Leading works in law and anthropology / edited by Alice Margaria and Larissa Vetters ; contributors, Moritz Baumgärtel [and thirteen others].

'Law and anthropology' as interdisciplinary encounter : towards multi-sited, situated knowledge production / Larissa Vetters and Alice Margaria -- Law is a multilevel cultural universal : the theorical achievements of Leopold Pospisil's anthropology of law : a comparative theory / James Donovan and Tomáš Ledvinka -- Law's boundaries : Barbara Yngvesson's virtuous citizens, disruptive subjects and the construction of community in the margins of law / Susan Bibler-Coutin -- Unveiling 'everyday harm' : Mindie Lazarus-Black's domestic violence, court rites, and cultures of reconciliation / Ramona Biholar -- The European Court of Human Rights, upending migrant rights : on Marie-Bénédicte Dembour's When humans become migrants / Moritz Baumgärtel -- Challenging the depiction of black families under welfare legislation in the USA : Carol Stack on all our kin / Anne Griffiths -- Constitutional law as moral insurgency? reflections on Kalpana Kannabiran's tools of justice / Sandhya Fuchs -- A shout in the cathedral : Elizabeth Mertz' Language of law school / Riaz Tejani -- Turning legal doctrine inside out : Susanne Baer's The citizen in administrative law / Larissa Vetters -- The moving of children, the travelling of law : Howell's The kinning of foreigners / Nola Cammu -- 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'interaltérité) / Sandrine Brachotte.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.