"In Lawful Repair, Danish Sheikh develops the concept of lawful repair as a method for engaging law through practices of reading, writing, performance, and pedagogy. The volume is grounded in an archive of queer dissent in India that emerged in the shadow of Section 377, including a same-sex contract, litigation affidavits, a choreographic work, critical judgment writing, and a law school classroom experiment. Sheikh draws on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwicks reparative reading alongside the jurisprudential writings of Robert Cover, Patricia Williams, and James Boyd White to develop lawful repair as a practice that works beside the law, attending to its violence while also cultivating its imaginative and world-making capacities. Combining memoir, critical theory, and creative play, the book shows how lawful repair can function as a method of legal interpretation, a mode of critical writing, and a way of teaching law that emphasizes affect, collaboration, and creative practice"-- Provided by publisher.