Anthropologists of law have long observed and written about the role of courts as key sites in which actors seek redress for grievances. As part of that broad endeavor, important emphases of scholarly research include studies of social actors and disputing practices across geographical settings, within formal and informal judicial venues, and on multiple scales (including the local, national, and transnational). This work has shown that what goes on in courts is far more complex than conflict resolution, and sometimes the result is something altogether different. Focusing on disputing processes, moreover, scholars explore the diverse roles played by the court's various actors: judges, lawyers, witnesses, and, of course, litigants. Ethnographies of courts, moreover, follow disputes outside purely judicial sites to explore how legal processes affect individuals' everyday lives and shape the social constructions of justice and reason, tracking, thus, the dynamism of the law in action.