@mwyarbrough Nice. Not an academic—but a 4th focus could be the ways white supremacists usurped the idea of law to mean only European and Anglo-American law (as savages have only superstitions devoid of rationality, obviously. See: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0169796X19868317). There's interesting work happening in decolonial comparative law (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4014459), drawing on earlier work on #LegalPluralism (e.g. Merry: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3053638). Diala also opened possibilities with this: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3511914.

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I have a book forthcoming on Gender, Property and Politics in the Pacific (http://tinyurl.com/32vbx268), focusing on gendered land relations in Solomon Islands and the diverse ways in which people engage with the law to enact a variety of futures. Pic below of the village of Buleani in Marovo Lagoon.

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