Teaching Resources

Below are syllabi that may be of interest to APLA members and anyone else teaching courses in political or legal anthropology.

 

Speaking Justice to Power ebooks

Speaking Justice to Power I
APLA / PoLAR Respond to the Trump Executive Order on Immigration
SJP I

Speaking Justice to Power II
Emergency for Turkish Democracy
APLA / PoLAR Respond to the Constitutional Referendum
SJP II

 

Syllabi

General Political/Legal Anthropology

• Contemporary Issues in Law and Society
  Professor Susan Coutin, Criminology, Law and Society/Anthropology, UC Irvine
• Ethnic and National Identity
  Professor Jean Jackson, Anthropology, MIT
• Legal Anthropology
  Professor John Comaroff, University of Chicago
• Ethnographic Writing,  Post-War Vietnam
  Professor Erik Harms, Yale University
• Anthropology of Human Rights
  Dr. Jennifer Curtis, University of Edinburgh

Trials

• Feminism, Courts and Law
  Dr. Srimati Basu, University of Kentucky
• Trials of the Holocaust
  Professor Frank Tuerkheimer, University of Wisconsin Law School
• Also, for related articles, check out the Directions Section of Volume 31:2 (2008) of PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review.

Anthropology of Crime

• Anthropology of Crime
  Professor Ellen Moodie, Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Criminal Justice: Cross-Cultural Studies
  Dr. Stephanie Kane, University of Indiana, Bloomington
• The Twenty-First Century, Law and Disorder
  Professors Jean and John Comaroff, University of Chicago
• Law and Order in Latin America
  Dr. Ieva Jusionyte, University of Florida

Middle Eastern and Islamic Law

• Law in Middle East Societies
  Professor George E. Bisharat, Hastings College of Law
• Islamic Law
  Professor George E. Bisharat, Hastings College of Law
• Women’s Rights and Politics in Muslim Societies
  Professor Arzoo Osanloo, University of Washington

Indigeneity in the United States

• Conditions of Indigeneity
  Dr. Jessica Cattelino, Anthropology, UCLA
• The Ethnohistory of Native Americans Since 1851
  Dr. William Bauer, History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas