Journal of Law and Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Law and Society is 0. 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.)
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Reimagining the Judiciary: Women's Representation on High Courts Worldwide By Maria C.Escobar‐Lemmon, Valerie J.Hoekstra, Alice J.Kang, and Miki CaulKittilson, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 65
Key book in my education: Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit22
Jurisprudence and Socio‐Legal Studies: Intersecting Fields By RogerCotterrell, London: Routledge, 2024, 252 pp., £37.9917
Indigeneity, caste, tribe and the limitations of decolonial thought in South Asian socio‐legal studies: The need for a decolonial–debrahmanical approach13
The Journal of Law and Society at 50/The Centre of Law and Society at 10: An introduction to the series of academic events at Cardiff University in the 2023/24 academic year12
When less is less: the complexities of growth and the degrowth company11
Legal pluralism, decolonisation and socio‐legal studies11
Mock juries, real trials: how to solve (some) problems with jury science11
‘Would any of them have suffered from a guilty conscience if they had won?’: Rudolf Wiethölter and post‐Second World War German law19
States of Exception: Human Rights, Biopolitics, Utopia By CostasDouzinas, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023, 272 pp., £90.008
Law at the Movies: Turning Legal Doctrine into Art By StanleyFish, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, 224 pp., £25.008
Trauma‐informed lawyering in the context of civil claims for sexual violence7
Invisible labour: legal dimensions of invisibilization7
Legal Pluralism Explained: History, Theory, Consequences, BRIAN Z.TAMANAHA, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, 208 pp., £19.997
Labour/data justice: a new framework for labour/regulatory datafication6
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Vehicles for justice: buses and advancement5
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Solid in shape, shattered in practice? The ‘sentencing pyramid’ in China5
The local injustice of bankruptcy: geographical variation in access to debt relief in England5
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Permeating the boundaries: A call for critical socio‐legal scholarship5
Law, ‘presentist’ agendas, and the making of ‘official’ memory after collective violence4
The economic constitution and the political constitution: seeking the common good in the post‐national setting4
The gravest inefficiency of plea bargaining and the consequences for rehabilitation and reintegration4
‘On a knife's edge’: medical, police, and legal responses to self‐harming protesters4
The Political Economy of Emergency: Postcolonialism, Crisis Governance and Decolonial Alternatives4
Segregation and researcher's positionality: Challenges of conducting policy ethnography in Southern polarized settings4
Where are the numbers? Challenging the barriers to quantitative socio‐legal scholarship in the United Kingdom4
From agnosis to accidental activism: Infinite regress and the Post Office Scandal4
A Sociology of Post‐Imperial Constitutions: Suppressed Civil War and Colonized Citizens By ChrisThornhill, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, 450 pp., £135.004
‘Human rights cities’ in Africa? Rights as resources for urban governance in the Global South4
Raising relational legal consciousness through co‐production research? Making law more accessible3
Socio‐legal studies at the heart of jurisprudence3
The Journal of Law and Society in context: a bibliometric analysis3
The emotional labour of judges in jury trials3
Hegemony as promises: rationalizing restrictiveness and the legal consciousness of asylum seekers in Belgium3
Epistemic struggles in legislating animal welfare in Finland: competing constructions of the public interest3
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Social Citizenship in an Age of Welfare Regionalism: The State of the Social Union By MarkSimpson, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 198 pp., £76.502
Subjectivity Transformed: The Cultural Foundation of Liberty in ModernityBy ThomasVesting, translated by NeilSolomon, London: Wiley, 2023, 288 pp., £18.992
Decolonising (and) legal pluralism2
A duty to protect? Legal consciousness among military officers in armed conflict2
Loss and damage, plastic pollution, and the effectiveness of international environmental law2
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Intellectual and Cultural Property: Between Market and Community. FionaMacmillan. London: Routledge, 2021, 232 pp., £36.992
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Speaking up: why people dare to sue the government in China2
Reflections on the journal's visual turn2
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Integrated Offender Management and the Policing of Prolific Offenders By FrederickCram, London: Routledge, 2023, 224 pp., £31.992
The Abortion Act 1967: A Biography of a UK Law By SallySheldon, GayleDavis, JaneO'Neill, and ClareParker, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 360 pp., £25.992
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‘Only connect’? The role of emotion in the practice of social welfare law advice and casework2
Sociology of labour law and the economy2
The object(s) of legality2
New meanings for an old debate2
Law, Vulnerability, and the Responsive State: Beyond Equality and Liberty Edited by Martha AlbertsonFineman and LauraSpitz, London: Routledge, 2024, 290 pp., £34.951
Unchartered territory? Navigating voice, accountability, and prevention in suicide‐related domestic homicide reviews in England and Wales1
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AI as legal persons: past, patterns, and prospects1
Redefining consent: rape law reform, reasonable belief, and communicative responsibility1
Doing Sociolegal Research in Design Mode, AMANDAPERRY‐KESSARIS, London: Routledge, 2021, 154 pp., £44.991
Division of labour in social movements: the interplay between legal mobilization and public protest in Swedish mining resistance1
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Surveillance Law, Data Retention and Human Rights: A Risk to Democracy By MatthewWhite, London: Routledge, 2024, 392 pp., £150.001
A planetary guide to lawyer funambulism?Lawyers in 21st‐Century Societies, Volume 1: National Reports, EDITED BY RICHARD L.ABEL, OLEHAMMERSLEV, HILARYSOMMERLAD, ULRIKESCHULTZ, Oxford: Hart, 2021
The ‘new voyeurism’: criminalizing the creation of ‘deepfake porn’1
A socio‐legal quest: from jurisprudence to sociology of law and back again1
Human–algorithm hybrids as (quasi‐)organizations? On the accountability of digital collective actors1
Law, economy and society: Reflections on the politics of regulation1
‘Wrong’ cases and ‘wrong’ plaintiffs: intergenerational relationships and legal consciousness in China1
The Journal of Law and Society in context: A bibliometric analysis1
The counter‐reparative impacts of South Africa's reparations gap: victims as reparations ‘experts’ and the role of victims’ organizations1
Cloistered justice: The opposing trends of barricade and respective secrecy1
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Care on the move: the gender care gap and intra‐EU mobility1
Transnational constitutionalism – conflicts‐law constitutionalism – economic constitutionalism: the exemplary case of the European Union1
Law in the fullness of timeThe EU and Constitutional Time: The Significance of Time in Constitutional Change By MassimoFichera, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023, 180 pp., £80.001
Not What the Bus Promised: Health Governance after Brexit By Tamara K.Hervey, IvankaAntova, Mark L.Flear, and MatthewWood, Oxford: Hart, 2023, 280 pp., £85.001
Webs within the web: the role of epistemic injustice in creating barriers to public legal information about rights in a digital age1
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What does gender equality need? Revisiting the formal and informal in feminist legal politics1
Global legal change from below and above1
The inefficiency of plea bargaining1
Synthesize this: integrating innovation governance and EU regulation of synthetic biology1
Legalizing transphobia: from courtroom to legislature, how gender‐critical activism is hurting us all0
The making of neoliberal legality: the legal imagination of business elites and the ‘social constitutionalization’ of ‘free enterprise’ in Latin America0
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We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks, ILHAMTOHTI / TRANSLATED BY YAXUE CAO / CINDY CARTER / MATTHEW ROBERTSON, London: Verso, 2022, 174 pp., £14.990
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Mobilizing anti‐discrimination law: the litigation strategies of UK and French trade unions compared0
The possible forms of professionalism: credibility and the performance of queer sexualities among barristers in England and Wales0
Situating legal consciousness and legal compliance: how Dutch welfare clients think and act in relation to the law0
A bloody mess? UK regulation of menopause discrimination and the need for reform0
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‘There is just nothing to hold on to in this case’: legal technicalities and the use of psychological reports in Chilean domestic violence procedures0
The housing crisis goes to law0
Access to Justice for Vulnerable and Energy‐Poor Consumers: Just Energy?NAOMICREUTZFELDT, CHRISGILL, MARINECORNELIS, AND RACHELMCPHERSON, Oxford: Hart, 2021, 336 pp., £85.000
What can contract law learn from #MeToo?0
Environmental protest, contention, and the law: conceptualizing the Public Order Act 20230
Disruptive accountability? Temporal regimes and social change in decolonization struggles in Belgium0
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Gender Recognition and the Law: Troubling Transgender People's Engagement with Legal Regulation By FloraRenz, London: Routledge, 2024, 176 pp., £135.000
Profitable insecurities: trade mark law, misleading advertising, and body image perceptions in the United Kingdom0
Changing interpretations: freedom of association in Germany and the United Kingdom0
The Sinophone lawyer: China's cross‐border impact on the legal profession0
Resolving labour disputes in the Philippines: legitimacy and effectiveness in a polycentric regulatory framework0
Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire By YaelBerda, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 280 pp., £75.000
Law and childbirth in Ireland after the 8th Amendment: notes on women's legal consciousness0
Theory in socio‐legal studies: Revisiting the Cotterrell–Nelken debate0
The dynamic and iterative pre‐dispute phase: the transformation from a justiciable problem into a legal dispute0
Pornography, Rough Sex and Gendered Harm: Just Sex on Screen? By SamanthaKeene, London: Routledge, 2025, 204 pp., £145.000
Property in Contemporary Capitalism By PaddyIreland, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024, 310 pp., £19.990
EcoLaw: Legality, Life, and the Normativity of Nature By MargaretDavies, London: Routledge, 2022, 138 pp., £48.990
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Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law By SharonThompson, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 280 pp., £85.000
Law and Film: Critical Reflections on a Field in Motion Edited by VittoriaBecci, AlexiaKatsiginis, and EdwardvanDaalen, London: Routledge, 2025, 202 pp., £135.000
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Judicial relational legal consciousness: authoritarian backsliding as a catalyst of change0
The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market CaptureEmiliosChristodoulidisCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 608 pp., £34.990
