Law & Society Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Law & Society Review 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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LSR volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Front matter30
The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion Of Public Input. By Tony Cheng. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 202427
Habitual offender sentencing and legal diffusion in state supreme courts24
A tribute to Lauren Edelman22
Stability justice: Petitioners versus non-petitioners in China's criminal adjudication21
Sociology of law as the science of norms . By Håkan Hydén. London: Routledge, 2021. 338 pp. $170.00 hardcover15
Reflections on South Africa's first Black Chief Justice, Ismail Mahomed14
LSR volume 57 issue 1 Cover and Front matter14
Undue process: Persecution and punishment in autocratic countries. By Fiona Feiang Shen-Bayh. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022.13
LSR volume 59 issue 4 Cover and Front matter12
Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand. By Tyrell Haberkorn. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 202412
LSR volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Back matter11
Displacements: objects and relationality10
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Putting the client to work: power dynamics in the family lawyer-client relationship9
Social cohesion governance: legal aid strategies in Rwanda9
The world in a court: how the International Court of Justice’s organizational practices promote stability in a contested field9
Stability justice: Petitioners versus non-petitioners in China’s criminal adjudication – CORRIGENDUM8
“The state is something that disappoints”: legal consciousness amid institutional dissatisfaction8
Bottom-up hybridity: how sexual violence plaintiffs’ attorneys blur the boundaries between civil and criminal law – ERRATUM8
The collateral consequences of criminal legal association during jury selection8
“Maybe we should take the legal ways”: Citizen engagement with lower state courts in post-war northern Uganda8
The ex post facto clause: its history and role in a punitive society . By Wayne A. Logan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 312 pp. $39.95 hardcover7
Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage . By Lisa Vanhala. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025.7
¿Cómo no tener que saber? Tecnicismos jurídicos y delitos flagrantes en Santiago, Chile7
Legal mobilization in a global context: the transnational practices and diffusion of rights-based climate litigation7
LSR volume 57 issue 3 Cover and Front matter7
Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico. By Mónica A. Jiménez. Chapel Hill: University of North Caroline Press, 2024. Paperback, ISBN 978-1-032-62881-3; Hardcover, 7
Citizen awakening? Exploring legal consciousness in a context of mass political mobilization7
Cuando las piedras sangran: la dualidad racial de la deuda predatoria por multas6
Recognizing “camera cues”: policing, cellphones and citizen countersurveillance6
LSR volume 60 issue 1 Cover and Front matter6
How to train a student6
Beyond doctrine: how “law and society” approaches transform historical analysis6
Building the disciplines with law and society5
Relational legal consciousness and anticorruption: Lava Jato , social media interactions, and the co-production of law's detraction in Brazil (2017–2019)4
Consent and compliance: serviceable subjects in involuntary psychiatric commitment hearings in Paris and New York4
Courts Unmasked: Civil Legal System Reform and COVID-19 . By Alyx Mark. University of Kansas Press, 2024.4
Teaching fear: How we learn to fear crime and why it matters . By Nicole E. Rader. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2023. 203 pp. $32.95 paperback4
Deconstructing racial code words4
Outside the brackets: Why school administrators fail to see gendered harassment within an antibullying law4
Symbolic ambivalence: how platform companies navigate contested law4
Spectacles and spectres: A performative theory of political trials . By Basak Ertür. New York: Fordham University Press, 2022. 228 pp. $30.00 paperback3
Public charge, legal estrangement, and renegotiating situational trust in the US healthcare safety net3
Terrorism on Trial: Political Violence and Abolitionist Futures. By Nicole Nguyen Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2023.3
Pluralism and local law in extraterritorial spaces3
Procedural justice for all? Legitimacy, just culture and legal anxiety in European civil aviation3
Navigating history and paradox3
Shari'a, Inshallah: Finding god in Somali legal politics . By Mark F. Massoud Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 250 pp. $34.99 paperback3
Justice in Lyon: Klaus Barbie and France's first trial for crimes against humanity . By Richard J. Golsan. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. 330 pp. $39.95 paperba2
Speaking for the dying: Life-and-death decisions in intensive care . By Susan Shapiro. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 368 pp. $32.00 paperback2
The law of the four poles: legal pluralism and resistance in climate adaptation2
The Price of Misfortune: Rights and Wrongs in Indebted America. By Daniel Platt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023.2
Advocates against rights: the conservative lawyers policing gender and sexuality in North Africa2
Neoliberalism in law and society2
What makes an international institution work for labor activists? Shaping international law through strategic litigation2
The Reasonable Person: A Legal Biography . By Valentin Jeutner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2024.2
Surviving solitary: Living and working in restricted housing units . By Danielle S. Rudes, with Shannon Magnuson and Angela Hattery. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press2
Constitutional mobilization in the age of the right against rights: gender and reproductive rights in Chile’s 2021–22 constitutional process2
Calabresi’s invite: bridging Law & Society and Law & Economics through “situated valuation”2
Citizenship in the shadow of law: identifying the origins, effects, and operation of legal ambiguity in Jordan2
Building law and society and sociology2
Contending Orders: Legal Pluralism and the Rule of Law. By Geoffrey Swenson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. pp. xiv + 273. ISBN 978-0-19-753042-92
LSR volume 60 issue 2 Cover and Front matter2
LSR volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
Sara Dezalay. Lawyering Imperial Encounters: Negotiating Africa’s Relationship with the World Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. ISBN 978-1-009-49336-9. Hardcover. $130.00.1
Turning medical problems into legal problems: social media, legal consciousness, and transforming guilt into blame1
Relational rights: a vision for law and society scholarship1
The sense of being undeserving and the legal consciousness of Chinese immigrants in Canada1
List of reviewers 2023/20241
How Autocrats Abuse Power: Resistance to Trump and Trumpism. By Richard L. Abel. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2024. Paperback, ISBN 978-1-032-62881-31
Unlawful Advances: Sexual Harassment Law and the Transformation of Title IX . By Celene Reynolds. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025.1
LSR volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
LSR volume 59 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
Legal cynicism, intrusive policing, and the dynamics of police legitimacy: evidence from Brazil’s largest city1
Legal entrepreneurship and the evolution of multidimensional advocacy in social movements: the case of marriage equality1
Against progress: Intellectual property and fundamental values in the internet age . By Jessica Silbey. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. 448 pages, $90.00 hardcove1
Discursive mismatch and globalization by stealth: The fight against corruption in the Brazilian legal field1
Asylum and extraction in the Republic of Nauru. By Julia Caroline Morris. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2023. 308 pp.1
LSR volume 60 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
Virtual searches: Regulating the covert world of technological policing . By Christopher Slobogin. New York: New York University Press, 2022. 272 pp. $30.00 hardcover1
Discipline and field: some thoughts on the relationship between political science and law and society1
An integrated model of prosecutor decision-making1
From the editors1
Activists in international courts: Backlash, funding, and strategy in international legal mobilization1
Engage and evade: How Latino immigrant families manage surveillance in everyday life . By Asad L. Asad. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. 344 pp. $33.00 hardc1
The Briny South: Displacement and sentiment in the Indian Ocean World. By Nienke Boer. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023. Paperback, 978-1-4780-1955-81
LSR volume 57 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
Learning from Laurie Edelman0
In This Place Called Prison: Women’s Religious Life in the Shadow of Punishment. By Rachel Ellis. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023. Paperback, ISBN: 97805203845450
Legal actuation: how ex ante legal behavior drives inequality0
Contested citizenship and the body in the body politic: reflections on Michele Goodwin’s presidential address in the shadow of Skrmetti0
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The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921-1930 . By Robert C. Post. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2024. two volumes.0
Protection from refuge: From refugee rights to migration management . By Kate Ogg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 215 pp. $110.00 hardcover0
Challenging the Indian Child Welfare Act: colorblind racism, whiteness as property, and the legal architecture of settler colonialism0
Crisis by Design: Emergency Powers and Colonial Legality in Puerto Rico. By Jose Atiles. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2025.0
Over rechtvaardigheid gesproken: een kwalitatief interviewonderzoek naar ervaren procedurele rechtvaardigheid onder verdachten in Nederlandse strafzaken0
Policing neighborhood boundaries and the racialized social control of spaces0
