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18 Law, Culture & Human. 3 (2022)

handle is hein.journals/lculh18 and id is 1 raw text is: Editorial Law, Culture and the Humanities Edt a ©2022, Vol. 18(1) 3 Editorial @ The Author(s)2021 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/17438721211018896 journals.sagepub.com/home/ich OSAGE As I write this, the world is in crisis. Crisis, a much overused designation, nonethe- less seems like to right description. In the United States and other nations, democ- racy is in danger. Here racial privilege again has been unearthed, but now with great urgency. Millions around the world have been stricken with COVID-19 and hun- dreds of thousands have died. And a global recession is crushing the hopes of count- less people. It is hard to believe in humanity when humanity is suffering so much and so many of our problems seem self-inflicted. At the same time, humanists are now shaking loose from an Enlightenment fascination with the specialness of the human. These inquiries question the solidity of the boundaries between humans and other animals, humans and machines. The commentaries in this issue exemplify such questioning and explore what it means for law. They invite a reconsideration of the field of inquiry whose terrain LCH seeks to map. In so doing, they point the way through crisis to a place of hope for new understandings and new possibilities for humans and non- humans alike. Austin Sarat Amherst College, USA