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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

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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 Spirit	22
Jurisprudence and Socio‐Legal Studies: Intersecting Fields By RogerCotterrell, London: Routledge, 2024, 252 pp., £37.99	17
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 year	16
When less is less: the complexities of growth and the degrowth company	12
Legal pluralism, decolonisation and socio‐legal studies	12
Mock juries, real trials: how to solve (some) problems with jury science	11
Indigeneity, caste, tribe and the limitations of decolonial thought in South Asian socio‐legal studies: The need for a decolonial–debrahmanical approach	9
‘Would any of them have suffered from a guilty conscience if they had won?’: Rudolf Wiethölter and post‐Second World War German law¹	8
Law at the Movies: Turning Legal Doctrine into Art By StanleyFish, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, 224 pp., £25.00	7
States of Exception: Human Rights, Biopolitics, Utopia By CostasDouzinas, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023, 272 pp., £90.00	7
The local injustice of bankruptcy: geographical variation in access to debt relief in England	6
Labour/data justice: a new framework for labour/regulatory datafication	6
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Trauma‐informed lawyering in the context of civil claims for sexual violence	5
Permeating the boundaries: A call for critical socio‐legal scholarship	5
Segregation and researcher's positionality: Challenges of conducting policy ethnography in Southern polarized settings	4
From agnosis to accidental activism: Infinite regress and the Post Office Scandal	4
Solid in shape, shattered in practice? The ‘sentencing pyramid’ in China	4
Where are the numbers? Challenging the barriers to quantitative socio‐legal scholarship in the United Kingdom	4
A Sociology of Post‐Imperial Constitutions: Suppressed Civil War and Colonized Citizens By ChrisThornhill, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, 450 pp., £135.00	4
The Political Economy of Emergency: Postcolonialism, Crisis Governance and Decolonial Alternatives	4

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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
Law, ‘presentist’ agendas, and the making of ‘official’ memory after collective violence	4
Justice denied? John Stalker and the Northern Ireland conflict Decades of Deceit: The Stalker Affair and Its Legacy By PaddyHillyard, Belfast: Beyond the	4
Socio‐legal studies at the heart of jurisprudence	3
The Journal of Law and Society in context: a bibliometric analysis	3
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Epistemic struggles in legislating animal welfare in Finland: competing constructions of the public interest	3
‘On a knife's edge’: medical, police, and legal responses to self‐harming protesters	3
The emotional labour of judges in jury trials	3
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‘Human rights cities’ in Africa? Rights as resources for urban governance in the Global South	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
Reflections on the journal's visual turn	2
Subjectivity Transformed: The Cultural Foundation of Liberty in ModernityBy ThomasVesting, translated by NeilSolomon, London: Wiley, 2023, 288 pp., £18.99	2
Hegemony as promises: rationalizing restrictiveness and the legal consciousness of asylum seekers in Belgium	2
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‘Only connect’? The role of emotion in the practice of social welfare law advice and casework	2
Sociology of labour law and the economy	2
Raising relational legal consciousness through co‐production research? Making law more accessible	2
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	2
Decolonising (and) legal pluralism	2
A duty to protect? Legal consciousness among military officers in armed conflict	2
New meanings for an old debate	2
The ‘new voyeurism’: criminalizing the creation of ‘deepfake porn’	1
Care on the move: the gender care gap and intra‐EU mobility	1
AI as legal persons: past, patterns, and prospects	1
Law, economy and society: Reflections on the politics of regulation	1
Integrated Offender Management and the Policing of Prolific Offenders By FrederickCram, London: Routledge, 2023, 224 pp., £31.99	1
The object(s) of legality	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
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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
Surveillance Law, Data Retention and Human Rights: A Risk to Democracy By MatthewWhite, London: Routledge, 2024, 392 pp., £150.00	1
What does gender equality need? Revisiting the formal and informal in feminist legal politics	1
The counter‐reparative impacts of South Africa's reparations gap: victims as reparations ‘experts’ and the role of victims’ organizations	1
Human–algorithm hybrids as (quasi‐)organizations? On the accountability of digital collective actors	1
Webs within the web: the role of epistemic injustice in creating barriers to public legal information about rights in a digital age	1
‘Wrong’ cases and ‘wrong’ plaintiffs: intergenerational relationships and legal consciousness in China	1
