Lawrence Rosen is an American anthropologist and scholar of law.

Rosen earned his B.A. at Brandeis University

Brandeis University

Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...

 in 1964, his Ph.D. in Anthropology form the University of Chicago in 1968, and his J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1974. In 1981 he became one of the first generation of MacArthur Fellows

MacArthur Fellows Program

The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T...

. He is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

 and Adjunct Professor of Law at Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

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Books

• Law as Culture: An Invitation Princeton University Press, 2008
• Cambridge University Press, 1989The Anthropology of Justice: Law as Culture in Islamic Society, 1989
• Bargaining for Reality: The Construction of Social Relations in a Muslim Community, University of Chicago Press, 1984
• Varieties of Muslim Experience: Encounters with Arab Political and Cultural Life, University of Chicago Press, 2008
• The Justice of Islam: Comparative Perspectives on Islamic Law and Society, Oxford University Press, 2000
• Meaning and Order in Moroccan Society: Three Essays in Cultural Analysis, Cambridge University Press, 1979
• The Culture of Islam: Changing Aspects of Contemporary Muslim Life]], University of Chicago Press, 2004