Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Anthropology
Ph.D. University of Chicago
J.D. University of California, Hastings College of the Law
lcabatin@uci.edu
2303 Social Ecology II
Department:
Criminology, Law and Society
Specializations:
Anthropology of law and legal institutions; nation, state, and region formation; sovereignty; conceptualizations of property; socialism and late-socialism; postcolonial studies; Caribbean (esp. Cuba and the Anglophone Caribbean)
Representative Publications:
Forthcoming 2024: Communities of Practice and Ethnographic Fieldwork: Creating Supportive Research Experiences. Co-edited with Susan Coutin and Deyanira Nevárez Martinez. Routledge.
2023: A Region among States: Law and Non-sovereignty in the Caribbean. The University of Chicago Press.
2022: “Yes, [we bow,] but not a deep bow:” Qualia and the Thinkability of Caribbean Jurisprudence. Law, Culture, and the Humanities 18(2): 462-81.
2020: Law, Language, and a Nonsovereign Caribbean. American Anthropologist 122(4): 721-32.
2018: Fashioning the Legal Subject: Popular Justice and Courtroom Attire in the Caribbean. Political and Legal Anthropology Review 41(S1):69-84.
2016: Time and Transcendence: Narrating Higher Authority at the Caribbean Court of Justice. Law & Society Review 50(3): 674-702.
2009: Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law. Co-edited with Robert L. Nelson and James J. Heckman. Routledge.