This course critically examines the constitutive relationship between law and society, grounded in critical legal studies, socio-legal scholarship, and jurisprudence. The curriculum bridges historical structures (colonial legal regimes, postcolonial nation-building) with contemporary debates (violence, citizenship, popular culture, social movements). Drawing on ethnographies, legal case studies and prison literature, the course explores law as both an instrument of governance and a field of contestation, deeply embedded in the textures of lived experience.