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Redefining consent: rape law reform, reasonable belief, and communicative responsibility	1
A socio‐legal quest: from jurisprudence to sociology of law and back again	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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Division of labour in social movements: the interplay between legal mobilization and public protest in Swedish mining resistance	1
Transnational constitutionalism – conflicts‐law constitutionalism – economic constitutionalism: the exemplary case of the European Union	1
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Doing Sociolegal Research in Design Mode, AMANDAPERRY‐KESSARIS, London: Routledge, 2021, 154 pp., £44.99	1
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Loss and damage, plastic pollution, and the effectiveness of international environmental law	1
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Global legal change from below and above	1
The Journal of Law and Society in context: A bibliometric analysis	1
Law, Vulnerability, and the Responsive State: Beyond Equality and Liberty Edited by Martha AlbertsonFineman and LauraSpitz, London: Routledge, 2024, 290 pp., £34.95	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
Plurinational democracies in Europe: the quest for a profane constitutionalism	0
Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire By YaelBerda, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 280 pp., £75.00	0
Democratic representation and non‐majoritarian actors in constitutional orders: a systemic analysis	0
Lawyers as infrastructures: mediations, blockages, and new possibilities in grassroots movements	0
Legal mobilization and anti‐fluoridation campaigning in post‐war Britain	0
The Sinophone lawyer: China's cross‐border impact on the legal profession	0
Faces of hunger: an intersectional approach to children's right to food in the United Kingdom	0
What they have and what they do: social security and regulatory accountability	0
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Profilicity and online safety legislation	0
Trade union legal mobilization and consciousness	0
Reimagining the Court of Protection: Access to Justice in Mental Capacity Law By JaimeLindsey, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 216 pp., £85.00	0
‘We can't help you – it doesn't concern us’: the legal consciousness of young people seeking asylum in Sweden who report violent crime	0
Victim blaming as collateral damage: professionals on court hearings in cases of rape, assault, and fraud	0
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The dynamic and iterative pre‐dispute phase: the transformation from a justiciable problem into a legal dispute	0
Epistemic othering: the interplay of knowledges in legislative drafting	0
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 century	0
Future‐Proofing the Judiciary: Preparing for Demographic Change By BrianOpeskin, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 328 pp., £109.99	0
Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives By EmilyJones, London: Routledge, 2023, 216 pp., £35.99	0
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Philanthropy and environmental law	0
Regulating for trustworthy autonomous systems: exploring stakeholder perspectives on answerability	0
Cryptocurrencies and the Regulatory Challenge, ALLAN C.HUTCHINSON, London: Routledge, 2021, 156 pp., £120.00	0
Polanyi on crisis: The United States, fascism and ecological break‐down	0
Socratic Voices: Dialogues on Law, Time, and Reconciliation By BertvanRoermund, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023, 166 pp., £75.00	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
Brexit, Union, and Disunion: The Evolution of British Constitutional Unsettlement By SionaidhDouglas‐Scott, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 534 pp., £31.99	0
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Gender (de)certification and the home: A new focus for feminist legal scholarship?	0
Exploring computational approaches to law: the evolution of judicial language in the Anglo‐Welsh poor law, 1691–1834	0
Green Transitional Justice By RachelKillean and LaurenDempster, London: Routledge, 2025, 304 pp., £31.99	0
Racial Justice and the Limits of Law By BharatMalkani, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024, 182 pp., £19.99	0
Situating legal consciousness and legal compliance: how Dutch welfare clients think and act in relation to the law	0
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Property in Contemporary Capitalism By PaddyIreland, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024, 310 pp., £19.99	0
The housing crisis goes to law	0
Democracy and emergency: finding the constitutional foundation of the knowledgeable state in social dynamics	0
Response to Flora Renz, ‘Gender (de)certification and the home: A new focus for feminist legal scholarship?’	0
Socio‐legal studies and criminal justice: Reflections on ‘participation’	0
The governance of global supply chains: empirical insights from the ready‐made garment industry in Bangladesh a decade after Rana Plaza	0
Political constitutionalism and populism	0
Giving rap a chance: the cultural policing and consequences of the suppression of rap music in England in the twenty‐first century	0
