Law and Social Inquiry-Journal of the American Bar Foundation

Papers
(The median citation count of Law and Social Inquiry-Journal of the American Bar Foundation 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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LSI volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Back matter16
International Book Essay Section15
Agency Entrenchment: Sociological Legitimacy in a Politically Contested Occupation12
Negotiating Status: Pro Bono Partners and Counsels in Large Law Firms12
Taxation, Lactation, and Validation: The Symbolic Power of Tax Law to Legitimize Breast Milk Expression11
From Taxi to Didi: Voice and Balancing in the Industrial Transition10
The Policy Impact of Court Decisions in Latin America and South Asia10
Public Participation, Group Inclusion, and the Durability of National Constitutions10
Revealing the Hidden Influencers: Euro-Lawyers as Ghostwriters of European Legal Integration9
The Failed Idea of Judicial Restraint: A Brief Intellectual History8
A Fair Process Matters: The Relationship between Public Participation and Constitutional Legitimacy8
Symbolic Rule of Law Promotion8
Law and the Political Discourse of Skill7
International Book Essay Section7
African Constitutionalism: Between Power, Persuasion, and Irrelevance?6
Constituting Religious Conflict in a Multicultural State6
LSI volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Back matter6
Subduing Asylum-Seekers’ Voices: Narrative Genres and the Impossibility of Credibility Tests During Refugee Status Determination Hearings6
Understanding China’s Social Policies and Practices6
The Atrato River as a Bearer and Co-creator of Rights: Unveiling Black People’s Legal Mobilization Processes in Colombia5
Business Courts as Loci of Privilege: The Business Judgment Rule Abroad5
State-Enabled Killing of Same-Sex-Attracted People: A Legal Pluralist Account5
The Gender Pay Gap and High-Achieving Women in the Legal Profession5
Rethinking Sanctuary: The Origins of Non-Cooperation Policies in Social Welfare Agencies5
When More Leads to More: Constitutional Amendments and Interpretation in Mexico 1917-20205
State-Sponsored Activism: How China’s Law Reforms Impact NGOs’ Legal Practice5
Conscience and Convenience: How Social Workers Pursue Rehabilitation in Chinese Community Corrections5
Torture in Thailand at the Limits of Law5
Marginalized Identity and Active Resistance: Milwaukee Socialists and German-Americans During World War I4
The States of Inequality: Methods for Mapping Legal Pluralism in Reproductive Autonomy4
Book Notes4
LSI volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Back matter4
How Should Courts Respond to Political Questions? Exploring the Dialogical Turn in the Supreme Court of Canada’s Federalism and Indigenous Case Law4
Property Markers and the Hassle of Leniency: Building Code Enforcement in the Courtroom4
LSI volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter4
The Making of Colonial and Postcolonial Law by South Asian Muslims4
Uncertainty and Condemnation. An Experimental Study on Lay and Expert Intuitions Regarding the Object of Criminal Punishment4
Judging Genocide: Emotional Labor During Transitional Justice4
Book Notes3
Book Notes3
“I’ve Had Cases That Have Gone in the Wrong Direction and That Has Affected Me”: A Qualitative Examination of Decision Making, Liminality, and the Emotional Aspects of Parole Work3
The Global Contention for Law’s “Special Character”3
What’s Law Got To Do with It?: Anthropological Engagement with Legal Scholarship3
Militarism and Law in Africa: A Governing Paradox3
International Book Essay Section3
India’s Quotidian Constitution3
Threat to Family Stability or Social Stability? Domestic Violence Protection Orders in Two Chinese Courts3
Rethinking Inclusion: Ideal Minorities, Inclusion Cultures, and Identity Capitals in the Legal Profession3
“He Is Still Your Father”: Tetherings, Social Welfare, and Troubled Parental Maintenance Litigation in Taiwan3
Environmental Governance and Whistleblower Rewards: Balancing Prosocial Motivations with Monetary Incentives3
Undignified Jurispathy: Muslim Family Law at Ghanaian Courts3
Long-Term Contractual Commitments and Our Future Selves3
LSI volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Front matter3
LSI volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Back matter3
A Network Analysis of Judicial Cross-Citations in Europe3
Remembering Internet Openness: From the Information Age to the Disinformation Era3
Reimagining Public Safety: Defining “Community” in Participatory Research3
Preference or Penalty? The Law and Employers’ Diverging Hiring Intentions of Latino Immigrants3
Law, Legal Socializations, and Epistemic Injustice3
Lawyering in Hard Places: Comparative Dispatches from the Margins of Legality3
