Areas of Research/Interest

Anthropology of law; human rights; colonialism; transnationalism; gender and race; US, Pacific and Asia/Pacific region.

Publications

1981  Urban Danger: Life in a Neighborhood of Strangers. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.

1990  Getting Justice and Getting Even:  Legal Consciousness Among Working-Class Americans. Chicago, IL:
         University of Chicago Press. Chinese edition, Peking Univ. Press

1993  The Possibility of Popular Justice: A Case Study of American Community Mediation.  Co-edited with Neal Milner.
         Ann Arbor, MI: Univ. of Michigan Press.  

2000  Colonizing Hawai'i: The Cultural Power of Law.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
          Awarded the 2002 James Willard Hurst Prize in Legal History of the Law and Society Association.

2004  Law and Empire in the Pacific: Hawai'i and Fiji. Co-edited with Donald Brenneis.
         School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, NM

2006  Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice. Chicago:
         University of Chicago Press. India edition, Oxford Univ. Press Spanish edition.

2007  The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global and the Local.  Co-edited with Mark Goodale.
         Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2008  Gender Violence: A Cultural Introduction.  London: Blackwell.