OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Law and Society 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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Reimagining the Judiciary: Women's Representation on High Courts Worldwide By Maria C.Escobar‐Lemmon, Valerie J.Hoekstra, Alice J.Kang, and Miki CaulKittilson, Oxford: Oxford University Press,	44
Key book in my education: Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit	15
Mock juries, real trials: how to solve (some) problems with jury science	10
Jurisprudence and Socio‐Legal Studies: Intersecting Fields By RogerCotterrell, London: Routledge, 2024, 252 pp., £37.99	10
Indigeneity, caste, tribe and the limitations of decolonial thought in South Asian socio‐legal studies: The need for a decolonial–debrahmanical approach	10
When less is less: the complexities of growth and the degrowth company	10
Legal pluralism, decolonisation and socio‐legal studies	7
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Belonging beyond the binary: from Byzantine eunuchs and Indian hijras to gender‐fluid and non‐binary identities	6
Legal Pluralism Explained: History, Theory, Consequences, BRIAN Z.TAMANAHA, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, 208 pp., £19.99	6
‘Would any of them have suffered from a guilty conscience if they had won?’: Rudolf Wiethölter and post‐Second World War German law¹	6
Vehicles for justice: buses and advancement	5
Law at the Movies: Turning Legal Doctrine into Art By StanleyFish, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, 224 pp., £25.00	5
States of Exception: Human Rights, Biopolitics, Utopia By CostasDouzinas, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023, 272 pp., £90.00	5
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Invisible labour: legal dimensions of invisibilization	5
Labour/data justice: a new framework for labour/regulatory datafication	5
Trauma‐informed lawyering in the context of civil claims for sexual violence	5
Law, ‘presentist’ agendas, and the making of ‘official’ memory after collective violence	4
Segregation and researcher's positionality: Challenges of conducting policy ethnography in Southern polarized settings	4
Women, Film, and the Law: Cinematic Representations of Female Incarceration, SUZANNEBOUCLIN, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, 226 pp., $75.00	4
Solid in shape, shattered in practice? The ‘sentencing pyramid’ in China	4
The economic constitution and the political constitution: seeking the common good in the post‐national setting	4
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Permeating the boundaries: A call for critical socio‐legal scholarship	4
Where are the numbers? Challenging the barriers to quantitative socio‐legal scholarship in the United Kingdom	4
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‘On a knife's edge’: medical, police, and legal responses to self‐harming protesters	3
Raising relational legal consciousness through co‐production research? Making law more accessible	3
The Journal of Law and Society in context: a bibliometric analysis	3
‘Human rights cities’ in Africa? Rights as resources for urban governance in the Global South	3
Socio‐legal studies at the heart of jurisprudence	3
The emotional labour of judges in jury trials	3
The gravest inefficiency of plea bargaining and the consequences for rehabilitation and reintegration	3
Feminist judging in lower courts	3
Hegemony as promises: rationalizing restrictiveness and the legal consciousness of asylum seekers in Belgium	3
A duty to protect? Legal consciousness among military officers in armed conflict	2
Scottish Feminist Judgments: (Re)Creating Law from the Outside In, EDITED BY SHARONCOWAN, CHLOËKENNEDY, AND VANESSA E.MUNRO, Oxford: Hart, 2019, 440 pp., £95.00	2
Social Citizenship in an Age of Welfare Regionalism: The State of the Social Union By MarkSimpson, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 198 pp., £76.50	2
Speaking up: why people dare to sue the government in China	2
Reflections on the journal's visual turn	2
Integrated Offender Management and the Policing of Prolific Offenders By FrederickCram, London: Routledge, 2023, 224 pp., £31.99	2
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Subjectivity Transformed: The Cultural Foundation of Liberty in ModernityBy ThomasVesting, translated by NeilSolomon, London: Wiley, 2023, 288 pp., £18.99	2
Decolonising (and) legal pluralism	2
Doing Sociolegal Research in Design Mode, AMANDAPERRY‐KESSARIS, London: Routledge, 2021, 154 pp., £44.99	2
The object(s) of legality	2
It's about time: investigating the temporal in socio‐legal studies through unstructured interviews	2
Intellectual and Cultural Property: Between Market and Community. FionaMacmillan. London: Routledge, 2021, 232 pp., £36.99	2
The Abortion Act 1967: A Biography of a UK Law By SallySheldon, GayleDavis, JaneO'Neill, and ClareParker, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 360 pp., £25.99	2
Sociology of labour law and the economy	2
New meanings for an old debate	2
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‘Only connect’? The role of emotion in the practice of social welfare law advice and casework	2
A socio‐legal quest: from jurisprudence to sociology of law and back again	1
Not What the Bus Promised: Health Governance after Brexit By Tamara K.Hervey, IvankaAntova, Mark L.Flear, and MatthewWood, Oxford: Hart, 2023, 280 pp., £85.00	1
‘Wrong’ cases and ‘wrong’ plaintiffs: intergenerational relationships and legal consciousness in China	1
Law, economy and society: Reflections on the politics of regulation	1
Care on the move: the gender care gap and intra‐EU mobility	1
SLSA E‐Newsletter	1
Political constitutionalism in Europe revisited	1
Law in the fullness of timeThe EU and Constitutional Time: The Significance of Time in Constitutional Change By MassimoFichera, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023, 180 pp., £80.00	1
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A planetary guide to lawyer funambulism?Lawyers in 21st‐Century Societies, Volume 1: National Reports, EDITED BY RICHARD L.ABEL, OLEHAMMERSLEV, HILARYSOMMERLAD, ULRIKESCHULTZ, Oxford: Hart, 202	1
Global legal change from below and above	1
What does gender equality need? Revisiting the formal and informal in feminist legal politics	1
Loss and damage, plastic pollution, and the effectiveness of international environmental law	1
Redefining consent: rape law reform, reasonable belief, and communicative responsibility	1
Human–algorithm hybrids as (quasi‐)organizations? On the accountability of digital collective actors	1
Gender diversity on Malaysian corporate boards: a law and social movements perspective	1
Surveillance Law, Data Retention and Human Rights: A Risk to Democracy By MatthewWhite, London: Routledge, 2024, 392 pp., £150.00	1
Unchartered territory? Navigating voice, accountability, and prevention in suicide‐related domestic homicide reviews in England and Wales	1

‘Ten thousand times more malignant than her mate’: destabilizing gendered assumptions underlying the defences of provocation and loss of control through a reading of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein	1
Transnational constitutionalism – conflicts‐law constitutionalism – economic constitutionalism: the exemplary case of the European Union	1
The ‘new voyeurism’: criminalizing the creation of ‘deepfake porn’	1
The inefficiency of plea bargaining	1
Law, technology, and data‐driven security: infra‐legalities as method assemblage	1
Arbitration vis‐à‐vis other professions: a sociology of professions account of international commercial arbitrators	1
The counter‐reparative impacts of South Africa's reparations gap: victims as reparations ‘experts’ and the role of victims’ organizations	1
The Journal of Law and Society in context: A bibliometric analysis	1
Doing research with intellectually disabled participants: reflections on the challenges of capacity and consent in socio‐legal research	1
Law, Vulnerability, and the Responsive State: Beyond Equality and Liberty Edited by Martha AlbertsonFineman and LauraSpitz, London: Routledge, 2024, 290 pp., £34.95	1
Synthesize this: integrating innovation governance and EU regulation of synthetic biology	1
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Trust at the border: identifying risk and assessing credibility on reality television	0
Penality in the Underground: The IRA's Pursuit of Informers By RonDudai, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 240 pp., £80.00	0
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Journeying the everyday of civic space: movement as method in socio‐legal studies	0
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Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law OpinionsEdited by BennettCapers, SarahDeer, and CoreyRayburn Yung, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 306 pp., £39.99	0
The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market CaptureEmiliosChristodoulidisCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 608 pp., £34.99	0
Local authority intervention in private renting: from compliance to hardline enforcement	0
Psychiatric injury and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities	0
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Perceptions of procedural fairness and space for personal narrative: an experimental study of form design	0
