Syllabus/achievement requirements

1. Introduction

Moore, Sally Falk. "Law and Social Change: The Semi-Autonomous Social Field as an Appropriate Subject of Study." Law & Society Review. 1973. Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 719-746. 27 pages

Moore, Sally Falk. ‘Certainties Undone: Fifty Turbulent Years of Legal Anthropology, 1949-1999.’ The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 2001. Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 95-116. 21 pages.

Ekern, Stener. "Between relations and rights: writing constitutions in Mayan Guatemala." The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law: 2018. 1-21, 20 p.

2. Rights and legal pluralism: 1.Contrasting descriptive and normative approaches

Covan, Jane K.,  Marie- Benedicte Dembour and Richard A Wilson (2001):  “Introduction and Rights: Anthropological Perspectives.” In:  Cowan, Jane K., Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, and Richard A. Wilson, eds. Culture and rights: Anthropological perspectives. Cambridge University Press, 2001. pp.1-20. 19 p.

Griffiths, Anne. “Legal Pluralism” in Reza Banakar, Max Travers (ed.) An Introduction to Law and Social Theory (Hart Publishing 2002) 289-310, 21 p.

Hellum, Anne. "18. How to study human rights in plural legal contexts: an exploration of plural water laws in Zimbabwe." Research Methods in Human Rights: A Handbook (2017): 435-460, 25 p. [Canvas]

Brems, Eva. “Legal Pluralism As a Human Right and/or As a Human Rights Violation”. In Giselle Corradi, Eva Brems and Mark Goodale (eds.), Human Rights Encounter Legal Pluralism, O?ati International Series in Law and Society (Hart Publishing 2017). 18 p.

Eckert, Julia. "From subjects to citizens: legalism from below and the homogenisation of the legal sphere." The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 38.53-54 (2006): 45-75.

3. The formats and politics of international law

Zerilli, Filippo M. "The rule of soft law: an introduction." Focaal 56 (2010): 3-18, 15 p.

Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora. "Humanitarians in court: how duty of care travelled from human resources to legal liability." The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law (2018), 17 p.

Merry, Sally Engle. “Measuring the World, Indicators, Human Rights and Global Governance”, Current Anthropology 52:3 (2011), 14 p.

Gaas, Mohamed Husein and Thomas Hylland Eriksen. In Hellum, A., Ali, S.S. & Griffiths, A.(eds.),  From Transnational Relations to Transnational Laws: Northern European Laws at the Crossroads, 251-274 ( Ashgate 2011), 23 p.

4. Bureaucracies and Courts

Gerhard Anders “The New Global Legal Order as Local Phenomenon: The Special Court for Sierra Leone”, In Franz von Benda- Beckmann, Kebeet von Benda- Beckmann and Anne Griffiths (eds.) Spatializing Law. An Anthropological Geography of Law in Society (Ashgate 2009). (137-156), p. 19.

Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora.  ‘Blurring Boundaries: Refugee Resettlement in Kampala—between the Formal, the Informal, and the Illegal.’ PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (2011) vol.34 no.1, pp. 11-32. 22 pages.

Coutin, Susan Bibler. “Illegality and the Spaces of Nonexistence pp”, in Legalizing Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants’ Struggle for U.S. Residency(University of Michigan Press 2000), (27-47) 20 p. [Canvas]

Griffiths, Anne and Randy F. Kandel. “Local Responses to National and Transnational Law: A view from the Scottish Children’s Hearings System”,  in Anne Hellum, Shaheen Sardar Ali and Anne Griffiths  (eds.) From Transnational Relations to Transnational Laws (Ashgate 2011) (189-207), 18 p.

5. Justice and Gender

Merry, Sally Engle. Human rights and gender violence: Translating international law into local justice (University of Chicago Press, 2009). 1-232, 231 p.

Sieder, Rachel. “Sexual violence and gendered subjectivities: indigenous women's search for justice in Guatemala” in Gender justice and legal pluralities. Latin American and African perspectives. Rachel Sieder and John-Andrew McNeish (eds.) (New York: Routledge-Cavendish, 2013), 23 p.

6. Disputes

Nader, Laura “Ch. 3 Hegmonic Processes in Law: Colonial to Contemporary”, The Life of the Law, Anthropological Projects (University of California Press 2002) (117-168), 51 p.

Christie Nils. “Conflict as Property” The British Journal of Criminology, 17:1.1 (1977) (1–15), 15 p.  

 

7. Law and technology

Melhuus, Marit. “Cyberstork Children and the Norwegian Biotechnology Act- Regulating Procreative Practices to What Effect.”  in Anne Hellum, Shaheen Sardar Ali and Anne Griffiths  (eds) From Transnational Relations to Transnational Laws, Ashgate 2011 (CRC) (51-70), 19 p

Rudrappa, Sharmila, and Caitlyn Collins. "Altruistic agencies and compassionate consumers: moral framing of transnational surrogacy." Gender & Society 29.6 (2015): 937-959, 22 p.

8. The market, Law, Control and culture

Ganti, Tejaswini. "Neoliberalism." Annual Review of Anthropology 43 (2014): 89-104, 15 p.

Hellum, Anne and Derman, Bill. “Government Business and Chiefs”, In Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda- Beckmann and Julia Ekcert (eds.) Rules of Law and Laws of Ruling. On the Governance of Law (Ashgate 2009), 13 p. [Canvas]

Kuldova, Tereza  (2016) ‘Hells Angels? Motorcycle Corporation in Fashion Business: Interrogating the Fetishism of the Trademark Law.’ Journal of Design History.  Pp. 1- 19. 19 pages.

Low, Setha. "Security at home: How private securitization practices increase state and capitalist control." Anthropological Theory 17.3 (2017): 365-381, 16 p.

741 pages.

 

 

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