Juridical Humanity: A Colonial HistoryIn colonial Egypt, the state introduced legal reforms that claimed to liberate Egyptians from the inhumanity of pre colonial rule and elevate them to the status of human beings. These legal reforms intersected with a new historical consciousness that distinguished freedom from force and the human from the pre human, endowing modern law with the power to accomplish but never truly secure this transition. Samera Esmeir offers a historical and