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The rule of law faces mounting challenges in what may be the "twilight" of late liberalism. Authoritarian and populist leaders have captured constitutional and judicial orders, raising the stakes for rule of law norms already unsettled by rising lawfare. Both legal institutionalists and their critics have persistently struggled to make sense of law's destabilization. This workshop aims to develop an analytic approach to meet law's current critical moment. It draws together scholars trained across three continents to interrogate law as an object of inquiry and as a material and social phenomenon that inheres in but is not exhausted by its normative forms. We take inspiration from the pivotal Wenner-Gren Symposia in legal anthropology held in 1964 and 1966, convened by Laura Nader, and her call for sociolegal scholars to ask after the specific ways, in the details of everyday life, law matters figuratively, literally, critically.

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With contributions from: Christina Aushana, Andrea Ballestero, Leticia Barrera-López, Jonas Bens, Anya Bernstein, Lee Cabatingan, Marianne Constable, Susan B. Coutin, Eve Darian-Smith, Derick Fay, Bryant Garth, Rob Gelles, Ilana Gershon, Grigory Gorbun, Jessica Greenberg, Iza Hussin, Liora Israël, Greg Johnson, Jeffrey Kahn, Yukiko Koga, Jessica López-Espino, Bill Maurer, Elizabeth Mertz, Laura Nader, Vibhuti Ramachandran, Justin Richland, Riaz Tejani, Mariana Valverde, Anna Weichselbraun, Robert Werth, and Rihan Yeh 

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