Law and Social Inquiry-Journal of the American Bar Foundation

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(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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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LSI volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Back matter26
International Book Essay Section22
Agency Entrenchment: Sociological Legitimacy in a Politically Contested Occupation13
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 Expression10
From Thin to Thick Justice and Beyond: Access to Justice and Legal Pluralism in Indigenous Taiwan9
Revealing the Hidden Influencers: Euro-Lawyers as Ghostwriters of European Legal Integration9
A Fair Process Matters: The Relationship between Public Participation and Constitutional Legitimacy8
From Taxi to Didi: Voice and Balancing in the Industrial Transition8
The Policy Impact of Court Decisions in Latin America and South Asia8
The Failed Idea of Judicial Restraint: A Brief Intellectual History8
Understanding China’s Social Policies and Practices7
LSI volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Back matter7
International Book Essay Section6
Law and the Political Discourse of Skill6
The Gender Pay Gap and High-Achieving Women in the Legal Profession5
Constituting Religious Conflict in a Multicultural State5
State-Sponsored Activism: How China’s Law Reforms Impact NGOs’ Legal Practice5
African Constitutionalism: Between Power, Persuasion, and Irrelevance?5
Subduing Asylum-Seekers’ Voices: Narrative Genres and the Impossibility of Credibility Tests During Refugee Status Determination Hearings5
The Atrato River as a Bearer and Co-creator of Rights: Unveiling Black People’s Legal Mobilization Processes in Colombia4
Marginalized Identity and Active Resistance: Milwaukee Socialists and German-Americans During World War I4
Business Courts as Loci of Privilege: The Business Judgment Rule Abroad4
Conscience and Convenience: How Social Workers Pursue Rehabilitation in Chinese Community Corrections4
When More Leads to More: Constitutional Amendments and Interpretation in Mexico 1917-20204
Gramophones, Paper Money, and Brimmed Hats: Sharia under Colonial Rule4
Rethinking Sanctuary: The Origins of Non-Cooperation Policies in Social Welfare Agencies4
“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
India’s Quotidian Constitution3
Torture in Thailand at the Limits of Law3
LSI volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Back matter3
Judging Genocide: Emotional Labor During Transitional Justice3
A Network Analysis of Judicial Cross-Citations in Europe3
Threat to Family Stability or Social Stability? Domestic Violence Protection Orders in Two Chinese Courts3
Book Notes3
Book Notes3
The States of Inequality: Methods for Mapping Legal Pluralism in Reproductive Autonomy3
State-Enabled Killing of Same-Sex-Attracted People: A Legal Pluralist Account3
The Making of Colonial and Postcolonial Law by South Asian Muslims3
Rethinking Inclusion: Ideal Minorities, Inclusion Cultures, and Identity Capitals in the Legal Profession3
LSI volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Front matter3
LSI volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter3
Political Divide, Weak Property Rights, and Infrastructure Provision: An Empirical Examination of Takings Decisions in Jerusalem3
Property Markers and the Hassle of Leniency: Building Code Enforcement in the Courtroom3
How Should Courts Respond to Political Questions? Exploring the Dialogical Turn in the Supreme Court of Canada’s Federalism and Indigenous Case Law3
Uncertainty and Condemnation. An Experimental Study on Lay and Expert Intuitions Regarding the Object of Criminal Punishment3
Undignified Jurispathy: Muslim Family Law at Ghanaian Courts2
Lawyering in Hard Places: Comparative Dispatches from the Margins of Legality2
Crimmigrating Narratives: Examining Third-Party Observations of US Detained Immigration Court2
Justice in the Vernacular: An Anthropological Critique of Commensuration2
The Lure of the Law for the Formerly Convicted: Pursuing the Legal Profession as a Resistance Strategy2
Erosion, Backsliding, or Abuse: Three Metaphors for Democratic Decline2
Lawfare and Security Labor: Subjectification and Subjugation of Police Workers in India2
Reimagining Public Safety: Defining “Community” in Participatory Research2
Environmental Governance and Whistleblower Rewards: Balancing Prosocial Motivations with Monetary Incentives2
“He Is Still Your Father”: Tetherings, Social Welfare, and Troubled Parental Maintenance Litigation in Taiwan2
Book Notes2
Why Do In-State Plaintiffs Invoke Diversity Jurisdiction?2
Long-Term Contractual Commitments and Our Future Selves2
