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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
A tribute to Lauren Edelman35
Sociology of law as the science of norms. By Håkan Hydén. London: Routledge, 2021. 338 pp. $170.00 hardcover28
LSR volume 57 issue 1 Cover and Front matter24
LSR volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Front matter24
Reflections on South Africa's first Black Chief Justice, Ismail Mahomed19
Habitual offender sentencing and legal diffusion in state supreme courts14
The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion Of Public Input. By Tony Cheng. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 202414
Stability justice: Petitioners versus non-petitioners in China's criminal adjudication13
Sorting sexuality: Expertise and the politics of legal classification. By Stefan Vogler. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 280 pp. $30.00 paper13
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LSR volume 59 issue 4 Cover and Front matter10
Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand. By Tyrell Haberkorn. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 202410
LSR volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Back matter10
Undue process: Persecution and punishment in autocratic countries. By Fiona Feiang Shen-Bayh. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022.10
Displacements: objects and relationality9
“Maybe we should take the legal ways”: Citizen engagement with lower state courts in post-war northern Uganda8
Beyond litigation: Policy work within cause lawyering organizations8
The collateral consequences of criminal legal association during jury selection8
Legal mobilization in a global context: the transnational practices and diffusion of rights-based climate litigation7
Bottom-up hybridity: how sexual violence plaintiffs’ attorneys blur the boundaries between civil and criminal law – ERRATUM7
The world in a court: how the International Court of Justice’s organizational practices promote stability in a contested field7
Putting the client to work: power dynamics in the family lawyer-client relationship7
Stability justice: Petitioners versus non-petitioners in China’s criminal adjudication – CORRIGENDUM7
LSR volume 57 issue 3 Cover and Front matter6
“The state is something that disappoints”: legal consciousness amid institutional dissatisfaction6
How to train a student6
Citizen awakening? Exploring legal consciousness in a context of mass political mobilization6
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 hardcover6
Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage . By Lisa Vanhala. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025.6
LSR volume 60 issue 1 Cover and Front matter5
Outside the brackets: Why school administrators fail to see gendered harassment within an antibullying law5
¿Cómo no tener que saber? Tecnicismos jurídicos y delitos flagrantes en Santiago, Chile5
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 paperback5
Beyond doctrine: how “law and society” approaches transform historical analysis5
Recognizing “camera cues”: policing, cellphones and citizen countersurveillance5
Courts Unmasked: Civil Legal System Reform and COVID-19 . By Alyx Mark. University of Kansas Press, 2024.5
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, 5
Procedural justice for all? Legitimacy, just culture and legal anxiety in European civil aviation4
Building the disciplines with law and society4
Spectacles and spectres: A performative theory of political trials. By Basak Ertür. New York: Fordham University Press, 2022. 228 pp. $30.00 paperback4
Relational legal consciousness and anticorruption: Lava Jato, social media interactions, and the co-production of law's detraction in Brazil (2017–2019)4
Deconstructing racial code words4
Consent and compliance: serviceable subjects in involuntary psychiatric commitment hearings in Paris and New York3
Shari'a, Inshallah: Finding god in Somali legal politics. By Mark F. Massoud Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 250 pp. $34.99 paperback3
Terrorism on Trial: Political Violence and Abolitionist Futures. By Nicole Nguyen Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2023.3
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 paperback3
Public charge, legal estrangement, and renegotiating situational trust in the US healthcare safety net3
Pluralism and local law in extraterritorial spaces3
The Reasonable Person: A Legal Biography. By Valentin Jeutner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2024.2
The law of the four poles: legal pluralism and resistance in climate adaptation2
Surviving solitary: Living and working in restricted housing units. By Danielle S. Rudes, with Shannon Magnuson and Angela Hattery. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. 2022. 252 pp. $26 p2
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
What makes an international institution work for labor activists? Shaping international law through strategic litigation2
Citizenship in the shadow of law: identifying the origins, effects, and operation of legal ambiguity in Jordan2
The Price of Misfortune: Rights and Wrongs in Indebted America. By Daniel Platt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023.2
Calabresi’s invite: bridging Law & Society and Law & Economics through “situated valuation”2
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
Neoliberalism in law and society2
Relational rights: a vision for law and society scholarship1
Legal cynicism, intrusive policing, and the dynamics of police legitimacy: evidence from Brazil’s largest city1
The sense of being undeserving and the legal consciousness of Chinese immigrants in Canada1
Discursive mismatch and globalization by stealth: The fight against corruption in the Brazilian legal field1
List of reviewers 2023/20241
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
