Introduction : the power of positionality / Mark Fathi Massoud -- Research as accompaniment : reflections on objectivity, ethics, and emotions / Leisy J. Abrego -- "Pretty and young" in places where people get killed in broad daylight / Sindiso Mnisi Weeks -- Out of place studying China's sex industry / Margaret L. Boittin -- Feeling at home outside : embracing out-of-placeness in the study of law and resistance / Lynette J. Chua -- Out of place in an Indian Court : notes on researching rape in a district court in Gujarat (1996-1998) / Pratiksha Baxi -- At odds with everything around me : vulnerability politics and its (out of) place in the socio-legal academy / Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen -- Trigueño international law : on (most of) the world being (always, somehow) out of place / Luis Eslava -- Becoming a familiar outsider : multi-sited and multi-temporal research in plural legal contexts / Keebet von Benda-Beckmann.

"This volume is a call to embrace the power of positionality, telling a new history of law and society through the experiences of successful scholars from populations that academia has historically marginalized. Experts record their positionalities across their research and document what they learned about the law in the process"--