OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

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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,	44
Key book in my education: Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit	15
When less is less: the complexities of growth and the degrowth company	15
Jurisprudence and Socio‐Legal Studies: Intersecting Fields By RogerCotterrell, London: Routledge, 2024, 252 pp., £37.99	11
Indigeneity, caste, tribe and the limitations of decolonial thought in South Asian socio‐legal studies: The need for a decolonial–debrahmanical approach	10
Mock juries, real trials: how to solve (some) problems with jury science	10
Legal pluralism, decolonisation and socio‐legal studies	9
‘Would any of them have suffered from a guilty conscience if they had won?’: Rudolf Wiethölter and post‐Second World War German law¹	9
Belonging beyond the binary: from Byzantine eunuchs and Indian hijras to gender‐fluid and non‐binary identities	9
Legal Pluralism Explained: History, Theory, Consequences, BRIAN Z.TAMANAHA, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, 208 pp., £19.99	7
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Invisible labour: legal dimensions of invisibilization	6
Vehicles for justice: buses and advancement	6
States of Exception: Human Rights, Biopolitics, Utopia By CostasDouzinas, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023, 272 pp., £90.00	5
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Trauma‐informed lawyering in the context of civil claims for sexual violence	5
Labour/data justice: a new framework for labour/regulatory datafication	5
Law at the Movies: Turning Legal Doctrine into Art By StanleyFish, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, 224 pp., £25.00	5
Women, Film, and the Law: Cinematic Representations of Female Incarceration, SUZANNEBOUCLIN, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, 226 pp., $75.00	5
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Solid in shape, shattered in practice? The ‘sentencing pyramid’ in China	4
Segregation and researcher's positionality: Challenges of conducting policy ethnography in Southern polarized settings	4
The emotional labour of judges in jury trials	4
Law, ‘presentist’ agendas, and the making of ‘official’ memory after collective violence	4
Permeating the boundaries: A call for critical socio‐legal scholarship	4

The gravest inefficiency of plea bargaining and the consequences for rehabilitation and reintegration	4
The economic constitution and the political constitution: seeking the common good in the post‐national setting	4
Neoliberalism, family law, and the devaluation of care	4
SLSA E‐Newsletter	4
Where are the numbers? Challenging the barriers to quantitative socio‐legal scholarship in the United Kingdom	4
‘Human rights cities’ in Africa? Rights as resources for urban governance in the Global South	4
Raising relational legal consciousness through co‐production research? Making law more accessible	3
The Journal of Law and Society in context: a bibliometric analysis	3
Intellectual and Cultural Property: Between Market and Community. FionaMacmillan. London: Routledge, 2021, 232 pp., £36.99	3
The Abortion Act 1967: A Biography of a UK Law By SallySheldon, GayleDavis, JaneO'Neill, and ClareParker, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 360 pp., £25.99	3
‘On a knife's edge’: medical, police, and legal responses to self‐harming protesters	3
It's about time: investigating the temporal in socio‐legal studies through unstructured interviews	3
Scottish Feminist Judgments: (Re)Creating Law from the Outside In, EDITED BY SHARONCOWAN, CHLOËKENNEDY, AND VANESSA E.MUNRO, Oxford: Hart, 2019, 440 pp., £95.00	3
A duty to protect? Legal consciousness among military officers in armed conflict	3
Feminist judging in lower courts	3
Socio‐legal studies at the heart of jurisprudence	3
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A socio‐legal quest: from jurisprudence to sociology of law and back again	2
Social Citizenship in an Age of Welfare Regionalism: The State of the Social Union By MarkSimpson, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 198 pp., £76.50	2
Speaking up: why people dare to sue the government in China	2
Sociology of labour law and the economy	2
Arbitration vis‐à‐vis other professions: a sociology of professions account of international commercial arbitrators	2
Redefining consent: rape law reform, reasonable belief, and communicative responsibility	2
Law, technology, and data‐driven security: infra‐legalities as method assemblage	2
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Decolonising (and) legal pluralism	2
Reflections on the journal's visual turn	2
Integrated Offender Management and the Policing of Prolific Offenders By FrederickCram, London: Routledge, 2023, 224 pp., £31.99	2
Law, economy and society: Reflections on the politics of regulation	2
The inefficiency of plea bargaining	2
Doing Sociolegal Research in Design Mode, AMANDAPERRY‐KESSARIS, London: Routledge, 2021, 154 pp., £44.99	2
Subjectivity Transformed: The Cultural Foundation of Liberty in ModernityBy ThomasVesting, translated by NeilSolomon, London: Wiley, 2023, 288 pp., £18.99	2
New meanings for an old debate	2
‘Wrong’ cases and ‘wrong’ plaintiffs: intergenerational relationships and legal consciousness in China	2
The object(s) of legality	2
Human–algorithm hybrids as (quasi‐)organizations? On the accountability of digital collective actors	2
Global legal change from below and above	1
