Journal of Law and Society

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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
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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, 50
Key book in my education: Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit20
Mock juries, real trials: how to solve (some) problems with jury science11
Jurisprudence and Socio‐Legal Studies: Intersecting Fields By RogerCotterrell, London: Routledge, 2024, 252 pp., £37.9910
Indigeneity, caste, tribe and the limitations of decolonial thought in South Asian socio‐legal studies: The need for a decolonial–debrahmanical approach10
The Journal of Law and Society at 50/The Centre of Law and Society at 10: An introduction to the series of academic events at Cardiff University in the 2023/24 academic year8
Legal pluralism, decolonisation and socio‐legal studies7
When less is less: the complexities of growth and the degrowth company7
Vehicles for justice: buses and advancement6
‘Would any of them have suffered from a guilty conscience if they had won?’: Rudolf Wiethölter and post‐Second World War German law16
Law at the Movies: Turning Legal Doctrine into Art By StanleyFish, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, 224 pp., £25.006
States of Exception: Human Rights, Biopolitics, Utopia By CostasDouzinas, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023, 272 pp., £90.006
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Labour/data justice: a new framework for labour/regulatory datafication5
Legal Pluralism Explained: History, Theory, Consequences, BRIAN Z.TAMANAHA, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, 208 pp., £19.995
The local injustice of bankruptcy: geographical variation in access to debt relief in England5
Trauma‐informed lawyering in the context of civil claims for sexual violence5
Invisible labour: legal dimensions of invisibilization5
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Solid in shape, shattered in practice? The ‘sentencing pyramid’ in China4
The gravest inefficiency of plea bargaining and the consequences for rehabilitation and reintegration4
Permeating the boundaries: A call for critical socio‐legal scholarship4
Law, ‘presentist’ agendas, and the making of ‘official’ memory after collective violence4
The economic constitution and the political constitution: seeking the common good in the post‐national setting4
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Where are the numbers? Challenging the barriers to quantitative socio‐legal scholarship in the United Kingdom4
A Sociology of Post‐Imperial Constitutions: Suppressed Civil War and Colonized Citizens By ChrisThornhill, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, 450 pp., £135.003
‘Human rights cities’ in Africa? Rights as resources for urban governance in the Global South3
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Segregation and researcher's positionality: Challenges of conducting policy ethnography in Southern polarized settings3
The emotional labour of judges in jury trials3
‘On a knife's edge’: medical, police, and legal responses to self‐harming protesters3
Raising relational legal consciousness through co‐production research? Making law more accessible3
Socio‐legal studies at the heart of jurisprudence3
The Abortion Act 1967: A Biography of a UK Law By SallySheldon, GayleDavis, JaneO'Neill, and ClareParker, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 360 pp., £25.992
Sociology of labour law and the economy2
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Loss and damage, plastic pollution, and the effectiveness of international environmental law2
Redefining consent: rape law reform, reasonable belief, and communicative responsibility2
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Subjectivity Transformed: The Cultural Foundation of Liberty in ModernityBy ThomasVesting, translated by NeilSolomon, London: Wiley, 2023, 288 pp., £18.992
Hegemony as promises: rationalizing restrictiveness and the legal consciousness of asylum seekers in Belgium2
The Journal of Law and Society in context: a bibliometric analysis2
It's about time: investigating the temporal in socio‐legal studies through unstructured interviews2
Decolonising (and) legal pluralism2
The object(s) of legality2
Arbitration vis‐à‐vis other professions: a sociology of professions account of international commercial arbitrators2
Law, economy and society: Reflections on the politics of regulation2
Speaking up: why people dare to sue the government in China2
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Intellectual and Cultural Property: Between Market and Community. FionaMacmillan. London: Routledge, 2021, 232 pp., £36.992
‘Only connect’? The role of emotion in the practice of social welfare law advice and casework2
Epistemic struggles in legislating animal welfare in Finland: competing constructions of the public interest2
New meanings for an old debate2
‘Wrong’ cases and ‘wrong’ plaintiffs: intergenerational relationships and legal consciousness in China2
Integrated Offender Management and the Policing of Prolific Offenders By FrederickCram, London: Routledge, 2023, 224 pp., £31.992
Reflections on the journal's visual turn2
A duty to protect? Legal consciousness among military officers in armed conflict2
Social Citizenship in an Age of Welfare Regionalism: The State of the Social Union By MarkSimpson, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 198 pp., £76.502
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Doing Sociolegal Research in Design Mode, AMANDAPERRY‐KESSARIS, London: Routledge, 2021, 154 pp., £44.991
AI as legal persons: past, patterns, and prospects1