The possible forms of professionalism: credibility and the performance of queer sexualities among barristers in England and Wales	0
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Changing interpretations: freedom of association in Germany and the United Kingdom	0
Five angry men: advocating for and mobilizing EU gender equality law to advance men's rights	0
The Bodyguards of Lies: Lawyers’ Power and Professional Responsibility By ChristopherWhelan, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 364 pp., £85.00	0
Access to Justice for Vulnerable and Energy‐Poor Consumers: Just Energy?NAOMICREUTZFELDT, CHRISGILL, MARINECORNELIS, AND RACHELMCPHERSON, Oxford: Hart, 2021, 336 pp., £85.00	0
What is (the) matter with climate litigation? Law, nature, and the limits of legal technique	0
Prosecutors and anti‐intellectualism as a trial tactic: the cultural roots of scepticism towards expertise in capital cases	0
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Local authority intervention in private renting: from compliance to hardline enforcement	0
Cloistered justice: The opposing trends of barricade and respective secrecy	0
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Law and conspiracy theory: sovereign citizens, freemen on the land, and pseudolaw	0
From shame to guilt: negotiating moral and legal responsibility within apologies for historical institutional abuse	0
Shortcuts and detours of environmental collective legal mobilizations: the cases of the Atrato River and the Amazon region in Colombia	0
Introduction: Political constitutions in transnational society: introducing socio‐legal and interdisciplinary perspectives	0
Law, language, and the power of ‘invisible threats’ of violence against women	0
Governmental influence over rights consciousness: public perceptions of the COVID‐19 lockdown	0
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Conflict and Transformation: Essays on European Law and Policy By ChristianJoerges, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 624 pp., £49.99	0

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Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law OpinionsEdited by BennettCapers, SarahDeer, and CoreyRayburn Yung, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 306 pp., £39.99	0
The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market CaptureEmiliosChristodoulidisCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 608 pp., £34.99	0
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Theory, praxis and politics in law and society research: Reflections on the Cotterrell–Nelken debate	0
Prejudicial but not unduly so? Addressing the epistemic and non‐epistemic dangers of rap evidence	0
A geography of access to justice: mapping social welfare legal aid need and provision in England and Wales	0
Achieving compliance in the use of force: the production and maintenance of an imminent threat in an aerial targeting operation	0
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Theory in socio‐legal studies: Revisiting the Cotterrell–Nelken debate	0
Applied Legal Pluralism: Processes, Driving Forces and Effects By GhislainOtis, JeanLeClair, and SophieThériault, London: Routledge, 2022, 284 pp., £130.00	0
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‘The rules are all over the place’: Mass Observation, time, and law in the COVID‐19 pandemic	0
Shari'a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics By Mark FathiMassoud, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 368 pp., £84.99	0
Pornography, Rough Sex and Gendered Harm: Just Sex on Screen? By SamanthaKeene, London: Routledge, 2025, 204 pp., £145.00	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
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
Environmental public hearings and intersectionality: women's voices from Gujarat, India	0
Coercion and justification: a global public reason perspective on Security Council reform	0
Trust at the border: identifying risk and assessing credibility on reality television	0
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‘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
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
Perceptions of procedural fairness and space for personal narrative: an experimental study of form design	0
Gender Recognition and the Law: Troubling Transgender People's Engagement with Legal Regulation By FloraRenz, London: Routledge, 2024, 176 pp., £135.00	0
Profitable insecurities: trade mark law, misleading advertising, and body image perceptions in the United Kingdom	0
Managing migration, fighting organized crime, or protecting migrants? Dutch prosecutors’ multifaceted approach to human smuggling	0
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Litigants in Person and the Family Justice System By JessicaMant, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 256 pp., £42.99	0
Who needs the law? Multiple consciousness as critique	0
What does the showing of voluntary participation by the defendant do for criminal justice professionals?	0
Legalizing transphobia: from courtroom to legislature, how gender‐critical activism is hurting us all	0
Out of time? Going back to the Cotterrell–Nelken debate	0
Agency and vulnerability in the field of immigration law: a linguistic‐ethnographic perspective on lawyer–client interaction	0
