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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

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From Car Wash to Bolsonaro: Law and Lawyers in Brazil's Illiberal Turn (2014–2018)	17
Tax Fraud and Selective Law Enforcement	16
The provenance of what is proven: exploring (mock) jury deliberation in Scottish rape trials	12
Continuities of exploitation: seasonal migrant workers in German agriculture during the COVID‐19 pandemic	10
Making the State Responsible: Intersex Embodiment, Medical Jurisdiction, and State Responsibility	10
The price of positionality: assessing the benefits and burdens of self‐identification in research methods	9
Labour Constitutions and Occupational Communities: Social Norms and Legal Norms at Work	8
Remote rituals in virtual courts	8
The ‘Fight against Corruption’ in Brazil from the 2000s: A Political Crusade through Judicial Activism	8
Seeking campus justice: challenging the ‘criminal justice drift’ in United Kingdom university responses to student sexual violence and misconduct	7
Participation in a time of climate crisis	6
Finding a way to live with the past: ‘self‐repair’, ‘informal repair’, and reparations in transitional justice	6
Law, technology, and data‐driven security: infra‐legalities as method assemblage	6
Ultimate Legality: Reading the Community of Law	6
Gender diversity on Malaysian corporate boards: a law and social movements perspective	5
Naming, blaming, claiming: an interview with Bill Felstiner, Rick Abel, and Austin Sarat	5
‘Paedophile Hunters’, Criminal Procedure, and Fundamental Human Rights	5
Transnational Jihadism and the Role of Criminal Judges: An Ethnography of French Courts	5
Caught in an Authoritarian Trap of Its Own Making? Brazil's ‘Lava Jato’ Anti‐Corruption Investigation and the Politics of Prosecutorial Overreach	4
The Remarkable Rise of ‘Law and Historical Memory’ in Europe: Theorizing Trends and Prospects in the Recent Literature	4
What does gender equality need? Revisiting the formal and informal in feminist legal politics	4
Socio‐Legal Studies in 2020	3
Law, ‘presentist’ agendas, and the making of ‘official’ memory after collective violence	3
The politics of the production of knowledge on trauma: the Grenfell Tower Inquiry	3
When law and data collide: the methodological challenge of conducting mixed methods research in law	3

From contestation to conviction: terrorism expertise before the courts	3
Capabilities, capacity, and consent: sexual intimacy in the Court of Protection	3
Legal mobilization without resources? How civil society organizations generate and share alternative resources in vulnerable communities	3
Independent separate legal representation for rape complainants in adversarial systems: lessons from Northern Ireland	3
Jurist in Context: William Twining in Conversation with David Sugarman	3
The dynamic and iterative pre‐dispute phase: the transformation from a justiciable problem into a legal dispute	3
Introduction: Wars on Law, Wars through Law? Law and Lawyers in Times of Crisis	2
‘Left Pessimists’ in ‘Rose Coloured Glasses’? Reflections on the Political Economy of Socio‐Legal Studies and (Legal) Academic Well‐Being	2
Labour is labour: what surrogates can learn from the Sex Work Is Work movement	2
Faces of hunger: an intersectional approach to children's right to food in the United Kingdom	2
Home: A Vehicle for Resistance? Exploring Emancipatory Entanglements of ‘Vehicle Dwelling’ in a Changing Policy Context	2
Gendering the Legal Complex: Women in Sri Lanka's Legal Profession	2
Feminist judging in lower courts	2
Governing canal life	2
Participation as a Framework for Analysing Consumers’ Experiences of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)	2
From shame to guilt: negotiating moral and legal responsibility within apologies for historical institutional abuse	2
Partition by Degrees: Routine Exceptions in Border and Immigration Practice between the UK and Ireland, 1921–1972	2
Beyond Social Constructionism? Cicourel and the Search for Ecological Validity	2
Disability Law as an Academic Discipline: Towards Cohesion and Mainstreaming?	2
Paper chains: tied visas, migration policies, and legal coercion	2
‘What about the poor people's rights?’ The dismantling of social citizenship through access to justice and welfare reform policy	2
The crafty power of text: methods for a sociology of legislative drafting	2
A reflection on 30 years of complementary collaboration	1
Epistemic emotions in prosecutorial decision making	1
Selecting a lawyer: the practical arrangement of police station legal assistance	1
Economic Crises, Crisis of Labour Law? Lessons from Weimar	1
Journeying the everyday of civic space: movement as method in socio‐legal studies	1
‘F**k this game … I'm off’: financial and emotional factors in declining legal representation in miscarriage of justice cases	1
Intermediaries in the criminal justice system and the ‘neutrality paradox’	1
‘Victims not wrongdoers’: the legal consciousness of rejected asylum seekers in Norway	1
Indications of goal displacement induced by budget cuts and output management: a case study of a regulatory enforcement agency in the Netherlands	1
