Speaker Series: Elizabeth Mertz
We all know each other’s projects and publications. The more intriguing story is surely the elusive big picture. In this series, we invite colleagues who have arrived at a certain career stage to take us through the “arc” of their scholarship: how they began; new opportunities, directions, obstacles, and impasses; how the pieces fit together (or don’t); why they asked certain questions and not others; what puzzles have hounded them; and so on. We are confident that such self-reflection will be illuminating for all of us.
To register, contact Sophie Kofman at skofman@abfn.org.
Dr. Elizabeth Mertz (she/her) is a Research Professor at the ABF and the John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law Emerita at University of Wisconsin—Madison. She is a leading legal anthropologist and pioneer in the study of legal language in the United States, with a special focus on law school education. Mertz’s research has also played a major role in developing interdisciplinary approaches to the empirical study of law within the field of New Legal Realism.