The late June Starr was Professor of Law at Indiana University. She was the author of Dispute and Settlement in Rural Turkey: An Ethnography of Law and Law as Metaphor: From Islamic Courts to the Palace of Justice. Jane F. Collier is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Emerita, at Stanford University.

History and Power in the Study of Law will serve as a valuable touchstone for anthropologists and other scholars interested in the light that anthropological perspectives shed on our understanding of law.- Elizabeth Mertz (American Ethnologist)

The late June Starr was Professor of Law at Indiana University. She was the author of Dispute and Settlement in Rural Turkey: An Ethnography of Law and Law as Metaphor: From Islamic Courts to the Palace of Justice. Jane F. Collier is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Emerita, at Stanford University.

History and Power in the Study of Law will serve as a valuable touchstone for anthropologists and other scholars interested in the light that anthropological perspectives shed on our understanding of law.- Elizabeth Mertz (American Ethnologist)