Division of labour in social movements: the interplay between legal mobilization and public protest in Swedish mining resistance1
Gender diversity on Malaysian corporate boards: a law and social movements perspective1
Surveillance Law, Data Retention and Human Rights: A Risk to Democracy By MatthewWhite, London: Routledge, 2024, 392 pp., £150.001
Law, Vulnerability, and the Responsive State: Beyond Equality and Liberty Edited by Martha AlbertsonFineman and LauraSpitz, London: Routledge, 2024, 290 pp., £34.951
Transnational constitutionalism – conflicts‐law constitutionalism – economic constitutionalism: the exemplary case of the European Union1
The Journal of Law and Society in context: A bibliometric analysis1
Not What the Bus Promised: Health Governance after Brexit By Tamara K.Hervey, IvankaAntova, Mark L.Flear, and MatthewWood, Oxford: Hart, 2023, 280 pp., £85.001
Law, technology, and data‐driven security: infra‐legalities as method assemblage1
Care on the move: the gender care gap and intra‐EU mobility1
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Political constitutionalism in Europe revisited1
Doing research with intellectually disabled participants: reflections on the challenges of capacity and consent in socio‐legal research1
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, 2021
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Global legal change from below and above1
What does gender equality need? Revisiting the formal and informal in feminist legal politics1
Human–algorithm hybrids as (quasi‐)organizations? On the accountability of digital collective actors1
The inefficiency of plea bargaining1
The ‘new voyeurism’: criminalizing the creation of ‘deepfake porn’1
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The counter‐reparative impacts of South Africa's reparations gap: victims as reparations ‘experts’ and the role of victims’ organizations1
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., £80.001
Synthesize this: integrating innovation governance and EU regulation of synthetic biology1
Unchartered territory? Navigating voice, accountability, and prevention in suicide‐related domestic homicide reviews in England and Wales1
A socio‐legal quest: from jurisprudence to sociology of law and back again1
Navigating internet‐mediated ethnography for socio‐legal researchers0
Constitutionalism, populism, and the imaginary of the authentic polity: a socio‐legal analysis of European public spheres and constitutional demoicratization0
Shari'a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics By Mark FathiMassoud, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 368 pp., £84.990
‘F**k this game … I'm off’: financial and emotional factors in declining legal representation in miscarriage of justice cases0
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How statutory duties shape the decision making of an economic regulator: insights from the energy regulatory community, past and present0
The paradox of human rights and three forms for its unfolding0
Perceptions of procedural fairness and space for personal narrative: an experimental study of form design0
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Law and childbirth in Ireland after the 8th Amendment: notes on women's legal consciousness0
Exploring computational approaches to law: the evolution of judicial language in the Anglo‐Welsh poor law, 1691–18340
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Journeying the everyday of civic space: movement as method in socio‐legal studies0
Gender (de)certification and the home: A new focus for feminist legal scholarship?0
The Bodyguards of Lies: Lawyers’ Power and Professional Responsibility By ChristopherWhelan, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 364 pp., £85.000
Trade union legal mobilization and consciousness0
Intermediaries in the criminal justice system and the ‘neutrality paradox’0
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Governmental influence over rights consciousness: public perceptions of the COVID‐19 lockdown0
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Regulating for trustworthy autonomous systems: exploring stakeholder perspectives on answerability0
Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives By EmilyJones, London: Routledge, 2023, 216 pp., £35.990
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Lawyers as infrastructures: mediations, blockages, and new possibilities in grassroots movements0
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Response to Flora Renz, ‘Gender (de)certification and the home: A new focus for feminist legal scholarship?’0
Constitutional Imaginaries: A Theory of European Societal Constitutionalism By JiříPřibáň, London: Routledge, 2022, 176 pp., £130.000
Reimagining the Court of Protection: Access to Justice in Mental Capacity Law By JaimeLindsey, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 216 pp., £85.000
Raising a claim for (animal) justice: The end(s) of socio‐legal and critical legal studies0
Introduction: socio‐legal methodologies0
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The crafty power of text: methods for a sociology of legislative drafting0
Digging into legal archaeology: a methodology for case study research0
Artificial Intelligence and the Legal Profession, MICHAELLEGG AND FELICITYBELL, Oxford: Hart, 2020, 408 pp., £75.000
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The managed participation of the criminal accused0
EcoLaw: Legality, Life, and the Normativity of Nature By MargaretDavies, London: Routledge, 2022, 138 pp., £48.990
Theory, praxis and politics in law and society research: Reflections on the Cotterrell–Nelken debate0
