Law and Social Inquiry-Journal of the American Bar Foundation

Papers
(The TQCC of Law and Social Inquiry-Journal of the American Bar Foundation is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
LSI volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Back matter20
Taxation, Lactation, and Validation: The Symbolic Power of Tax Law to Legitimize Breast Milk Expression17
The Policy Impact of Court Decisions in Latin America and South Asia17
Revealing the Hidden Influencers: Euro-Lawyers as Ghostwriters of European Legal Integration16
The Failed Idea of Judicial Restraint: A Brief Intellectual History15
A Fair Process Matters: The Relationship between Public Participation and Constitutional Legitimacy14
Agency Entrenchment: Sociological Legitimacy in a Politically Contested Occupation13
From Taxi to Didi: Voice and Balancing in the Industrial Transition12
Public Participation, Group Inclusion, and the Durability of National Constitutions11
Symbolic Rule of Law Promotion11
International Book Essay Section10
Understanding China’s Social Policies and Practices9
African Constitutionalism: Between Power, Persuasion, and Irrelevance?9
Law and the Political Discourse of Skill9
LSI volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Back matter9
Constituting Religious Conflict in a Multicultural State9
Subduing Asylum-Seekers’ Voices: Narrative Genres and the Impossibility of Credibility Tests During Refugee Status Determination Hearings9
“Pimping in the Non-Traditional Sense”: How Police Discretion and Abuse Allowed Authorities to Benefit from the Labor of Sex Workers in Late-1970s and Early-1980s Boston8
State-Sponsored Activism: How China’s Law Reforms Impact NGOs’ Legal Practice8
The Atrato River as a Bearer and Co-creator of Rights: Unveiling Black People’s Legal Mobilization Processes in Colombia8
Conscience and Convenience: How Social Workers Pursue Rehabilitation in Chinese Community Corrections8
State-Enabled Killing of Same-Sex-Attracted People: A Legal Pluralist Account7
The Making of Colonial and Postcolonial Law by South Asian Muslims7
When More Leads to More: Constitutional Amendments and Interpretation in Mexico 1917-20207
How Should Courts Respond to Political Questions? Exploring the Dialogical Turn in the Supreme Court of Canada’s Federalism and Indigenous Case Law7
Business Courts as Loci of Privilege: The Business Judgment Rule Abroad7
LSI volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Back matter6
The States of Inequality: Methods for Mapping Legal Pluralism in Reproductive Autonomy6
LSI volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter6
Marginalized Identity and Active Resistance: Milwaukee Socialists and German-Americans During World War I6
A Network Analysis of Judicial Cross-Citations in Europe6
Property Markers and the Hassle of Leniency: Building Code Enforcement in the Courtroom6
Uncertainty and Condemnation. An Experimental Study on Lay and Expert Intuitions Regarding the Object of Criminal Punishment6
Threat to Family Stability or Social Stability? Domestic Violence Protection Orders in Two Chinese Courts6
Judging Genocide: Emotional Labor During Transitional Justice5
Book Notes5
Book Notes5
Lawyering in Hard Places: Comparative Dispatches from the Margins of Legality5
Preference or Penalty? The Law and Employers’ Diverging Hiring Intentions of Latino Immigrants5
Rethinking Inclusion: Ideal Minorities, Inclusion Cultures, and Identity Capitals in the Legal Profession5
LSI volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Back matter5
LSI volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Front matter5
What’s Law Got To Do with It?: Anthropological Engagement with Legal Scholarship5
“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
Remembering Internet Openness: From the Information Age to the Disinformation Era5
India’s Quotidian Constitution5
The Global Contention for Law’s “Special Character”5
“He Is Still Your Father”: Tetherings, Social Welfare, and Troubled Parental Maintenance Litigation in Taiwan5
Environmental Governance and Whistleblower Rewards: Balancing Prosocial Motivations with Monetary Incentives4
Undignified Jurispathy: Muslim Family Law at Ghanaian Courts4
Why Do In-State Plaintiffs Invoke Diversity Jurisdiction?4
The Judge Is “No Snitch”: A Progressive Era Collision between Juvenile Justice and Criminal Law4
Reimagining Public Safety: Defining “Community” in Participatory Research4
International Book Essay Section4
Contesting Caste: Institutionalized Oppression and Circumventive Legal Resistance4
LSI volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Back matter4
Anticarceral Feminisms, Penal Violence Against Women, and the Limits of Human Rights: Grassroots Knowledge from Ecuador4
Militarism and Law in Africa: A Governing Paradox4
Book Notes4
Erosion, Backsliding, or Abuse: Three Metaphors for Democratic Decline4
From the “Legal Culture of Slavery” to Black Legal Culture: Reimagining the Implications and Meanings of Black Litigiousness in Slavery and Freedom3
Book Notes3
Unspectacular Atrocities and the Aesthetics of International Trials3
Ethnographies of Counterterrorism Trials in India3
LSI volume 50 issue 2 Cover and Back matter3
Legal Consciousness and Vigilantism: Seeking Justice for Witchcraft Harms in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo3
LSI volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Back matter3
Revisiting the Concept of Voice: Expression of Grievances across the English and Welsh National Health Service3
Justice in the Vernacular: An Anthropological Critique of Commensuration3
Is White-Collar Crime White? Racialization in the National Press Coverage of White-Collar Crime from 1950 to 20103
Authoritarian Legacies in Law and Democratic Backsliding: The Case of Turkey’s Specially Authorized Courts3
“The Ancestral Line is through the Father”: The Gendered Production of Statelessness in Rural Myanmar3
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
Book Notes2
Diverse Disconnectedness: Homophily, Social Capital Inequality, and Student Experiences in Law School2
Navigating Codified Gender Inequality: Drivers of Legal Practice in Iranian Family Lawyers’ Approaches to Divorce2
Democracies and Non-Democracies: The Use of International Law and Institutions2
International Book Essay Section2
Caring Like a State: Publicizing Family Caregiving through Medicalization2
Reparations, But for What? Presenting a New Approach to Coding Reparations2
International Book Essay Section2
The Anthropology of Legal Form: Ethnographic Contributions to the Study of Transnational Law2
Rethinking Europe’s Margins: Between Fortress Europe and Its Invisibilized Internal Others2
Court Watching’s Promise: A Preliminary Survey2
Revolving Doors: Social Dimensions of Law Firm Culture and Pathways out of Firms2
The Justice Gap for Unaccompanied Children in US Immigration Court: Rurality, Resources, and Client Characteristics as Determinants of Access to Counsel2
Measures of Justice: A Symposium in Honor of Sally Engle Merry (1944–2020)2
LSI volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter2
How the Public Became the Caller: The Emergence of Reactive Policing, 1880–19702
Constitutional Roots of Judicial Populism in India2
Prefigurative Legality2
New Approaches to Socio-legal Writing: Locating Sovereignty Between the State and Society in India2
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