Humanities, Comparative Equality Law, Citizenship & Migration, and Critical Theory. His work critically examines state violence, racial discrimination, and legal frameworks. Recent projects include studies on mental health in custody and decarceration movements.
His publications include Race in the Shadow of Law: State Violence in Contemporary Europe (2016) and over 40 articles/book chapters. Key grants include a Wellcome Trust symposium (2018) and AHRC funding for colonial archive research. He advises on legal reforms globally, specializing in intersectional justice and postcolonial critiques.
He chairs the Institute for Race Relations and Rainbow Migration, and directs the Centre for Intersectional Justice. His work bridges academia, policy, and activism, addressing systemic racism and migration challenges.
