My dad, Ian Law, who has died aged 65 of pancreatic cancer, was a sociologist who was committed to racial justice and whose work helped universities to start acknowledging their part in slavery and colonialism.
Born in Luton, Bedfordshire, Ian was the son of Monica (nee Bull), a homemaker, and Geoff Law, an engineer. Following a scholarship to Trinity school, Croydon, he went to Liverpool University to study architecture. While there, he met Jude Clarke at a demo at Senate House, and they became inseparable. Ian switched to Jude’s course, sociology. They married in 1982.
