Courses

While scholars of an earlier generation integrated legal, historical and social analyses as a matter of course, we must take interdisciplinary steps. Legal phenomena may be either an end or a means in research, the object of study or the lens for understanding  other aspects of social life. This seminar concerns the study of legal institutions, the uses of case materials, and the reliance upon legal texts as sources in historical and anthropological inquiry. Studies of nonwestern, premodern and colonial contexts will shed comparative light on contemporary western notions of law, truth and justice. Seminar.