Rebecca R. French PROFESSOR PhD, Yale University LLM, Yale Law School JD, University of Washington Law School BA, University of Michigan
(716) 645-2159
rrfrench@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST PROPERTY LAW BUDDHISM AND LAW ANTHROPOLOGY OF LAW COMPARATIVE LAW
In the course of my
LAW AND RELIGION
investigation of the Tibetan legal system, I discovered a gaping hole in the substantial
ARTICLES
discipline of Religious Legal
The Role of Pilgramages,
Studies — the study of Buddhist
Travelogues and Scholarly Reports
legal systems. Incredibly,
in Buddhist Law, 5 Buddhism,
almost nothing has been
Law and Society vii (2020).
written on the legal systems that were influenced by
The Anthropology of Religion
Buddhism, one of the largest
and Law, 45(3) Religious
world religions with a 2,500
Studies Review 153 (2019).
year history and 500 million followers. My project for the
The Integrated Discipline of
last several years has been
Buddhism and Law, 4 Buddhism,
to write in this area, to edit
Law and Society vii (2019).
a journal called Buddhism, Law & Society available through Hein Publishing, and to organize conferences with international scholars to talk, think and write about this exciting new subject matter.”
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