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Justice in Balance
Sustaining the Rule of Law | Los Angeles Review of Books
February 21, 2026
By Mark Ellis
‘Declarations’is a human rights podcast
December 30, 2026
In this episode, we explore the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) — often hailed as the “conscience of Europe” and one of the most successful human rights institutions in the world. But in an era of democratic backsliding, populist politics, and eroding faith in institutions, what does “justice” look like today?
Drawing on eight years of fieldwork with advocates, lawyers, and judges at the ECHR, Professor Jessica Greenberg’s Justice in the Balance examines how the Court functions both as a bureaucratic machine and as a moral ideal. Through her ethnographic lens, she reveals the tensions between law’s promise and its practice — between the aspiration of human rights and the limits of the institutions meant to protect them.
New book casts anthropologist’s eye on European Court of Human Rights
September 16, 2025
by Phil Ciciora
Workshops & Lectures
Populism and the Future of Transatlantic Relations: Challenges and Policy Options – ECPS
February 11, 2026
Riddervold, Marianne; Rosén, Guri & Greenberg, Jessica R. (2026). Populism and the Future of Transatlantic Relations: Challenges and Policy Options. European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS). January 20, 2026. https://doi.org/10.55271/rp00140
Curated by Daniel S. Hamilton, Johns Hopkins University SAIS
Finding Nomos: Revisiting Legal Anthropology’s Critical Empirical Grounds. A Workshop on How Law Matters
July 21, 2025
This workshop aims to develop an analytic approach to meet law’s current critical moment. It draws together scholars trained across three continents to interrogate law as an object of inquiry and as a material and social phenomenon that inheres in but is not exhausted by its normative forms.
Podcast Interview: After the Revolution
September 12, 2016
Hosted by Amanda Jeanne Swain
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