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Ishika Chatterjee

Ishika Chatterjee is a PhD candidate and Research Assistant at the Melbourne Law School’s Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness. Her research seeks to better understand how law both helps and hinders people living in borderland areas.

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Why Australia (and the world) needs more legal anthropologists

At a time of collective resistance to legal authority, when laws and governance systems around the globe are being questioned, challenged and renegotiated, the complicated, nuanced and embodied understanding that legal anthropologists offer about how power and social ordering works is more necessary and imperative than ever.

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Why Australia (and the world) needs more legal anthropologists
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