Indications of goal displacement induced by budget cuts and output management: a case study of a regulatory enforcement agency in the Netherlands	0
EcoLaw: Legality, Life, and the Normativity of Nature By MargaretDavies, London: Routledge, 2022, 138 pp., £48.99	0
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Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law By SharonThompson, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 280 pp., £85.00	0
Resolving labour disputes in the Philippines: legitimacy and effectiveness in a polycentric regulatory framework	0
Penality in the Underground: The IRA's Pursuit of Informers By RonDudai, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 240 pp., £80.00	0
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Synthesize this: integrating innovation governance and EU regulation of synthetic biology	0
(Dis)obeying the law: corporate tax morale in developing countries	0
The ‘legal’ in socio‐legal history: Woods and Pirie v. Cumming Gordon	0
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Harm behind the counter: ‘regulatory labour’ and the offloading of risk onto front‐line employees in the post‐Gambling Act era	0
Infrastructure: New Trajectories in Law By MarianaValverde, London: Routledge, 2022, 124 pp., £48.99	0
The Social Constitution: Embedding Social Rights By Whitney K.Taylor, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 254 pp., £95.00	0
Broken bonds: how COVID‐19 border restrictions transformed experiences and conceptualizations of citizenship	0
Relational legal consciousness and the mobilization of the law of the inquest in England and Wales	0
Law's Memories By MattHoward, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 164 pp., £99.99	0
The hidden histories of the Pinochet case	0
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The crafty power of text: methods for a sociology of legislative drafting	0
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Becoming legal: feminism and abortion law in 1970s Italy	0
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The unheard ‘scandal’: Covid‐19 vaccine‐injured people's perceptions of the national redress scheme and trust in the government in the United Kingdom	0
The price of positionality: assessing the benefits and burdens of self‐identification in research methods	0
Justifying and practising effective participation in the Court of Protection: an empirical study^*	0
Managing time: speeding up and slowing down in the immigration bail court	0
Epistemic emotions in prosecutorial decision making	0
‘F**k this game … I'm off’: financial and emotional factors in declining legal representation in miscarriage of justice cases	0
Lawyers and the Rule of Law By AndrewBoon, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 576 pp., £90.00	0
Islamophobia and Danish academia	0
It could be my son! ‘Himpathy’ and the male fear defence in rape trials	0
When law and data collide: the methodological challenge of conducting mixed methods research in law	0
Prefiguring truth: The limits of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry	0
The paradox of human rights and three forms for its unfolding	0
Algorithm‐facilitated discrimination: a socio‐legal study of the use by employers of artificial intelligence hiring systems	0
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A response on the ‘old’ and ‘bold’ operation of gender at home	0
Judicial relational legal consciousness: authoritarian backsliding as a catalyst of change	0
The making of neoliberal legality: the legal imagination of business elites and the ‘social constitutionalization’ of ‘free enterprise’ in Latin America	0
Placing Property: A Legal Geography of Property Rights in Land By AmandaByer, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 88 pp., £24.99	0
Constitutionalism, populism, and the imaginary of the authentic polity: a socio‐legal analysis of European public spheres and constitutional demoicratization	0
Law and Film: Critical Reflections on a Field in Motion Edited by VittoriaBecci, AlexiaKatsiginis, and EdwardvanDaalen, London: Routledge, 2025, 202 pp., £135.00	0
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Political constitutionalism in Europe revisited	0
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Biotechnology, Gestation, and the Law By Elizabeth ChloeRomanis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025, 240 pp., £100.00	0
Dysfunctional governance: Crisis, scandal, tragedy, emergency	0
Law and childbirth in Ireland after the 8^th Amendment: notes on women's legal consciousness	0
Raising a claim for (animal) justice: The end(s) of socio‐legal and critical legal studies	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
The centres and margins of transnational law: potential developments and methodological challenges	0
The managed participation of the criminal accused	0
Disruptive accountability? Temporal regimes and social change in decolonization struggles in Belgium	0
Digging into legal archaeology: a methodology for case study research	0
A radical not an incrementalist¹Online Courts and the Future of Justice, RICHARDSUSSKIND, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 368 pp., £19.99	0
Environmental protest, contention, and the law: conceptualizing the Public Order Act 2023	0