[2] In her interviews from 2013,[3] 2018,[4] and 2019,[5] Dayan discussed how her work examines the dehumanizing effects of modern legal and punitive systems, particularly focusing on solitary confinement in Supermax prisons and the treatment of marginalized humans and animals.

Dayan highlights how legal mechanisms, such as prioritizing the intent of prison officials over the suffering of inmates, make it nearly impossible to challenge such cruel treatment under the Eighth Amendment, connecting this to historical systems of control like slavery.

In a 2019 interview with Edge Effects magazine, Dayan emphasizes how pit bulls are racialized and criminalized, reflecting broader societal prejudices that intertwine marginalized human populations—especially African American men—with perceived threats.

[10] In 2020, the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts in Galway, Ireland, presented a multidisciplinary program titled The Law is a White Dog, curated by artist Sarah Browne.

The project, inspired by Colin Dayan's book, explored themes of legal rituals, personhood, and social exclusion through various artistic mediums such as film, poetry, photography, and performance.

The program included a series of podcasts, an exhibition, and a book, which combined creative works and scholarly research to challenge conventional understandings of the law's impact on the body, memory, and identity.