Alison Dundes Renteln
Rate Professor Alison Dundes Renteln
The most knowledgeable, compassion and well researched legal/ academic scholars I have ever met. Both a trained academic professor and lawyer, Alison's intellectual interests focuses on cutting edge academic subjects of human and gender rights to which others dare not to explore. Her research is original, well-analyzed and reflects the true moral, ethical and legal belief that the rule of law, or accepted universal norms, jus cogens, are universally binding obligation not only upon sovern domestic actors, but international governing institutions as well. Her thinking and body of intellectual work reflects the very best among the world top scholars. LtCol Ken Graham, USMC ret.
About Alison
Academic Profile
Academic Background: B.A. from Radcliffe College, J.D. from USC Gould School of Law (1991), Ph.D. in Political Science from UC Berkeley.
Research Interests: International law, human rights, cultural rights, and the anthropology of law, with a focus on comparative legal systems and cultural defenses in court.
Appointments: Professor of Political Science, Anthropology, Public Policy, and Law at USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
Publications: Author of The Cultural Defense (Oxford University Press, 2004) and International Human Rights: Universalism Versus Relativism (Sage Publications, 1990).
Additional Contributions: Serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Legal Anthropology and has lectured internationally on cultural rights.