The end of family court: How abolishing the court brings justice to children and families . By Jane M. Spinak. New York: New York University Press, 2023. 384 pp. $35.00 hard0
Precarious protections: Unaccompanied minors seeking asylum in the United States . By Chiara Galli. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 296 pp. $29.95 paperback0
Countering the Next Police Bias Movement: Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment. By Devon W. Carbado. New York, NY: The New Press, 2022. ISBN 9781620970
Tort tales and total justice: Exploring attitudes toward everyday tort claims for workplace injuries0
LSR volume 56 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Toward a politic of welcome: a response to Laura Beth Nielsen’s presidential address0
Police talk in the jury room: the production of race-conscious reasonable doubt among racially diverse jury groups0
The aftermath of enforcement episodes for the children of immigrants0
The Right against rights in Sweden0
Devotion to the Administrative State: Religion and Social Order in Egypt. By Mona Oraby. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024.0
Rule of Law Intermediaries: Brokering Influence in Myanmar. By Kristina Simion. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021.0
Regarding the taken-for-granted, humility and Fallen Petals: musings on doing law and society scholarship0
LSR volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
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LSR volume 57 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
A higher bar: Institutional impediments to hate crime prosecution0
Home and International Law: Dispossession, Displacement and Resistance in Everyday Life . By Henrietta Zeffert. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024.0
Claiming history: commentary on Professor Goodwin’s presidential address0
Police matters: The everyday state and caste politics in South India, 1900–1975 . By Radha Kumar. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. 225 pp. $19.95 paperback.0
To be a citizen: or what it means to be a person or property0
Natural Perception: Environmental Images and Aesthetics in International Law. By Alice Palmer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 20230
LSR volume 59 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Relational legal consciousness in the one-child nation0
Immigration detention as a routine police measure: Discretionary powers in preemptive detention of noncitizens in Finland0
Academic Copaganda0
Consentement et compliance : Des sujets utilisables dans les audiences d’hospitalisation psychiatrique sans consentement à Paris et à New York0
“Closeted” cause lawyering in authoritarian Cambodia0
“It’s two separate systems that … keep you under a thumb”: dual debt in the child support and criminal legal systems0
Bearing witness to asylum seekers in an era of misinformation: the transformation of pro bono direct legal services into social change activism0
Work after lawful status: formerly undocumented immigrants’ gendered relational legal consciousness and workplace claims-making0
Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation. By Jonathan Connolly. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024.0
Death by prison: The emergence of life without parole and perpetual confinement . By Christopher Seeds. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022. 288. $29.95 paperb0
Consciência jurídica relacional e anticorrupção: Lava Jato, interações em redes sociais e a coprodução da detração do direito no Brasil (2017-2019)0
LSR volume 56 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Automating administrative burden in algorithmic criminal record expungement0
NGOs, international courts, and state backlash against human rights accountability: Evidence from NGO mobilization against Tanzania at the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights0
The power of the accused: rights mobilization and gender inequality in school workplaces0
LSR volume 59 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
The myth of the community fix: Inequality and the politics of youth punishment . By Sarah D. Cate. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 268 pp. $99.00 hardcover0
The shariatisation of Indonesia: The politics of the Council of Indonesian Ulama (MUI) . By Syafiq Hasyim. Leiden: Brill, 2023. 459 pp. $238.00 hardcover0
LSR volume 58 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
The Rural Lawyer: How to Incentivize Rural Law Practice and Help Small Communities Thrive. By Hannah Haksgaard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.0
Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights. By Dylan C. Penningroth. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2023. 465 pp0
Racial equity in eligibility for a clean slate under automatic criminal record relief laws0
The life and death of constitutions0
Lawyers as domestic counselors: Curating legitimate immigrant families0
Data and democracy at work: Advanced information technologies, labor law and the new working class . By Brishen Rogers. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2023. 288 pp. $50.00 paperb0
Entangled Domains: Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria. By Rabiat Akande. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Hardback, ISBN 97813165115580