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How statutory duties shape the decision making of an economic regulator: insights from the energy regulatory community, past and present	0
Democracy and emergency: finding the constitutional foundation of the knowledgeable state in social dynamics	0
Democratic representation and non‐majoritarian actors in constitutional orders: a systemic analysis	0
Mobilizing anti‐discrimination law: the litigation strategies of UK and French trade unions compared	0
Racial Justice and the Limits of Law By BharatMalkani, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024, 182 pp., £19.99	0
A radical not an incrementalist¹Online Courts and the Future of Justice, RICHARDSUSSKIND, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 368 pp., £19.99	0
Gender (de)certification and the home: A new focus for feminist legal scholarship?	0
Paper chains: tied visas, migration policies, and legal coercion	0
Infrastructure: New Trajectories in Law By MarianaValverde, London: Routledge, 2022, 124 pp., £48.99	0
Values diversity in the United Kingdom Supreme Court: abandoning the ‘don't‐ask‐don't‐tell’ policy	0
Child welfare, Indigenous parents, and judicial mediation	0
The politics of the production of knowledge on trauma: the Grenfell Tower Inquiry	0
The politics of preservation: oral history, socio‐legal studies, and praxis	0
Profilicity and online safety legislation	0
Critique of comparative law: to compierreNegative Comparative Law: A Strong Programme for Weak Thought By PierreLegrand, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 352 pp., £95.00	0
Law, language, and the power of ‘invisible threats’ of violence against women	0
We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks, ILHAMTOHTI / TRANSLATED BY YAXUE CAO / CINDY CARTER / MATTHEW ROBERTSON, London: Verso, 2022, 174 pp., £14.99	0
Contractual Relations: A Contribution to the Critique of the Classical Law of Contract By DavidCampbell, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 464 pp., £95.00	0
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Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives By EmilyJones, London: Routledge, 2023, 216 pp., £35.99	0
Selecting a lawyer: the practical arrangement of police station legal assistance	0
Philanthropy and environmental law	0
Raising a claim for (animal) justice: The end(s) of socio‐legal and critical legal studies	0
Introduction: socio‐legal methodologies	0
From shame to guilt: negotiating moral and legal responsibility within apologies for historical institutional abuse	0
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The Sinophone lawyer: China's cross‐border impact on the legal profession	0
Artificial Intelligence and the Legal Profession, MICHAELLEGG AND FELICITYBELL, Oxford: Hart, 2020, 408 pp., £75.00	0
Constitutional Imaginaries: A Theory of European Societal Constitutionalism By JiříPřibáň, London: Routledge, 2022, 176 pp., £130.00	0
Algorithm‐facilitated discrimination: a socio‐legal study of the use by employers of artificial intelligence hiring systems	0
The Law Multiple: Judgment and Knowledge in Practice. IreneVan Oorschot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 250 pp., £85.00	0
Law and conspiracy theory: sovereign citizens, freemen on the land, and pseudolaw	0
Environmental protest, contention, and the law: conceptualizing the Public Order Act 2023	0
The managed participation of the criminal accused	0
Labour is labour: what surrogates can learn from the Sex Work Is Work movement	0
The Social Constitution: Embedding Social Rights By Whitney K.Taylor, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 254 pp., £95.00	0
Resolving labour disputes in the Philippines: legitimacy and effectiveness in a polycentric regulatory framework	0
Tradition and reinvention: the making and unmaking of herbal medicines in the UK	0
Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire By YaelBerda, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 280 pp., £75.00	0
Socratic Voices: Dialogues on Law, Time, and Reconciliation By BertvanRoermund, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023, 166 pp., £75.00	0
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Navigating internet‐mediated ethnography for socio‐legal researchers	0
Gender Recognition and the Law: Troubling Transgender People's Engagement with Legal Regulation By FloraRenz, London: Routledge, 2024, 176 pp., £135.00	0
Applied Legal Pluralism: Processes, Driving Forces and Effects By GhislainOtis, JeanLeClair, and SophieThériault, London: Routledge, 2022, 284 pp., £130.00	0
(Dis)passionate law stories: the emotional processes of encoding narratives in court	0
