Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law

John McLeod is Professor of Postcolonial and Diaspora Literatures at the University of Leeds, UK. His books include Global Trespassers: Sanctioned Mobility in Contemporary Culture (Liverpool UP, 2024), Life Lines: Writing Transcultural Adoption (Bloomsbury, 2015), and Postcolonial London: Rewriting the Metropolis (Routledge, 2004). He has previously been a Visiting Researcher at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Visiting Professor at the University of Paris-Sorbonne.

He will hold a lecture on the topic of “Borders, Trespass, and the ‘Good Immigrant'”.