Unspectacular Atrocities and the Aesthetics of International Trials2
LSI volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Back matter2
International Book Essay Section2
What’s Law Got To Do with It?: Anthropological Engagement with Legal Scholarship2
Militarism and Law in Africa: A Governing Paradox2
The Global Contention for Law’s “Special Character”2
LSI volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Back matter2
LSI volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Back matter2
International Book Essay Section2
Toward a Sociology of International Law: John Hagan and Beyond2
Law, Legal Socializations, and Epistemic Injustice2
Contesting Caste: Institutionalized Oppression and Circumventive Legal Resistance2
Anthropologists as Experts: Cultural Expertise, Colonialism, and Positionality2
Preference or Penalty? The Law and Employers’ Diverging Hiring Intentions of Latino Immigrants2
“The Ancestral Line is through the Father”: The Gendered Production of Statelessness in Rural Myanmar1
Appointed or Elected: How Justices on Elected State Supreme Courts Are Actually Selected1
International Book Essay Section1
Captured Courts and Legitimized Autocrats: Transforming Kazakhstan’s Constitutional Court1
A Battle of Ideas: Modes of Liability and Mass Atrocities1
Revolving Doors: Social Dimensions of Law Firm Culture and Pathways out of Firms1
Law and Its Other: The Everyday Life of Crime in Post–Civil War Nigeria1
The People’s Court: Dissonant Institutionalization and Judicial Populism in Pakistan1
Before and After Ban the Box: Who Complies with Anti-Discrimination Law?1
LSI volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
International Book Essay Section1
The Anatomy of the Rise and Demise of the World Trading System1
Competing Allies: Legal Pluralism, and Gendered Agency in Mumbai’sShariaCourts1
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
Court Watching’s Promise: A Preliminary Survey1
Legal Consciousness and Vigilantism: Seeking Justice for Witchcraft Harms in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo1
Authoritarian Legacies in Law and Democratic Backsliding: The Case of Turkey’s Specially Authorized Courts1
Is White-Collar Crime White? Racialization in the National Press Coverage of White-Collar Crime from 1950 to 20101
Wrongfully Convicted and in Lock-Up: Understanding Innocence and the Development of Legal Consciousness behind Prison Walls1
Constitutional Roots of Judicial Populism in India1
International Book Essay Section1
Prefigurative Legality1
(Re)constructing Prisoner Death Investigations: A Case Study of Suicide Investigations from England and Wales1
From Datafication to Data State: Making Sense of China’s Social Credit System and Its Implications1
From Global Interventionism to Domestic Police Militarization: The Transnational Routes of American Policing1
How the Public Became the Caller: The Emergence of Reactive Policing, 1880–19701
Book Notes1
Persistence Despite Change: The Academic Gender Gap in Australian Law Schools1
LSI volume 47 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
Measures of Justice: A Symposium in Honor of Sally Engle Merry (1944–2020)1
Book Notes1
From the “Legal Culture of Slavery” to Black Legal Culture: Reimagining the Implications and Meanings of Black Litigiousness in Slavery and Freedom1
LSI volume 50 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
Revisiting the Concept of Voice: Expression of Grievances across the English and Welsh National Health Service1
LSI volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
The Anthropology of Legal Form: Ethnographic Contributions to the Study of Transnational Law1
Property Rights: (Probabilistically) Necessary or Sufficient for Economic Development in China and Beyond?1
Diverse Disconnectedness: Homophily, Social Capital Inequality, and Student Experiences in Law School1
Between Empires: Arab, Asian, and European Legal Orders in the Nineteenth-Century Indian Ocean1
Dynamic and Constrained: Using the Judiciary to Pursue Social Justice in India1
How UN Counter-Terrorism Sanctions Are Made1
Book Notes1
Reparations, But for What? Presenting a New Approach to Coding Reparations1
Book Notes1
Can Liberal Constitutionalism Survive the Rise of the Megacity?0
Religious Exemption, LGBT Rights, and the Social Construction of Harm and Freedom0
Pathways to Eviction0
Ways of Seeing Advertising: Law and the Making of Visual Commercial Culture0
Contested Knowledge, the Politics of Memory, and the Armenian Genocide0
The Logic of NIMBYism: Class, Race, and Stigma in the Making of California’s Legal Cannabis Market0
The Anthropocene in Law and Society Research0
