Social & Legal Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Social & Legal Studies 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Book Review: The Rise of Mass Advertising: Law, Enchantment, and the Cultural Boundaries of British Modernity16
The Lesser of Two Evils? Explaining Chinese Rural Migrant Workers’ Preference for On-demand Food Delivery Work With Reference to the Legal Framework14
Problematising the ‘Man Problem’ in the Domestic Abuse Act: Discursive Co-option and The (In)Visibility of Gender13
Understanding Populism12
Kinder Justice: Communicating Legitimacy to Children in Sentencing Courts12
Access to Justice for Immigrant Women Facing Domestic Violence in Sweden11
Affects of Objectivity: Decision-Making Practices in the Dutch Asylum Procedure11
Book Review: The Informational Logic of Human Rights: Network Imaginaries in the Cybernetic Age10
A Precondition for Justice: Political Listening, Feminism and Sexual Violence8
‘Gold Standard' Legislation for Adults Only: Reconceptualising Children as ‘Adjoined Victims' Under the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 20188
Book Review: Historical Criminology8
Violence, Misrecognition, and Place: Legal Envelopment and Colonial Governmentality in the Upper Skeena River, British Columbia, 18888
Revisiting Polish Abortion Law: Doctors and Institutions in a Restrictive Regime7
Conceptualising Coercion in Child/Forced Marriage Through an Intersectional lens: Narratives of Survivors and Practitioners in the US6
Autocratic Legalism and Juridical Veto: Reflections on Politics and the Law in India5
Storytelling and Listening in Transitional Justice Processes: Addressing the Marginalisation of More-than-Human Worlds5
Tokenizing and Articulating Protection of Women in Migration Law: Strategies of Exclusion in Contemporary Europe and the Nineteenth-Century USA5
Book Review: Gender Recognition and the Law: Troubling Transgender Peoples’ Engagement with Legal Regulation5
Justice in Contention: The Dynamics of Legal Mobilisation in Caimanes’ Environmental Struggle5
The Ethics of Capital Punishment and a Law of Affective Enchantment5
Echoes and Antibodies: Legal Veridiction and the Emergence of the Perpetual Hepatitis C Subject5
Book Review: Transnational Law and State Transformation. The Case of Extractive Development in Mongolia4
Book Review: Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi4
Registering the Everyday: Documents, Bureaucracy, and the Socio-Legal4
Mournful Mothers and Damaged Damsels: Are We Really Listening to Women During Parliamentary Human Rights Scrutiny?4
Book Review: The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market Capture4
Book Review: A Philosophical History of Police Power by MELAYNA KAY LAMB LAMBMELAYNA KAY. A Philosophical History of Police Power. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024, pp.4
The Courtroom as Four Landscapes: Reflections on Terrorism Trials Through Ethnographic Research4
Abortion Anarchy? The Case for Abortion Decriminalization4
Two Roads Converge: The Interchange Between the Mental Health and Legal Discourses in Sexual Assault Trials4
Drug Violence, War-Crime Distinction, and Hierarchies of Victimhood4
Pressing Evidence: Activating Khmer Rouge Archives4
Jurisdictional Relationships: Democracy and the Administrative State Through the Lens of Caring Society v Canada3
Book Review: Africa and the Backlash Against International Courts by Peter Brett and Line Engbo Gissel3
Bringing Sociology of Law Back into Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology: Elements of Bourdieu's Sociology of Law and Dispute Transformation3
The Legal Profession in Battle: Cause Lawyers Versus State-Embedded Lawyers in Hong Kong's Democratization3
Book Review: Criminal Legalities and Minorities in the Global South: Rights and Resistance in a Decolonial World3
Book Review: The Stains of Imprisonment. Moral Communication and Men Convicted of Sex Offenses by ALICE IEVINS3
