Differentiating Diversity: Local Law on the Street

Mariana Valverde will give a public talk: Local law in "the most diverse city in the world".

In this talk, Dr. Valverde will examine the ways diversity informs multiple legal and quasi-legal mechanisms for the establishment of citizenship, including official citizenship. 

Dr. Valverde is s the director and a professor of the Centre of Criminology, at the University of Toronto, and does research mainly in the sociology of law. Among other books, she is author of  Everyday Law on the Street: City Governance in an Age of Diversity (University of Chicago Press, 2012), which won the 2013 Herbert Jacobs book award, and most recently, Chronotopes of Law: Scale, Jurisprudence and Legal Governance (London: Routledge, 2015).