Sessions Information

  • January 6, 2018
    10:30 am - 12:15 pm
    Session Type: Section Programs
    Session Capacity: N/A
    Hotel: N/A
    Room: Pacific Ballroom Salon 23
    Floor: North Tower/Ground Level

    The disciplinary traditions of anthropology offer a unique contribution in this critical moment.  Anthropology demands empiricism grounded in extensive fieldwork, an antidote to "fake news" and "fast facts"; and it challenges received conceptual categories, introducing healthy skepticism to the commonplaces and tropes of polarized politics.  This session is formulated around a perennial concern in anthropological work, the Kantian theme of critique.  Panelists will present fieldwork-based inquiry into technology, surveillance, and policing; the intersections of criminal law, property doctrines, and stigma in minority neighborhoods; protest in Native American country; and religious doctrine in capital punishment advocacy.  The session will build from the presentations to consider together how anthropologically-informed work can enrich legal scholarship, argumentation, teaching, and advocacy.

    Business meeting at program conclusion.

Session Speakers
Saint Louis University School of Law
Moderator

University of Washington School of Law
Speaker

University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
Speaker

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law
Speaker

Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law
Speaker

Session Fees
  • [6270] Law and Anthropology - Critical Inquiry for Critical Times: Anthropological Approaches to Legal Scholarship, Teaching, and Advocacy: $0.00