Posted on Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Sally Engle Merry
Sally Engle Merry, Doctor of Laws, honoris causa
BA (Wellesley College), MA (Yale University), PhD (Brandeis University)
Faculty of Law, Friday, May 31, 10 a.m.
Sally Engle Merry is among the most distinguished law and society scholars in the world today and the leading legal anthropologist in the USA. With outstanding scholarship on human rights, colonialism, gender, race and class, local and popular justice, conflict resolution, and violence against women, Professor Merry has established herself as a towering figure in the Law and Society movement, drawing praise from scholars emerging from a plurality of disciplines, from law to sociology, ethnology, and anthropology.
A prolific writer, she is the author of eight monographs and close to 150 scholarly articles. Professor Merry?s most recent work Human Rights Monitoring and the Question of Indicators on the use of indicators in global governance addresses some of the most complex contemporary issues in the implementation of international human rights norms and serves to shape local and global governance through groundbreaking interdisciplinary studies.
Recognition of Professor Merry?s distinguished contributions to scholarly communities include the J.I. Staley Book Prize from the School of Advanced Research, the Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Award?for Outstanding Scholarship in Law and Society from the Law and Society Association, and being named a Chancellor?s Distinguished Fellow by the University of California, Irvine.
Sally Engle Merry is currently a professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Institute for Law and Society of New York University.
Sally Engle Merry, Doctorat en droit?honoris causa
BA (Coll?ge Wellesley), MA (Universit? Yale), PhD (Universit? Brandeis)
Facult? de droit, vendredi 31 mai 2013, ? 10 h
Sally Engle Merry est l?une des plus ?minentes sp?cialistes contemporaines des questions de droit et de soci?t? et figure parmi les plus grandes anthropologues juridiques des ?tats-Unis. Gr?ce ? ses travaux de recherche exceptionnels sur les droits humains, le colonialisme, la probl?matique hommes-femmes, les races et les classes sociales, la justice locale et populaire, la r?solution des conflits et la violence ? l??gard des femmes, la professeure Merry s?est hiss?e au rang des grandes figures du mouvement Droit et Soci?t? et a gagn? l?admiration des chercheurs de plusieurs disciplines, du droit ? la sociologie en passant par l?ethnologie et l?anthropologie.
Auteure prolifique, elle a sign? huit monographies et pr?s de 150 articles savants. Son tout dernier ouvrage Human Rights Monitoring and the Question of Indicators sur l?utilisation des indicateurs dans la gouvernance mondiale aborde les questions contemporaines tr?s complexes li?es ? la mise en ?uvre des normes relatives au droit international des droits de l?homme et sert de cadre de r?f?rence ? la d?finition des contours de la gouvernance locale et mondiale au travers d??tudes interdisciplinaires avant-gardistes.
Ses contributions savantes ont ?t? r?compens?es par de nombreux prix et distinctions dont le J.I.?Staley Book Prize de la School of Advanced Research, le Prix Harry J. Kalven, Jr. en droit et soci?t? de la Law and Society Association et elle a ?t? nomm?e chercheuse ?m?rite par le Chancelier de l?Universit? de Californie ? Irvine.
Sally Engle Merry est actuellement professeure au D?partement d?anthropologie et ? l?Institut Droit et Soci?t? de l?Universit? de New York.
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