Law against the Rule of Law: Assaulting Democracy	1
Justifying and practising effective participation in the Court of Protection: an empirical study^*	1
Arbitration vis‐à‐vis other professions: a sociology of professions account of international commercial arbitrators	1
It's about time: investigating the temporal in socio‐legal studies through unstructured interviews	1
The Changing Position of Legal Academics in the United Kingdom: Professionalization or Proletarianization?	1
A tale of many jurisdictions: how universal jurisdiction is creating a transnational judicial space	1
Where are the numbers? Challenging the barriers to quantitative socio‐legal scholarship in the United Kingdom	1
Neoliberalism, family law, and the devaluation of care	1
Administrative Justice in Wales	1
What can contract law learn from #MeToo?	1
Vehicles for justice: buses and advancement	1
‘Wrong’ cases and ‘wrong’ plaintiffs: intergenerational relationships and legal consciousness in China	1
Values in the Supreme Court: Decisions, Division and Diversity by RachelCahill‐O'Callaghan (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020, 232 pp., £54.00)	1
Tradition and reinvention: the making and unmaking of herbal medicines in the UK	1
Mobilizing anti‐discrimination law: the litigation strategies of UK and French trade unions compared	1
Guilty pleas in children: legitimacy, vulnerability, and the need for increased protection	1
Judicial Procedural Involvement (JPI): A Metric for Judges’ Role in Civil Litigation, Settlement, and Access to Justice	1
Legislating for a Pandemic: Exposing the Stateless State	1
Navigating internet‐mediated ethnography for socio‐legal researchers	1

Synthesize this: integrating innovation governance and EU regulation of synthetic biology	1
Gendered ‘Objective’ Patent Law: Of Binaries and a Singularity	1
The centres and margins of transnational law: potential developments and methodological challenges	1
Invisible labour: legal dimensions of invisibilization	1
Belonging beyond the binary: from Byzantine eunuchs and Indian hijras to gender‐fluid and non‐binary identities	1
Speaking up: why people dare to sue the government in China	1
Redefining consent: rape law reform, reasonable belief, and communicative responsibility	1
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Lawyers and the Rule of Law By AndrewBoon, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 576 pp., £90.00	0
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The possible forms of professionalism: credibility and the performance of queer sexualities among barristers in England and Wales	0
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Unsecured lending and the indigenous economy in Australia and South Africa	0
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Epistemic othering: the interplay of knowledges in legislative drafting	0
Environmental Groups and Legal Expertise: Shaping the Brexit Process, CAROLYNABBOT AND MARIALEE, London: UCL Press, 2021, 226 pp., open access	0
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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, Lo	0
Child welfare, Indigenous parents, and judicial mediation	0
History and the Law: A Love Story by CarolynSteedman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, 285 pp., £22.99)	0
Global legal change from below and above	0
The paradox of human rights and three forms for its unfolding	0
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Democratic representation and non‐majoritarian actors in constitutional orders: a systemic analysis	0
Artificial Intelligence and the Legal Profession, MICHAELLEGG AND FELICITYBELL, Oxford: Hart, 2020, 408 pp., £75.00	0
Values diversity in the United Kingdom Supreme Court: abandoning the ‘don't‐ask‐don't‐tell’ policy	0
Of Mines, Mining, and Imagining: Rights without Society?	0
Doing research with intellectually disabled participants: reflections on the challenges of capacity and consent in socio‐legal research	0
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The counter‐reparative impacts of South Africa's reparations gap: victims as reparations ‘experts’ and the role of victims’ organizations	0
Law and childbirth in Ireland after the 8^th Amendment: notes on women's legal consciousness	0
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Digging into legal archaeology: a methodology for case study research	0
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Supremacy and hegemony: a reply to Palmer and Martin	0
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‘Tick the box and move on’: compartmentalization and the treatment of the environment in decision‐making processes	0
Law, language, and the power of ‘invisible threats’ of violence against women	0
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Contractual provision of public services, commitment, and trust	0
The emotional labour of judges in jury trials	0
Law's Memories By MattHoward, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 164 pp., £99.99	0
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Tower block refurbishment, flats, and understandings of ownership	0
