On October 14, Alabama Law hosted a Symposium on Constitutional Ethnography. The Symposium, organized by Professor Deepa Das Acevedo, brought together prominent anthropologists and scholars of law and law & society to discuss the potential benefits, challenges, and approaches to studying constitutional law from the perspective of persons and institutions affected by the law. The keynote address was given by Kim Lane Scheppele of Princeton University. Other panelists included professors from the University of Chicago, University of Virginia, University of California, Berkeley, University of Southern California, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill among many other notable institutions.