Toward a Sociology of International Law: John Hagan and Beyond2
Why Do In-State Plaintiffs Invoke Diversity Jurisdiction?2
The Lure of the Law for the Formerly Convicted: Pursuing the Legal Profession as a Resistance Strategy2
International Book Essay Section2
Authoritarian Legacies in Law and Democratic Backsliding: The Case of Turkey’s Specially Authorized Courts2
Appointed or Elected: How Justices on Elected State Supreme Courts Are Actually Selected2
Is White-Collar Crime White? Racialization in the National Press Coverage of White-Collar Crime from 1950 to 20102
Crimmigrating Narratives: Examining Third-Party Observations of US Detained Immigration Court2
LSI volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Back matter2
The Judge Is “No Snitch”: A Progressive Era Collision between Juvenile Justice and Criminal Law2
Revisiting the Concept of Voice: Expression of Grievances across the English and Welsh National Health Service2
LSI volume 50 issue 2 Cover and Back matter2
From the “Legal Culture of Slavery” to Black Legal Culture: Reimagining the Implications and Meanings of Black Litigiousness in Slavery and Freedom2
Unspectacular Atrocities and the Aesthetics of International Trials2
Erosion, Backsliding, or Abuse: Three Metaphors for Democratic Decline2
Contesting Caste: Institutionalized Oppression and Circumventive Legal Resistance2
Justice in the Vernacular: An Anthropological Critique of Commensuration2
LSI volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Back matter2
Captured Courts and Legitimized Autocrats: Transforming Kazakhstan’s Constitutional Court2
Legal Consciousness and Vigilantism: Seeking Justice for Witchcraft Harms in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo2
LSI volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
LSI volume 50 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
International Book Essay Section1
Wrongfully Convicted and in Lock-Up: Understanding Innocence and the Development of Legal Consciousness behind Prison Walls1
Law and Its Other: The Everyday Life of Crime in Post–Civil War Nigeria1
Between Empires: Arab, Asian, and European Legal Orders in the Nineteenth-Century Indian Ocean1
How the Public Became the Caller: The Emergence of Reactive Policing, 1880–19701
Measures of Justice: A Symposium in Honor of Sally Engle Merry (1944–2020)1
Prefigurative Legality1
Book Notes1
“The Ancestral Line is through the Father”: The Gendered Production of Statelessness in Rural Myanmar1
Revolving Doors: Social Dimensions of Law Firm Culture and Pathways out of Firms1
Book Notes1
Representing Disability in Tort Litigation: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Discourse (1998–2018)1
A Battle of Ideas: Modes of Liability and Mass Atrocities1
International Book Essay Section1
International Book Essay Section1
The People’s Court: Dissonant Institutionalization and Judicial Populism in Pakistan1
The Anthropology of Legal Form: Ethnographic Contributions to the Study of Transnational Law1
Democracies and Non-Democracies: The Use of International Law and Institutions1
International Book Essay Section1
Money As Justice: Work-Related Deaths, Victim Workers’ Families, and Injustice in Turkey1
Caring Like a State: Publicizing Family Caregiving through Medicalization1
LSI volume 47 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
(Re)constructing Prisoner Death Investigations: A Case Study of Suicide Investigations from England and Wales1
LSI volume 50 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
LSI volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
How UN Counter-Terrorism Sanctions Are Made1
Staging Legality: How Legitimacy Budgeting Codifies Symbolic Governance in China’s Charity Law1
Diverse Disconnectedness: Homophily, Social Capital Inequality, and Student Experiences in Law School1
Reparations, But for What? Presenting a New Approach to Coding Reparations1
Book Notes1
Court Watching’s Promise: A Preliminary Survey1
Constitutional Roots of Judicial Populism in India1
The Anatomy of the Rise and Demise of the World Trading System1
The Possibility of Rights Claims-Making in Court: Looking Back on Twenty-Five Years of Social Rights Constitutionalism in South Africa0
Streets, Suites, and States: John Hagan’s Contributions to the Study of Law, Power, and Inequality0
Macro-criminology and Freedom: The Durability of Later John Braithwaite0
Degradation or Redemption? A Parole Board Polices a Moral Boundary0
LSI volume 47 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Legal Collusion: Legal Consciousness under China’s One-Child Policy0
Professional Liquidation in the Context of Autocratic Legalism: Lawyers, Class, and Status in Turkey, 2002–?0
A Political Theology of Law0