Judges’ Understanding of Protests and the Cultural Underpinnings of Legal Repression: Examining Hong Kong Court Verdicts3
Queer Conflicts, Concept Capture and Category Co-Option: The Importance of Context in the State Collection and Recording of Sex/Gender Data3
‘Legal Marriage is Paperwork Day’: Independent Celebrant-Led Wedding Ceremonies as a Critical Institutional Response to Changing Social Norms3
Silence and Voice in Oral Hearings: Spatial, Temporal, and Relational Conditions for Communication in Asylum and Compulsory Care Hearings2
Acts of Violence? Anti-Conversion Laws in India2
Book Review: White Supremacy, Racism and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking2
Settler Colonialism and the South African TRC: Ambivalent Denial and Democratisation Without Decolonisation2
Within and Beyond Transitional Justice Shadows: Rallying Social Movements, Re-sculpting Agendas, Re-centring Historical Injustices2
Book Review: Criminal Justice and The Ideal Defendant in the Making of Remorse and Responsibility FIELDSTEWART AND TATACYRUS (EDS), Criminal Justice and The Ideal Defendant in the Making of Remorse an2
Believing Asylum-Seeking Women: Doing Gender in Legal Narratives of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence2
Unionising Sex Workers and Other Feminists2
In What Sense Does Right-Wing Populism Pose a Democratic Challenge for the European Union?2
‘The Irregular’ and the Unmaking of Minority Citizenship: The Rules of Law in Majoritarian India2
“The Law is too Grey”: Liminal Legality and Moral Injury in Encounters with Drug Law Enforcement2
Civil Legal Services and Survivor-Defined Justice: A Qualitative Study with US Civil Legal Attorneys for Sexual Assault Survivors2
Does Gender Blindness Improve Gender Equality? Female Judges and the Glass Ceiling Effect in the Islamic Judicial System in Indonesia2
Embedding digital economy: Fictitious triple movement in the European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act2
Forensic Radiology and the Testimony of Shadows2
Learning Lessons from the Populist Defeats: From Negative to Positive Constitutionalism2
Anti-pluralism, Labour Market Policy and the Pandemic: Political Uses and Social Consequences of COVID-19 in Hungary2
Book Review: The Spaces of Mental Capacity Law: Moving Beyond Binaries2
Book Review: The Color of Creatorship: Intellectual Property, Race, and the Making of Americans2
Living with a Sense of a Right to Hope2
The Changing Natures of the Medical Register: Doctors, Precarity, and Crisis2
Coloniality, Belonging and Citizenship Deprivation in the UK: Exploring Judicial Responses2
“Yo sí te Creo”: Alcohol-facilitated sexual violence among young women in the Spanish night-time economy2
Health Inequalities: Law & the Pain of Others2
The Form of Forms: Everyday Enablers of Access to Justice2
‘Circling the Drain’: The Emotional ‘Dirty’ Work of Legal Aid Workers1
Digital Colonialism Beyond Surveillance Capitalism? Coloniality of Knowledge in Nigeria's Emerging Privacy Rights Legislation and Border Surveillance Practices1
Book Review: Children’s Rights, ‘Foreign Fighters’, Counter-Terrorism: Children of Nowhere by RUMYANA VAN ARK, DEVYANI PRABHAT AND FAITH GORDON1
Moving Beyond Formal Truth Practices and Forensic Truth in the Syrian Conflict: How Informal Truth Practices Contribute to Thicker Understandings of Truth1
Who is the Addict-Offender? A Historical Ontology1
Pragmatic Punitiveness: The Institutionalization of Criminal Domestic Violence Protection Orders1
Book Review: Essentially a Mother: A Feminist Approach to the Law of Pregnancy and Motherhood1
Insult, Charisma, and Legitimacy: Turkey's Transition to Personalist Rule1
Book Review: Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts1
Introduction: Democratic Constitutionalism in a Populist Age1
Book Review: Paradigms in Modern European Comparative Law. A History1
Housing and Social Control: Reassessing the Protection Asymmetries of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights1
