In 1914 the Britishbuilt and Japaneseowned steamship Komagata Maru left Hong Kong for Vancouver carrying 376 Punjabi migrants. Chartered by railway contractor and purported rubber planter Gurdit Singh the ship and its passengers were denied entry into Canada and two months later were deported to Calcutta. In Across Oceans of Law Renisa Mawani retells this wellknown story of the Komagata Maru. Drawing on oceans as methoda mode of thinking and writing that repositions land and seaMawani examines the historical and conceptual stakes of situating histories of Indian migration within maritime worlds. Through close readings of the ship the manifest the trial and the anticolonial writings of Singh and others Mawani argues that the Komagata Marus landing raised urgent questions regarding the jurisdictional tensions between the common law and admiralty law and ultimately the legal status of the sea. By following the movements of a single ship and bringing oceans into sharper view Mawani traces British imperial power through racial temporal and legal contestsampnbspand offers a novel method of writing colonial legal history.