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Lee Cabatingan

UCI School of Social Ecology

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Lee Cabatingan

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.

 

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Lee Cabatingan

Criminology, Law and Society
School of Social Ecology
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
lcabatin@uci.edu

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