Legal mobilization and anti‐fluoridation campaigning in post‐war Britain0
The centres and margins of transnational law: potential developments and methodological challenges0
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The price of positionality: assessing the benefits and burdens of self‐identification in research methods0
Broken bonds: how COVID‐19 border restrictions transformed experiences and conceptualizations of citizenship0
Plurinational democracies in Europe: the quest for a profane constitutionalism0
Constitutionalism, populism, and the imaginary of the authentic polity: a socio‐legal analysis of European public spheres and constitutional demoicratization0
Socio‐legal studies and criminal justice: Reflections on ‘participation’0
The crafty power of text: methods for a sociology of legislative drafting0
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Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law OpinionsEdited by BennettCapers, SarahDeer, and CoreyRayburn Yung, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 306 pp., £39.990
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Critique of comparative law: to compierreNegative Comparative Law: A Strong Programme for Weak Thought By PierreLegrand, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 352 pp., £95.000
Law as a technology of exclusion: the legal construction of racialized and gendered work relations through the case study of international labour law in the first half of the twentieth century0
It could be my son! ‘Himpathy’ and the male fear defence in rape trials0
Justifying and practising effective participation in the Court of Protection: an empirical study*0
Democracy and emergency: finding the constitutional foundation of the knowledgeable state in social dynamics0
Response to Flora Renz, ‘Gender (de)certification and the home: A new focus for feminist legal scholarship?’0
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Lawyers as infrastructures: mediations, blockages, and new possibilities in grassroots movements0
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‘F**k this game … I'm off’: financial and emotional factors in declining legal representation in miscarriage of justice cases0
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Green Transitional Justice By RachelKillean and LaurenDempster, London: Routledge, 2025, 304 pp., £31.990
What does the showing of voluntary participation by the defendant do for criminal justice professionals?0
‘No, buddy, I will not speak to the press – I am working!’: criminal justice and the interprofessional dynamics of communication production in the Chilean Public Prosecutorial Office0
Applied Legal Pluralism: Processes, Driving Forces and Effects By GhislainOtis, JeanLeClair, and SophieThériault, London: Routledge, 2022, 284 pp., £130.000
The governance of global supply chains: empirical insights from the ready‐made garment industry in Bangladesh a decade after Rana Plaza0
Dysfunctional governance: Crisis, scandal, tragedy, emergency0
Trust at the border: identifying risk and assessing credibility on reality television0
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Placing Property: A Legal Geography of Property Rights in Land By AmandaByer, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 88 pp., £24.990
Shortcuts and detours of environmental collective legal mobilizations: the cases of the Atrato River and the Amazon region in Colombia0
Local authority intervention in private renting: from compliance to hardline enforcement0
The managed participation of the criminal accused0
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Epistemic othering: the interplay of knowledges in legislative drafting0
The hidden histories of the Pinochet case0
Brexit, Union, and Disunion: The Evolution of British Constitutional Unsettlement By SionaidhDouglas‐Scott, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 534 pp., £31.990
Shari'a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics By Mark FathiMassoud, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 368 pp., £84.990
From shame to guilt: negotiating moral and legal responsibility within apologies for historical institutional abuse0
Who needs the law? Multiple consciousness as critique0
Introduction: Political constitutions in transnational society: introducing socio‐legal and interdisciplinary perspectives0
Exploring computational approaches to law: the evolution of judicial language in the Anglo‐Welsh poor law, 1691–18340
Perceptions of procedural fairness and space for personal narrative: an experimental study of form design0
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A radical not an incrementalist1Online Courts and the Future of Justice, RICHARDSUSSKIND, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 368 pp., £19.990
Intermediaries in the criminal justice system and the ‘neutrality paradox’0
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Infrastructure: New Trajectories in Law By MarianaValverde, London: Routledge, 2022, 124 pp., £48.990
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Coercion and justification: a global public reason perspective on Security Council reform0
Prosecutors and anti‐intellectualism as a trial tactic: the cultural roots of scepticism towards expertise in capital cases0
Worlds we have lost? Hope and disappointment in the history of English criminal justice.The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales, Volume I: The ‘Liberal Hour’, PAULROCK, Lo0
The Social Constitution: Embedding Social Rights By Whitney K.Taylor, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 254 pp., £95.000
Faces of hunger: an intersectional approach to children's right to food in the United Kingdom0
Law and conspiracy theory: sovereign citizens, freemen on the land, and pseudolaw0
