Darryl Li is associate professor of anthropology and associate member of the Law School at the University of Chicago. He is an anthropologist and legal scholar thinking mostly about questions of war, law, migration, empire, and racialization in the currents between the Middle East, South Asia, and the Balkans. He is the author of "The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity" (Stanford University Press, 2020) and has participated in litigation arising from the War on Terror as party counsel, amicus, or expert witness in Alien Tort, material support, denaturalization, immigration detention, asylum, and Guantánamo (habeas and military commissions) proceedings. He is a member of the bar in New York and Illinois and volunteers as an intake attorney for abolitionist bail funds in the Chicago area. He has also worked for Human Rights Watch, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights in Gaza, and B'Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.
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