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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Law, technology, and data‐driven security: infra‐legalities as method assemblage30
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Broken bonds: how COVID‐19 border restrictions transformed experiences and conceptualizations of citizenship10
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Integrated Offender Management and the Policing of Prolific Offenders By FrederickCram, London: Routledge, 2023, 224 pp., £31.999
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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, 7
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Jurisprudence and Socio‐Legal Studies: Intersecting Fields By RogerCotterrell, London: Routledge, 2024, 252 pp., £37.996
When less is less: the complexities of growth and the degrowth company6
Mobilizing anti‐discrimination law: the litigation strategies of UK and French trade unions compared4
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Mock juries, real trials: how to solve (some) problems with jury science4
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Arbitration vis‐à‐vis other professions: a sociology of professions account of international commercial arbitrators3
Constitutionalism, populism, and the imaginary of the authentic polity: a socio‐legal analysis of European public spheres and constitutional demoicratization3
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Doing Sociolegal Research in Design Mode, AMANDAPERRY‐KESSARIS, London: Routledge, 2021, 154 pp., £44.993
Reimagining the Court of Protection: Access to Justice in Mental Capacity Law By JaimeLindsey, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 216 pp., £85.003
Democracy and emergency: finding the constitutional foundation of the knowledgeable state in social dynamics3
Coercion and justification: a global public reason perspective on Security Council reform3
The crafty power of text: methods for a sociology of legislative drafting3
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Trade union legal mobilization and consciousness2
‘There is just nothing to hold on to in this case’: legal technicalities and the use of psychological reports in Chilean domestic violence procedures2
The object(s) of legality2
Legal mobilization without resources? How civil society organizations generate and share alternative resources in vulnerable communities2
‘We can't help you – it doesn't concern us’: the legal consciousness of young people seeking asylum in Sweden who report violent crime2
Indications of goal displacement induced by budget cuts and output management: a case study of a regulatory enforcement agency in the Netherlands2
Belonging beyond the binary: from Byzantine eunuchs and Indian hijras to gender‐fluid and non‐binary identities2
Human–algorithm hybrids as (quasi‐)organizations? On the accountability of digital collective actors2
Law, language, and the power of ‘invisible threats’ of violence against women2
The Social Constitution: Embedding Social Rights By Whitney K.Taylor, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 254 pp., £95.002
Key book in my education: Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit2
Accountability and offsetting in environmental law enforcement2
‘Wrong’ cases and ‘wrong’ plaintiffs: intergenerational relationships and legal consciousness in China2
Redefining consent: rape law reform, reasonable belief, and communicative responsibility2
Governmental influence over rights consciousness: public perceptions of the COVID‐19 lockdown1
Artificial Intelligence and the Legal Profession, MICHAELLEGG AND FELICITYBELL, Oxford: Hart, 2020, 408 pp., £75.001
Gender diversity on Malaysian corporate boards: a law and social movements perspective1
The Sinophone lawyer: China's cross‐border impact on the legal profession1
Shortcuts and detours of environmental collective legal mobilizations: the cases of the Atrato River and the Amazon region in Colombia1
Law's Memories By MattHoward, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 164 pp., £99.991
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We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks, ILHAMTOHTI / TRANSLATED BY YAXUE CAO / CINDY CARTER / MATTHEW ROBERTSON, London: Verso, 2022, 174 pp., £14.991
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Care on the move: the gender care gap and intra‐EU mobility1
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‘What about the poor people's rights?’ The dismantling of social citizenship through access to justice and welfare reform policy1
States of Exception: Human Rights, Biopolitics, Utopia By CostasDouzinas, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023, 272 pp., £90.001
From shame to guilt: negotiating moral and legal responsibility within apologies for historical institutional abuse1
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Introduction: socio‐legal methodologies1
The counter‐reparative impacts of South Africa's reparations gap: victims as reparations ‘experts’ and the role of victims’ organizations1
Faces of hunger: an intersectional approach to children's right to food in the United Kingdom1
Environmental Groups and Legal Expertise: Shaping the Brexit Process, CAROLYNABBOT AND MARIALEE, London: UCL Press, 2021, 226 pp., open access1
How statutory duties shape the decision making of an economic regulator: insights from the energy regulatory community, past and present1