The Supreme Court and the Allocation of Burden: Truncating the Voting Rights Act0
The Anthropocene in Law and Society Research0
Dignity Defied: Legal-Rational Myths and the Surplus Legitimacy of the Carceral State0
When More Leads to More: Constitutional Amendments and Interpretation in Mexico 1917-2020 – CORRIGENDUM0
Homeless Group Representation in Detroit’s Problem-Solving Court0
In Transit, Towards Transformation? Penal Change in Russia in a Contested Political Landscape0
The Significance of Foreign Law: A Jamaican Case Study0
The Knowns and Unknowns of Repression under Authoritarianism: How the Focus of Transitional Justice Shapes the Quality of Democracy0
Broadening the Lens of Procedural Justice Beyond the Courtroom: A Case Study of Legal Financial Obligations in the Juvenile Court0
Exclusion from Within: Noncitizens and the Rise of Discriminatory Licensing Laws0
Understanding the Local Complexities in Land Law Reforms: The Case of Land Inalienability in Ethiopia, 1991–20180
Law between Empires: Bengal under British Rule in the Age of Revolutions0
Exploring Back-end Sentencing: A Study of Predictors of Parole Revocation through a Focal Concerns Theoretical Framework0
California Civil Asset Forfeiture and the Policing of Minority Residents0
Judicial Populism: A Conceptual and Normative Inquiry0
Violence against Women and Specialized Justice in Guatemala: Advances and Limitations0
The Logic of NIMBYism: Class, Race, and Stigma in the Making of California’s Legal Cannabis Market0
Analyzing Contracts: State of the Field, Mixed-Methods Guiding Steps, and an Illustrative Example0
Monitoring Prisons in Europe: Understanding Perspectives of People in Prison and Prison Staff0
Book Notes0
Rescaling the Legal Complex: Lawyers and the Resilience of the Liberal International Order0
Should Nature Have Rights? Orthodoxy and Innovation0
The Evolution and Implementation of Norway’s Ultimate Penalty: An Exceptional Approach to Life Imprisonment?0
The Search for Universal Laws0
Children of War Resisters: Intergenerational Transmission of Activism, Political Orientation, Injustice Frames, and Law Resistance0
Substituting Invalid Contract Terms: Theory and Preliminary Empirical Findings0
Disciplinary Deities and How to Please Them0
Contested Knowledge, the Politics of Memory, and the Armenian Genocide0
Administering New Anti-Bullying Law: The Organizational Field and School Variation During Initial Implementation0
Book Notes0
The Death Penalty in Black and White: Execution Coverage in Two Southern Newspapers, 1877–19360
Between Contestation and Support: Explaining Elites’ Confidence in the International Criminal Court0
Book Notes0
Book Notes0
International Book Essay Section0
Challenging the State? Lawyers and the Reformed Administrative Appeals System in Japan0
Anti-trafficking Chains: Analyzing the Impact of Transparency Legislation in the UK Construction Sector0
When Loan Sharks Become Litigious: Courts, Informal Finance, and Access to Justice in China0
How Minimum Sentences Benefit Offenders—The Case of Suspended Sentences0
LSI volume 47 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Ideology and Historiographic License in Chinese Legal Scholarship0
“It Is Here We Are Loved”: Rural Place Attachment in Active Judging and Access to Justice0
Supply Chain Governance at a Distance0
Peacekeeper-perpetrated sexual exploitation and abuse in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Legal pluralism and legal recession0
LSI volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Reflecting on the Future of Human–Water Relationships0
LSI volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Armenia, Gaza, and the Trouble of Political Trial0
Book Notes0
The Classroom and the Yard: The Contrasting Context of Prison Higher Education and Its Role in Racial Bias Mitigation0
In Pursuit of Statehood: Palestinian Performativity in Human Rights Treaty Bodies0
Racialized Legalities: The Rule of Law, Race, and the Protection of Women in Britain’s Crown Colonies, 1886–18900
Strong-arm Sobriety: Addressing Precarity through Probation0
Ethnography at an Intersection: Law, Anti-Trafficking NGOs, and Prostitution in India0
LSI volume 50 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Protecting the Script of the Japanese Criminal Justice System0
Unlawful Intimacy: The Criminalization of Interracial Relationships in Progressive-Era Chicago0
LSI volume 50 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Beyond US Models of Judicial Behavior: Choosing Constitutional Judges in Chile and Colombia0
Credit Cars: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Auto Loans0
Exploring a Craft Learning Model for Reviewing Patrol Officer Decision-Making in Encounters with the Public0
Legal Elites and the Fading History of Global Legal Imperialism0
Pathways to Eviction0