‘Tick the box and move on’: compartmentalization and the treatment of the environment in decision‐making processes	1
Access to Justice for Vulnerable and Energy‐Poor Consumers: Just Energy?NAOMICREUTZFELDT, CHRISGILL, MARINECORNELIS, AND RACHELMCPHERSON, Oxford: Hart, 2021, 336 pp., £85.00	1
Political constitutionalism in Europe revisited	1
Doing research with intellectually disabled participants: reflections on the challenges of capacity and consent in socio‐legal research	1
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, 202	1
Gender diversity on Malaysian corporate boards: a law and social movements perspective	1
Synthesize this: integrating innovation governance and EU regulation of synthetic biology	1
What does gender equality need? Revisiting the formal and informal in feminist legal politics	1
Care on the move: the gender care gap and intra‐EU mobility	1
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., £80.00	1
The possible forms of professionalism: credibility and the performance of queer sexualities among barristers in England and Wales	1

Digging into legal archaeology: a methodology for case study research	1
Naming, blaming, claiming: an interview with Bill Felstiner, Rick Abel, and Austin Sarat	1
The Law Multiple: Judgment and Knowledge in Practice. IreneVan Oorschot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 250 pp., £85.00	1
Transnational constitutionalism – conflicts‐law constitutionalism – economic constitutionalism: the exemplary case of the European Union	1
Not What the Bus Promised: Health Governance after Brexit By Tamara K.Hervey, IvankaAntova, Mark L.Flear, and MatthewWood, Oxford: Hart, 2023, 280 pp., £85.00	1
SLSA E‐Newsletter	1
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Unchartered territory? Navigating voice, accountability, and prevention in suicide‐related domestic homicide reviews in England and Wales	1
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What does the showing of voluntary participation by the defendant do for criminal justice professionals?	1
Surveillance Law, Data Retention and Human Rights: A Risk to Democracy By MatthewWhite, London: Routledge, 2024, 392 pp., £150.00	1
The counter‐reparative impacts of South Africa's reparations gap: victims as reparations ‘experts’ and the role of victims’ organizations	1
‘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 Frankenstein	1
The ‘new voyeurism’: criminalizing the creation of ‘deepfake porn’	1
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Child welfare, Indigenous parents, and judicial mediation	0
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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., £36.99How	0
We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks, ILHAMTOHTI / TRANSLATED BY YAXUE CAO / CINDY CARTER / MATTHEW ROBERTSON, London: Verso, 2022, 174 pp., £14.99	0
(Dis)passionate law stories: the emotional processes of encoding narratives in court	0
Introduction: Political constitutions in transnational society: introducing socio‐legal and interdisciplinary perspectives	0
Accountability and offsetting in environmental law enforcement	0
Placing Property: A Legal Geography of Property Rights in Land By AmandaByer, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 88 pp., £24.99	0
Democracy and emergency: finding the constitutional foundation of the knowledgeable state in social dynamics	0
Tradition and reinvention: the making and unmaking of herbal medicines in the UK	0
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Navigating internet‐mediated ethnography for socio‐legal researchers	0
Regulating for trustworthy autonomous systems: exploring stakeholder perspectives on answerability	0
Gender Recognition and the Law: Troubling Transgender People's Engagement with Legal Regulation By FloraRenz, London: Routledge, 2024, 176 pp., £135.00	0
Profilicity and online safety legislation	0
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What is (the) matter with climate litigation? Law, nature, and the limits of legal technique	0
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., £36	0
Seeking campus justice: challenging the ‘criminal justice drift’ in United Kingdom university responses to student sexual violence and misconduct	0
Plurinational democracies in Europe: the quest for a profane constitutionalism	0
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Shari'a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics By Mark FathiMassoud, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 368 pp., £84.99	0
Future‐Proofing the Judiciary: Preparing for Demographic Change By BrianOpeskin, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 328 pp., £109.99	0
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Lawyers in Conflict and Transition By KieranMcEvoy, LouiseMallinder, and AnnaBryson, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 440 pp., £85.00	0
The dynamic and iterative pre‐dispute phase: the transformation from a justiciable problem into a legal dispute	0
Critique of comparative law: to compierreNegative Comparative Law: A Strong Programme for Weak Thought By PierreLegrand, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 352 pp., £95.00	0
A tale of many jurisdictions: how universal jurisdiction is creating a transnational judicial space	0
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Infrastructure: New Trajectories in Law By MarianaValverde, London: Routledge, 2022, 124 pp., £48.99	0
Selecting a lawyer: the practical arrangement of police station legal assistance	0
Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law By SharonThompson, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 280 pp., £85.00	0
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The centres and margins of transnational law: potential developments and methodological challenges	0
The Sinophone lawyer: China's cross‐border impact on the legal profession	0
Finding a way to live with the past: ‘self‐repair’, ‘informal repair’, and reparations in transitional justice	0
Relational rights and legal consciousness research: theoretical and methodological innovations	0
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Wikilegality and legal consciousness¹	0
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Law, language, and the power of ‘invisible threats’ of violence against women	0
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, Lo	0
Contractual Relations: A Contribution to the Critique of the Classical Law of Contract By DavidCampbell, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 464 pp., £95.00	0
Constitutional Imaginaries: A Theory of European Societal Constitutionalism By JiříPřibáň, London: Routledge, 2022, 176 pp., £130.00	0
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Theory, praxis and politics in law and society research: Reflections on the Cotterrell–Nelken debate	0
Philanthropy and environmental law	0
The managed participation of the criminal accused	0
Psychiatric injury and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities	0
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Labour law after neoliberalism?	0
A response on the ‘old’ and ‘bold’ operation of gender at home	0
The politics of the production of knowledge on trauma: the Grenfell Tower Inquiry	0
The ‘legal’ in socio‐legal history: Woods and Pirie v. Cumming Gordon	0
Algorithm‐facilitated discrimination: a socio‐legal study of the use by employers of artificial intelligence hiring systems	0
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Introduction: socio‐legal methodologies	0
Labour is labour: what surrogates can learn from the Sex Work Is Work movement	0
The Social Constitution: Embedding Social Rights By Whitney K.Taylor, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 254 pp., £95.00	0
Legalizing transphobia: from courtroom to legislature, how gender‐critical activism is hurting us all	0
Contractual provision of public services, commitment, and trust	0
Giving rap a chance: the cultural policing and consequences of the suppression of rap music in England in the twenty‐first century	0

Socratic Voices: Dialogues on Law, Time, and Reconciliation By BertvanRoermund, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023, 166 pp., £75.00	0
Constitutionalism, populism, and the imaginary of the authentic polity: a socio‐legal analysis of European public spheres and constitutional demoicratization	0
Law and conspiracy theory: sovereign citizens, freemen on the land, and pseudolaw	0
‘F**k this game … I'm off’: financial and emotional factors in declining legal representation in miscarriage of justice cases	0
Trust at the border: identifying risk and assessing credibility on reality television	0
EcoLaw: Legality, Life, and the Normativity of Nature By MargaretDavies, London: Routledge, 2022, 138 pp., £48.99	0
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Property in Contemporary Capitalism By PaddyIreland, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024, 310 pp., £19.99	0
Gender (de)certification and the home: A new focus for feminist legal scholarship?	0
Who needs the law? Multiple consciousness as critique	0
Remote rituals in virtual courts	0
Faces of hunger: an intersectional approach to children's right to food in the United Kingdom	0
Values diversity in the United Kingdom Supreme Court: abandoning the ‘don't‐ask‐don't‐tell’ policy	0
Local authority intervention in private renting: from compliance to hardline enforcement	0
When law and data collide: the methodological challenge of conducting mixed methods research in law	0
The Bodyguards of Lies: Lawyers’ Power and Professional Responsibility By ChristopherWhelan, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 364 pp., £85.00	0
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Exploring computational approaches to law: the evolution of judicial language in the Anglo‐Welsh poor law, 1691–1834	0
The making of neoliberal legality: the legal imagination of business elites and the ‘social constitutionalization’ of ‘free enterprise’ in Latin America	0
‘Victims not wrongdoers’: the legal consciousness of rejected asylum seekers in Norway	0
Judicial relational legal consciousness: authoritarian backsliding as a catalyst of change	0
Victim blaming as collateral damage: professionals on court hearings in cases of rape, assault, and fraud	0
Political constitutionalism and populism	0
Governmental influence over rights consciousness: public perceptions of the COVID‐19 lockdown	0
Raising a claim for (animal) justice: The end(s) of socio‐legal and critical legal studies	0
The politics of preservation: oral history, socio‐legal studies, and praxis	0
Brexit, Union, and Disunion: The Evolution of British Constitutional Unsettlement By SionaidhDouglas‐Scott, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 534 pp., £31.99	0
SLSA E‐Newsletter	0
Environmental Groups and Legal Expertise: Shaping the Brexit Process, CAROLYNABBOT AND MARIALEE, London: UCL Press, 2021, 226 pp., open access	0
Environmental public hearings and intersectionality: women's voices from Gujarat, India	0
Agency and vulnerability in the field of immigration law: a linguistic‐ethnographic perspective on lawyer–client interaction	0