Book Review: Internet of Things and the Law: Legal Strategies for Consumer-Centric Smart Technologies1
Efficiency Over Accuracy?: Exploring Front-Line Practitioners’ Experiences and Opinions on the “Guilty Plea System”1
‘I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar!’: #March4Justice and the Desire for Law to Listen1
A Chronotopic Evaluation of Autonomous Rog: The Spatiotemporalities of a “Quasi-Public” Urban Squat1
Book Review: The Justice of Humans: Subject, Society and Sexual Violence in International Criminal Justice1
Coercion, Control and Criminal Responsibility: Exploring Professional Responses to Offending and Suicidality in the Context of Domestically Abusive Relationships1
Trafficking, Rape, or Deceptive Sex? A Historical Examination of Procurement Offences in England1
Book Review: Criminal Justice in Austerity – Legal Aid, Prosecution and the Future of Criminal Legal Practice JAMES THORNTON, Criminal Justice in Austerity – Legal Aid, Prosecution and the Future of C1
The Language of Violence: Exploring the Contested Relationship Between Violence Against Women and Sex-Work/Prostitution1
Book Review: Planetary Social Thought: The Anthropocene Challenge to the Social Sciences1
Legal Change and Legal Mobilisation: What Does Strategic Litigation Mean for Workers and Trade Unions?1
Book Review: Neoliberalism and Punishment by IGNACIO GONZÁLEZ SÁNCHEZ SÁNCHEZIGNACIO GONZÁLEZ, Neoliberalism and Punishment. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024, p. 180, ISBN: 9781
Is Anti-FGM Legislation Cultural Imperialism? Interrogating Kenya's Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Act1
Disability Law in a Pandemic: The Temporal Folds of Medico-legal Violence1
Dangerous Patterns: Joint Enterprise and the Culture of Criminal Law1
Book Review: Leading Works in Criminal Law1
Book Review: Doing Academic Careers Differently: Portraits of Academic Life by SARAH ROBINSON, ALEXANDRA BRISTOW AND OLIVIER RATLE1
Book Review: Law, Insecurity and Risk Control: Neo-Liberal Governance and the Populist Revolt1
Lawyers as Constructive Ideologists of Corporate Capitalism: The Legal Framing of Software1
Book Review: Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities1
Law and Legitimacy in Administrative Justice Research1
The Communicative Space: Painting the Evidence and Plausibility in Asylum Court Hearings1
Policing Commercial Sex in 1970s France: Regulating the Racialized Sexual Order1
Social Control and Homeless Encampments: Shifting the Role of Shelters Through Judicial Review1
‘We Could Not Imagine Their Home Could Be Our Home’: Towards a Feminist Legal Geography of home0
Introduction to the Special Issue: Hindutva and the Rule(s) of Law0
Book Review: The Routledge Handbook of Law and Society0
Political Constitutionalism and Referendums: The Case of Brexit0
Book Review: Liability for Transboundary Pollution at the Intersection of Public and Private International Law (Hart Monographs in Transnational and International Law)0
Book Review: Refuge Beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers0
Book Review: Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility0
Law, Culture and Decolonisation: The Perspectives of Aboriginal Elders on Family Violence in Australia0
Feminism and Counter-Trafficking: Exploring the Transformative Potential of Contemporary Feminism in Portugal0
Spatial Governance of the Unhoused: On Social Death in the Contemporary City0
Re-viewing Video Evidence and Police Violence in the Criminal Courts in Turkey0
The Work of Acknowledgment: ‘Loud Fence’ as Community-Level Response to Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Testimony0
External Intimacy: Community-based Intervention Concerning Crime and the Integral State in Quebec0
Book Review: Decolonising the Criminal Question: Colonial Legacies, Contemporary Problems0
The ‘Will of the People’: The Populist Challenge to Democracy in the Name of Popular Sovereignty0