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Lawyers and the Rule of Law By AndrewBoon, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 576 pp., £90.000
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Managing time: speeding up and slowing down in the immigration bail court0
Contractual Relations: A Contribution to the Critique of the Classical Law of Contract By DavidCampbell, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 464 pp., £95.000
Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives By EmilyJones, London: Routledge, 2023, 216 pp., £35.990
The paradox of human rights and three forms for its unfolding0
Epistemic emotions in prosecutorial decision making0
Gender (de)certification and the home: A new focus for feminist legal scholarship?0
Cryptocurrencies and the Regulatory Challenge, ALLAN C.HUTCHINSON, London: Routledge, 2021, 156 pp., £120.000
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Socratic Voices: Dialogues on Law, Time, and Reconciliation By BertvanRoermund, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023, 166 pp., £75.000
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Governmental influence over rights consciousness: public perceptions of the COVID‐19 lockdown0
Political constitutionalism in Europe revisited0
Trump and democracy in the United States: on law and authoritarianismHow Autocrats Seek Power: Resistance to Trump and Trumpism By Richard L.Abel, London: Routledge, 2024, 320 pp., £36.99How0
Lawyers in Conflict and Transition By KieranMcEvoy, LouiseMallinder, and AnnaBryson, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 440 pp., £85.000
Litigants in Person and the Family Justice System By JessicaMant, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 256 pp., £42.990
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Raising a claim for (animal) justice: The end(s) of socio‐legal and critical legal studies0
Algorithm‐facilitated discrimination: a socio‐legal study of the use by employers of artificial intelligence hiring systems0
Out of time? Going back to the Cotterrell–Nelken debate0
(Dis)passionate law stories: the emotional processes of encoding narratives in court0
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Tradition and reinvention: the making and unmaking of herbal medicines in the UK0
Digging into legal archaeology: a methodology for case study research0
Philanthropy and environmental law0
The ‘legal’ in socio‐legal history: Woods and Pirie v. Cumming Gordon0
A response on the ‘old’ and ‘bold’ operation of gender at home0
Penality in the Underground: The IRA's Pursuit of Informers By RonDudai, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 240 pp., £80.000
Giving rap a chance: the cultural policing and consequences of the suppression of rap music in England in the twenty‐first century0
Trade union legal mobilization and consciousness0
Democratic representation and non‐majoritarian actors in constitutional orders: a systemic analysis0
Prefiguring truth: The limits of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry0
What is (the) matter with climate litigation? Law, nature, and the limits of legal technique0
The Bodyguards of Lies: Lawyers’ Power and Professional Responsibility By ChristopherWhelan, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 364 pp., £85.000
Theory, praxis and politics in law and society research: Reflections on the Cotterrell–Nelken debate0
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Harm behind the counter: ‘regulatory labour’ and the offloading of risk onto front‐line employees in the post‐Gambling Act era0
Biotechnology, Gestation, and the Law By Elizabeth ChloeRomanis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025, 240 pp., £100.000
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(Dis)obeying the law: corporate tax morale in developing countries0
Agency and vulnerability in the field of immigration law: a linguistic‐ethnographic perspective on lawyer–client interaction0
Five angry men: advocating for and mobilizing EU gender equality law to advance men's rights0
Profilicity and online safety legislation0
Future‐Proofing the Judiciary: Preparing for Demographic Change By BrianOpeskin, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 328 pp., £109.990
Law, language, and the power of ‘invisible threats’ of violence against women0
Conflict and Transformation: Essays on European Law and Policy By ChristianJoerges, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 624 pp., £49.990
The Public Understanding of Law: The University and Public Engagement By PeterSmith, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025, 242 pp., £95.000
Regulating for trustworthy autonomous systems: exploring stakeholder perspectives on answerability0
Reimagining the Court of Protection: Access to Justice in Mental Capacity Law By JaimeLindsey, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 216 pp., £85.000
Paper chains: tied visas, migration policies, and legal coercion0
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Victim blaming as collateral damage: professionals on court hearings in cases of rape, assault, and fraud0
‘The rules are all over the place’: Mass Observation, time, and law in the COVID‐19 pandemic0
When law and data collide: the methodological challenge of conducting mixed methods research in law0
Polanyi on crisis: The United States, fascism and ecological break‐down0
The unheard ‘scandal’: Covid‐19 vaccine‐injured people's perceptions of the national redress scheme and trust in the government in the United Kingdom0
Achieving compliance in the use of force: the production and maintenance of an imminent threat in an aerial targeting operation0
Racial Justice and the Limits of Law By BharatMalkani, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024, 182 pp., £19.990
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Environmental public hearings and intersectionality: women's voices from Gujarat, India0
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