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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
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From Car Wash to Bolsonaro: Law and Lawyers in Brazil's Illiberal Turn (2014–2018)17
Tax Fraud and Selective Law Enforcement17
Making the State Responsible: Intersex Embodiment, Medical Jurisdiction, and State Responsibility12
The provenance of what is proven: exploring (mock) jury deliberation in Scottish rape trials12
Continuities of exploitation: seasonal migrant workers in German agriculture during the COVID‐19 pandemic11
The price of positionality: assessing the benefits and burdens of self‐identification in research methods10
The ‘Fight against Corruption’ in Brazil from the 2000s: A Political Crusade through Judicial Activism9
Remote rituals in virtual courts8
Labour Constitutions and Occupational Communities: Social Norms and Legal Norms at Work8
Seeking campus justice: challenging the ‘criminal justice drift’ in United Kingdom university responses to student sexual violence and misconduct7
Ultimate Legality: Reading the Community of Law6
Law, technology, and data‐driven security: infra‐legalities as method assemblage6
Gender diversity on Malaysian corporate boards: a law and social movements perspective6
Finding a way to live with the past: ‘self‐repair’, ‘informal repair’, and reparations in transitional justice6
Participation in a time of climate crisis6
Naming, blaming, claiming: an interview with Bill Felstiner, Rick Abel, and Austin Sarat5
Transnational Jihadism and the Role of Criminal Judges: An Ethnography of French Courts5
The Remarkable Rise of ‘Law and Historical Memory’ in Europe: Theorizing Trends and Prospects in the Recent Literature5
‘Paedophile Hunters’, Criminal Procedure, and Fundamental Human Rights5
What does gender equality need? Revisiting the formal and informal in feminist legal politics4
Caught in an Authoritarian Trap of Its Own Making? Brazil's ‘Lava Jato’ Anti‐Corruption Investigation and the Politics of Prosecutorial Overreach4
Feminist judging in lower courts3
Jurist in Context: William Twining in Conversation with David Sugarman3
The dynamic and iterative pre‐dispute phase: the transformation from a justiciable problem into a legal dispute3
Legal mobilization without resources? How civil society organizations generate and share alternative resources in vulnerable communities3
Independent separate legal representation for rape complainants in adversarial systems: lessons from Northern Ireland3
Socio‐Legal Studies in 20203
Law, ‘presentist’ agendas, and the making of ‘official’ memory after collective violence3
The politics of the production of knowledge on trauma: the Grenfell Tower Inquiry3
When law and data collide: the methodological challenge of conducting mixed methods research in law3
From contestation to conviction: terrorism expertise before the courts3
Capabilities, capacity, and consent: sexual intimacy in the Court of Protection3
Partition by Degrees: Routine Exceptions in Border and Immigration Practice between the UK and Ireland, 1921–19723
Beyond Social Constructionism? Cicourel and the Search for Ecological Validity2
Disability Law as an Academic Discipline: Towards Cohesion and Mainstreaming?2
Paper chains: tied visas, migration policies, and legal coercion2
‘What about the poor people's rights?’ The dismantling of social citizenship through access to justice and welfare reform policy2
Gendering the Legal Complex: Women in Sri Lanka's Legal Profession2
‘Left Pessimists’ in ‘Rose Coloured Glasses’? Reflections on the Political Economy of Socio‐Legal Studies and (Legal) Academic Well‐Being2
Labour is labour: what surrogates can learn from the Sex Work Is Work movement2
Faces of hunger: an intersectional approach to children's right to food in the United Kingdom2
Home: A Vehicle for Resistance? Exploring Emancipatory Entanglements of ‘Vehicle Dwelling’ in a Changing Policy Context2
Introduction: Wars on Law, Wars through Law? Law and Lawyers in Times of Crisis2
Governing canal life2
Participation as a Framework for Analysing Consumers’ Experiences of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)2
From shame to guilt: negotiating moral and legal responsibility within apologies for historical institutional abuse2
The crafty power of text: methods for a sociology of legislative drafting2
A reflection on 30 years of complementary collaboration1
‘Wrong’ cases and ‘wrong’ plaintiffs: intergenerational relationships and legal consciousness in China1
Epistemic emotions in prosecutorial decision making1
Selecting a lawyer: the practical arrangement of police station legal assistance1
Economic Crises, Crisis of Labour Law? Lessons from Weimar1
Journeying the everyday of civic space: movement as method in socio‐legal studies1
‘F**k this game … I'm off’: financial and emotional factors in declining legal representation in miscarriage of justice cases1
Neoliberalism, family law, and the devaluation of care1
‘Victims not wrongdoers’: the legal consciousness of rejected asylum seekers in Norway1
Invisible labour: legal dimensions of invisibilization1
Redefining consent: rape law reform, reasonable belief, and communicative responsibility1
Justifying and practising effective participation in the Court of Protection: an empirical study*1
Mobilizing anti‐discrimination law: the litigation strategies of UK and French trade unions compared1
It's about time: investigating the temporal in socio‐legal studies through unstructured interviews1
Values in the Supreme Court: Decisions, Division and Diversity by RachelCahill‐O'Callaghan (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020, 232 pp., £54.00)1
The Changing Position of Legal Academics in the United Kingdom: Professionalization or Proletarianization?1
A tale of many jurisdictions: how universal jurisdiction is creating a transnational judicial space1
Where are the numbers? Challenging the barriers to quantitative socio‐legal scholarship in the United Kingdom1
What can contract law learn from #MeToo?1
Administrative Justice in Wales1
Intermediaries in the criminal justice system and the ‘neutrality paradox’1
Vehicles for justice: buses and advancement1
Indications of goal displacement induced by budget cuts and output management: a case study of a regulatory enforcement agency in the Netherlands1
Human–algorithm hybrids as (quasi‐)organizations? On the accountability of digital collective actors1
Tradition and reinvention: the making and unmaking of herbal medicines in the UK1
Arbitration vis‐à‐vis other professions: a sociology of professions account of international commercial arbitrators1
Guilty pleas in children: legitimacy, vulnerability, and the need for increased protection1
Judicial Procedural Involvement (JPI): A Metric for Judges’ Role in Civil Litigation, Settlement, and Access to Justice1
Legislating for a Pandemic: Exposing the Stateless State1
Navigating internet‐mediated ethnography for socio‐legal researchers1
Synthesize this: integrating innovation governance and EU regulation of synthetic biology1
Gendered ‘Objective’ Patent Law: Of Binaries and a Singularity1
The centres and margins of transnational law: potential developments and methodological challenges1
Global legal change from below and above1
Law against the Rule of Law: Assaulting Democracy1
Speaking up: why people dare to sue the government in China1
Belonging beyond the binary: from Byzantine eunuchs and Indian hijras to gender‐fluid and non‐binary identities1
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Doing diversity in the legal profession in England and Wales: why do disabled people continue to be unexpected?0
The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market CaptureEmiliosChristodoulidisCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 608 pp., £34.990
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Agency and vulnerability in the field of immigration law: a linguistic‐ethnographic perspective on lawyer–client interaction0
Law, language, and the power of ‘invisible threats’ of violence against women0
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Litigants in Person and the Family Justice System By JessicaMant, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 256 pp., £42.990
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The Many Beginnings of Philip Aneurin Thomas0
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, 2020
Political constitutionalism in Europe revisited0
A socio‐legal quest: from jurisprudence to sociology of law and back again0
Coercion and justification: a global public reason perspective on Security Council reform0
The Journal of Law and Society in context: a bibliometric analysis0
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Intellectual and Cultural Property: Between Market and Community. FionaMacmillan. London: Routledge, 2021, 232 pp., £36.990
‘Executive robbery’: UK public law, race, and ‘regimes of dispossession’ in the Chagos Archipelago0
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(Dis)passionate law stories: the emotional processes of encoding narratives in court0
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The People in Question: Citizens and Constitutions in Uncertain Times by JOSHAW (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2020, 336 pp., £75.00)0
Becoming a feminist methodologist while researching sexual violence support services0
‘Human rights cities’ in Africa? Rights as resources for urban governance in the Global South0
Child welfare, Indigenous parents, and judicial mediation0
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Environmental Groups and Legal Expertise: Shaping the Brexit Process, CAROLYNABBOT AND MARIALEE, London: UCL Press, 2021, 226 pp., open access0
Doing Sociolegal Research in Design Mode, AMANDAPERRY‐KESSARIS, London: Routledge, 2021, 154 pp., £44.990
Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law OpinionsEdited by BennettCapers, SarahDeer, and CoreyRayburn Yung, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 306 pp., £39.990
Lawyers as infrastructures: mediations, blockages, and new possibilities in grassroots movements0
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Reimagining the Court of Protection: Access to Justice in Mental Capacity Law By JaimeLindsey, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 216 pp., £85.000
The Limits and Promise of Instrumental Legal Analysis0
Doing research with intellectually disabled participants: reflections on the challenges of capacity and consent in socio‐legal research0
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A bloody mess? UK regulation of menopause discrimination and the need for reform0
Law and the construction of Jewish difference0
The ‘legal’ in socio‐legal history: Woods and Pirie v. Cumming Gordon0
