Books

1. W.M. O'Barr with John M. Conley. Just Words: Language, Law and Power. University of Chicago Press, 1998. (In Press: Revised Edition of Just Words with two additional chapters)  [abs]
2. W.M. O'Barr. Linguistics Evidence: Language, Power, and Strategy in the Courtroom. Academic Press, 1995.
3. W.M. O'Barr. Culture and the Ad: Exploring Otherness in the World of Advertising. Westview Press, 1994.
4. W.M. O'Barr. Fortune and Folly: The Wealth and Power of Institutional Investing (also with Conley. The McGraw-Hill Companies, 1992.
5. W.M. O'Barr with John M. Conley. Rules versus Relationships: The Ethnography of Legal Discourse. University of Chicago Press, 1990.  [abs]
6.  Survey Research in Africa -- Its Applications and Limits. Edited by W.M. O'Barr, David H. Spain & Mark A. Tessler. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973. (Author of: Ch. 1: The History and Conduct of Survey Research in Africa. (Co-authored with Spain and Tessler) and Ch. 2: Genealogy- based Samples for African Research)

Published Articles

1. W.M. O'Barr. "Back to the Trobriands: The Enduring Influence of Malinowski's Crime and Custom in Savage Society." Law & Social Inquiry  vol. 27 no. 4 ( 2004.): 847-874.
2. W.M. O'Barr. "Culture and Causality: Non-Western Systems of Explanation." Law and Contemporary Problems  vol. 64 no. 4 ( 2004.): 317-323.
3. W.M. O'Barr. "The Practice of Planning: Interview of Stephen King.." Advertising & Society Review  vol. 4 no. 3 ( 2004.).
4. W.M. O'Barr. "When Cultures Collide: Social Security and the Market." Journal of Psychology and Financial Management  ( 2004.).
5. W.M. O'Barr. "Masculinity and Advertising: Interview of Michael Kimmel." Advertising & Society Review  vol. 4 no. 1 ( 2003.).
6. W.M. O'Barr. "When Cultures Collide: Social Security and the Market." Journal of Psychology and Financial Markets  ( 2000.).
7. W.M. O'Barr, John Conley. "Crime and Custom in Corporate Society: A Cultural Perspective on Corporate Misconduct.." 60 Law and Contemporary Problems  ( 1997.): 5-22. [available here]
8. W.M. O'Barr. "Combining Approahces: Some Reflections on Two Decades of Collaborative Research." POLAR  vol. 22 (May, 1000.).

Book Chapters

1. W.M. O'Barr. "Language, Law and Power." Handbook of Language and Social Psychology. Edited by Howard Giles and Peter Robinson. 2nd edition ( 2001.).
2. W.M. O'Barr. "Language and Patriarchy." Gender Mosaics: Social Perspectives. Edited by Dana Vannoy.  ( 2001.).

Preprints

1. W.M. O'Barr. "The Practice of Planning: Interview of Stephen King." Advertising & Society Review  vol. 4 no. 3 ( 2004.).

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