Professor of Anthropology, Law and Society
Ph.D. 1978, Brandeis, M.A. 1967, Yale, B.A. 1966, Wellesley;

Email:

Research Interests:

Anthropology of law; human rights; colonialism; transnationalism; gender and race; US, Pacific and Asia/Pacific region.

Selected Works:

1981 Urban Danger: Life in a Neighborhood of Strangers. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.

1990 Getting Justice and Getting Even: Legal Consciousness Among Working-Class Americans. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

1993 The Possibility of Popular Justice: A Case Study of American Community Mediation. Co-edited with Neal Milner. Ann Arbor, MI: Univ. of Michigan Press.

2000 Colonizing Hawai'i: The Cultural Power of Law. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

2004 Law and Empire in the Pacific: Hawai'i and Fiji. Co-edited with Donald Brenneis. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, NM

2005 (forthcoming) Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 Update your faculty profile

 Back to Top