Future‐Proofing the Judiciary: Preparing for Demographic Change By BrianOpeskin, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 328 pp., £109.99	0
Disruptive accountability? Temporal regimes and social change in decolonization struggles in Belgium	0
Law and childbirth in Ireland after the 8^th Amendment: notes on women's legal consciousness	0
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Plurinational democracies in Europe: the quest for a profane constitutionalism	0

The price of positionality: assessing the benefits and burdens of self‐identification in research methods	0
Shari'a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics By Mark FathiMassoud, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 368 pp., £84.99	0
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Faces of hunger: an intersectional approach to children's right to food in the United Kingdom	0
‘F**k this game … I'm off’: financial and emotional factors in declining legal representation in miscarriage of justice cases	0
A tale of many jurisdictions: how universal jurisdiction is creating a transnational judicial space	0
The Bodyguards of Lies: Lawyers’ Power and Professional Responsibility By ChristopherWhelan, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 364 pp., £85.00	0
The paradox of human rights and three forms for its unfolding	0
Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law By SharonThompson, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 280 pp., £85.00	0
‘The rules are all over the place’: Mass Observation, time, and law in the COVID‐19 pandemic	0
The centres and margins of transnational law: potential developments and methodological challenges	0
Victim blaming as collateral damage: professionals on court hearings in cases of rape, assault, and fraud	0
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment, DANIELKAHNEMAN, OLIVIERSIBONY, AND CASS. R.SUNSTEIN, London: William Collins, 2021, 464 pp., £25.00	0
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Environmental public hearings and intersectionality: women's voices from Gujarat, India	0
Intermediaries in the criminal justice system and the ‘neutrality paradox’	0
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Lawyers as infrastructures: mediations, blockages, and new possibilities in grassroots movements	0
Reimagining the Court of Protection: Access to Justice in Mental Capacity Law By JaimeLindsey, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 216 pp., £85.00	0
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Lawyers in Conflict and Transition By KieranMcEvoy, LouiseMallinder, and AnnaBryson, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 440 pp., £85.00	0
Epistemic emotions in prosecutorial decision making	0
Reflections of an academic activist	0
Political constitutionalism and populism	0
‘No, buddy, I will not speak to the press – I am working!’: criminal justice and the interprofessional dynamics of communication production in the Chilean Public Prosecutorial Office	0
What does the showing of voluntary participation by the defendant do for criminal justice professionals?	0
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Judicial relational legal consciousness: authoritarian backsliding as a catalyst of change	0
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Relational rights and legal consciousness research: theoretical and methodological innovations	0
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Access to Justice for Vulnerable and Energy‐Poor Consumers: Just Energy?NAOMICREUTZFELDT, CHRISGILL, MARINECORNELIS, AND RACHELMCPHERSON, Oxford: Hart, 2021, 336 pp., £85.00	0
EcoLaw: Legality, Life, and the Normativity of Nature By MargaretDavies, London: Routledge, 2022, 138 pp., £48.99	0
Brexit, Union, and Disunion: The Evolution of British Constitutional Unsettlement By SionaidhDouglas‐Scott, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 534 pp., £31.99	0
The ‘legal’ in socio‐legal history: Woods and Pirie v. Cumming Gordon	0
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Situating legal consciousness and legal compliance: how Dutch welfare clients think and act in relation to the law	0
The making of neoliberal legality: the legal imagination of business elites and the ‘social constitutionalization’ of ‘free enterprise’ in Latin America	0
The dynamic and iterative pre‐dispute phase: the transformation from a justiciable problem into a legal dispute	0
Accountability and offsetting in environmental law enforcement	0
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What can contract law learn from #MeToo?	0
Theory in socio‐legal studies: Revisiting the Cotterrell–Nelken debate	0
Legalizing transphobia: from courtroom to legislature, how gender‐critical activism is hurting us all	0