Rethinking Marriage: Blurring the “Legal” and the “Social”0
Frontline Enforcement in the Age of Information0
“Tighten, Cull and Focus”: An Experiment Examining Lay and Lawyer Claims in a Mock Online Court0
Preface: Gwendolyn J. Gordon0
LSI volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Can Liberal Constitutionalism Survive the Rise of the Megacity?0
Empowering Victimhood Through Litigation: Trials from the Jeju April 3 Uprising and Political Repression0
Generative Constitutional Bricolage: From Thailand to Authoritarianism Elsewhere0
The False Marking Gold Rush: A Case Study of the Private Enforcement of Public Laws0
Postscript: Corporate Person Potentialities0
The Boundaries of Twenty-first-Century Policing0
US Asylum Lawyering and Temporal Violence0
Darfur Model, Rwanda, and the ICTR: John Hagan’s Sociology of Genocide Continued0
Islamic Law, Secularism, and the Modern State: Recasting a Scholarly Debate0
Judicial Loyalty to the Military in Authoritarian Regimes: How the Courts Are Militarized in Myanmar0
LSI volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Rights Constitutionalism and the Challenge of Belonging: An Empirical Inquiry into the Israeli Case0
The Price of Justice: The Bombay Legal Aid Society and the Birth of the Legal Aid Movement in Colonial India0
The New Politics of Judicial Appointments in Southern Africa0
Legal and Cultural Construction of the Maori Corporate Person0
Whistleblowing Decisions by Police Officers0
International Book Essay Section0
Protecting the Rights of Children and Young People in Detention: Evaluating Credibility and Effectiveness of Human Rights Monitoring Bodies0
Deciding without Deliberating: Voices from Brazilian Jurors0
International Book Essay Section0
Saying What the Law Is0
Giving and Taking Voice: Metapragmatic Dismissals of Parents in Child Welfare Court Cases0
Religious Exemption, LGBT Rights, and the Social Construction of Harm and Freedom0
Dynamic, Regressive, or Obstructionist Courts? What Kinds of Hopes for Judicial Review0
Adminigration: City-Level Governance of Immigrant Community Members0
Reinventing “Youth” in Socio-Legal Studies0
Stagnated, on the Verge of Breakthrough, or Both? The State of Big Theories of Legal Phenomena0
Does Procedural Fairness Impact Public Perception of Judicial Opinions? Evidence from a Survey Experiment0
Signing CEDAW and Women’s Rights: Human Rights Treaty Signature and Legal Mobilization0
The Politics of Legal Facts: The Erasure of Pushback Evidence from the European Court of Human Rights0
With the Law or against the Law? A Qualitative Analysis of the Development and Outcomes of Legal Consciousness among Law-Abiding Firearms Owners0
Book Notes0
Condominium to the Country: The Sprawl of Ownership within Private Local Government in British Columbia0
LSI volume 47 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Misrecognitions of Victimhood: Discretionary Power of Street-level Bureaucrats in Humanitarian Visas0
Legal Reasoning and the Rise of Judicial Authority in Vietnam0
Wrongfully Convicted and in Lock-Up: Understanding Innocence and the Development of Legal Consciousness behind Prison Walls – CORRIGENDUM0
Contestation in Global Norm Making0
Don’t Call It a Failure: Systemic Risk Governance for Complex Financial Systems0
Data Politics: How the French Legal Profession Renegotiated Judicial Transparency (2016-2023)0
Prison Disproportion in Democracies: A Comparative Analysis0
Measuring Up: A Dialogical Model for Assuring a Reparative Process0
The Shadow of the Law: Adversarial Formalism in Prisoner-Staff Relations0
The Cruel Optimism of International Prison Regulation: Prison Ontologies and Carceral Harms0
Popular Constitutionalism in the US Empire: The Legal History of US Citizenship in Guam0
Canceling Disputes: How Social Capital Affects the Arbitration of Disputes on Wikipedia0
LSI volume 47 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Book Notes0
Africa and African Resources as a Terrain for Legal Mediation: From Françafrique to the Mobile Lawyering of Wall Street Firms0
International Book Essay Section0
Thinking Holistically About Procedural Justice in Alternative Dispute Resolution: A Case Study of the German Federal Ombudsman Scheme0
The Process of Legal Institutionalization: How Privacy Jurisprudence Turned towards the US Constitution and the American State0
International Book Essay Section0
LSI volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
International Book Essay Section0
It’s (Not) Just Semantics: “Neurotechnology” as a Novel Space of Transnational Law0
Mercy and the Construction of Social Control: A Four-Site Analysis of Clemency0
The Rise of Women Lawyers in India0
Justice Sites and the Fight against Atrocity Crimes0
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