Faculty of Law University of Toronto
Globalization, Law & Justice Workshop Series
presents
Sally Merry
New York University
Measuring the World: Indicators, Human Rights and Global Governance
4:10 – 6:00 PM
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Solarium (room FA2) – Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park
SALLY ENGLE MERRY is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Law and Society Program at New York University. Her work explores the role of law in urban life in the US, in the colonizing process, and in contemporary transnationalism. Her recent books are Colonizing Hawai’i: The Cultural Power of Law (Princeton Univ. Press, 2000), which received the 2001 J. Willard Hurst Prize from the Law and Society Association, Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice (University of Chicago Press, 2006), The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law between the Local and the Global, (co-edited with Mark Goodale; Cambridge University Press, 2007), and Gender Violence: A Cultural Perspective (Blackwells, 2008). She has authored or edited four other books: Law and Empire in the Pacific: Hawai’i and Fiji (co-edited with Donald Brenneis, School of American Research Press, 2004), The Possibility of Popular Justice: A Case Study of American Community Mediation (co-edited with Neal Milner, Univ. of Michigan Press, 1993), Getting Justice and Getting Even: Legal Consciousness among Working Class Americans (University of Chicago Press, 1990), and Urban Danger: Life in a Neighborhood of Strangers (Temple University Press, 1981). She has recently published articles on women's human rights, violence against women, and the process of localizing human rights. She is past-president of the Law and Society Association and the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology and president-elect of the American Ethnological Society. In 2007 she received the Kalven Prize of the Law and Society Association, an award that recognizes a significant a body of scholarship in the field.
Refreshments will be served.
For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca
