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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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LSI volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Back matter18
Taxation, Lactation, and Validation: The Symbolic Power of Tax Law to Legitimize Breast Milk Expression16
Symbolic Rule of Law Promotion16
The Policy Impact of Court Decisions in Latin America and South Asia15
Revealing the Hidden Influencers: Euro-Lawyers as Ghostwriters of European Legal Integration14
From Taxi to Didi: Voice and Balancing in the Industrial Transition12
The Failed Idea of Judicial Restraint: A Brief Intellectual History12
Agency Entrenchment: Sociological Legitimacy in a Politically Contested Occupation10
International Book Essay Section9
A Fair Process Matters: The Relationship between Public Participation and Constitutional Legitimacy9
Law and the Political Discourse of Skill9
Public Participation, Group Inclusion, and the Durability of National Constitutions9
Constituting Religious Conflict in a Multicultural State8
Understanding China’s Social Policies and Practices8
Subduing Asylum-Seekers’ Voices: Narrative Genres and the Impossibility of Credibility Tests During Refugee Status Determination Hearings7
When More Leads to More: Constitutional Amendments and Interpretation in Mexico 1917-20207
The Atrato River as a Bearer and Co-creator of Rights: Unveiling Black People’s Legal Mobilization Processes in Colombia7
African Constitutionalism: Between Power, Persuasion, and Irrelevance?7
Business Courts as Loci of Privilege: The Business Judgment Rule Abroad7
State-Sponsored Activism: How China’s Law Reforms Impact NGOs’ Legal Practice7
LSI volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Back matter7
How Should Courts Respond to Political Questions? Exploring the Dialogical Turn in the Supreme Court of Canada’s Federalism and Indigenous Case Law7
Conscience and Convenience: How Social Workers Pursue Rehabilitation in Chinese Community Corrections7
LSI volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Back matter6
Uncertainty and Condemnation. An Experimental Study on Lay and Expert Intuitions Regarding the Object of Criminal Punishment6
Property Markers and the Hassle of Leniency: Building Code Enforcement in the Courtroom6
The Making of Colonial and Postcolonial Law by South Asian Muslims6
Marginalized Identity and Active Resistance: Milwaukee Socialists and German-Americans During World War I6
The States of Inequality: Methods for Mapping Legal Pluralism in Reproductive Autonomy6
State-Enabled Killing of Same-Sex-Attracted People: A Legal Pluralist Account6
Rethinking Inclusion: Ideal Minorities, Inclusion Cultures, and Identity Capitals in the Legal Profession5
Threat to Family Stability or Social Stability? Domestic Violence Protection Orders in Two Chinese Courts5
Remembering Internet Openness: From the Information Age to the Disinformation Era5
LSI volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter5
A Network Analysis of Judicial Cross-Citations in Europe5
Book Notes5
Judging Genocide: Emotional Labor During Transitional Justice5
“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 Work5
LSI volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Back matter5
“He Is Still Your Father”: Tetherings, Social Welfare, and Troubled Parental Maintenance Litigation in Taiwan4
Undignified Jurispathy: Muslim Family Law at Ghanaian Courts4
The Judge Is “No Snitch”: A Progressive Era Collision between Juvenile Justice and Criminal Law4
Militarism and Law in Africa: A Governing Paradox4
India’s Quotidian Constitution4
The Global Contention for Law’s “Special Character”4
Preference or Penalty? The Law and Employers’ Diverging Hiring Intentions of Latino Immigrants4
What’s Law Got To Do with It?: Anthropological Engagement with Legal Scholarship4
International Book Essay Section4
Book Notes4
Lawyering in Hard Places: Comparative Dispatches from the Margins of Legality4
Why Do In-State Plaintiffs Invoke Diversity Jurisdiction?4
Reimagining Public Safety: Defining “Community” in Participatory Research4
LSI volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Back matter4
Environmental Governance and Whistleblower Rewards: Balancing Prosocial Motivations with Monetary Incentives4
LSI volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Front matter4
Book Notes3
Law, Legal Socializations, and Epistemic Injustice3
Ethnographies of Counterterrorism Trials in India3
Revisiting the Concept of Voice: Expression of Grievances across the English and Welsh National Health Service3
LSI volume 50 issue 2 Cover and Back matter3
Erosion, Backsliding, or Abuse: Three Metaphors for Democratic Decline3
Toward a Sociology of International Law: John Hagan and Beyond3
The Lure of the Law for the Formerly Convicted: Pursuing the Legal Profession as a Resistance Strategy3
International Book Essay Section3
Justice in the Vernacular: An Anthropological Critique of Commensuration3
Contesting Caste: Institutionalized Oppression and Circumventive Legal Resistance3
Crimmigrating Narratives: Examining Third-Party Observations of US Detained Immigration Court3
Unspectacular Atrocities and the Aesthetics of International Trials3
Is White-Collar Crime White? Racialization in the National Press Coverage of White-Collar Crime from 1950 to 20103
LSI volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Back matter3
Appointed or Elected: How Justices on Elected State Supreme Courts Are Actually Selected2
New Approaches to Socio-legal Writing: Locating Sovereignty Between the State and Society in India2
Diverse Disconnectedness: Homophily, Social Capital Inequality, and Student Experiences in Law School2
International Book Essay Section2
Constitutional Roots of Judicial Populism in India2
Legal Consciousness and Vigilantism: Seeking Justice for Witchcraft Harms in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo2
Book Notes2
Book Notes2
Revolving Doors: Social Dimensions of Law Firm Culture and Pathways out of Firms2
Prefigurative Legality2
Measures of Justice: A Symposium in Honor of Sally Engle Merry (1944–2020)2
Court Watching’s Promise: A Preliminary Survey2
Money As Justice: Work-Related Deaths, Victim Workers’ Families, and Injustice in Turkey2
Authoritarian Legacies in Law and Democratic Backsliding: The Case of Turkey’s Specially Authorized Courts2
The Justice Gap for Unaccompanied Children in US Immigration Court: Rurality, Resources, and Client Characteristics as Determinants of Access to Counsel2
How the Public Became the Caller: The Emergence of Reactive Policing, 1880–19702
The Anthropology of Legal Form: Ethnographic Contributions to the Study of Transnational Law2
Democracies and Non-Democracies: The Use of International Law and Institutions2
Caring Like a State: Publicizing Family Caregiving through Medicalization2
From the “Legal Culture of Slavery” to Black Legal Culture: Reimagining the Implications and Meanings of Black Litigiousness in Slavery and Freedom2
“The Ancestral Line is through the Father”: The Gendered Production of Statelessness in Rural Myanmar2
Between Empires: Arab, Asian, and European Legal Orders in the Nineteenth-Century Indian Ocean1
LSI volume 50 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
The Price of Justice: The Bombay Legal Aid Society and the Birth of the Legal Aid Movement in Colonial India1
Legal Collusion: Legal Consciousness under China’s One-Child Policy1
Book Notes1
Are You Talking to Me? How Ideological and Gender Characteristics Moderate the Effect of Legitimizing Rhetoric on SCOTUS Legitimacy1
The Possibility of Rights Claims-Making in Court: Looking Back on Twenty-Five Years of Social Rights Constitutionalism in South Africa1
Representing Disability in Tort Litigation: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Discourse (1998–2018)1
International Book Essay Section1
How UN Counter-Terrorism Sanctions Are Made1
Book Notes1
Reparations, But for What? Presenting a New Approach to Coding Reparations1
International Book Essay Section1
LSI volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
International Book Essay Section1
LSI volume 50 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
The Re-Combinatory Nature of Property within Racial Regimes of Ownership1
Law versus Justice in International Atrocity Prosecutions1
Popular Constitutionalism in the US Empire: The Legal History of US Citizenship in Guam1
International Book Essay Section1
Darfur Model, Rwanda, and the ICTR: John Hagan’s Sociology of Genocide Continued1
The People’s Court: Dissonant Institutionalization and Judicial Populism in Pakistan1
A Battle of Ideas: Modes of Liability and Mass Atrocities1
Staging Legality: How Legitimacy Budgeting Codifies Symbolic Governance in China’s Charity Law1
LSI volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
(Re)constructing Prisoner Death Investigations: A Case Study of Suicide Investigations from England and Wales1
International Book Essay Section1
LSI volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
Transforming “Transformative Accommodation”: Palestinian-Muslim Women’s Maintenance Suits as a Case Study1
Book Notes1
LSI volume 50 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
Generative Constitutional Bricolage: From Thailand to Authoritarianism Elsewhere1
International Book Essay Section1
Children of War Resisters: Intergenerational Transmission of Activism, Political Orientation, Injustice Frames, and Law Resistance1