Giving rap a chance: the cultural policing and consequences of the suppression of rap music in England in the twenty‐first century	0
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Justice in a Time of Austerity: Stories from a System in Crisis, JONROBINS AND DANIELNEWMAN, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2021, 224 pp., £9.99	0
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Conflict and Transformation: Essays on European Law and Policy By ChristianJoerges, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 624 pp., £49.99	0
The snakes and ladders of legal participation: litigants in person and the right to a fair trial under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights	0
Theory, praxis and politics in law and society research: Reflections on the Cotterrell–Nelken debate	0
Researching the visual culture of law and legal institutions: some reflections on methodology	0
Introduction: Political constitutions in transnational society: introducing socio‐legal and interdisciplinary perspectives	0
What is (the) matter with climate litigation? Law, nature, and the limits of legal technique	0
Who needs the law? Multiple consciousness as critique	0
Constitutionalism, populism, and the imaginary of the authentic polity: a socio‐legal analysis of European public spheres and constitutional demoicratization	0
A response on the ‘old’ and ‘bold’ operation of gender at home	0
Regulating for trustworthy autonomous systems: exploring stakeholder perspectives on answerability	0
Property in Contemporary Capitalism By PaddyIreland, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024, 310 pp., £19.99	0
Managing time: speeding up and slowing down in the immigration bail court	0
Exploring computational approaches to law: the evolution of judicial language in the Anglo‐Welsh poor law, 1691–1834	0
Law's insistence on dispassion as the mother of theoretical curiosityInteractional Justice: The Role of Emotions in the Performance of Loyalty, LISAFLOWER, London: Routledge, 2020, 224 pp., £36	0
‘Victims not wrongdoers’: the legal consciousness of rejected asylum seekers in Norway	0
Shortcuts and detours of environmental collective legal mobilizations: the cases of the Atrato River and the Amazon region in Colombia	0
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Governmental influence over rights consciousness: public perceptions of the COVID‐19 lockdown	0
It could be my son! ‘Himpathy’ and the male fear defence in rape trials	0
Prosecutors and anti‐intellectualism as a trial tactic: the cultural roots of scepticism towards expertise in capital cases	0
The hidden histories of the Pinochet case	0
Trade union legal mobilization and consciousness	0
Coercion and justification: a global public reason perspective on Security Council reform	0
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When law and data collide: the methodological challenge of conducting mixed methods research in law	0
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Broken bonds: how COVID‐19 border restrictions transformed experiences and conceptualizations of citizenship	0
Socio‐legal studies and criminal justice: Reflections on ‘participation’	0
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Response to Flora Renz, ‘Gender (de)certification and the home: A new focus for feminist legal scholarship?’	0
Justifying and practising effective participation in the Court of Protection: an empirical study^*	0
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The possible forms of professionalism: credibility and the performance of queer sexualities among barristers in England and Wales	0
The crafty power of text: methods for a sociology of legislative drafting	0
Out of time? Going back to the Cotterrell–Nelken debate	0
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Litigants in Person and the Family Justice System By JessicaMant, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 256 pp., £42.99	0
Trump and democracy in the United States: on law and authoritarianismHow Autocrats Seek Power: Resistance to Trump and Trumpism By Richard L.Abel, London: Routledge, 2024, 320 pp., £36.99How	0
Digging into legal archaeology: a methodology for case study research	0
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Five angry men: advocating for and mobilizing EU gender equality law to advance men's rights	0
Placing Property: A Legal Geography of Property Rights in Land By AmandaByer, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 88 pp., £24.99	0
Epistemic othering: the interplay of knowledges in legislative drafting	0
Agency and vulnerability in the field of immigration law: a linguistic‐ethnographic perspective on lawyer–client interaction	0