Invisible Institutionalisms

Swethaa S Ballakrishnen is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of California Irvine School of Law and affiliated faculty at the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession. Sara Dezalay is Senior Lecturer in International Law and International Relations at the Cardiff School of Law and Politics.

Invisible Institutionalisms … marks an exciting step in conceiving of the edited collection as a location for conversation, rethinking the purposes and aims of scholarship. It is also an invitation to its readers to unmoor themselves from their existing perspectives—to maintain openness and remain curious.

• COURSE 1Brulé and Sheikh1. G-local Women Power: Local Female Representation and Property Rights in India Rachel E Brulé, Boston University, USAArchive EnvyDanish Sheikh, University of Melbourne, AustraliaCOURSE 2Goyal, De Sa E Silva, and Williams2. Of Footwear Clusters, Community Ties, and Institutional Tenacity Yugank Goyal, OP Jindal Global University, IndiaThree Paise and a Rough Agenda on How to Make the Invisible Visible Fabio de Sa e Silva, University of Oklahoma, USASearching for Space: Creating Room in Global Studies Christopher Williams, University of Chicago, USACOURSE 3Khorakiwala and Roy3. The Law, the Visual and Access to Justice in the Colonial Courts of India Rahela Khorakiwala is a lawyer and researcherThe Visual Culture of Law in India: A Response Suryapratim Roy, Trinity College Dublin, IrelandCOURSE 4Basheer, Weissenbach, and Naudet4. Formalising Informal Innovation: Engendering an Epistemic Injustice?Shamnad Basheer was an Indian legal scholarSoliciting Testimony: The Challenge of Openness in the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition Amy Weissenbach, Columbia University, USAAre Informal Resilience and Formal Emancipation Necessarily Incompatible? Jules Naudet, Centre d'Études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (EHESS), Paris, FranceCOURSE 5Khan, Prasad, and Kroll5. Islamic Review in Pakistan: Problematising the Divide between Shari’a Courts and their ‘Secular’ Counterparts Maryam S Khan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USANavigating Categories – Training, Positionality and PracticeGitanjali Prasad, iProbonoThe Judicial, the Secular and Beyond: Multi-normative Practices of Pakistani Constitutional Courts Stefan Kroll, Leibniz Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, GermanyCOURSE 6Palacios Lleras and Natarajan6. Competition Law in Latin America: 100 Years of Solitude Andrés Palacios Lleras is a Colombian lawyerMirrors, Mirages, and the Development Myth Usha Natarajan, The American University in Cairo, EgyptREFRACTION NOTESA. Opportunism and Reflexivity: Researchers Playing Double Agents to Study the Double Game of National Legal Elites in International Competition Bryant Garth, University of California, Irvine, USA, and Yves Dezalay, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, FranceB. Reflections on the Value, Risks, and Obligations of a Career as a Misfit Kate Bedford is an interdisciplinary scholarC. Genealogy of a Globalised Socio-Legal (and Feminist) Scholar Carrie Menkel-Meadow, University of California, Irvine, USAD. Learning to be a Legal Anthropologist Eve Darian Smith, University of California, Irvine, USAE. Living in the Contradiction: Globalisation and its Discontents David M Trubek, Harvard University, USAF. Commuting between Academy and Social Movements: Reflections of an Insurgent Feminist Kalpana Kannabiran, , Council for Social Development, Hyderabad, an ICSSR instituteG. Ballakrishnen and Dezalay’s Feast: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner on the Island of Misfit Toys David B Wilkins, Harvard University, USAConclusion: Reading Between the Lines Sara Dezalay, Cardiff University, UK, and Swethaa S Ballakrishnen, University of California, Irvine, USA