Making human rights in the vernacular: Plural legalities and traveling rights in India, China and the USA

Sally Engle Merry, Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas and professor of anthropology, Wellesley College; co-director, Peace and Justice Studies Program. One of the foremost scholars on legal pluralism, her work has been profoundly influential at McGill's Faculty of Law. Her recent book, Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice, explores how international human rights law is interpreted in China, India, Nigeria and Peru.