Lawyers in Conflict and Transition By KieranMcEvoy, LouiseMallinder, and AnnaBryson, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 440 pp., £85.000
Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood, MICHELEGOODWIN, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, 326 pp., £22.990
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Justice and Profit in Health Care Law: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and the United Kingdom by SABRINAGERMAIN (Oxford: Hart, 2019, 202 pp., £50.00)0
Critical Theory and Legal Autopoeisis: The Case for Societal Constitutionalism by GuntherTeubner, edited by DianaGöbel (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019, 408 pp., £85.00)0
The possible forms of professionalism: credibility and the performance of queer sexualities among barristers in England and Wales0
Infrastructure: New Trajectories in Law By MarianaValverde, London: Routledge, 2022, 124 pp., £48.990
‘We can't help you – it doesn't concern us’: the legal consciousness of young people seeking asylum in Sweden who report violent crime0
Fiscal Sociology at the Centenary: UK Perspectives on Budgeting, Taxation and Austerity by ANNMUMFORD (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 224 pp., £64.99)0
Epistemic othering: the interplay of knowledges in legislative drafting0
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Labour law after neoliberalism?0
Constitutional Imaginaries: A Theory of European Societal Constitutionalism By JiříPřibáň, London: Routledge, 2022, 176 pp., £130.000
History and the Law: A Love Story by CarolynSteedman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, 285 pp., £22.99)0
Law's Memories By MattHoward, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 164 pp., £99.990
Democracy and emergency: finding the constitutional foundation of the knowledgeable state in social dynamics0
The Rule of Law in Fragile States: Dictatorship, Collapse, and the Politics of Religion in Post‐Colonial Somalia0
Access to Justice for Vulnerable and Energy‐Poor Consumers: Just Energy?NAOMICREUTZFELDT, CHRISGILL, MARINECORNELIS, AND RACHELMCPHERSON, Oxford: Hart, 2021, 336 pp., £85.000
Political constitutionalism and populism0
‘The rules are all over the place’: Mass Observation, time, and law in the COVID‐19 pandemic0
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Transnational constitutionalism – conflicts‐law constitutionalism – economic constitutionalism: the exemplary case of the European Union0
The economic constitution and the political constitution: seeking the common good in the post‐national setting0
Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law By SharonThompson, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 280 pp., £85.000
Introduction: Celebrating Phil Thomas at 800
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Psychiatric injury and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities0
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The Law Multiple: Judgment and Knowledge in Practice. IreneVan Oorschot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 250 pp., £85.000
A radical not an incrementalist1Online Courts and the Future of Justice, RICHARDSUSSKIND, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 368 pp., £19.990
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, 0
Tower block refurbishment, flats, and understandings of ownership0
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Reinterpreting Law's Silence: Examining the Interconnections between Legal Doctrine and the Rise of Immaterial Labour0
Legal Pluralism Explained: History, Theory, Consequences, BRIAN Z.TAMANAHA, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, 208 pp., £19.990
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The Radical Philosophy of Rights by CostasDouzinas (London: Routledge, 2019, 246 pp., £34.99)0
The emotional labour of judges in jury trials0
Transnational Law and Development as a Means to Reshape States and Rights0
Contractual provision of public services, commitment, and trust0
‘Would any of them have suffered from a guilty conscience if they had won?’: Rudolf Wiethölter and post‐Second World War German law10
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Applied Legal Pluralism: Processes, Driving Forces and Effects By GhislainOtis, JeanLeClair, and SophieThériault, London: Routledge, 2022, 284 pp., £130.000
The politics of preservation: oral history, socio‐legal studies, and praxis0
How statutory duties shape the decision making of an economic regulator: insights from the energy regulatory community, past and present0
Mavericks or misconstruction? A reply to Campbell and Allan0
Politics by Other Means in South Africa Today0
Shari'a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics By Mark FathiMassoud, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 368 pp., £84.990
Law's insistence on dispassion as the mother of theoretical curiosityInteractional Justice: The Role of Emotions in the Performance of Loyalty, LISAFLOWER, London: Routledge, 2020, 224 pp., £360
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
The Democratic Courthouse: A Modern History of Design, Due Process and Dignity by LindaMulcahy and EmmaRowden (London: Routledge, 2019, 370 pp., £36.99)0
EcoLaw: Legality, Life, and the Normativity of Nature By MargaretDavies, London: Routledge, 2022, 138 pp., £48.990
