LU: Master Class on Ethnography of International and Human Rights Courts

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This workshop is part of the Law & Empirics lab@Leiden meetings. In this Master Class, Professor Jessica Greenberg unpacks ethnographic methodologies drawn from her recently published book, Justice in the Balance: Democracy, Rule of Law and the European Court of Human Rights (Stanford University Press, 2025). Through her fieldwork at the ECHR and Council of Europe, she explores how empirical legal scholars can reimagine their approach to studying legal and political institutions by drawing on anthropological lenses.

LEVEL: Basic

METHOD: Qualitative

ABOUT THE LECTURER: Jessica Greenberg is an associate professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  Prior to coming toUIUC, Greenberg was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, and an assistant professor in Communication Studies at Northwestern University. She recently earned a Master of Studies in Law at the College of Law, University of Illinois. She is also currently the Co-Editor of the Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR).

PREREQUISITES: No prior knowledge required.

REGISTRATION: More information and the form to register can be found here.

ELS Academy’s No-Show Policy:
Please note that the workshops are given by experts in the field who do this on a voluntary basis. Places are often limited and we have people on the waiting list. For this reason, the ELS Academy has a strict no-show policy. In case you are prevented from attending the workshop, kindly send an email to contact@elsacademy.nl at least 48 hours before the workshop to make space for people on the waiting list.

If you do not attend the workshop without prior cancellation, your supervisor will be informed about your no-show and you will not be able to register for another ELS Academy event for the next two months. This is also very unfortunate for us, however, it can be prevented if we receive a simple cancellation via e-mail.

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