Introduction to Special Section

CORTH has enabled stimulating and open discussion amongst all its members to create interdisciplinary academic and policy fora and collaboration on sexual and reproductive rights, health and human reproduction.The idea of the special section developed through several conversations and a previous workshop that we had on how anthropology and law could collaborate specifically on surrogacy and on how combined strategies could be developed to influence current legislation and policy beyond the lens of criminalization. 2 As an area that inherently requires interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary liaison, surrogacy has posed challenges to the law,