Deepa Das Acevedo is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law.  In addition to being a legal anthropologist, she is a Trustee of the Law & Society Association (Class of 2024), an Associate Editor for the Law & Society Review, a Contributing Editor to the Work Law section of JOTWELL, and a member of the advisory board for Law & Social Inquiry. Professor Acevedo’s research blends ethnographic fieldwork and anthropological theory with doctrinal and policy analysis to provide new insights about legal rules and institutions.  In addition to her work on the law and politics in India, Professor Acevedo studies employment regulation in the gig economy, and is exploring methodological and theoretical developments in the anthropology of law.  Professor Acevedo is currently working on a monograph, The Battle for Sabarimala, about the dispute over gender equality and religious freedom involving the Sabarimala temple in Kerala, India.  Her edited volume, Beyond the Algorithm: Qualitative Insights for Gig Work Regulation, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.  In this podcast, Professor Acevedo discusses her recent research, the challenges of being an interdisciplinary scholar, and how her research fits within the New Legal Realism movement.

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