Anthropology and Law MA

The MA in Anthropology and Law is a 30-credit MA degree program offered by the Department of Anthropology (21 credits) in conjunction with the Law School (9 credits) at the University at Buffalo. Anthropology is the degree-granting department. The program is designed to train scholars and practitioners working at the intersection of law and anthropology across the broad area of legal humanities. The program is geared toward all students who are interested in exploring the historical, theoretical, and ethnographic interconnections of anthropology and law. The program will be especially attractive to UB students graduating with a Legal Studies major, offered through UB’s Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Degree Programs; students graduating from UB, or elsewhere, with a BA in Anthropology; students who are interested in exploring the possibility of applying to a Ph.D. program and/or to a J.D. program; and, more broadly, students interested in pursuing careers that will enable them to apply the knowledge and skills acquired in the course of their MA study and research.