LSI volume 47 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Streets, Suites, and States: John Hagan’s Contributions to the Study of Law, Power, and Inequality0
Opening the Gender Box: Legibility Dilemmas and Gender Data Collection on U.S. State Government Forms0
Book Notes0
Modeling Repressive Policing: Computational Analysis of Protocols from the Israeli State Commission of Inquiry into the October 2000 Events0
The Evolution and Implementation of Norway’s Ultimate Penalty: An Exceptional Approach to Life Imprisonment?0
Anti-trafficking Chains: Analyzing the Impact of Transparency Legislation in the UK Construction Sector0
The Rise of Women Lawyers in India0
Book Notes0
Homeless Group Representation in Detroit’s Problem-Solving Court0
Mercy and the Construction of Social Control: A Four-Site Analysis of Clemency0
Book Notes0
International Book Essay Section0
Peacekeeper-perpetrated sexual exploitation and abuse in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Legal pluralism and legal recession0
Racial Disparities in Lifer Parole Outcomes: The Hidden Role of Professional Evaluations0
“It Is Here We Are Loved”: Rural Place Attachment in Active Judging and Access to Justice0
Saying What the Law Is0
The Search for Universal Laws0
The Classroom and the Yard: The Contrasting Context of Prison Higher Education and Its Role in Racial Bias Mitigation0
Broadening the Lens of Procedural Justice Beyond the Courtroom: A Case Study of Legal Financial Obligations in the Juvenile Court0
A Political Theology of Law0
Strong-arm Sobriety: Addressing Precarity through Probation0
Whither Chinese Courts and What Their Future Will Tell Us About Non-Chinese Courts0
Ethnography at an Intersection: Law, Anti-Trafficking NGOs, and Prostitution in India0
Violence against Women and Specialized Justice in Guatemala: Advances and Limitations0
The Politics of Legal Facts: The Erasure of Pushback Evidence from the European Court of Human Rights0
Degradation or Redemption? A Parole Board Polices a Moral Boundary0
Order in the Bazaar: The Transformation of Non-state Law in Afghanistan’s Premier Money Exchange Market0
Book Notes0
Book Notes0
Canceling Disputes: How Social Capital Affects the Arbitration of Disputes on Wikipedia0
Unlawful Intimacy: The Criminalization of Interracial Relationships in Progressive-Era Chicago0
Judicial Loyalty to the Military in Authoritarian Regimes: How the Courts Are Militarized in Myanmar0
The Death Penalty in Black and White: Execution Coverage in Two Southern Newspapers, 1877–19360
Analyzing Contracts: State of the Field, Mixed-Methods Guiding Steps, and an Illustrative Example0
The Shadow of the Law: Adversarial Formalism in Prisoner-Staff Relations0
Beyond US Models of Judicial Behavior: Choosing Constitutional Judges in Chile and Colombia0
Measuring Up: A Dialogical Model for Assuring a Reparative Process0
Islamic Law, Secularism, and the Modern State: Recasting a Scholarly Debate0
“Tighten, Cull and Focus”: An Experiment Examining Lay and Lawyer Claims in a Mock Online Court0
Contestation in Global Norm Making0
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
The Boundaries of Twenty-first-Century Policing0
Navigating Colonial Law in a “Sea of Islands”0
Supply Chain Governance at a Distance0
It’s (Not) Just Semantics: “Neurotechnology” as a Novel Space of Transnational Law0
When More Leads to More: Constitutional Amendments and Interpretation in Mexico 1917-2020 – CORRIGENDUM0
LSI volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
US Asylum Lawyering and Temporal Violence0
LSI volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Witnessing Violence, Witnessing as Violence: Police Torture and Power in Twentieth-Century India0
Case Sensitive: Lawyers and the Formation of Legal Arguments in Tanzania0
The Paradox of Justice: From Transitional to Everyday Justice0
Wrongfully Convicted and in Lock-Up: Understanding Innocence and the Development of Legal Consciousness behind Prison Walls – CORRIGENDUM0
Cyborgs, Torturers, and the Making of Forensic Psychological Knowledge0
The Supreme Court and the Allocation of Burden: Truncating the Voting Rights Act0
California Civil Asset Forfeiture and the Policing of Minority Residents0
Understanding the Local Complexities in Land Law Reforms: The Case of Land Inalienability in Ethiopia, 1991–20180
Ideology and Historiographic License in Chinese Legal Scholarship0
International Book Essay Section0
Whistleblowing Decisions by Police Officers0
Credit Cars: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Auto Loans0
The Knowns and Unknowns of Repression under Authoritarianism: How the Focus of Transitional Justice Shapes the Quality of Democracy0
Condominium to the Country: The Sprawl of Ownership within Private Local Government in British Columbia0