The Sinophone lawyer: China's cross‐border impact on the legal profession0
Situating legal consciousness and legal compliance: how Dutch welfare clients think and act in relation to the law0
Penality in the Underground: The IRA's Pursuit of Informers By RonDudai, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 240 pp., £80.000
The dynamic and iterative pre‐dispute phase: the transformation from a justiciable problem into a legal dispute0
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Labour is labour: what surrogates can learn from the Sex Work Is Work movement0
From shame to guilt: negotiating moral and legal responsibility within apologies for historical institutional abuse0
Law and Film: Critical Reflections on a Field in Motion Edited by VittoriaBecci, AlexiaKatsiginis, and EdwardvanDaalen, London: Routledge, 2025, 202 pp., £135.000
The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market CaptureEmiliosChristodoulidisCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 608 pp., £34.990
Mobilizing anti‐discrimination law: the litigation strategies of UK and French trade unions compared0
Justice in a Time of Austerity: Stories from a System in Crisis, JONROBINS AND DANIELNEWMAN, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2021, 224 pp., £9.990
Worlds we have lost? Hope and disappointment in the history of English criminal justice.The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales, Volume I: The ‘Liberal Hour’, PAULROCK, Lo0
Plurinational democracies in Europe: the quest for a profane constitutionalism0
Introduction: Political constitutions in transnational society: introducing socio‐legal and interdisciplinary perspectives0
Trust at the border: identifying risk and assessing credibility on reality television0
Law and conspiracy theory: sovereign citizens, freemen on the land, and pseudolaw0
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What is (the) matter with climate litigation? Law, nature, and the limits of legal technique0
Democracy and emergency: finding the constitutional foundation of the knowledgeable state in social dynamics0
Giving rap a chance: the cultural policing and consequences of the suppression of rap music in England in the twenty‐first century0
A response on the ‘old’ and ‘bold’ operation of gender at home0
Managing time: speeding up and slowing down in the immigration bail court0
(Dis)passionate law stories: the emotional processes of encoding narratives in court0
‘The rules are all over the place’: Mass Observation, time, and law in the COVID‐19 pandemic0
Who needs the law? Multiple consciousness as critique0
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Critique of comparative law: to compierreNegative Comparative Law: A Strong Programme for Weak Thought By PierreLegrand, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 352 pp., £95.000
Agency and vulnerability in the field of immigration law: a linguistic‐ethnographic perspective on lawyer–client interaction0
Environmental public hearings and intersectionality: women's voices from Gujarat, India0
Shortcuts and detours of environmental collective legal mobilizations: the cases of the Atrato River and the Amazon region in Colombia0
The politics of preservation: oral history, socio‐legal studies, and praxis0
We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks, ILHAMTOHTI / TRANSLATED BY YAXUE CAO / CINDY CARTER / MATTHEW ROBERTSON, London: Verso, 2022, 174 pp., £14.990
The hidden histories of the Pinochet case0
A radical not an incrementalist1Online Courts and the Future of Justice, RICHARDSUSSKIND, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 368 pp., £19.990
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment, DANIELKAHNEMAN, OLIVIERSIBONY, AND CASS. R.SUNSTEIN, London: William Collins, 2021, 464 pp., £25.000
The centres and margins of transnational law: potential developments and methodological challenges0
Achieving compliance in the use of force: the production and maintenance of an imminent threat in an aerial targeting operation0
Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law OpinionsEdited by BennettCapers, SarahDeer, and CoreyRayburn Yung, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 306 pp., £39.990
Visibilizing the accountability web: ordinary courts, informal justice efforts, and alternative approaches for addressing mass human rights violations in Syria0
Law, language, and the power of ‘invisible threats’ of violence against women0
The possible forms of professionalism: credibility and the performance of queer sexualities among barristers in England and Wales0
Out of time? Going back to the Cotterrell–Nelken debate0
Epistemic emotions in prosecutorial decision making0
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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., £85.000
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Socratic Voices: Dialogues on Law, Time, and Reconciliation By BertvanRoermund, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023, 166 pp., £75.000
Litigants in Person and the Family Justice System By JessicaMant, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 256 pp., £42.990
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The Law Multiple: Judgment and Knowledge in Practice. IreneVan Oorschot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 250 pp., £85.000
The ‘legal’ in socio‐legal history: Woods and Pirie v. Cumming Gordon0
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., £36.99How0
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Coercion and justification: a global public reason perspective on Security Council reform0
