Event
Making human rights in the vernacular: Plural legalities and traveling rights in India, China and the USA
Wednesday, January 24, 2007 16:30
Chancellor Day Hall
3644 rue Peel, Montreal, QC, H3A 1W9, CA
Sally Engle Merry, Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas and professor of anthropology, Wellesley College; co-director, Peace and Justice Studies Program. One of the foremost scholars on legal pluralism, her work has been profoundly influential at 91丝瓜视频's Faculty of Law. Her recent book, Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice, explores how international human rights law is interpreted in China, India, Nigeria and Peru.