Call for Papers
We invite all scholars exploring the role of anthropology or allied social science
disciplines in shaping law and public policy to participate in a one-day conference at
Brandeis University. As our university community celebrates the centennial of the
nomination of our namesake as the U.S. Supreme Court’s first Jewish justice, we wish
to consider themes central to Brandeis’s legal and social ideals. In the spirit of the
“Brandeis brief” combining empirical research with ethically guided jurisprudence,
panels will consider the prospects for applying social scientific findings to the pursuit of
social justice via legal and non-governmental institutions. Proposals taking a broadly
defined approach to both “anthropology” and the “social good” are encouraged.
Please consider submitting an abstract of no more than 250 words to
anthlaw2016@brandeis.edu. Paper presentations should be approximately twenty
minutes in length, and submissions will be accepted until Thursday, March 31, 2016.
More information is available at www.brandeis.edu/departments/anthro/cfp.html. Feel
free to contact Doug Bafford, bafford@brandeis.edu, with any questions.
April 16, 2016
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA