Sally Falk Moore is a legal anthropologist and Professor Emerita at Harvard University

Harvard University

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. She did her major fieldwork in Tanzania

Tanzania

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 and has published extensively on cross-cultural, comparative legal theory.

Moore was trained as a lawyer at Columbia Law school and, after working on Wall Street, became a staff attorney at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg

Nuremberg

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 during the investigatin of Nazi war criminals. http://www.law.harvard.edu/conferences/nuremberg_legacies/falkmoorebio.php She then returned to the US and received her PhD in anthropology from Columbia University

Columbia University

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 in 1957. She was chair of the anthropology section of the joint Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

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 (1963–1977, 1969–1972) and a professor at University of California at Los Angeles (1977–1981) and Yale University

Yale University

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 (1975–1976) before she joining the Harvard University

Harvard University

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 faculty in 1981. She was Dean of the Graduate School

Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

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 at Harvard from 1985-1989. In 2010 she was appointed Affiliated Professor of International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School

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Major publications

• Power and Property in Inca Peru. Morningside Heights, New York: Columbia University Press, 1958.
• Symbol and Politics in Communal Ideology: Cases and Questions. With Barbara G. Myerhoff, Cornell University Press, 1975. ISBN 0-8014-9157-6
• The Chagga and Meru of Tanzania (Ethnographic survey of Africa : East Central Africa). International African Institute, 1977. ISBN 0-85302-051-5
• Law As Process: An Anthropological Approach London ; Boston: Routledge & K. Paul, 1978. ISBN 0-7100-8758-6, second edition 2000.
• Social Facts and Fabrications : "Customary" Law on Kilimanjaro, 1880-1980 (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures). Cambridge University Press, 1986. ISBN 0-521-31201-9
• Anthropology and Africa: Changing Perspectives on a Changing Scene. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1994. ISBN 0-8139-1505-8
• "Certainties Undone:Fifty Turbulent Years of Legal Anthropology, 1949-1999," Huxley Memorial Lecture, Journal of the Roayl Anthropological Institute, Vol.7, No. 1, March 2001.
• Law and Anthropology: A Reader, (edited), Blackwell, 2004. ISBN 1-4051-0228-4
• Moralizing States and the Ethnography of the Present. American Anthropological Association, 1993. ISBN 0-913167-60-6
• Introduction to The Silicon Empire: Law, Culture And Commerce.by Michael B. Likosky. Ashgate Publishing 2005. ISBN 0-7546-2457-9

Some Awards

Ansley Prize, Columbia University 1957
Mogan Lectures, University of Rochester, 1981
Barnard College, Medal of Distiinction 1987

• Guggenheim, 1995–1996
• Huxley Memorial Medalist and Lecturer for 1999, by the Royal Anthropological Institute in London. She was only the second woman so honored. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/11.11/moore.html
• Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Prize, 2005 http://www.lawandsociety.org/prizes/kalven_prize.htm
• Elected a member of the American Philosophical Society
  American Philosophical Society
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  in 2005