Judicial relational legal consciousness: authoritarian backsliding as a catalyst of change1
Exploring computational approaches to law: the evolution of judicial language in the Anglo‐Welsh poor law, 1691–18341
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Brexit, Union, and Disunion: The Evolution of British Constitutional Unsettlement By SionaidhDouglas‐Scott, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 534 pp., £31.991
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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
The ‘legal’ in socio‐legal history: Woods and Pirie v. Cumming Gordon1
Legal Pluralism Explained: History, Theory, Consequences, BRIAN Z.TAMANAHA, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, 208 pp., £19.991
‘Would any of them have suffered from a guilty conscience if they had won?’: Rudolf Wiethölter and post‐Second World War German law11
It could be my son! ‘Himpathy’ and the male fear defence in rape trials0
The hidden histories of the Pinochet case0
The Journal of Law and Society in context: a bibliometric analysis0
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, 2020
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Transnational constitutionalism – conflicts‐law constitutionalism – economic constitutionalism: the exemplary case of the European Union0
Gender Recognition and the Law: Troubling Transgender People's Engagement with Legal Regulation By FloraRenz, London: Routledge, 2024, 176 pp., £135.000
Disruptive accountability? Temporal regimes and social change in decolonization struggles in Belgium0
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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, Lo0
Child welfare, Indigenous parents, and judicial mediation0
Vehicles for justice: buses and advancement0
Profilicity and online safety legislation0
Political constitutionalism and populism0
The economic constitution and the political constitution: seeking the common good in the post‐national setting0
Labour law after neoliberalism?0
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Labour/data justice: a new framework for labour/regulatory datafication0
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
Law and the construction of Jewish difference0
The Law Multiple: Judgment and Knowledge in Practice. IreneVan Oorschot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 250 pp., £85.000
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Environmental public hearings and intersectionality: women's voices from Gujarat, India0
The emotional labour of judges in jury trials0
(Dis)passionate law stories: the emotional processes of encoding narratives in court0
Scottish Feminist Judgments: (Re)Creating Law from the Outside In, EDITED BY SHARONCOWAN, CHLOËKENNEDY, AND VANESSA E.MUNRO, Oxford: Hart, 2019, 440 pp., £95.000
A radical not an incrementalist1Online Courts and the Future of Justice, RICHARDSUSSKIND, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 368 pp., £19.990
Applied Legal Pluralism: Processes, Driving Forces and Effects By GhislainOtis, JeanLeClair, and SophieThériault, London: Routledge, 2022, 284 pp., £130.000
The making of neoliberal legality: the legal imagination of business elites and the ‘social constitutionalization’ of ‘free enterprise’ in Latin America0
Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood, MICHELEGOODWIN, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, 326 pp., £22.990
The Abortion Act 1967: A Biography of a UK Law By SallySheldon, GayleDavis, JaneO'Neill, and ClareParker, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 360 pp., £25.990
The dynamic and iterative pre‐dispute phase: the transformation from a justiciable problem into a legal dispute0
Justifying and practising effective participation in the Court of Protection: an empirical study*0
Philanthropy and environmental law0
The possible forms of professionalism: credibility and the performance of queer sexualities among barristers in England and Wales0
Becoming a feminist methodologist while researching sexual violence support services0
‘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
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
Contractual provision of public services, commitment, and trust0
Independent separate legal representation for rape complainants in adversarial systems: lessons from Northern Ireland0
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The familialization of terrorism and the securitization of the family: gendered narratives of infantilization and demonization0
Situating legal consciousness and legal compliance: how Dutch welfare clients think and act in relation to the law0
Law and the Dead: Technology, Relations and Institutions, MARCTRABSKY, London: Routledge, 2019, 142 pp., £36.990
Subjectivity Transformed: The Cultural Foundation of Liberty in ModernityBy ThomasVesting, translated by NeilSolomon, London: Wiley, 2023, 288 pp., £18.990
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EcoLaw: Legality, Life, and the Normativity of Nature By MargaretDavies, London: Routledge, 2022, 138 pp., £48.990
Placing Property: A Legal Geography of Property Rights in Land By AmandaByer, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 88 pp., £24.990
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Women, Film, and the Law: Cinematic Representations of Female Incarceration, SUZANNEBOUCLIN, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, 226 pp., $75.000
‘Victims not wrongdoers’: the legal consciousness of rejected asylum seekers in Norway0
