Remembering Sally Engle Merry

Abstract

This article reviews the scholarship and legacy of Sally Engle Merry who died on 8th September, 2020. If focuses on a number of research fields and themes that are central to her work and collaborative engagement with other scholars, primarily across the disciplines of anthropology, law, sociology and socio-legal studies. These research domains include neighbourhood justice and mediation, law and colonialism, human rights and transnational governance, gender violence, the quantification of knowledge globally, and the relationship between law, society and power.

Keywords

• sally engle merry
• anthropology of law
• interdisciplinary collaboration
• ethnography
• human rights and gender violence
• quantitative knowledge