Constitutional Imaginaries: A Theory of European Societal Constitutionalism By JiříPřibáň, London: Routledge, 2022, 176 pp., £130.00	0
Shari'a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics By Mark FathiMassoud, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 368 pp., £84.99	0
‘The rules are all over the place’: Mass Observation, time, and law in the COVID‐19 pandemic	0
Coercion and justification: a global public reason perspective on Security Council reform	0
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The Radical Philosophy of Rights by CostasDouzinas (London: Routledge, 2019, 246 pp., £34.99)	0
Access to Justice for Vulnerable and Energy‐Poor Consumers: Just Energy?NAOMICREUTZFELDT, CHRISGILL, MARINECORNELIS, AND RACHELMCPHERSON, Oxford: Hart, 2021, 336 pp., £85.00	0
Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law By SharonThompson, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 280 pp., £85.00	0
Law's Wars, Law's Trials	0
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,	0
Politics by Other Means in South Africa Today	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
Communities of scholars and communities of practice	0
Critical Theory and Legal Autopoeisis: The Case for Societal Constitutionalism by GuntherTeubner, edited by DianaGöbel (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019, 408 pp., £85.00)	0
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Transnational constitutionalism – conflicts‐law constitutionalism – economic constitutionalism: the exemplary case of the European Union	0
Law and the Dead: Technology, Relations and Institutions, MARCTRABSKY, London: Routledge, 2019, 142 pp., £36.99	0
A radical not an incrementalist¹Online Courts and the Future of Justice, RICHARDSUSSKIND, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 368 pp., £19.99	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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Legal Pluralism Explained: History, Theory, Consequences, BRIAN Z.TAMANAHA, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, 208 pp., £19.99	0
The People in Question: Citizens and Constitutions in Uncertain Times by JOSHAW (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2020, 336 pp., £75.00)	0
Sentencing: A Social Process. By CyrusTata, Cham: Palgrave Pivot, 2020, 190 pp., £44.99	0
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Introduction: Political constitutions in transnational society: introducing socio‐legal and interdisciplinary perspectives	0
‘Would any of them have suffered from a guilty conscience if they had won?’: Rudolf Wiethölter and post‐Second World War German law¹	0
Doing Sociolegal Research in Design Mode, AMANDAPERRY‐KESSARIS, London: Routledge, 2021, 154 pp., £44.99	0
Doing diversity in the legal profession in England and Wales: why do disabled people continue to be unexpected?	0
Transnational Law and Development as a Means to Reshape States and Rights	0
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Empirical research on law and society.Advanced Introduction to Empirical Legal Research, HERBERT M.KRITZER, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2021, 168 pp., £16.45Research Handbook on the Sociology	0
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The politics of preservation: oral history, socio‐legal studies, and praxis	0
Political constitutionalism in Europe revisited	0
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The Many Beginnings of Philip Aneurin Thomas	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
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The ‘legal’ in socio‐legal history: Woods and Pirie v. Cumming Gordon	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
Psychiatric injury and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities	0
‘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	0
(Dis)passionate law stories: the emotional processes of encoding narratives in court	0
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Legal Theory and the Media of Law, THOMASVESTING, JAMES C.WAGNER, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2018, 656 pp., £150.00	0
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The making of neoliberal legality: the legal imagination of business elites and the ‘social constitutionalization’ of ‘free enterprise’ in Latin America	0
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Democracy and emergency: finding the constitutional foundation of the knowledgeable state in social dynamics	0
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	0
Future‐Proofing the Judiciary: Preparing for Demographic Change By BrianOpeskin, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 328 pp., £109.99	0
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Introduction: Celebrating Phil Thomas at 80	0
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Five angry men: advocating for and mobilizing EU gender equality law to advance men's rights	0
Reviewing Directors’ Business Judgements: Views from the Field	0
Competing Narratives in a Case Biography: A Tale of Two Citadels	0
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A duty to protect? Legal consciousness among military officers in armed conflict	0
