Anne M. O. Griffiths
1953
Anne is a lawyer by training and did her PhD through the University of London (LSE) in 1988. Her thesis examined law and the family, providing an in-depth study of family disputes in a Kwena village in Botswana. Much of her research and published work subsequently has involved fieldwork in Botswana with a focus on land, gender, institutions and customary law. Her work during this time centred on the plurality of law and plural legal systems, and on the importance of engaging in empirical or ethnographic work in legal studies. In 2019 she published a book entitled Transformations on the ground:
