Mateo Taussig-Rubbo
Associate Professor
B.A., University of Chicago, 1994
M.Phil., Cambridge University, 1998
J.D., Yale University, 2001
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2007
University at Buffalo Law School
The State University of New York
616 O'Brian
Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
Phone:(716) 645-5992
Faculty Assistant:
Mary Voglmayr, 622 O'Brian Hall, Phone: (716) 645-5984
Biography:
Mateo Taussig-Rubbo earned his J.D. at Yale Law School; practiced in the area of cross-border transactions at a New York City firm; and clerked for a U.S. District Court judge in the Southern District of New York. He is also an anthropologist, and completed the dissertation for his doctoral degree at the University of Chicago, where he also did his undergraduate work. Taussig-Rubbo focuses on such anthropological concepts as gift, sacrifice and consecration, as they apply to modern political and legal situations.
Taussig-Rubbo teaches contracts, legal anthropology and a seminar on sovereignty.
Selected Publications:
Outsourcing Sacrifice: the Labor of Private Military Contractors, Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, vol. 21, No. 1: 103-168 (2009) [SSRN]
Sacrifice and Sovereignty, in J. Culbert and A. Sarat, eds., States of Violence: War, Capital Punishment, and Letting Die, New York: Cambridge University Press (2009) [PDF]
Propiedad sagrada: buscando valor en los escombros del 11-S, in P. Bergallo, ed., Derecho Y Propiedad, Buenos Aires: Libraria Ediciones, 51-68 (2009)
