Assistant 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; property and disaster recovery; socialism and late-socialism; postcolonial studies; Caribbean (esp. Cuba and the Anglophone Caribbean)
Representative Publications:
2018: Fashioning the Legal Subject: Popular Justice and Courtroom Attire in the Caribbean. Political and Legal Anthropology Review 41(S1):69-84.
2018: “Yes, [we bow,] but not a deep bow:” Qualia and the Thinkability of Caribbean Jurisprudence. Law, Culture, and the Humanities (Online First) https://doi.org/10.1177/1743872118788058
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.
Curriculum Vitae: Cabatingan CV 9.2018