Daniela Berti is a social anthropologist and research fellow at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, and a member of the Centre for Himalayan Studies (CEH), Villejuif. She is co-editor of The Cultural Entrenchment of Hindutva: Local Mediations and Forms of Resistance (2011) (with N. Jaoul and P. Kanungo), Of Doubt and Proof: Ritual and Legal Practices of Judgment (2015) (with A. Good and G. Tarabout), and Regimes of Legalities: Ethnography of Criminal Cases in South Asia (2015) (with D. Bordia). She has recently started a project on the courts’ management of environmental and animal protection.