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Parallel Worlds: Shadow Law and Political Culture in Morocco

A lecture by Lawrence Rosen, Princeton University

Thursday, April 22, 2010
4:00 PM
352 Haines Hall
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA United States

Lawrence Rosen is both an anthropologist and a lawyer. His main interests are in the relation between cultural concepts and their implementation in social and legal relationships. His main fieldwork has been in North Africa; he has also worked as an attorney on a number of American Indian legal cases. His publications include Law as Culture: An Invitation, The American Indian and the Law (editor), Meaning and Order in Moroccan Society (co-author), Bargaining for Reality: The Construction of Social Relations in a Muslim Community, The Anthropology of Justice: Law as Culture in Muslim Society, and Other Intentions: Cultural Contexts and the Attribution of Inner States (editor). He teaches courses on law and anthropology, comparative religious systems, the American Indian and the law, and the theory of cultural systems. He received the Presidential Distinguished Teaching Award in 1997 and was a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar for 1997-98.

Cost: Free and Open to the Public

For more information please contact

Johanna Romero, Center for Near Eastern Studies
Tel: (310) 825-1455
cnes@international.ucla.edu
http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/