Artificial Intelligence and the Legal Profession, MICHAELLEGG AND FELICITYBELL, Oxford: Hart, 2020, 408 pp., £75.00	0
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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., £85.00	0
‘Executive robbery’: UK public law, race, and ‘regimes of dispossession’ in the Chagos Archipelago	0
Response to Flora Renz, ‘Gender (de)certification and the home: A new focus for feminist legal scholarship?’	0
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Epistemic othering: the interplay of knowledges in legislative drafting	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 Office	0
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‘Double vision’ in the interlegal: the situated pluri‐legal consciousness of British Muslim women	0
Conflict and Transformation: Essays on European Law and Policy By ChristianJoerges, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 624 pp., £49.99	0
The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market CaptureEmiliosChristodoulidisCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 608 pp., £34.99	0
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Situating legal consciousness and legal compliance: how Dutch welfare clients think and act in relation to the law	0
Theory in socio‐legal studies: Revisiting the Cotterrell–Nelken debate	0
Mobilizing anti‐discrimination law: the litigation strategies of UK and French trade unions compared	0
What can contract law learn from #MeToo?	0
Trade union legal mobilization and consciousness	0
Journeying the everyday of civic space: movement as method in socio‐legal studies	0
The price of positionality: assessing the benefits and burdens of self‐identification in research methods	0
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Justice in a Time of Austerity: Stories from a System in Crisis, JONROBINS AND DANIELNEWMAN, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2021, 224 pp., £9.99	0
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Disruptive accountability? Temporal regimes and social change in decolonization struggles in Belgium	0
Socio‐legal studies and criminal justice: Reflections on ‘participation’	0
The snakes and ladders of legal participation: litigants in person and the right to a fair trial under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights	0
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The paradox of human rights and three forms for its unfolding	0
Perceptions of procedural fairness and space for personal narrative: an experimental study of form design	0
‘The rules are all over the place’: Mass Observation, time, and law in the COVID‐19 pandemic	0
Law and childbirth in Ireland after the 8^th Amendment: notes on women's legal consciousness	0
Lawyers and the Rule of Law By AndrewBoon, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 576 pp., £90.00	0
How statutory duties shape the decision making of an economic regulator: insights from the energy regulatory community, past and present	0
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment, DANIELKAHNEMAN, OLIVIERSIBONY, AND CASS. R.SUNSTEIN, London: William Collins, 2021, 464 pp., £25.00	0
Democratic representation and non‐majoritarian actors in constitutional orders: a systemic analysis	0
Authoritarian liquid transgressions: the case of P&O Ferries	0
Shortcuts and detours of environmental collective legal mobilizations: the cases of the Atrato River and the Amazon region in Colombia	0
Penality in the Underground: The IRA's Pursuit of Informers By RonDudai, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 240 pp., £80.00	0
A radical not an incrementalist¹Online Courts and the Future of Justice, RICHARDSUSSKIND, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 368 pp., £19.99	0
Lawyers as infrastructures: mediations, blockages, and new possibilities in grassroots movements	0
Paper chains: tied visas, migration policies, and legal coercion	0
Out of time? Going back to the Cotterrell–Nelken debate	0
The hidden histories of the Pinochet case	0
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Researching the visual culture of law and legal institutions: some reflections on methodology	0
Racial Justice and the Limits of Law By BharatMalkani, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024, 182 pp., £19.99	0
Intermediaries in the criminal justice system and the ‘neutrality paradox’	0
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Coercion and justification: a global public reason perspective on Security Council reform	0
It could be my son! ‘Himpathy’ and the male fear defence in rape trials	0
Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law OpinionsEdited by BennettCapers, SarahDeer, and CoreyRayburn Yung, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 306 pp., £39.99	0
Litigants in Person and the Family Justice System By JessicaMant, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 256 pp., £42.99	0
Broken bonds: how COVID‐19 border restrictions transformed experiences and conceptualizations of citizenship	0
Doing diversity in the legal profession in England and Wales: why do disabled people continue to be unexpected?	0
Epistemic emotions in prosecutorial decision making	0
Five angry men: advocating for and mobilizing EU gender equality law to advance men's rights	0
The crafty power of text: methods for a sociology of legislative drafting	0
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Justifying and practising effective participation in the Court of Protection: an empirical study^*	0