Members: Anthropology of Law and Rights

Name: Gerhard Anders
Email: anders(AT)access.uzh.ch
Institutional Affiliation: Department of Social & Cultural Anthropology University of Zurich
Main fields of interest: Research areas: political anthropology, anthropology of the state, legal anthropology, development anthropology, sub-Sahara Africa

Name: Keebet von Benda-Beckmann
Email: kbenda(AT)eth.mpg.de
Institutional Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 06017 Halle/Saale
Main fields of interest: Legal pluralism, dispute management, property, social security, water rights, law and space, human rights, law and development, law and governance, decentralisation, transnational dimensions of law

Name: Franz von Benda-Beckmann
Email: fbenda(AT)eth.mpg.de
Institutional Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 06017 Halle/Saale
Main fields of interest: Legal pluralism, dispute management, property, social security, water rights, law and space, human rights, law and development, law and governance, decentralisation, transnational dimensions of law

Name: Judith Beyer
Email: beyer(AT)eth.mpg.de
Institutional Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology; Project Group Legal Pluralism
Main fields of interest: legal and political anthropology, legal pluralism, transnational religious networks, Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan), Indian Ocean (Myanmar/India)

Name: Susanne Brandtstädter
Email: Susanne.Brandtstadter(AT) sai.uio.no
Institutional Affiliation: Department of Anthropology, University of Oslo
Main fields of interest: China, justice, post-socialism, peasant rights, modernity

Name: Jane K. Cowan
Email: j.cowan(AT)sussex.ac.uk
Institutional Affiliation: University of Sussex
Main fields of interest: culture and rights, international institutions, supervision, language petitions, documentary processes

Name: Jadranka Djordjevic
Email: jacarade(AT)eunet.rs
Institutional Affiliation: Ethnographical Institute of SASA, Belgrade, Serbia anthropology of law,
Main fields of interest: customary law, civil law, area of inheritance, patriarchal cultural models.

Name: Heike Drotbohm
Email: Heike.drotbohm(AT)ethno.uni-freiburg.de
Institutional Affiliation: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Freiburg
Main fields of interest: International migration& forced return migration, kinship & law, transnational religions, West-Africa, Afro-Latin-America

Name: Wolfgang Gabbert
Email: w.gabbert(AT)ish.uni-hannover.de
Institutional Affiliation: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hanover Institute for Sociology Latin America, anthropology of violence, legal anthropology, ethnicity and nationalism, Christian missions

Name: Tobias Kelly
Email: toby.kelly(AT)ed.ac.uk
Institutional Affiliation: University of Edinburg
Main fields of interest: human rights, Middle East, UK, criminal justice, law and

Name: Rosa Parisi
Email: r.parisi(AT)mail.unifg.it
Institutional Affiliation: University of Foggia
Main fields of interest: Migration, state policies of social exclusion, in new form of family, transnational families, mixed families, biogenetics banks and assisted reproduction.

Name: Annika Rabo
Email: annika.rabo(AT)socant.su.se
Institutional Affiliation: Department of social anthropology, Stockholm University
Main fields of interest: family law, migration, transnationality, Middle East & Europe

Name: Aranzazu Recalde
Email: RecaldeUdeMontreal(AT)gmail.com
Institutional Affiliation: Département d'anthropologie, Université de Montréal
Main fields of interest: international migrations, migrants' rights, regional integration, Argentina, MERCOSUR

Name: Thomas Scheffer
Email: scheffer(AT)law-in-action.org
Institutional Affiliation: Humboldt University, Berlin
Main fields of interest: ethnography, political and legal anthropology, micro-sociology

Name: Reetta Toivanen
Email: reetta.toivanen(AT)helsinki.fi
Institutional Affiliation: Erik Castren Institute for International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki
Main fields of interest: legal anthropology, indigenous peoples, minorities, language and cultural rights, Roma people

Name: Olaf Zenker
Email: zenker(AT)anthro.unibe.ch
Institutional Affiliation: Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern
Main fields of interest: Statehood; the rule of law; modernity; conflict and identity formations (esp. ethnicity, nationalism and autochthony); linguistic anthropology; anthropological theory; South Africa; Northern Ireland, Germany