Pro-Proctor to the Senior Proctor

Fernanda Pirie is an anthropologist, who studies legal practices and texts from around the world. She has carried out ethnographic fieldwork at both ends of the Tibetan plateau and is currently conducting historical work on Tibetan legal texts, as Principal Investigator of a  Leverhulme Trust project, Tibetan Law developing a historical account of a unique legal system. Her recent book, The Rule of Laws: a 4,000-year quest to order the world, is a global history of law, which traces the rise and fall of the world’s major legal systems. Fernanda is Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and a fellow of St Cross College.