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Brexit, Union, and Disunion: The Evolution of British Constitutional Unsettlement By SionaidhDouglas‐Scott, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 534 pp., £31.990
Algorithm‐facilitated discrimination: a socio‐legal study of the use by employers of artificial intelligence hiring systems0
Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire By YaelBerda, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 280 pp., £75.000
Conflict and Transformation: Essays on European Law and Policy By ChristianJoerges, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 624 pp., £49.990
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‘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 Office0
Relational rights and legal consciousness research: theoretical and methodological innovations0
Legalizing transphobia: from courtroom to legislature, how gender‐critical activism is hurting us all0
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Tradition and reinvention: the making and unmaking of herbal medicines in the UK0
Becoming a feminist methodologist while researching sexual violence support services0
Epistemic othering: the interplay of knowledges in legislative drafting0
Resolving labour disputes in the Philippines: legitimacy and effectiveness in a polycentric regulatory framework0
The price of positionality: assessing the benefits and burdens of self‐identification in research methods0
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 Rights0
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Property in Contemporary Capitalism By PaddyIreland, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024, 310 pp., £19.990
Socio‐legal studies and criminal justice: Reflections on ‘participation’0
Psychiatric injury and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities0
Faces of hunger: an intersectional approach to children's right to food in the United Kingdom0
Racial Justice and the Limits of Law By BharatMalkani, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024, 182 pp., £19.990
Democratic representation and non‐majoritarian actors in constitutional orders: a systemic analysis0
It could be my son! ‘Himpathy’ and the male fear defence in rape trials0
Accountability and offsetting in environmental law enforcement0
Values diversity in the United Kingdom Supreme Court: abandoning the ‘don't‐ask‐don't‐tell’ policy0
Paper chains: tied visas, migration policies, and legal coercion0
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Infrastructure: New Trajectories in Law By MarianaValverde, London: Routledge, 2022, 124 pp., £48.990
Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law By SharonThompson, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 280 pp., £85.000
Prosecutors and anti‐intellectualism as a trial tactic: the cultural roots of scepticism towards expertise in capital cases0
Theory in socio‐legal studies: Revisiting the Cotterrell–Nelken debate0
Victim blaming as collateral damage: professionals on court hearings in cases of rape, assault, and fraud0
Child welfare, Indigenous parents, and judicial mediation0
The making of neoliberal legality: the legal imagination of business elites and the ‘social constitutionalization’ of ‘free enterprise’ in Latin America0
‘Executive robbery’: UK public law, race, and ‘regimes of dispossession’ in the Chagos Archipelago0
Contractual Relations: A Contribution to the Critique of the Classical Law of Contract By DavidCampbell, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 464 pp., £95.000
Political constitutionalism and populism0
Broken bonds: how COVID‐19 border restrictions transformed experiences and conceptualizations of citizenship0
What does the showing of voluntary participation by the defendant do for criminal justice professionals?0
Environmental protest, contention, and the law: conceptualizing the Public Order Act 20230
Philanthropy and environmental law0
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Five angry men: advocating for and mobilizing EU gender equality law to advance men's rights0
When law and data collide: the methodological challenge of conducting mixed methods research in law0
Profitable insecurities: trade mark law, misleading advertising, and body image perceptions in the United Kingdom0
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What can contract law learn from #MeToo?0
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Researching the visual culture of law and legal institutions: some reflections on methodology0
The Social Constitution: Embedding Social Rights By Whitney K.Taylor, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 254 pp., £95.000
Judicial relational legal consciousness: authoritarian backsliding as a catalyst of change0
Placing Property: A Legal Geography of Property Rights in Land By AmandaByer, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 88 pp., £24.990
Harm behind the counter: ‘regulatory labour’ and the offloading of risk onto front‐line employees in the post‐Gambling Act era0
Local authority intervention in private renting: from compliance to hardline enforcement0
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Justifying and practising effective participation in the Court of Protection: an empirical study*0
Disruptive accountability? Temporal regimes and social change in decolonization struggles in Belgium0
Future‐Proofing the Judiciary: Preparing for Demographic Change By BrianOpeskin, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 328 pp., £109.990
Gender Recognition and the Law: Troubling Transgender People's Engagement with Legal Regulation By FloraRenz, London: Routledge, 2024, 176 pp., £135.000
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