Issue 3 of the Journal of Legal Anthropology has just come out! It features articles from Melanie Griffiths, Maya Unnithan, Nebi Bardhoshi and Allegra moderator Miia Halme-Tuomisaari. In addition, a Forum on Women’s Rights and Sovereignty/Autonomy: Negotiating Gender in by Indigenous Justice Spaces by Shannon Speed with comments from María Teresa Sierra, Lynn Stephen, Jessica Johnson and Heike Schaumberg. See below for full list of contents.
The journal has also an ongoing call for papers for the themed peer-reviewed issue: ‘Law-making’ between anthropology and public settings
JLA Issue 3 – 2013
Melanie Griffiths, University of Oxford: Living with uncertainty: indefinite immigration detention
Maya Unnithan, University of Sussex: Thinking through surrogacy legislation in India: reflections on relational consent and the rights of infertile women
Nebi Bardhoshi, University of Tirana: Legal dynamics in a border area: between customary law and state law
Miia Halme-Tuomisaari, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology: Contested representations: exploring China’s state report
JLA FORUM
Shannon Speed, University of Texas at Austin: Women’s rights and sovereignty/ autonomy: negotiating gender in indigenous Justice spaces
Comments:
María Teresa Sierra, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (ciesas), Mexico
Lynn Stephen, University of Oregon
Jessica Johnson, University of Cambridge
Heike Schaumberg, University of Manchester
Reply
Shannon Speed
BOOK REVIEWS
Yves Laberge, the Centre Institutionnel de Recherche en Education, Environnement, Écocitoyenneté – UQAM, ÉQUIPE FQRSC, Quebec
Hyland, Richard (2009) Gifts: a study in comparative law. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Fiona Wright, University of Cambridge
Lori Allen (2013) The rise and fall of human rights: cynicism and politics in occupied Palestine. Stanford: Stanford University Press
Roger Norum, University of Oxford
Lucht, Hans (2012) Darkness before daybreak: African migrants living on the margins in southern Italy today. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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