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The War on Tenure
Deepa Das Acevedo is a legal anthropologist and associate professor of law at Emory University; her research examines employment regulation, the law and politics of India, and methodological and theoretical developments in the anthropology of law. She received her JD and her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. Some of her recent books include The War on Tenure (Cambridge, forthcoming 2025) and Beyond the Algorithm: Qualitative Insights for Gig Work Regulation (Cambridge, 2020), while her articles have appeared in Duke Law Journal, Southern California Law Review, and Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal, among others. Deepa is the editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, a past Trustee of the Law & Society Association, and an inaugural Research Impact Faculty Fellow at Emory University. Her research has been supported by external grants, including from the Fulbright Scholar program, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, and the American Philosophical Society.
Recent Publications:
The Judicial System of India (co-author Deepa Kinhal), Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2025)
The War on Tenure, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2025)
The Battle for Sabarimala: Religion, Law, and Gender in Contemporary India, Oxford University Press (2024)
“The Past as a Colonial Resource,” 73(7) Duke Law Journal 1373-1436 (2024)
“The War on Tenure” 91(1) Tennessee Law Journal 1-52 (2024)
“Tenure as a Labor Protection” 26(2) Employee Rights & Employment Policy Journal 109-143 (2023)
Beyond the Algorithm: Qualitative Insights for Gig Work Regulation, (Editor), Cambridge University Press (2021)
“Essentializing Labor Before, During, and After the Coronavirus Pandemic,” 52(4) Arizona State Law Journal 1091-1141 (2021)
Unbundling Freedom in the Sharing Economy,” 91(5) Southern California Law Review 793-838 (2018)