Law & Society Review

Papers
(The TQCC of Law & Society Review is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
A tribute to Lauren Edelman38
Sociology of law as the science of norms. By Håkan Hydén. London: Routledge, 2021. 338 pp. $170.00 hardcover28
LSR volume 57 issue 1 Cover and Front matter26
LSR volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Front matter24
Reflections on South Africa's first Black Chief Justice, Ismail Mahomed19
The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion Of Public Input. By Tony Cheng. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 202416
Sorting sexuality: Expertise and the politics of legal classification. By Stefan Vogler. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 280 pp. $30.00 paper14
Stability justice: Petitioners versus non-petitioners in China's criminal adjudication14
Habitual offender sentencing and legal diffusion in state supreme courts14
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Undue process: Persecution and punishment in autocratic countries. By Fiona Feiang Shen-Bayh. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022.11
LSR volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Back matter10
LSR volume 59 issue 4 Cover and Front matter10
Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand. By Tyrell Haberkorn. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 202410
Displacements: objects and relationality9
“Maybe we should take the legal ways”: Citizen engagement with lower state courts in post-war northern Uganda8
Legal mobilization in a global context: the transnational practices and diffusion of rights-based climate litigation8
Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage . By Lisa Vanhala. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025.8
Putting the client to work: power dynamics in the family lawyer-client relationship8
The world in a court: how the International Court of Justice’s organizational practices promote stability in a contested field8
The collateral consequences of criminal legal association during jury selection7
“The state is something that disappoints”: legal consciousness amid institutional dissatisfaction7
Bottom-up hybridity: how sexual violence plaintiffs’ attorneys blur the boundaries between civil and criminal law – ERRATUM7
Beyond litigation: Policy work within cause lawyering organizations7
Citizen awakening? Exploring legal consciousness in a context of mass political mobilization7
Stability justice: Petitioners versus non-petitioners in China’s criminal adjudication – CORRIGENDUM7
How to train a student7
Cuando las piedras sangran: la dualidad racial de la deuda predatoria por multas6
Recognizing “camera cues”: policing, cellphones and citizen countersurveillance6
LSR volume 57 issue 3 Cover and Front matter6
LSR volume 60 issue 1 Cover and Front matter6
¿Cómo no tener que saber? Tecnicismos jurídicos y delitos flagrantes en Santiago, Chile6
Beyond doctrine: how “law and society” approaches transform historical analysis6
Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico. By Mónica A. Jiménez. Chapel Hill: University of North Caroline Press, 2024. Paperback, ISBN 978-1-032-62881-3; Hardcover, 6
The ex post facto clause: its history and role in a punitive society. By Wayne A. Logan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 312 pp. $39.95 hardcover5
Relational legal consciousness and anticorruption: Lava Jato, social media interactions, and the co-production of law's detraction in Brazil (2017–2019)5
Teaching fear: How we learn to fear crime and why it matters. By Nicole E. Rader. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2023. 203 pp. $32.95 paperback5
Courts Unmasked: Civil Legal System Reform and COVID-19 . By Alyx Mark. University of Kansas Press, 2024.5
Spectacles and spectres: A performative theory of political trials. By Basak Ertür. New York: Fordham University Press, 2022. 228 pp. $30.00 paperback4
Building the disciplines with law and society4
Symbolic ambivalence: how platform companies navigate contested law4
Deconstructing racial code words4
Procedural justice for all? Legitimacy, just culture and legal anxiety in European civil aviation4
Outside the brackets: Why school administrators fail to see gendered harassment within an antibullying law4
Shari'a, Inshallah: Finding god in Somali legal politics. By Mark F. Massoud Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 250 pp. $34.99 paperback3
Justice in Lyon: Klaus Barbie and France's first trial for crimes against humanity. By Richard J. Golsan. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. 330 pp. $39.95 paperback3
Pluralism and local law in extraterritorial spaces3
Public charge, legal estrangement, and renegotiating situational trust in the US healthcare safety net3
Consent and compliance: serviceable subjects in involuntary psychiatric commitment hearings in Paris and New York3
Terrorism on Trial: Political Violence and Abolitionist Futures. By Nicole Nguyen Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2023.3
LSR volume 57 issue 2 Cover and Front matter2
Speaking for the dying: Life-and-death decisions in intensive care. By Susan Shapiro. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 368 pp. $32.00 paperback2
What makes an international institution work for labor activists? Shaping international law through strategic litigation2
Citizenship in the shadow of law: identifying the origins, effects, and operation of legal ambiguity in Jordan2
Identity capitalists: The powerful insiders who exploit diversity to maintain inequality. By Nancy Leong. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2021. 240 pp. $28.00 paperback2
Contending Orders: Legal Pluralism and the Rule of Law. By Geoffrey Swenson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. pp. xiv + 273. ISBN 978-0-19-753042-92
Calabresi’s invite: bridging Law & Society and Law & Economics through “situated valuation”2
Neoliberalism in law and society2
Surviving solitary: Living and working in restricted housing units. By Danielle S. Rudes, with Shannon Magnuson and Angela Hattery. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. 2022. 252 pp. $26 p2
Engage and evade: How Latino immigrant families manage surveillance in everyday life. By Asad L. Asad. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. 344 pp. $33.00 hardcover2
The law of the four poles: legal pluralism and resistance in climate adaptation2
The Reasonable Person: A Legal Biography. By Valentin Jeutner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2024.2
Building law and society and sociology2
The Price of Misfortune: Rights and Wrongs in Indebted America. By Daniel Platt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023.2
The Briny South: Displacement and sentiment in the Indian Ocean World. By Nienke Boer. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023. Paperback, 978-1-4780-1955-81
How Autocrats Abuse Power: Resistance to Trump and Trumpism. By Richard L. Abel. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2024. Paperback, ISBN 978-1-032-62881-31
Against progress: Intellectual property and fundamental values in the internet age. By Jessica Silbey. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. 448 pages, $90.00 hardcover/$30.00 paperback.1
Legal cynicism, intrusive policing, and the dynamics of police legitimacy: evidence from Brazil’s largest city1
Discipline and field: some thoughts on the relationship between political science and law and society1
How parole boards judge remorse: Relational legal consciousness and the reproduction of carceral logic1
From the editors1
LSR volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
The sense of being undeserving and the legal consciousness of Chinese immigrants in Canada1
Activists in international courts: Backlash, funding, and strategy in international legal mobilization1
List of reviewers 2023/20241
LSR volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
An integrated model of prosecutor decision-making1
Virtual searches: Regulating the covert world of technological policing. By Christopher Slobogin. New York: New York University Press, 2022. 272 pp. $30.00 hardcover1
Privilege and punishment: How race and class matter in criminal court. By Matthew Clair. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 320 pp. $19.95 paperback1
LSR volume 59 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
Unlawful Advances: Sexual Harassment Law and the Transformation of Title IX . By Celene Reynolds. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025.1
Discursive mismatch and globalization by stealth: The fight against corruption in the Brazilian legal field1
Legal entrepreneurship and the evolution of multidimensional advocacy in social movements: the case of marriage equality1
Turning medical problems into legal problems: social media, legal consciousness, and transforming guilt into blame1
The myth of the community fix: Inequality and the politics of youth punishment. By Sarah D. Cate. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 268 pp. $99.00 hardcover1
Sara Dezalay. Lawyering Imperial Encounters: Negotiating Africa’s Relationship with the World Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. ISBN 978-1-009-49336-9. Hardcover. $130.00.1
Relational rights: a vision for law and society scholarship1
Asylum and extraction in the Republic of Nauru. By Julia Caroline Morris. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2023. 308 pp.1
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