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Professor of Anthropology, Law and Society
Ph.D. 1978, Brandeis, M.A. 1967, Yale, B.A. 1966, Wellesley;
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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. Chinese edition, Peking Univ. 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.
Awarded the 2002 James Willard Hurst Prize in Legal History of the Law and Society Association.
2004 Law and Empire in the Pacific: Hawai'i and Fiji. Co-edited with Donald Brenneis.
School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, NM
2006 Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press. India edition, Oxford Univ. Press Spanish edition.
2007 The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local. Co-edited with Mark Goodale.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2008 Gender Violence: A Cultural Introduction. London: Blackwell.
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