What is the law? How is it created and enforced? As a system of culturally attuned rules designed to control behaviour that is upheld through a variety of state-endorsed institutions, the law affects everyone – the living and the dead. In its quest to protect people and private property, the law of the land is administrated through the use of violence where the state deems this necessary. At times, such ‘systems of sovereignty’ are plainly designed to be injurious and explicit in their use of violence as forms of, often overtly racialised, social control. As such, although it may be intended that the law applies to all people equally, in practice its weight is biased according to race and also access to social and financial capital.
