In our third NLR podcast, Elizabeth Mertz interviews Sally Engle Merry, Silver Professor of Anthropology at NYU and former President of the Law & Society Association. In addition, she has served as President of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology and the American Ethnological Association, and as Co-Editor of PoLAR:  Political and Anthropology Review.  Winner of both the Kalven and the Hurst prizes from the Law & Society Association, she is a prolific scholar.  She  is also co-editor (with Heinz Klug) of The New Legal Realism, Vol. II: Studying Law Globally (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and has been part of NLR since the initial conference (see “New Legal Realism and the Ethnography of Transnational Law” in Law and Social Inquiry, 2006). In our last podcast, Heinz Klug introduced Volume II, which he co-edited with Professor Merry.  Building from the previous podcast, Merry describes her research on indicators, and explains why cautious translations are necessary when law turns to numbers for answers.

(Introduction, conclusion, and music by April Faith-Slaker)

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