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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., £360
‘Human rights cities’ in Africa? Rights as resources for urban governance in the Global South0
Law, ‘presentist’ agendas, and the making of ‘official’ memory after collective violence0
What does gender equality need? Revisiting the formal and informal in feminist legal politics0
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Synthesize this: integrating innovation governance and EU regulation of synthetic biology0
Feminist judging in lower courts0
Infrastructure: New Trajectories in Law By MarianaValverde, London: Routledge, 2022, 124 pp., £48.990
Invisible labour: legal dimensions of invisibilization0
‘Worthy survivors’ of domestic violence in the eyes of the Beijing courts0
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The politics of preservation: oral history, socio‐legal studies, and praxis0
Lawyers in Conflict and Transition By KieranMcEvoy, LouiseMallinder, and AnnaBryson, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 440 pp., £85.000
Plurinational democracies in Europe: the quest for a profane constitutionalism0
Trust at the border: identifying risk and assessing credibility on reality television0
A tale of many jurisdictions: how universal jurisdiction is creating a transnational judicial space0
Epistemic othering: the interplay of knowledges in legislative drafting0
Psychiatric injury and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities0
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A socio‐legal quest: from jurisprudence to sociology of law and back again0
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Local authority intervention in private renting: from compliance to hardline enforcement0
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Guilty pleas in children: legitimacy, vulnerability, and the need for increased protection0
Property in Contemporary Capitalism By PaddyIreland, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024, 310 pp., £19.990
Trauma‐informed lawyering in the context of civil claims for sexual violence0
Relational rights and legal consciousness research: theoretical and methodological innovations0
Digging into legal archaeology: a methodology for case study research0
The Foundations of the Aarhus Convention: Environmental Democracy, Rights and Stewardship, EMILYBARRITT, Oxford: Hart, 2020, 188 pp., £70.000
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Introduction: Political constitutions in transnational society: introducing socio‐legal and interdisciplinary perspectives0
The Bodyguards of Lies: Lawyers’ Power and Professional Responsibility By ChristopherWhelan, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 364 pp., £85.000
Navigating internet‐mediated ethnography for socio‐legal researchers0
Tower block refurbishment, flats, and understandings of ownership0
The inefficiency of plea bargaining0
Achieving compliance in the use of force: the production and maintenance of an imminent threat in an aerial targeting operation0
Lawyers as infrastructures: mediations, blockages, and new possibilities in grassroots movements0
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Social Citizenship in an Age of Welfare Regionalism: The State of the Social Union By MarkSimpson, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 198 pp., £76.500
From contestation to conviction: terrorism expertise before the courts0
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment, DANIELKAHNEMAN, OLIVIERSIBONY, AND CASS. R.SUNSTEIN, London: William Collins, 2021, 464 pp., £25.000
Unchartered territory? Navigating voice, accountability, and prevention in suicide‐related domestic homicide reviews in England and Wales0
‘Tick the box and move on’: compartmentalization and the treatment of the environment in decision‐making processes0
Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives By EmilyJones, London: Routledge, 2023, 216 pp., £35.990
Five angry men: advocating for and mobilizing EU gender equality law to advance men's rights0
It's about time: investigating the temporal in socio‐legal studies through unstructured interviews0
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When law and data collide: the methodological challenge of conducting mixed methods research in law0
Researching the visual culture of law and legal institutions: some reflections on methodology0
Raising relational legal consciousness through co‐production research? Making law more accessible0
Constitutional Imaginaries: A Theory of European Societal Constitutionalism By JiříPřibáň, London: Routledge, 2022, 176 pp., £130.000
Remote rituals in virtual courts0
Democratic representation and non‐majoritarian actors in constitutional orders: a systemic analysis0
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Penality in the Underground: The IRA's Pursuit of Informers By RonDudai, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 240 pp., £80.000
Law and childbirth in Ireland after the 8th Amendment: notes on women's legal consciousness0
‘F**k this game … I'm off’: financial and emotional factors in declining legal representation in miscarriage of justice cases0
‘On a knife's edge’: medical, police, and legal responses to self‐harming protesters0
‘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 Frankenstein0
‘The rules are all over the place’: Mass Observation, time, and law in the COVID‐19 pandemic0
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Selecting a lawyer: the practical arrangement of police station legal assistance0