Reflecting on the Future of Human–Water Relationships0
With the Law or against the Law? A Qualitative Analysis of the Development and Outcomes of Legal Consciousness among Law-Abiding Firearms Owners0
Book Notes – CORRIGENDUM0
Postscript: Corporate Person Potentialities0
Monitoring Prisons in Europe: Understanding Perspectives of People in Prison and Prison Staff0
Reinventing “Youth” in Socio-Legal Studies0
The Family Friendliness That Wasn’t: Access, but Not Progress, for Women in the Czech Judiciary0
Rescaling the Legal Complex: Lawyers and the Resilience of the Liberal International Order0
Anti-Carceral Approaches to Addressing Harms Against Animals: Considerations on Multispecies Restorative and Transformative Justice0
Exclusion from Within: Noncitizens and the Rise of Discriminatory Licensing Laws0
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 Front matter0
Exploring Back-end Sentencing: A Study of Predictors of Parole Revocation through a Focal Concerns Theoretical Framework0
The Conflicting Uses of Prison Visitation in Mandate Palestine0
Professional Liquidation in the Context of Autocratic Legalism: Lawyers, Class, and Status in Turkey, 2002–?0
Bad Queers: LGBTQ People and the Carceral State in Modern America0
Substituting Invalid Contract Terms: Theory and Preliminary Empirical Findings0
LSI volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
In Pursuit of Statehood: Palestinian Performativity in Human Rights Treaty Bodies0
LSI volume 47 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Thinking Holistically About Procedural Justice in Alternative Dispute Resolution: A Case Study of the German Federal Ombudsman Scheme0
Should Nature Have Rights? Orthodoxy and Innovation0
The New Politics of Judicial Appointments in Southern Africa0
Don’t Call It a Failure: Systemic Risk Governance for Complex Financial Systems0
Punishment by Association: The Burden of Attending Court for Legal Bystanders0
How Minimum Sentences Benefit Offenders—The Case of Suspended Sentences0
Prosecutors’ Habituation of Emotion Management in Swedish Courts0
The Process of Legal Institutionalization: How Privacy Jurisprudence Turned towards the US Constitution and the American State0
Inequality and the Human Right to Tuition-Free Higher Education: Mobilizing Human Rights Law in the German Movement against Tuition Fees0
LSI volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Signing CEDAW and Women’s Rights: Human Rights Treaty Signature and Legal Mobilization0
Armenia, Gaza, and the Trouble of Political Trial0
Dignity Defied: Legal-Rational Myths and the Surplus Legitimacy of the Carceral State0
Rights Constitutionalism and the Challenge of Belonging: An Empirical Inquiry into the Israeli Case0
Giving and Taking Voice: Metapragmatic Dismissals of Parents in Child Welfare Court Cases0
Macro-criminology and Freedom: The Durability of Later John Braithwaite0
LSI volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
The False Marking Gold Rush: A Case Study of the Private Enforcement of Public Laws0
Between Contestation and Support: Explaining Elites’ Confidence in the International Criminal Court0
LSI volume 50 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Legal and Cultural Construction of the Maori Corporate Person0
Dynamic, Regressive, or Obstructionist Courts? What Kinds of Hopes for Judicial Review0
Administering New Anti-Bullying Law: The Organizational Field and School Variation During Initial Implementation0
Judicial Populism: A Conceptual and Normative Inquiry0
Law between Empires: Bengal under British Rule in the Age of Revolutions0
The Cruel Optimism of International Prison Regulation: Prison Ontologies and Carceral Harms0
Stagnated, on the Verge of Breakthrough, or Both? The State of Big Theories of Legal Phenomena0
Prison Disproportion in Democracies: A Comparative Analysis0
Strategic Adaptation in a Crisis: Treatment Court Responses to COVID-190
Racialized Legalities: The Rule of Law, Race, and the Protection of Women in Britain’s Crown Colonies, 1886–18900
The Significance of Foreign Law: A Jamaican Case Study0
Preface: Gwendolyn J. Gordon0
Book Notes0
Empowering Victimhood Through Litigation: Trials from the Jeju April 3 Uprising and Political Repression0
Protecting the Script of the Japanese Criminal Justice System0
Critical Theory in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: How to Regulate the Production and Use of Personal Information in the Digital Age0
Frontline Enforcement in the Age of Information0
LSI volume 47 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Rethinking Marriage: Blurring the “Legal” and the “Social”0
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