Infrastructure: New Trajectories in Law By MarianaValverde, London: Routledge, 2022, 124 pp., £48.99	0
Accountability and Review in the Counter‐Terrorist State. By Jessie Blackbourn, Fiona De Londras,Lydia MorganBristol: Bristol University Press,2020, 192 pp., £27.99	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
Plurinational democracies in Europe: the quest for a profane constitutionalism	0
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The inefficiency of plea bargaining	0
Mavericks or misconstruction? A reply to Campbell and Allan	0
Justice and Profit in Health Care Law: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and the United Kingdom by SABRINAGERMAIN (Oxford: Hart, 2019, 202 pp., £50.00)	0
Criminal Law and the Man Problem by NgaireNaffine(Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2019, 224 pp., £55.00)	0
Disruptive accountability? Temporal regimes and social change in decolonization struggles in Belgium	0
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Accountability and offsetting in environmental law enforcement	0
Fiscal Sociology at the Centenary: UK Perspectives on Budgeting, Taxation and Austerity by ANNMUMFORD (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 224 pp., £64.99)	0
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Care on the move: the gender care gap and intra‐EU mobility	0
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Labour law after neoliberalism?	0
Researching the visual culture of law and legal institutions: some reflections on methodology	0
Political constitutionalism and populism	0
How statutory duties shape the decision making of an economic regulator: insights from the energy regulatory community, past and present	0
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment, DANIELKAHNEMAN, OLIVIERSIBONY, AND CASS. R.SUNSTEIN, London: William Collins, 2021, 464 pp., £25.00	0
The Rule of Law in Fragile States: Dictatorship, Collapse, and the Politics of Religion in Post‐Colonial Somalia	0
Penality in the Underground: The IRA's Pursuit of Informers By RonDudai, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 240 pp., £80.00	0
The economic constitution and the political constitution: seeking the common good in the post‐national setting	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
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Women, Film, and the Law: Cinematic Representations of Female Incarceration, SUZANNEBOUCLIN, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, 226 pp., $75.00	0
The Law Multiple: Judgment and Knowledge in Practice. IreneVan Oorschot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 250 pp., £85.00	0
Labour/data justice: a new framework for labour/regulatory datafication	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
‘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
Reinterpreting Law's Silence: Examining the Interconnections between Legal Doctrine and the Rise of Immaterial Labour	0
Introduction: socio‐legal methodologies	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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‘Human rights cities’ in Africa? Rights as resources for urban governance in the Global South	0
Agency and vulnerability in the field of immigration law: a linguistic‐ethnographic perspective on lawyer–client interaction	0
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Intellectual and Cultural Property: Between Market and Community. FionaMacmillan. London: Routledge, 2021, 232 pp., £36.99	0
The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market CaptureEmiliosChristodoulidisCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 608 pp., £34.99	0
Lawyers as infrastructures: mediations, blockages, and new possibilities in grassroots movements	0
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Constitutionalism, populism, and the imaginary of the authentic polity: a socio‐legal analysis of European public spheres and constitutional demoicratization	0
Human–algorithm hybrids as (quasi‐)organizations? On the accountability of digital collective actors	0
Becoming a feminist methodologist while researching sexual violence support services	0
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A socio‐legal quest: from jurisprudence to sociology of law and back again	0
The Democratic Courthouse: A Modern History of Design, Due Process and Dignity by LindaMulcahy and EmmaRowden (London: Routledge, 2019, 370 pp., £36.99)	0
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The Limits and Promise of Instrumental Legal Analysis	0
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	0
Law and the construction of Jewish difference	0
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EcoLaw: Legality, Life, and the Normativity of Nature By MargaretDavies, London: Routledge, 2022, 138 pp., £48.99	0
Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative StateCASS R.SUNSTEIN AND ADRIANVERMEULECambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020, 188 pp., £20.95	0
Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood, MICHELEGOODWIN, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, 326 pp., £22.99	0
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