Val was a proper old-school scholar, interested in ideas for their own sake and driven to understand and respond to the injustices of the world. As a serious intellectual she was not interested in academic trends or popularity, but in working through a set of questions and problems – often with cigarette in hand. As an Australian who came to live in Hamburg, Germany, her thought constantly returned to the historical and ongoing process of Australian colonisation and to law’s complicity in colonial violence and genocide.  The Wrong of Law builds upon Val’s long intellectual collaboration with her partner, Uwe Petersen, and his Hegelian approach to mathematical logic. Val’s work thus draws connections between mathematical logic, philosophy, social theory and law, and in this respect the text is often as challenging as it is unconventional. In the following reflections I try to draw out a number of key ideas from The Wrong of Law. It is only a partial account, and...