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 LAW AND RELIGION

ARTICLES The Role of Pilgramages, Travelogues and Scholarly Reports in Buddhist Law, 5 Buddhism, Law and Society vii (2020).

The Anthropology of Religion and Law, 45(3) Religious Studies Review 153 (2019).

The Integrated Discipline of Buddhism and Law, 4 Buddhism, Law and Society vii (2019). In the course of my investigation of the Tibetan legal system, I discovered a gaping hole in the substantial discipline of Religious Legal Studies — the study of Buddhist legal systems. Incredibly, almost nothing has been written on the legal systems that were influenced by Buddhism, one of the largest world religions with a 2,500 year history and 500 million followers. My project for the last several years has been to write in this area, to edit 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.”