Sessions Information

  • January 7, 2023
    8:30 am - 10:10 am
    Session Type: Section Programs
    Session Capacity: N/A
    Hotel: N/A
    Room: Point Loma
    Floor: First Floor, South Tower

    The prevalence of discrimination in our legal system is no secret. Toward improving antidiscrimination law, legal scholars work to illuminate the roots and effects of systematic exclusion. While broadly successful, this endeavor often encounters the limits imposed by research frameworks that do not involve direct observation of everyday legal practice. This is where an ethnographic approach proves essential: through participant observation and unstructured interviewing, ethnography offers insight into discrimination as a contingent and processual phenomenon embedded in the actions and utterances of legal actors. This panel shows that ethnography contributes uniquely valuable evidence of discrimination’s dynamic presence in legal institutions.


    The Section held a virtual business meeting prior to the Annual Meeting.  
Session Speakers
Cleveland State University College of Law
Speaker

Saint Louis University School of Law
Speaker

The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
Speaker

SMU Dedman School of Law
Moderator

Princeton University
Speaker

Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Speaker

Session Fees
  • Law and Anthropology Co-Sponsored by Evidence - Evidence of Discrimination: $0.00