Leading Works in Law and Anthropology Analysing Leading Works in Law Series

The academic disciplines of law and sociocultural anthropology have a long but at times contentious history of drawing on each other in order to study and understand law and human experience in its diverse manifestations. This volume provides an innovative and engaging format by giving established and emerging scholars from diverse jurisdictions the opportunity to discuss and reflect upon what they consider to be a ?leading work?. The collection offers a unique, multi-perspectival reconsideration of the intellectual history of the field whilst also addressing issues that are at the core of interdisciplinary legal research. Contributions shed light on the changing nature of cross-disciplinary research and collaboration, trace how disciplinary understandings of normativity have cross-fertilized each other, and reflect on choices taken within research on law and anthropology along a continuum of theoretical reflection, critique, engagement and practical application. The book elaborates on the nature and the boundaries of law and anthropology research, as well as on its likely future development in light of the insights shared by contributors on their chosen leading works. The book will make fascinating reading for researchers and academics in both law and anthropology.

Foreword; 1. ‘Law and Anthropology’ as Interdisciplinary Encounter: Towards Multi-sited, Situated Knowledge Production; 2. Law is a Multilevel Cultural Universal: The Theorical Achievements of Leopold Pospisil’s Anthropology of Law: A Comparative Theory; 3. Law’s Boundaries: Barbara Yngvesson’s Virtuous Citizens, Disruptive Subjectsand the Construction of Community in the Margins of Law; 4.Unveiling ‘Everyday Harm’: Mindie Lazarus-Black’s Domestic Violence, Court Rites and Cultures of Reconciliation; 5. The European Court of Human Rights, Upending Migrant Rights: On Marie-Bénédicte Dembour’s When Humans Become Migrants; 6. Challenging the Depiction of Black Families under Welfare Legislation in the USA: Carol Stack on All Our Kin; 7. Constitutional Law as Moral Insurgency? Reflections on Kalpana Kannabiran’s Tools of Justice; 8. A Shout in the Cathedral: Elizabeth Mertz’ Language of Law School; 9. Turning Legal Doctrine Inside Out: Susanne Baer’s The Citizen in Administrative Law; 10. The Moving of Children, the Travelling of Law: Howell’s TheKinning of Foreigners; 11. A French Private International Law Perspective on ‘Alterity’: Horatia Muir Watt’s Discours sur les méthodes du droit international privé (des formes juridiques de l’inter-altérité

Alice Margaria is assistant professor of law and co-director of the University Research Priority Program ‘Human Reproduction Reloaded’ at the University of Zurich.

Larissa Vetters is a senior researcher in the Department ‘Law & Anthropology’ at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany.