Alison Dundes Renteln
University of Southern California
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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.