Legitimacy and online proceedings: Procedural justice, access to justice, and the role of income0
Litigant status, judicial ideology, and the gatekeeping of expert evidence0
Laurie Edelman: Scholarship and mentorship in action0
Laurie in Paris. Diffusion, discussion and influences of Lauren Edelman's work in France0
What Is Perceived When Race Is Perceived and Why It Matters for Causal Inference and Discrimination Studies0
The legal mobilization of the right against rights0
Hollow law and utilitarian law: The devaluing of deportation hearings in New York City and Paris0
A Supreme Court Unlike Any Other: The Deepening Divide Between the Justices and the People. By Kevin J McMahon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024.0
Born this Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement. By Joanna Wuest. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Paperback, ISBN 97802268275370
Blasé: Deviant Lawyers and the Denial of Discrimination0
LSR volume 58 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Editors' introduction to special memorial issue honoring professor Lauren B. Edelman0
Enforcement agencies and an emerging category of law: examining EEOC processing of sexual orientation and gender identity charges0
Banned: The Fight for Mexican American Studies in the Streets and in the Courts. By Nolan L. Cabrera and Robert S. Chang. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.0
Thresholds of Accusation: Law and Colonial Order in Canada. By George Pavlich. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 366 pp.0
Understanding the effects of jury service on jurors' trust in courts0
LSR volume 58 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage . By Lisa Vanhala. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025.0
The power of the accused: rights mobilization and gender inequality in school workplaces - ADDENDUM0
Rights Refused: Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar. By Elliott Prasse-Freeman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023. 366 pp. Paperback, ISBN 97815036367120
Manifesting justice: Wrongfully convicted women reclaim their rights . By Valena Beety. New York: Kensington, 2022. 320 pp. $28.00 hardcover0
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Remembrances of Lauren B. Edelman both personal and professional0
Belittling grievances: legal consciousness and strategic non-mobilization in Chinese workplace harassment0
I didn’t get justice, but I was well-represented: how legal representation matters in native communities0
Which rights, and for whom? What relational rights mean in an era of immigrant exclusion0
Political Children: Violence, Labor, and Rights in Peru. By Mikaela Luttrell-Rowland. Stanford: Stanford Press, 2023. Paperback, ISBN 97815036340220
Proof: Uses of evidence in law, politics, and everything else . By Frederick Schauer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 320 pp. $29.95 hardcover.0
Foreign agents or agents of justice? Private foundations, backlash against non-governmental organizations, and international human rights litigation0
Islands of Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire. By Jeffrey Kahn. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 20190
Backlash against rights: conceptual apparatus and research agenda0
Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America. By Bernadette Atuahene. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2025.0
Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship . By Yael Berda. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.0
Judicial Vetoes: Decision-making on Mixed Selection Constitutional Courts. By Lydia Brashear Tiede. New York: Cambridge University Press 2022. Hardback, ISBN 978-1-316-51231-90
“El estado es algo que decepciona”: La conciencia jurídica en medio de la insatisfacción institucional0
Prosecutorial-NGO Complex: new legal opportunity structures and the role of (I)NGOs in universal jurisdiction trials on Syria0
Shelter on the Journey. By Priscilla Solano. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2024. ISBN 14399215200
Editor's note0
Legal mobilization and branches of law: Contesting racialized policing in French courts0
The Justice Factory: Management Practices at the International Criminal Court. By Richard Clements. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.0
The politics of rights and southeast Asia . By Lynette Chua. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2022. 66 pp. $22.00 paperback0
The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America . By Andrew Kahrl. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024.0
Tethered: the connectedness of citizens and non-citizens0
“Nobody should experience this alone”: caregiving legal consciousness in Chile between family and welfare0
Empire of Purity: The History of Americans’ Global War on Prostitution . By Eva Payne. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024.0
LSR volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Law, Migration, and the Construction of Whiteness Mobility Within the European Union. By Dagmar Rita Myslinska. New York: Routledge Press, 2024. ISBN 9781003853213, 10038532180
Victim, perpetrator, neither: Attitudes on deservingness and culpability in immigration law0
A theoretical and empirical critique of racial innocence in sentencing0
LSR volume 58 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Face-work in Chinese routine criminal trials0
From the Editors0
LSR volume 60 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Meanings of migrant illegality: Folk Durkheimian beliefs and relational morality of legal categories0
Surveillance deputies: When ordinary people surveil for the state0
Knowledge production through legal mobilization: Environmental activism against the U.S. military bases in East Asia0
Framing and prosecutorial discretion: evidence from Brazil0
Spatial and temporal contexts of formal social control and system involvement: U.S. Latinos under immigration policing0
Litigation politics: social movement activity in campus sexual assault litigation0
The diversity officer: Police officers' and black women civilians' epistemologies of race and racism in policing0
Whose victimization pays? Policing innocent victimhood in victim compensation law0
Sexual consent and relational rights: a call for relational repair0
Frustration and fidelity: how public interest lawyers navigate procedure in the direct representation of asylum seekers0
How to not have to know: Legal technicalities and flagrant criminal offenses in Santiago, Chile0
Constitutionally mobilizing against climate change: the case of the environmental movement at the Chilean Constitutional Convention0
Crisis as opportunity: legal career paths at two historical turning points in Hong Kong0
Doodem and council fire: Anishinaabe governance through alliance . By Heidi Bohaker. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 304 pp. $37.95 paperback0
The slow violence of immigration court: Procedural justice on trial. By Maya Pagni Barak. New York: New York University Press, 2023. 240 pp. $30.00 paperback.0
Law and society as anthropological connective tissue0
Turning on the lights? Publicity and defensive legal mobilization in protest-related trials in Russia0
A “good fit”: Client sorting among nonprofit, private, and pro bono immigration attorneys0
Global burning: Rising antidemocracy and the climate crisis . By Eve Darian-Smith. Stanford: Stanford University press, 2022. 230 pp. $22.00 paperback0
Relational legal consciousness in the punitive welfare state: How Dutch welfare officials shape clients' perceptions of law0
The Battle for Sabarimala: Religion, Law, and Gender in Contemporary India. By Deepa Das Acevedo. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2023.0
Creative confluence: Lauren Edelman's collaborations0
Problematizing law, childhood and rights in Israel/Palestine . By Hedi Viterbo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 370 pp. $110.00 hardback.0
LSR volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
An equal place: Lawyers in the struggle for Los Angeles . By Scott L. Cummings. New York: Oxford University Press. 2021. 688 pp. $49.95 hardcover0
Examining citizenship through environmental autonomy: a response to President Goodwin’s address “to be a citizen: or what it means to be a person”0
Co-opting the state: mobilizing environmental justice claims in a regulatory agency0
LSR volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
“The foundation stone for political action”: relational civic rights consciousness, democratic norms, racial threat and felony disenfranchisement0
“Human rights upsurge”: contentious coupling and the limitations of solitary confinement reform in Taiwan0
Bottom-up hybridity: how sexual violence plaintiffs’ attorneys blur the boundaries between civil and criminal law0
Taking workers' rights to unexpected places0
From the Editors0
Relating to, through, and beyond rights …0
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Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts. By Mayur R. Suresh. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023, 255 pp. $32.00 paperback0
Introduction to the special issue on empirical methods and critical race theory0
Safe at home? Examining the extension of criminal penalties for marital rape in cross-national context, 1979–20130
Unlawful Advances: How Feminists Transformed Title IX. By Celene Reynolds. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025 – Erratum0
Introduction: law in a changing climate0
Academic Copaganda – CORRIGENDUM0
Inside Knowledge: Incarcerated People on the Failures of the American Prison. By Doran Larson. New York: NYU Press, 2024.0
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When turnips bleed: the racial duality of predatory ticket debt0
Stacked decks: Building inspectors and the reproduction of urban inequality . By Robin Bartram. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 224 pp. $27.50 paperback0
Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia. By Judah Schept. New York: NYU Press. 2022.0
Constructing Compliance, Institutionalizing Creative Solutions: Higher Education Professionals as Legal Intermediaries Serving Undocumented College Students0
The unintended consequences of increased access to justice0
Using court documents as data: opportunities and challenges for sociolegal scholarship0
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