Professor Tobias Kelly FBA

Political and legal anthropology, human rights, political violence, war and peace, cultures of evidence, law and society in Britain
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2023

Current post

University of Edinburgh Professor of Political and Legal Anthropology

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