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Stimulation, segregation and scandal: geographies of prostitution regulation in British India, between Registration (1888) and Suppression (1923) (2012)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2012). Stimulation, segregation and scandal: geographies of prostitution regulation in British India, between Registration (1888) and Suppression (1923). Modern Asian Studies, 46(6), https://doi.org/10.1017/+S0026749X11000503

This paper explores the regulation of prostitution in colonial India between the abolition of the Indian Contagious Diseases Act in 1888 and the passing of the first Suppression of Immoral Traffic Act in 1923. It challenges the commonly held assumpti... Read More about Stimulation, segregation and scandal: geographies of prostitution regulation in British India, between Registration (1888) and Suppression (1923).

'The life of individuals as well as of nations': international law and the League of Nations' anti-trafficking governmentalities (2012)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2012). 'The life of individuals as well as of nations': international law and the League of Nations' anti-trafficking governmentalities. Leiden Journal of International Law, 25(3), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0922156512000325

This paper will address an often-neglected agenda of the much-derided League of Nations: its ‘social’ and ‘technical’ works. These targeted human security through regulating different forms of international mobility, including the fight against traff... Read More about 'The life of individuals as well as of nations': international law and the League of Nations' anti-trafficking governmentalities.