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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
A tribute to Lauren Edelman35
Sociology of law as the science of norms. By Håkan Hydén. London: Routledge, 2021. 338 pp. $170.00 hardcover28
LSR volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Front matter24
LSR volume 57 issue 1 Cover and Front matter24
Reflections on South Africa's first Black Chief Justice, Ismail Mahomed19
Habitual offender sentencing and legal diffusion in state supreme courts14
The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion Of Public Input. By Tony Cheng. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 202414
Sorting sexuality: Expertise and the politics of legal classification. By Stefan Vogler. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 280 pp. $30.00 paper13
Stability justice: Petitioners versus non-petitioners in China's criminal adjudication13
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Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand. By Tyrell Haberkorn. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 202410
LSR volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Back matter10
Undue process: Persecution and punishment in autocratic countries. By Fiona Feiang Shen-Bayh. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022.10
LSR volume 59 issue 4 Cover and Front matter10
Displacements: objects and relationality9
Beyond litigation: Policy work within cause lawyering organizations8
The collateral consequences of criminal legal association during jury selection8
“Maybe we should take the legal ways”: Citizen engagement with lower state courts in post-war northern Uganda8
The world in a court: how the International Court of Justice’s organizational practices promote stability in a contested field7
Putting the client to work: power dynamics in the family lawyer-client relationship7
Stability justice: Petitioners versus non-petitioners in China’s criminal adjudication – CORRIGENDUM7
Legal mobilization in a global context: the transnational practices and diffusion of rights-based climate litigation7
Bottom-up hybridity: how sexual violence plaintiffs’ attorneys blur the boundaries between civil and criminal law – ERRATUM7
How to train a student6
Citizen awakening? Exploring legal consciousness in a context of mass political mobilization6
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 hardcover6
Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage . By Lisa Vanhala. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025.6
LSR volume 57 issue 3 Cover and Front matter6
“The state is something that disappoints”: legal consciousness amid institutional dissatisfaction6
¿Cómo no tener que saber? Tecnicismos jurídicos y delitos flagrantes en Santiago, Chile5
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
Beyond doctrine: how “law and society” approaches transform historical analysis5
Recognizing “camera cues”: policing, cellphones and citizen countersurveillance5
Courts Unmasked: Civil Legal System Reform and COVID-19 . By Alyx Mark. University of Kansas Press, 2024.5
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, 5
LSR volume 60 issue 1 Cover and Front matter5
Outside the brackets: Why school administrators fail to see gendered harassment within an antibullying law5
Spectacles and spectres: A performative theory of political trials. By Basak Ertür. New York: Fordham University Press, 2022. 228 pp. $30.00 paperback4
Relational legal consciousness and anticorruption: Lava Jato, social media interactions, and the co-production of law's detraction in Brazil (2017–2019)4
Deconstructing racial code words4
Procedural justice for all? Legitimacy, just culture and legal anxiety in European civil aviation4
Building the disciplines with law and society4
Terrorism on Trial: Political Violence and Abolitionist Futures. By Nicole Nguyen Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2023.3
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
Public charge, legal estrangement, and renegotiating situational trust in the US healthcare safety net3
Pluralism and local law in extraterritorial spaces3
Consent and compliance: serviceable subjects in involuntary psychiatric commitment hearings in Paris and New York3
Shari'a, Inshallah: Finding god in Somali legal politics. By Mark F. Massoud Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 250 pp. $34.99 paperback3
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
The Price of Misfortune: Rights and Wrongs in Indebted America. By Daniel Platt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023.2
Calabresi’s invite: bridging Law & Society and Law & Economics through “situated valuation”2
Building law and society and sociology2
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
Neoliberalism in law and society2
The Reasonable Person: A Legal Biography. By Valentin Jeutner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2024.2
The law of the four poles: legal pluralism and resistance in climate adaptation2
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
Legal entrepreneurship and the evolution of multidimensional advocacy in social movements: the case of marriage equality1
An integrated model of prosecutor decision-making1
Privilege and punishment: How race and class matter in criminal court. By Matthew Clair. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 320 pp. $19.95 paperback1
Identity capitalists: The powerful insiders who exploit diversity to maintain inequality. By Nancy Leong. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2021. 240 pp. $28.00 paperback1
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
Asylum and extraction in the Republic of Nauru. By Julia Caroline Morris. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2023. 308 pp.1
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 hardcover1
LSR volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
From the editors1
Virtual searches: Regulating the covert world of technological policing. By Christopher Slobogin. New York: New York University Press, 2022. 272 pp. $30.00 hardcover1
LSR volume 57 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
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
Activists in international courts: Backlash, funding, and strategy in international legal mobilization1
LSR volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
Relational rights: a vision for law and society scholarship1
Legal cynicism, intrusive policing, and the dynamics of police legitimacy: evidence from Brazil’s largest city1
The sense of being undeserving and the legal consciousness of Chinese immigrants in Canada1
Discursive mismatch and globalization by stealth: The fight against corruption in the Brazilian legal field1
List of reviewers 2023/20241
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
Unlawful Advances: Sexual Harassment Law and the Transformation of Title IX . By Celene Reynolds. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025.1
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