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
Legitimacy and the Problem of the Administrative State0
Book Notes0
“It Is Here We Are Loved”: Rural Place Attachment in Active Judging and Access to Justice0
Prison Disproportion in Democracies: A Comparative Analysis0
Preface: Gwendolyn J. Gordon0
Judicial Populism: A Conceptual and Normative Inquiry0
Supply Chain Governance at a Distance0
Reflecting on the Future of Human–Water Relationships0
The Logic of NIMBYism: Class, Race, and Stigma in the Making of California’s Legal Cannabis Market0
Reinventing “Youth” in Socio-Legal Studies0
Imprisonment and Human Rights in Israel: Uncertainty and Volatility0
The Rise of Women Lawyers in India0
The Politics of Legal Facts: The Erasure of Pushback Evidence from the European Court of Human Rights0
It’s (Not) Just Semantics: “Neurotechnology” as a Novel Space of Transnational Law0
“It Now Exists”: The Birth of the Chilean Professional Legal Academia in the Wake of Neoliberalism0
The Significance of Foreign Law: A Jamaican Case Study0
Book Notes0
The Supreme Court and the Allocation of Burden: Truncating the Voting Rights Act0
Exploring Back-end Sentencing: A Study of Predictors of Parole Revocation through a Focal Concerns Theoretical Framework0
Challenging the State? Lawyers and the Reformed Administrative Appeals System in Japan0
LSI volume 50 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Whistleblowing Decisions by Police Officers0
In Transit, Towards Transformation? Penal Change in Russia in a Contested Political Landscape0
Ideology and Historiographic License in Chinese Legal Scholarship0
Genocide: Theories of Participation and Opportunities for Intervention0
Dignity Defied: Legal-Rational Myths and the Surplus Legitimacy of the Carceral State0
Canceling Disputes: How Social Capital Affects the Arbitration of Disputes on Wikipedia0
Giving and Taking Voice: Metapragmatic Dismissals of Parents in Child Welfare Court Cases0
The Multiple Realities of Legal Objects: Accounting for ‘Ontological Discretion’ in Criminal Courts0
Africa and African Resources as a Terrain for Legal Mediation: From Françafrique to the Mobile Lawyering of Wall Street Firms0
Professional Liquidation in the Context of Autocratic Legalism: Lawyers, Class, and Status in Turkey, 2002–?0
Between Contestation and Support: Explaining Elites’ Confidence in the International Criminal Court0
Rights Constitutionalism and the Challenge of Belonging: An Empirical Inquiry into the Israeli Case0
Book Notes0
Regulating Arbitration Through Criminal Law: An Empirical Exploration of the Criminal Prosecution of Arbitrators in Mainland China0
Law’s Normative Influence on Gender Schemas: An Experimental Study on Counteracting Workplace Bias against Mothers and Caregivers0
LSI volume 50 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
The Cruel Optimism of International Prison Regulation: Prison Ontologies and Carceral Harms0
International Book Essay Section0
Same-sex Marriage Legalization and the Stigmas of LGBT Co-parenting in Taiwan0
Streets, Suites, and States: John Hagan’s Contributions to the Study of Law, Power, and Inequality0
Mercy and the Construction of Social Control: A Four-Site Analysis of Clemency0
Credit Cars: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Auto Loans0
The Ordinary, Liminal Lives of Informants in Participatory Dictatorships: Lessons for Transitional Justice0
Dynamic, Regressive, or Obstructionist Courts? What Kinds of Hopes for Judicial Review0
International Book Essay Section0
Rescaling the Legal Complex: Lawyers and the Resilience of the Liberal International Order0
The False Marking Gold Rush: A Case Study of the Private Enforcement of Public Laws0
“Poverty Has Nothing to Do with It”: Criministrative Law and a Call for Poverty Awareness in Child Protection Procedures in Israeli Juvenile Courts0
Book Notes0
Anti-trafficking Chains: Analyzing the Impact of Transparency Legislation in the UK Construction Sector0
Substituting Invalid Contract Terms: Theory and Preliminary Empirical Findings0
Islamic Law, Secularism, and the Modern State: Recasting a Scholarly Debate0
I Come before You a Changed Man: “Insight,” Compliance, and Refurbishing Penal Practice in California0
Stagnated, on the Verge of Breakthrough, or Both? The State of Big Theories of Legal Phenomena0
Religious Exemption, LGBT Rights, and the Social Construction of Harm and Freedom0
In Pursuit of Statehood: Palestinian Performativity in Human Rights Treaty Bodies0
Constitutionalism with Adjectives: Conceptual Innovation in the Comparative Study of Law0
Contested Knowledge, the Politics of Memory, and the Armenian Genocide0
Exclusion from Within: Noncitizens and the Rise of Discriminatory Licensing Laws0
Saying What the Law Is0
