Sally Engle Merry, Ph.D.
Recent work published elsewhere
A complete list of work by Sally Engle Merry is available here.
Books
2007 The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local. Co-edited with Mark Goodale. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2006 Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2007 Excerpted in Philip Alston, Ryan Goodman and Henry Steiner.
International Human Rights in Context: Law ,Politics, Morals. Oxford University
Press.
2008 Spanish language edition.
2004 Law and Empire in the Pacific: Hawai'i and Fiji. Co-edited with Donald Brenneis. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, NM
Articles
2008. “International Law and Sociolegal Scholarship: Toward a Spatial Global Legal Pluralism.” Special Issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol. 41: 149-168. “Law and Society Reconsidered.” Austin Sarat (ed.). JAI Press, Elsevier Limited.
2007. “Human Rights Law as a Path to International Justice: The Case of the Women’s Convention.” In Paths to International Justice :Social and Legal Perspectives. Marie-Benedict Dembour and Tobias Kelly, eds. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
2007. “Conflict Resolution vs. Human Rights.” Commentary in Anthropology News 48 (7): 16.
2007. “Global Regulation and Local Political Struggles: Early Marriage in Northern Nigeria” co-authored with Annie Bunting. Pp. 321-353 in Youth, Globalization, and the Law, edited by Sudhir Venkatesh and Ron Kassimir. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press.
2007. Report on Conference on Law and Governance, Max Planck in Halle. APLA Column, Anthropology News.
2006. “Fluditiy of Human Rights in Practice.” Anthropology News, May 2006, Vol. 47, No 5: 4-4.
2006. “New Legal Realism and the Ethnography of Transnational Law” Law and Social Inquiry 31 (4): 975-995.
2006. “Human Rights and Transnational Culture: Regulating Gender Violence through Global Law.” Osgoode Hall Law Journal. 44 (1): 53-77.
2006 “Anthropology and International Law.” Annual Review of Anthropology 35: 99-116.
2006. “Transnational Human Rights and Local Activism: Mapping the Middle” American Anthropologist 108 (1): 38-51.
2006 Abridged version reprinted in The World Bank Legal Review:
Law, Equity, and Development, Volume 2. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers,
Amsterdam.
2006. Review Essay: "Race, Inequality, and Colonialism in the New World Order." Law & Society Review Vol.40 , No.1.: 235-247.
2006. “Commentary on Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism, by Noenoe Silva.” The Contemporary Pacific 18:1: 159-163.
2005. “Anthropology and Activism: Researching Human Rights across Porous Boundaries.” Polar: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 28 (2): 240-258.
2005 "The Female Inheritance Movement in Hong Kong: Theorizing the Local/Global Interface." Co-authored with Rachel Stern. Current Anthropology 46 (3): 387-409.
2007. Reprinted in International Law and Society, Laura
Dickinson, ed. Ashgate International Library of Essays
in Law and Society, Ashgate, UK.
2007. Reprinted in The Anthropology of Globalization,
2nd edition. Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo, eds.
Blackwell Publishing.
2005. "Human Rights and Global Legal Pluralism: Reciprocity and Disjuncture" in Mobile People, Mobile Law: Expanding Legal Relations in a Contracting World. Pp. 215-233 in Franz von Benda Beckman, Keebet von Benda Beckman, Anne Griffiths, eds. Ashgate.
2004. Comment on Comments on Colonizing Hawai'i. Law and Society Review 38 (4): 861-866.
2004. "Regulation and Relations." Pp. 63-78 in Law and Society. Beijing: Renmin University Press. Published in Chinese.
2004. “Colonial and Postcolonial Law.” Pp. 569-588 in The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society, Austin Sarat, ed. London: Blackwell Publishing.
2004. "Law and Identity in an American Colony." Pp. 123 - 152 in Law and Empire in the Pacific co-edited with Donald Brenneis. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press.
2004. "Introduction" co-authored with Donald Brenneis. Pp. 3 - 34 in Law and Empire in the Pacific co-edited with Donald Brenneis. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press.
2003. "Human Rights Law and the Demonization of Culture (And Anthropology Along the Way)” Polar: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 26:1: 55-77.
2003. “Human Rights Law and the Demonization of Culture (And Anthropology Along the Way)” in Commentary, Anthropology News, Newsletter of the American Anthropological Association, 44 (2), Feb. 2003.
2005. Reprinted in Emily Schultz and Robert H. Lavenda.
Cultural Anthropology: A Perspective on the Human
Condition. Sixth ed. New York: Oxford University Press.
Pp. 30-31. and seventh edition, Anthropology: What
does it mean to be human?, 2007.
2005. Reprinted in Luis Vivanco et. al., Talking About
People 4/e. McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
2003 “Constructing a Global Law - Violence Against Women and the Human Rights System” Law and Social Inquiry 28:4: 941-979.
2005. Reprinted in The Globalization of Justice, edited
by Paul Schiff Berman. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing
Company.
2003. “From Law and Colonialism to Law and Globalization: A Review Essay on Martin Chanock, Law, Custom, and Social Order: The Colonial Experience in Malawi and Zambia.” Law and Social Inquiry 28:2: 269-290.
2003. “Hegemony and Culture in Historical Anthropology: A Review Essay on Jean and John L. Comaroff, From Revelation to Revolution, Vols. I. and II. American Historical Review. Volume 108, No. 2, April 2003: 460-70.
2003. “Christian Conversion and ‘Racial’ Labor Capacities: Constructing Racialized Identities in Hawai‘i.” Pp. 203-238 in Globalization Under Construction: Governmentality, Law, and Identity. Richard Warren Perry and Bill Maurer, eds. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press.
2003. “Rights Talk and the Experience of Law: Implementing Women’s Human Rights to Protection from Violence.” Human Rights Quarterly 25:2: 343-381.
2004. Reprinted in The Social Organization of Law: An
Introduction, edited by Austin Sarat. Los Angeles:
Roxbury Publishing Company. 2004.
2006. Reprinted in Women’s Rights: A Human Rights
Quarterly Reader, pp. 393-431. Johns Hopkins University
Press.
2003. “Kapi‘olani at the Brink: Dilemmas of Historical Ethnography in Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i.” American Ethnologist 30:1: 44-61.
Forthcoming
2008. “Introduction” to Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific. With Kathy E. Ferguson and Monique Mironesc. University of Hawai’i Press.
“Human Rights in the Imperial Heartland.” In Rethinking America: The Imperial Homeland in the 21st Century. Edited by Jeff Maskovsky and Ida Susser. Paradigm Press.
2008. "Internationales Recht" (International Law) Entry in Globalization Face to Face. Andre Gingrich, Eva Maria Knoll , and Fernand Kreff, eds. Suhrkamp: Germany. Published in German.
“Gender Violence” in The Encyclopedia of Human Rights. Oxford University Press. |
