Anne Griffiths

Background

Anne was born on December 30, 1953, in the United Kingdom.

Education

Anne studied at Edinburgh University and received her Bachelor of Laws in 1978. She also finished the University of London with a Ph.D. in 1988.

Career

Griffiths was admitted as a solicitor to the Law Society of Scotland in 1980. Then for two years she worked at the Department of Scots Law as a lecturer, a senior lecturer from 1992. She also was a research fellow at E.S.R.C. in Botswana. In 1985 she began to work as a visiting scholar at Wolfson College in Oxford, England and a visiting associate professor of law at Cornell University in Ithaca. Anne M. O. Griffiths held a position of the research scholar at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago during 1990-91. As a human sciences research fellow, she worked at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa in 1992. Later she was a visiting professor of law at the University of Texas at Austin. She also was a Board member of the International Commission on Folk Law and Legal Pluralism from 1983.

Her current research focus is on access to and control over land in southern Africa and how this plays out in the global domain, as well as on reducing poverty through potting as a means to security, enhancing women’s livelihoods in Botswana. It is enhanced by teaching co-teaching the module on the Anthropology and Sociology of Law and Development and the fieldwork skills module on the newly established European Doctorate in Law and Development (EDOLAD, 2015) which represents a new Ph.D. programme that involves a consortium of universities including Edinburgh (Scotland), Tilburg (Netherlands), Oslo (Norway), Duesto (Spain), Tartu (Estonia) and Northwest University (South Africa).

She also co-edited with A. Hellum and S.S. Ali From Transnational Relations to Transnational Law: Northern European Laws at the Crossroads. With J. Fotheringham she worked over Family Law (Scotland).

Achievements

• Anne Griffiths' major publications include ''In the Shadow of Marriage: Gender and Justice in an African Community'' and ''Development of Tests of Cognitive Functioning for Use with an Adult, Illiterate, Rural Zambian Population.'' Her work highlights the importance of law in an interdisciplinary context that has an impact on transnational issues, such as human rights. It contributes to debates on globalization and access to justice, that seek to reappraise the relationship between international, regional, national and local arenas, and the effects of plural legal orders both within and across these domains.

Works

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  • From Transnational Relations to Transnational Laws

    (This book approaches law as a process embedded in transna...)

  • In the Shadow of Marriage: Gender and Justice in an African Community

    (Anne Griffiths originally went to Botswana to establish a...)

    1997

Membership

Anne is a member of European Association of Social Anthropologists, French Society of Legal Anthropologists, Royal African Society.

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  European Association of Social Anthropologists

Connections

colleague:

Anne Hellum

colleague:

J. Fotheringham

colleague:

Shaheen Sardar Ali

References

• Contemporary Authors, Vol. 181