Let Me Move: A Legal Analysis of Residence Restrictions on Asylum-Seekers in Ceuta, Melilla and the Canary Islands0
Book Review: Polygamy, Policy and Postcolonialism in English Marriage Law: A Critical Feminist Analysis0
How to Build a Culture of Human Rights in the Era of Populism: Reflections From the Human Rights City of York (UK)0
Justice in English-Only0
‘Back Off! Stop Making US Illegal!’: The Criminalisation of Homelessness in Australia0
Narrating Communist Repression in and Outside the Courtroom: The Case of Former Prison Commander Alexandru Vișinescu and its Resonance with (Societally) Available ‘Narrative Worlds’0
Children's Legal Geographies, and the “Make-Believe” of Property0
Book Review: Feminism, Violence Against Women, and Law Reform: Decolonial Lessons From Ecuador by SILVANA TAPIA TAPIA0
Book Review: Jurisprudence and Socio-Legal Studies: Intersecting Fields by R COTTERRELL0
Book Review: The King’s Peace. Law and Order in the British Empire0
Legislation as Disinformation: The Love Jihad Conspiracy Theory in Law and Lived Experience0
Disability Anti-Discrimination Law: A Tool for Compliance or Path Towards Social Justice?0
Indigenous Housing Rights and Colonial Sovereignty: Self-Determination and Housing Rights beyond a White Possessive Frame0
Sexual Violence in the Digital Age: Replicating and Augmenting Harm, Victimhood and Blame0
Performing Legal and National Identities: Australian Citizenship Ceremonies and the Management of Cultural Diversity0
Exploring the Links Between Racial Exclusion and Human Trafficking of Migrant Workers in Qatar0
‘They Just Let Us Rot to Death:’ Anti-Colonialism, Contestation, and Resistance to Reparations for Indian Residential School Abuse0
Book Review: Transitional Justice and the Historical Abuses of Church and State0
Gendered and Racialised Epistemological Injustice in FGM-safeguarding0
Book Review: Law and Disorder: Sovereignty, Protest, Atmosphere0
Indigenous parents and child welfare: Mistrust, epistemic injustice, and training0
Becoming a Public Survivor of Sexual Violence in Australia0
From Love to Justice: Families’ Interrogation of Racial State Violence0
How Does Legal Culture Matter for Climate Mobilities? A Case Study in an Unplanned Coastal Settlement in Urban Mozambique0
Bereaved Family ‘Involvement’ in (Prisoner) Death Investigations: Whose ‘Satisfaction’?0
Creating and Maintaining Structural Hindrances to Criminal Justice Control – A Policy Analysis on the Normalisation of Parental Violence as a Crime in Finland0
The Embodiment of Contempt: Ontario Provincial Prison Food0
Traditional Healing and Law in Contemporary Senegal: Legitimacies, Normativities and Practices0
Fast Refugee Protection: Temporality and Migration Control0
The Punitive State: The Making of Juvenile Delinquents in Portugal0
Racist Victimization, Legal Estrangement and Resentful Reliance on the Police in Sweden0
The Rule of Law in an Ethnocracy: India's Citizenship Amendment Act and the Will of the Hindu Ethnos0
The Legitimation Strategies of “Progressive” Prosecutors0
Loyalty, Liberty, and the Law: Analysing the Juxtaposition of Nation and Citizen in the Indian Sedition Law0
On Oil Flow and Coral Enclosure: Climate Changes in the Red Sea0
Relational Legal Consciousness in the Context of Hate Crime Laws0
Examining the Legal Legitimacy of Informal Economic Activities0
Deconstructing ‘Rough Sex’ in a New Zealand Murder Trial: Beyond the Modern Mythology of Everyday Kink0
Diversity, Dissent and Representation: Lessons From The First Minority Judge in the Israeli Supreme Court0
Fake News in Brazil's 2018 Presidential Elections: A Systems Theory Approach to Judicial and Legal Responses0
Book Review: Contract Law and the Legislature: Autonomy, Expectations, and the Making of Legal Doctrine0
Maintaining exceptionality: Interrogating gestational limits for abortion0
Judicial Production of Racial Injustice in Taiwo v Olaigbe: Decolonising the Incomplete Story on Race and Contracting0