Vacationing on a Tax Haven : Law, Visitor Economy, and Offshore Finance in Puerto Rico0
The New Politics of Judicial Appointments in Southern Africa0
The Classroom and the Yard: The Contrasting Context of Prison Higher Education and Its Role in Racial Bias Mitigation0
When Loan Sharks Become Litigious: Courts, Informal Finance, and Access to Justice in China0
Beyond US Models of Judicial Behavior: Choosing Constitutional Judges in Chile and Colombia0
Judging for the People: Public Interest and Public Spectacle0
The Unintended Consequences of Judicial Valiance0
Book Notes0
Why Did They Take on Difficult Cases? Judicial Entrepreneurship in Bankruptcy Enforcement in Wenzhou, China0
The Evolution and Implementation of Norway’s Ultimate Penalty: An Exceptional Approach to Life Imprisonment?0
Adminigration: City-Level Governance of Immigrant Community Members0
LSI volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
LSI volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Does Procedural Fairness Impact Public Perception of Judicial Opinions? Evidence from a Survey Experiment0
Frontline Enforcement in the Age of Information0
Peacekeeper-perpetrated sexual exploitation and abuse in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Legal pluralism and legal recession0
Justice Sites and the Fight against Atrocity Crimes0
Protecting the Rights of Children and Young People in Detention: Evaluating Credibility and Effectiveness of Human Rights Monitoring Bodies0
Signing CEDAW and Women’s Rights: Human Rights Treaty Signature and Legal Mobilization0
Armenia, Gaza, and the Trouble of Political Trial0
The Search for Universal Laws0
Misrecognitions of Victimhood: Discretionary Power of Street-level Bureaucrats in Humanitarian Visas0
LSI volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Macro-criminology and Freedom: The Durability of Later John Braithwaite0
Contestation in Global Norm Making0
The Knowns and Unknowns of Repression under Authoritarianism: How the Focus of Transitional Justice Shapes the Quality of Democracy0
The Boundaries of Twenty-first-Century Policing0
A Political Theology of Law0
Pathways to Eviction0
Wrongfully Convicted and in Lock-Up: Understanding Innocence and the Development of Legal Consciousness behind Prison Walls – CORRIGENDUM0
Good Bye, Liberal-Legal Democracy!0
LSI volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Racialized Legalities: The Rule of Law, Race, and the Protection of Women in Britain’s Crown Colonies, 1886–18900
The Shadow of the Law: Adversarial Formalism in Prisoner-Staff Relations0
Xenophobia in Juror Decision-Making0
Degradation or Redemption? A Parole Board Polices a Moral Boundary0
The Anthropocene in Law and Society Research0
Not “Civilized” Enough to Be Taxed: Indigeneity, Citizenship, and the 1919 Alaska School Tax0
Strong-arm Sobriety: Addressing Precarity through Probation0
The Death Penalty in Black and White: Execution Coverage in Two Southern Newspapers, 1877–19360
International Book Essay Section0
With the Law or against the Law? A Qualitative Analysis of the Development and Outcomes of Legal Consciousness among Law-Abiding Firearms Owners0
Deciding without Deliberating: Voices from Brazilian Jurors0
Thinking Holistically About Procedural Justice in Alternative Dispute Resolution: A Case Study of the German Federal Ombudsman Scheme0
Understanding Legal Convergence: Economic Theories and Alternatives0
Legal Reasoning and the Rise of Judicial Authority in Vietnam0
LSI volume 47 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Social Norms 2.0: From Private Governance to Co-Evolution0
Law’s Moral Legitimacy and the Future of Asia-Based Legal Consciousness Studies0
US Asylum Lawyering and Temporal Violence0
The Drunkometer and the Birth of Chemical Citizenship: How the Original Breathalyzer Reconfigured the Relationship between the State and the Body0
When More Leads to More: Constitutional Amendments and Interpretation in Mexico 1917-2020 – CORRIGENDUM0
Book Notes0
Homeless Group Representation in Detroit’s Problem-Solving Court0
Judicial Populism and Corruption Prosecutions in the Mani Pulite Operation0
Broadening the Lens of Procedural Justice Beyond the Courtroom: A Case Study of Legal Financial Obligations in the Juvenile Court0
Violence against Women and Specialized Justice in Guatemala: Advances and Limitations0
How Minimum Sentences Benefit Offenders—The Case of Suspended Sentences0
Many Shades of Success: Bottom-up Indicators of Individual Success in Community Courts0
Can Liberal Constitutionalism Survive the Rise of the Megacity?0
Legal and Cultural Construction of the Maori Corporate Person0
California Civil Asset Forfeiture and the Policing of Minority Residents0
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