Baudouin Dupret is educated in Law, Islamic Sciences and Political Sciences. He spent many years as a CNRS researcher in Egypt, Syria, and Morocco. He has published extensively on sociology and anthropology of law, and on legislation and non-legal normativities in the Middle East and North Africa, including the co-authored Law at Work: Studies in Legal Ethnomethods (2015). Published in association with the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations (AKU-ISMC), with the support of the French Ministry of Culture.