Nottingham Contemporary

Nadine El-Enany is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Birkbeck School of Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Race and Law. Nadine teaches and researches in the fields of migration and refugee law, European Union law, protest and criminal justice. She has published widely in the field of EU asylum and immigration law. Her current research project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, focuses on questions of race and criminal and social justice in death in custody cases. Nadine has written for the Guardian, the LRB Blog, Pluto Blog, Verso Blog, Open Democracy, Media Diversified, Left Foot Forward and Critical Legal Thinking. Her book, (B)ordering Britain: law, race and empire is forthcoming with Manchester University Press in 2019.

Nicholas Shapiro is an incoming assistant professor of Biology and Society at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a co-founder of the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, a longtime fellow at Public Lab, and a collaborator on the Aerocene project. He is a critic and practitioner of environmental monitoring and mitigation, collaborating across the social sciences, the natural sciences, and the arts. His work related to the Carceral Continuum involves apprehending the environmental justice implications of mass incarceration in the US as prisons are routinely placed on residual toxic land (on top of old mines or dumps) or next to polluting industry. Shapiro’s writing has been translated into Korean, French, and Spanish and his research has been featured in a broad range of media from NPR, The Late Show with Stephan Colbert, and The Art Newspaper to national newspapers in Japan and Chile.