Kamari Clarke

Role: Cross-appointed Professor

https://www.crimsl.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/kamari-maxine-clarke

Distinguished Professor, Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies and the Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies

2021 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for career excellence
2019 Royal Anthropological Institute’s Amaury Talbot Book Prize
2019 finalist for the Elliot Skinner Book Award for Affective Justice (Duke, 2019)

For more than twenty years, Kamari Maxine Clarke has conducted research on issues related to legal institutions, human rights and international law, religious nationalism and the politics of race and globalization. She has spent her career exploring theoretical questions concerning culture and power and detailing the relationship between new social formations and contemporary problems. One of her key academic contributions has been to demonstrate ethnographically the ways that legal and religious knowledge regimes produce practices that travel globally. In addition to her scholarly work, she has served as a technical advisor to the African Union (AU) legal counsel and produced policy reports to help the AU navigate various international law and United Nations challenges. Clarke has published nine books (three monographs and six edited volumes) with over 50 peer-refereed journal articles and book chapters. She is the author of Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback (2019, Duke), Fictions of Justice (Cambridge, 2010) and Mapping Yorùbá Networks (Duke, 2004).

Areas of Interest

Critical Legal Theory
International Law
Law and Globalization
Law and Religion

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