Reconsidering the Asylum Lottery: Refugee Determination and the Structure of Luck0
Governing Through Scalar Elasticity: An Analysis of the Accountability Gap in Migration Control in the Central Mediterranean0
Removals of ‘Dangerous’ Mobile EU Citizens: Public Order and Security as a Police Paradigm0
You Ain’t Woman Enough: Tracing the Policing of Intersexuality in Sports and the Clinic0
Symbiotic Justice: Hate Crimes, Police Humiliation, and Layered Legal Consciousness in Dalit Human Rights0
‘You Can Sue for Anything’: Student Rights to Participate in School Disciplinary Procedures and Legal Socialisation0
Reproducing Timely Subjects: How Abortion Law Calendars Social Reproduction0
Book Review: The Colonial Politics of Hope: Critical Junctures of Indigenous-State Relations0
Book Review: New Directions in Sexual Violence Scholarship0
Making Legal Knowledge Work: Practising Proportionality in the German Repetitorium0
Resilience-building in Adversarial Trials: Witnesses, Special Measures and the Principle of Orality0
Registering Time in Recognising Torturous Harm: Figuring the Single, Plural and Historical in Torture's Adjudication0
‘How Did You Get in There and Make the Law Work?’ Feminist Activism, Doctors and Abortion Law: The Occupation of an Hospital0
Book Review: Immigration Judicial Reviews: An Empirical Study0
‘Sovereign Citizen Gets Roasted’: On the Nomophilia of Sovereign Citizens and Their Settler-Colonial Critics0
Erratum to Gendered and Racialised Epistemological Injustice in FGM-safeguarding0
Book Review: Criminal Law, Feminism and Emotions Thinking through the Legal Unconscious by LATIKA VASHIST VASHISTLATIKA, Criminal Law, Feminism and Emotions Thinking thr0
Book Review: Reimagining the Court of Protection: Access to Justice in Mental Capacity Law0
Legal Struggles: A Social Theory Perspective on Strategic Litigation and Legal Mobilisation0
Book Review: Conscientious Objection in Turkey: A Socio-legal Analysis of the Right to Refuse Military Service0
Book Review: Dispute Resolution in China: Litigation, Arbitration, Mediation, and their Interactions0
The Revolving Door of Im/Migration: Canadian Refugee Protection and the Production of Migrant Workers0
Book Review: Earthbound: The Aesthetics of Sovereignty in the Anthropocene0
Shifting Accounts of Justice: The Legalisation and Politicisation of International Criminal Justice0
Migrant Labor Supply Chains: Architectures of Mobile Assemblages0
Regulating Public Property: The Account of the Homeless0
Book Review: Infrastructure: New Trajectories in Law0
The Politics of Policing Hate: Boundary Work, Social Inequalities, and Legitimacy0
Book Review: Women, Intimate Partner Violence, and the Law0
Social Control, Housing and the Law0
Reconceptualising ‘risk’: Towards a humanistic paradigm of sexual offending0
Between ‘I’ and ‘They’: Distributing Authorship for Evidence-Making: How Asylum Lawyers Construct Credible Accounts Before the French Court of Asylum Law0
Listening to Survivors in Sexual Harassment Law Reform0
Forced Marriage in Australia: Building a Social Response with Frontline Workers0
Book Review: Torture as State Crime: A Criminological Analysis of the Transnational Institutional Torturer0
Vexatious or Vulnerable: Permitted Roles for Litigants in Person in Civil Courts0
Book Review: Law and Social Policy in the Global South0
Documenting the Document: The Forensic Hospital Report and Its Knowledge Moves0
Book Review: Sexual Violence on Trial: Local and Comparative Perspectives0
Contemporary Legal Pluralism, the Modern Metropole, and Immigrant Integration: Negotiating the Law and Legal Institutions in Immigrant Contexts0
Worker Representation in the Regulation of Occupational Health: Explaining the Shift to Knowledge Activism0
Lethal Force, Legal Consciousness and the Social Field of Policing0
Book Review: Capitalism as Civilisation: A History of International Law0
Totalitarian Law and Communal Ghettoisation: An Arendtian Perspective0
Book Review: Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial0
Book Review: Victimhood, Memory and Consumerism: Profiting from Pablo0
Lay Advisers in Family law Settings: The Role and Quality of Advice Provided on Social media0
Book Review: Matrilineal, Matriarchal, and Matrifocal Islam: The World of Women-Centric Islam PANAKKALABBAS AND ARIFNASR M (EDS), Matrilineal, Matriarchal, and Matrifocal Islam: The World of Women-Cen0
Book Review: It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US0
Different but equal? Exploring potential catalysts of disparity in remand decision-making in the youth court0
Workers’ Perspectives on State-Constructed Vulnerability to Labour Exploitation: Experiences of Migrant Fishers in Ireland0
Coerced into Subsistence: Deprivation of Liberty in the EU Reception and Identification Centres in Greece0
Judicial Constructions of Harm in Australian Image-Based Sexual Abuse Case Law: A Feminist Discourse Analysis0
The Life and Times of Human Rights Organizations: Organizational Biographies and the Sociology of Human Rights0
Book Review: Film and Constitutional Controversy: Visualizing Hong Kong Identity in the Age of “One Country, Two Systems”0
A Gendered EU Settlement Scheme: Intersectional Oppression of Immigrant Women in a Post-Brexit Britain0
Analysis of the Colombian Constitutional Court's Transformative Approach to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence0
Following the Money: Understanding Forum Shopping and the ‘Justice Marketplace’ in Sierra Leone0
Book Review: The Sociology of Law as The Science of Norms by HÅKAN HYDÉN0
Ensuring access to water in an emergency context: Towards an overexploitation and contamination of water resources?0
Book Review: The Abortion Act 1967: A Biography of a UK Law0
Book Review: Gender, Criminalization, Imprisonment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia (Emerald Studies in Activist Criminology) by JEFFERSON, A.M. AND JEFFRIES, S.0
Tort Law and Feminist Strategy: Lessons from Social Movement and Community Lawyering0
Reasonably Unreasonable: American Use of Force Jurisprudence and Police Impunity0
The changing status of European Union nationals in the United Kingdom following Brexit: The lived experience of the European Union Settlement Scheme0
Registering Cosmetics? The Constitution of Legal Form and Injurious Substance in Canada (1945–1946)0
Breaking Through the Legal Binary: Media Labelling of Dominic Ongwen as a Victim–Perpetrator0
The Working Culture of Legal Aid Lawyers: Developing a ‘Shared Orientation Model’0
Confronting Populism0
Zooming In: Courtrooms and Defendants’ Rights during the COVID-19 Pandemic0
Everyday Healthcare Regulation: British Newspapers and Complementary and Alternative Medicine0
Territoriality and Status in Human Rights Litigation: The Case of Israel/Palestine0
Ethnography in Motion, or Walking With WG Sebald0
From European Roots to Settler Soil: Adapting Foucault’s Biopolitics to Canadian Settler Colonialism0
Law and Transitions to Capitalism0
Book Review: Gender Recognition and the Law: Troubling Transgender Peoples’ Engagement With Legal Regulation by FLORA RENZ0
Book Review: Sex, Consent and Justice: A New Feminist Framework0
Migrant Reception Centres and Coercive Social Control: Rule by Legal Uncertainty?0
‘POSTED: No Trespassing’: On the Performativity of Property and Gender as Intertwined Social Practices of Power0
“The Problem is the Law and Women's Rights…” A Study of Marriage Practices in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo0
Book Review: Death by Prison: The Emergence of Life Without Parole and Perpetual Confinement0
Indigenous Anti/Deportation: Contesting Sovereignty, Citizenship, and Belonging in Canada and Australia0
Book Review: Obligations: New Trajectories in Law0
Deservingness on Trial: Neutralisation Techniques in Public Housing Jurisprudence0
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