What can contract law learn from #MeToo?0
The politics of the production of knowledge on trauma: the Grenfell Tower Inquiry0
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
Perceptions of procedural fairness and space for personal narrative: an experimental study of form design0
Naming, blaming, claiming: an interview with Bill Felstiner, Rick Abel, and Austin Sarat0
Wikilegality and legal consciousness10
Law and Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative StateCASS R.SUNSTEIN AND ADRIANVERMEULECambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020, 188 pp., £20.950
A duty to protect? Legal consciousness among military officers in armed conflict0
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Conflict and Transformation: Essays on European Law and Policy By ChristianJoerges, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 624 pp., £49.990
Lawyers and the Rule of Law By AndrewBoon, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 576 pp., £90.000
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Participation in a time of climate crisis0
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Journeying the everyday of civic space: movement as method in socio‐legal studies0
Political constitutionalism in Europe revisited0
Justice in a Time of Austerity: Stories from a System in Crisis, JONROBINS AND DANIELNEWMAN, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2021, 224 pp., £9.990
Litigants in Person and the Family Justice System By JessicaMant, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 256 pp., £42.990
Agency and vulnerability in the field of immigration law: a linguistic‐ethnographic perspective on lawyer–client interaction0
Tradition and reinvention: the making and unmaking of herbal medicines in the UK0
Legalizing transphobia: from courtroom to legislature, how gender‐critical activism is hurting us all0
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A History of Regulating Working Families: Strains, Stereotypes, Strategies and Solutions. NICOLEBUSBY AND GRACEJAMES. Oxford: Hart, 2020, 184 pp., £60.000
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Doing diversity in the legal profession in England and Wales: why do disabled people continue to be unexpected?0
Where are the numbers? Challenging the barriers to quantitative socio‐legal scholarship in the United Kingdom0
Cryptocurrencies and the Regulatory Challenge, ALLAN C.HUTCHINSON, London: Routledge, 2021, 156 pp., £120.000
Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law By SharonThompson, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 280 pp., £85.000
Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law OpinionsEdited by BennettCapers, SarahDeer, and CoreyRayburn Yung, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 306 pp., £39.990
‘Double vision’ in the interlegal: the situated pluri‐legal consciousness of British Muslim women0
Shari'a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics By Mark FathiMassoud, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 368 pp., £84.990
Intellectual and Cultural Property: Between Market and Community. FionaMacmillan. London: Routledge, 2021, 232 pp., £36.990
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Continuities of exploitation: seasonal migrant workers in German agriculture during the COVID‐19 pandemic0
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Speaking up: why people dare to sue the government in China0
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Values diversity in the United Kingdom Supreme Court: abandoning the ‘don't‐ask‐don't‐tell’ policy0
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., £80.000
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Authoritarian liquid transgressions: the case of P&O Ferries0
Intermediaries in the criminal justice system and the ‘neutrality paradox’0
A bloody mess? UK regulation of menopause discrimination and the need for reform0
The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market CaptureEmiliosChristodoulidisCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 608 pp., £34.990
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The centres and margins of transnational law: potential developments and methodological challenges0
‘Executive robbery’: UK public law, race, and ‘regimes of dispossession’ in the Chagos Archipelago0
Paper chains: tied visas, migration policies, and legal coercion0
Socratic Voices: Dialogues on Law, Time, and Reconciliation By BertvanRoermund, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023, 166 pp., £75.000
Neoliberalism, family law, and the devaluation of care0
Contractual Relations: A Contribution to the Critique of the Classical Law of Contract By DavidCampbell, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 464 pp., £95.000
Doing research with intellectually disabled participants: reflections on the challenges of capacity and consent in socio‐legal research0
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Global legal change from below and above0
Finding a way to live with the past: ‘self‐repair’, ‘informal repair’, and reparations in transitional justice0
Epistemic emotions in prosecutorial decision making0
Labour is labour: what surrogates can learn from the Sex Work Is Work movement0
Seeking campus justice: challenging the ‘criminal justice drift’ in United Kingdom university responses to student sexual violence and misconduct0
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
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