Remembering Sally Engle Merry: Her scholarship and her legacy

Anne Griffiths

doi:10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1234

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Anne Griffiths Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh

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https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1234

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Sally Engle Merry, Anthropology of Law, interdisciplinary collaboration, ethnography, human rights and gender violence, quantitative knowledge

Abstract

This article reviews the scholarship and legacy of Sally Engle Merry who died on 8^th September, 2020. If focuses on a number of research fields and themes that are central to her work and collaborative engagement with other scholars, primarily across the disciplines of anthropology, law, sociology and socio-legal studies. These research domains include neighbourhood justice and mediation, law and colonialism, human rights and transnational governance, gender violence, the quantification of knowledge globally, and the relationship between law, society and power.

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Author Biography

Anne Griffiths, Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh

Anne Griffiths, Professor Emeritus, Anthropology of Law, School of Law, Edinburgh University and also Research affiliate at the International Research Centre on Work and the Human Lifecycle in Global history, Humboldt University, Berlin.

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