Rate My Professor Laura Nader

Nader's career is marked by influential publications that have shaped the fields of legal anthropology, science studies, and comparative cultural analysis. Key books include Contrarian Anthropology: The Unwritten Rules of Academia (Berghahn Books, 2018), What the Rest Think of the West: Since 600 AD (University of California Press, 2015), Culture and Dignity: Dialogues Between the Middle East and the West (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), The Energy Reader (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), Plunder: When the Rule of Law is Illegal (with Ugo Mattei, Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), Life of the Law: Anthropological Projects (University of California Press, 2002), Law in Culture and Society (University of California Press, 1997), Naked Science: Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries, Power, and Knowledge (Routledge, 1996), Harmony Ideology: Justice and Control in a Zapotec Mountain Village (Stanford University Press, 1991), and Energy Choices in a Democratic Society (1980). She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received the 1995 Kalven Prize from the Law and Society Association for distinguished research on law and society.