Communities of scholars and communities of practice0
Labour/data justice: a new framework for labour/regulatory datafication0
Lawyers and the Rule of Law By AndrewBoon, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 576 pp., £90.000
Law's Wars, Law's Trials0
Law and the Dead: Technology, Relations and Institutions, MARCTRABSKY, London: Routledge, 2019, 142 pp., £36.990
‘Ten thousand times more malignant than her mate’: destabilizing gendered assumptions underlying the defences of provocation and loss of control through a reading of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein0
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Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative StateCASS R.SUNSTEIN AND ADRIANVERMEULECambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020, 188 pp., £20.950
Key book in my education: Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit0
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
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Introduction: Political constitutions in transnational society: introducing socio‐legal and interdisciplinary perspectives0
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Future‐Proofing the Judiciary: Preparing for Demographic Change By BrianOpeskin, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 328 pp., £109.990
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Constitutionalism, populism, and the imaginary of the authentic polity: a socio‐legal analysis of European public spheres and constitutional demoicratization0
Of Mines, Mining, and Imagining: Rights without Society?0
Five angry men: advocating for and mobilizing EU gender equality law to advance men's rights0
Democratic representation and non‐majoritarian actors in constitutional orders: a systemic analysis0
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Law and childbirth in Ireland after the 8th Amendment: notes on women's legal consciousness0
Plurinational democracies in Europe: the quest for a profane constitutionalism0
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Reviewing Directors’ Business Judgements: Views from the Field0
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Legal Theory and the Media of Law, THOMASVESTING, JAMES C.WAGNER, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2018, 656 pp., £150.000
Justice in a Time of Austerity: Stories from a System in Crisis, JONROBINS AND DANIELNEWMAN, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2021, 224 pp., £9.990
Criminal Law and the Man Problem by NgaireNaffine(Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2019, 224 pp., £55.00)0
Digging into legal archaeology: a methodology for case study research0
The inefficiency of plea bargaining0
Unsecured lending and the indigenous economy in Australia and South Africa0
Scottish Feminist Judgments: (Re)Creating Law from the Outside In, EDITED BY SHARONCOWAN, CHLOËKENNEDY, AND VANESSA E.MUNRO, Oxford: Hart, 2019, 440 pp., £95.000
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‘Tick the box and move on’: compartmentalization and the treatment of the environment in decision‐making processes0
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Achieving compliance in the use of force: the production and maintenance of an imminent threat in an aerial targeting operation0
The making of neoliberal legality: the legal imagination of business elites and the ‘social constitutionalization’ of ‘free enterprise’ in Latin America0
Researching the visual culture of law and legal institutions: some reflections on methodology0
Care on the move: the gender care gap and intra‐EU mobility0
Accountability and offsetting in environmental law enforcement0
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Penality in the Underground: The IRA's Pursuit of Informers By RonDudai, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 240 pp., £80.000
Artificial Intelligence and the Legal Profession, MICHAELLEGG AND FELICITYBELL, Oxford: Hart, 2020, 408 pp., £75.000
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A duty to protect? Legal consciousness among military officers in armed conflict0
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Women, Film, and the Law: Cinematic Representations of Female Incarceration, SUZANNEBOUCLIN, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, 226 pp., $75.000
The counter‐reparative impacts of South Africa's reparations gap: victims as reparations ‘experts’ and the role of victims’ organizations0
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Accountability and Review in the Counter‐Terrorist State. By Jessie Blackbourn, Fiona De Londras,Lydia MorganBristol: Bristol University Press,2020, 192 pp., £27.990
Shortcuts and detours of environmental collective legal mobilizations: the cases of the Atrato River and the Amazon region in Colombia0
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Competing Narratives in a Case Biography: A Tale of Two Citadels0
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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
Introduction: socio‐legal methodologies0
Sentencing: A Social Process. By CyrusTata, Cham: Palgrave Pivot, 2020, 190 pp., £44.990
Disruptive accountability? Temporal regimes and social change in decolonization struggles in Belgium0
‘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
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