Pitt Law Professor Elena Baylis Chairs Innovative Workshop

Pitt Associate Professor of Law Elena Baylis organized and chaired the Socio-Legal Methods in International Law Workshop—an innovative workshop bringing anthropologists and legal scholars together to discuss how social science research methods can be used to enrich the study of international law.

Held September 4th and 5th at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, the workshop featured roundtable discussions with noted legal anthropologists, legal scholars and sociologists from across the country who shared information and ideas about the study of law within social science and cultural contexts. 

Sally Merry, legal anthropologist at New York University; University of Michigan anthropologist Rebecca Hardin; Paul Berman, Dean of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University; international law scholar Margaret McGuinness of the University of Missouri School of Law; and University of Pittsburgh legal anthropologist Robert Hayden were among the country’s leading scholars participating in the workshop.