Eve Darian-Smith is Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California. She practised corporate law in Australia and then went to the United States to do an MA (Harvard) and PhD (Chicago).
She is interested in the intersections and connections between law, politics and culture, particularly race and class discriminations, colonial and postcolonial implications and the shifting concepts of sovereignty in a global political economy. She has published widely, including Bridging Divides: The Channel Tunnel and English Legal Identity in the New Europe (which won the Law and Society Association Herbert Jacob Book Prize), Laws of the Postcolonial (with Peter Fitzpatrick), Ethnography and Law and Religion, Race, Rights: Landmarks in the History of Modern Anglo-American Law.
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