Through examinations of law as a force of repression and as a tool of governance, socio-legal scholarship has revealed the concrete mechanisms by which the law sanctions physical, structural, and slow violence. This volume illustrates current socio-legal approaches to the study of the law as a key governing tactic and a form of power that creates and perpetuates systems of domination, notably white supremacy, settler colonialism, and heteronormative hegemony. Contributors outline theoretical and methodological strategies for deconstructing law, explore the hidden violence that the law produces for certain segments of the population, and discuss possibilities for challenging its power by identifying specific modes of resistance, and contributing directly to the project of social transformation.