Unlawful Advances: Sexual Harassment Law and the Transformation of Title IX . By Celene Reynolds. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025.1
Legal entrepreneurship and the evolution of multidimensional advocacy in social movements: the case of marriage equality1
An integrated model of prosecutor decision-making1
Privilege and punishment: How race and class matter in criminal court. By Matthew Clair. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 320 pp. $19.95 paperback1
Identity capitalists: The powerful insiders who exploit diversity to maintain inequality. By Nancy Leong. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2021. 240 pp. $28.00 paperback1
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
Asylum and extraction in the Republic of Nauru. By Julia Caroline Morris. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2023. 308 pp.1
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 hardcover1
LSR volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
From the editors1
Virtual searches: Regulating the covert world of technological policing. By Christopher Slobogin. New York: New York University Press, 2022. 272 pp. $30.00 hardcover1
LSR volume 57 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
Against progress: Intellectual property and fundamental values in the internet age. By Jessica Silbey. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. 448 pages, $90.00 hardcover/$30.00 paperback.1
Activists in international courts: Backlash, funding, and strategy in international legal mobilization1
LSR volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
The Right Against Rights in Sweden0
Doodem and council fire: Anishinaabe governance through alliance. By Heidi Bohaker. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 304 pp. $37.95 paperback0
A “good fit”: Client sorting among nonprofit, private, and pro bono immigration attorneys0
From the Editors0
Enforcement agencies and an emerging category of law: examining EEOC processing of sexual orientation and gender identity charges0
LSR volume 59 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Tethered: the connectedness of citizens and non-citizens0
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
The Justice Factory: Management Practices at the International Criminal Court. By Richard Clements. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.0
Law, Migration, and the Construction of Whiteness Mobility Within the European Union. By Dagmar Rita Myslinska. New York: Routledge Press, 2024. ISBN 9781003853213, 10038532180
Islands of Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire. By Jeffrey Kahn. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 20190
Relief or removal: State logics of deservingness and masculinity for immigrant men in removal proceedings0
The life and death of constitutions0
How parole boards judge remorse: Relational legal consciousness and the reproduction of carceral logic0
Policing neighborhood boundaries and the racialized social control of spaces0
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 paperback0
Face-work in Chinese routine criminal trials0
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. $130.00.0
Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights. By Dylan C. Penningroth. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2023. 465 pp0
The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America . By Andrew Kahrl. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024.0
Spatial and temporal contexts of formal social control and system involvement: U.S. Latinos under immigration policing0
The diversity officer: Police officers' and black women civilians' epistemologies of race and racism in policing0
Legal actuation: how ex ante legal behavior drives inequality0
Editors' introduction to special memorial issue honoring professor Lauren B. Edelman0
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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
Legitimacy and online proceedings: Procedural justice, access to justice, and the role of income0
Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia. By Judah Schept. New York: NYU Press. 2022.0
A higher bar: Institutional impediments to hate crime prosecution0
Frustration and fidelity: how public interest lawyers navigate procedure in the direct representation of asylum seekers0
What Is Perceived When Race Is Perceived and Why It Matters for Causal Inference and Discrimination Studies0
The unintended consequences of increased access to justice0
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
The focal concerns of jurors evaluating mitigation: Evidence from federal capital jury forms0
Bottom-up hybridity: how sexual violence plaintiffs’ attorneys blur the boundaries between civil and criminal law0
Thresholds of Accusation: Law and Colonial Order in Canada. By George Pavlich. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 366 pp.0
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
Hollow law and utilitarian law: The devaluing of deportation hearings in New York City and Paris0
Natural Perception: Environmental Images and Aesthetics in International Law. By Alice Palmer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 20230
Born this Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement. By Joanna Wuest. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Paperback, ISBN 97802268275370
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 hardcover0
Blasé: Deviant Lawyers and the Denial of Discrimination0
My rights, their rights, our rights: a response to Laura Beth Nielsen on relational rights, gun politics and the struggle over community0
The Battle for Sabarimala: Religion, Law, and Gender in Contemporary India. By Deepa Das Acevedo. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2023.0
“It’s two separate systems that … keep you under a thumb”: dual debt in the child support and criminal legal systems0
Police talk in the jury room: the production of race-conscious reasonable doubt among racially diverse jury groups0
Manifesting justice: Wrongfully convicted women reclaim their rights. By Valena Beety. New York: Kensington, 2022. 320 pp. $28.00 hardcover0
Empire of Purity: The History of Americans’ Global War on Prostitution . By Eva Payne. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024.0
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
LSR volume 57 issue 4 Cover and Front 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
Co-opting the state: mobilizing environmental justice claims in a regulatory agency0
LSR volume 56 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Consciência jurídica relacional e anticorrupção: Lava Jato, interações em redes sociais e a coprodução da detração do direito no Brasil (2017-2019)0
Automating administrative burden in algorithmic criminal record expungement0
The power of the accused: rights mobilization and gender inequality in school workplaces0
“El estado es algo que decepciona”: La conciencia jurídica en medio de la insatisfacción institucional0
Stacked decks: Building inspectors and the reproduction of urban inequality. By Robin Bartram. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 224 pp. $27.50 paperback0
Rule of Law Intermediaries: Brokering Influence in Myanmar. By Kristina Simion. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021.0
Problematizing law, childhood and rights in Israel/Palestine. By Hedi Viterbo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 370 pp. $110.00 hardback.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 paperback0
Legal mobilization and branches of law: Contesting racialized policing in French courts0
Editor's note0
The politics of rights and southeast Asia. By Lynette Chua. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2022. 66 pp. $22.00 paperback0
Inside Knowledge: Incarcerated People on the Failures of the American Prison. By Doran Larson. New York: NYU Press, 2024.0
Using court documents as data: opportunities and challenges for sociolegal scholarship0
LSR volume 60 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Contested citizenship and the body in the body politic: reflections on Michele Goodwin’s presidential address in the shadow of Skrmetti0
Discipline and field: some thoughts on the relationship between political science and law and society0
Framing and prosecutorial discretion: evidence from Brazil0
Living apart together: Legal protections for a new form of family. By Cynthia Grant Bowman. New York: New York University Press, 2020. 312 pp. $40.00 hardcover0
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
Precarious protections: Unaccompanied minors seeking asylum in the United States. By Chiara Galli. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 296 pp. $29.95 paperback0
LSR volume 59 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
LSR volume 58 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Taking workers' rights to unexpected places0
The shariatisation of Indonesia: The politics of the Council of Indonesian Ulama (MUI). By Syafiq Hasyim. Leiden: Brill, 2023. 459 pp. $238.00 hardcover0
Knowledge production through legal mobilization: Environmental activism against the U.S. military bases in East Asia0
LSR volume 59 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Crisis as opportunity: legal career paths at two historical turning points in Hong Kong0
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Victim, perpetrator, neither: Attitudes on deservingness and culpability in immigration law0
Relating to, through, and beyond rights …0
Surveillance deputies: When ordinary people surveil for the state0
Sexual consent and relational rights: a call for relational repair0
The power of the accused: rights mobilization and gender inequality in school workplaces - ADDENDUM0
Courthouse funneling: how organizational mechanisms teach tenants to bargain in eviction court0
Challenging the Indian Child Welfare Act: colorblind racism, whiteness as property, and the legal architecture of settler colonialism0
Shelter on the Journey. By Priscilla Solano. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2024. ISBN 14399215200
“[Y]ou are better off talking to a f****** wall”: The perceptions and experiences of grievance procedures among incarcerated people in Ireland0
Relational legal consciousness in the punitive welfare state: How Dutch welfare officials shape clients' perceptions of law0
Guerrilla lawyering: mobile resistance in China’s environmental public interest litigation0
Litigation politics: social movement activity in campus sexual assault litigation0
When turnips bleed: the racial duality of predatory ticket debt0
Rights Refused: Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar. By Elliott Prasse-Freeman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023. 366 pp. Paperback, ISBN 97815036367120
Laurie in Paris. Diffusion, discussion and influences of Lauren Edelman's work in France0
The Rural Lawyer: How to Incentivize Rural Law Practice and Help Small Communities Thrive. By Hannah Haksgaard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.0
Remembrances of Lauren B. Edelman both personal and professional0
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
Relational legal consciousness in the one-child nation0
“The Foundation Stone for Political Action”: Relational Civic Rights Consciousness, Democratic Norms, Racial Threat and Felony Disenfranchisement0
Which rights, and for whom? What relational rights mean in an era of immigrant exclusion0
Racial equity in eligibility for a clean slate under automatic criminal record relief laws0
Bearing witness to asylum seekers in an era of misinformation: the transformation of pro bono direct legal services into social change activism0
“Human rights upsurge”: contentious coupling and the limitations of solitary confinement reform in Taiwan0
Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts. By Mayur R. Suresh. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023, 255 pp. $32.00 paperback0
Global burning: Rising antidemocracy and the climate crisis. By Eve Darian-Smith. Stanford: Stanford University press, 2022. 230 pp. $22.00 paperback0
Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage . By Lisa Vanhala. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025.0
Introduction to the special issue on empirical methods and critical race theory0
Understanding the effects of jury service on jurors' trust in courts0
LSR volume 58 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Safe at home? Examining the extension of criminal penalties for marital rape in cross-national context, 1979–20130
Belittling grievances: legal consciousness and strategic non-mobilization in Chinese workplace harassment0
Academic Copaganda – CORRIGENDUM0
Constitutionally mobilizing against climate change: the case of the environmental movement at the Chilean Constitutional Convention0
Consentement et compliance : Des sujets utilisables dans les audiences d’hospitalisation psychiatrique sans consentement à Paris et à New York0
Prosecutorial-NGO Complex: new legal opportunity structures and the role of (I)NGOs in universal jurisdiction trials on Syria0
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LSR volume 58 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Industry unbound: The inside story of privacy, data, and corporate power. By Ari Ezra Waldman Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 364 pp. $24.95 hardback0
Litigant status, judicial ideology, and the gatekeeping of expert evidence0
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
From the Editors0
Race, gender, and place: How judicial identity and local context shape anti-discrimination decisions0
Toward a politic of welcome: a response to Laura Beth Nielsen’s presidential address0
Turning medical problems into legal problems: social media, legal consciousness, and transforming guilt into blame0
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
LSR volume 56 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Over rechtvaardigheid gesproken: een kwalitatief interviewonderzoek naar ervaren procedurele rechtvaardigheid onder verdachten in Nederlandse strafzaken0
Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America. By Bernadette Atuahene. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2025.0
Crisis by Design: Emergency Powers and Colonial Legality in Puerto Rico. By Jose Atiles. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2025.0
Backlash against rights: conceptual apparatus and research agenda0
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Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation. By Jonathan Connolly. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024.0
A theoretical and empirical critique of racial innocence in sentencing0
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
To be a citizen: or what it means to be a person or property0
Tort tales and total justice: Exploring attitudes toward everyday tort claims for workplace injuries0
Protection from refuge: From refugee rights to migration management. By Kate Ogg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 215 pp. $110.00 hardcover0
LSR volume 56 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Entangled Domains: Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria. By Rabiat Akande. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Hardback, ISBN 97813165115580
How to not have to know: Legal technicalities and flagrant criminal offenses in Santiago, Chile0
Crossing: How we label and react to people on the move. By Rebecca Hamlin. Stanford University Press, 2021. 224 pp. $25.00 paperback0
The aftermath of enforcement episodes for the children of immigrants0
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Foreign agents or agents of justice? Private foundations, backlash against non-governmental organizations, and international human rights litigation0
LSR volume 59 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Laurie Edelman: Scholarship and mentorship in action0
LSR volume 58 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
LSR volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Law By Night. By Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023.0
Academic Copaganda0
Regarding the taken-for-granted, humility and Fallen Petals: musings on doing law and society scholarship0
Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship . By Yael Berda. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.0
Conviction: The making and unmaking of the violent brain. By Oliver Rollins. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021. 248 pp. $25.00 paperback0
Political Children: Violence, Labor, and Rights in Peru. By Mikaela Luttrell-Rowland. Stanford: Stanford Press, 2023. Paperback, ISBN 97815036340220
LSR volume 58 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Introduction: law in a changing climate0
Claiming history: commentary on Professor Goodwin’s presidential address0
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
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Law and society as anthropological connective tissue0
The behavioral code: The hidden ways the law makes us better or worse. By Benjamin van Rooij and Adam Fine. New York: Beacon Press, 2021. 312 pp. $27.95 hardcover0
Immigration detention as a routine police measure: Discretionary powers in preemptive detention of noncitizens in Finland0
Devotion to the Administrative State: Religion and Social Order in Egypt. By Mona Oraby. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024.0
“Closeted” cause lawyering in authoritarian Cambodia0
Work after lawful status: formerly undocumented immigrants’ gendered relational legal consciousness and workplace claims-making0
Home and International Law: Dispossession, Displacement and Resistance in Everyday Life . By Henrietta Zeffert. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024.0
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