Keebet Von Benda-Beckmann
Keebet von Benda-Beckmann (1946-2022) was a legal anthropologist. She was the co-founder of the Project Group "Legal Pluralism" and an associate of the later Department of Law and Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. She also was emeritus Professor at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and an associate of the Van Vollenhoven Institute for law and Governance at Leiden University. She has conducted research on disputing, social security, natural resources, under conditions of plural legal order in several parts of Indonesia and the Netherlands. Her latest work has been on processes of decentralization in Post-Suharto Indonesia.