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Brief Biographical Sketch
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| Marc Galanter, the John and Rylla Bosshard
Professor of Law and South Asian Studies at the University
of Wisconsin - Madison and LSE Centennial Professor
at the London School of Economics and Political Science,
studies litigation, lawyers, and legal culture. He
is the author of a number of highly regarded and seminal
studies of litigation and disputing in the United
States (including “Why the ‘Haves’
Come Out Ahead: Speculations on the Limits of Legal
Change,” one of the most-cited articles in the
legal literature. His work includes pioneering studies
on the impact of disputant capabilities in adjudication,
the relation of public legal institutions to informal
regulation, and patterns of litigation in the United
States. He is also co-author of Tournament of Lawyers
(with Thomas Palay, 1991) which is widely viewed as
the most robust explanation of the growth and transformation
of large law firms. |
| He is an outspoken critic of misrepresentations
of the American civil justice system and of the inadequate
knowledge base that makes the system so vulnerable
to misguided attacks. |
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Much of his early work was on India.
He is recognized as a leading American student of
the Indian legal system. He is the author of Competing
Equalities: Law and the Backward Classes in India
(1984, 1991) and Law and Society in Modern India (1989,
1992). He is an Honorary Professor of the National
Law School of India, served as advisor to the Ford
Foundation on legal services and human rights programs
in India, and was retained as an expert by the government
of India in the litigation arising from the Bhopal
disaster. He is currently engaged in research on access
to justice in India. |
A leading figure in
the empirical study of the legal system, he has
been editor of the Law & Society Review, President
of the Law and Society Association, Chair of the
International Commission on Folk Law and Legal Pluralism,
a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Fellow of the Center
for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He
is a member of the American Law Institute and a
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He received degrees in philosophy and law from the
University of Chicago. In addition to the University
of Wisconsin and the London School of Economics,
he has taught at Chicago, Buffalo, Columbia, and
Stanford. |
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