Law and Social Inquiry-Journal of the American Bar Foundation

Papers
(The median citation count of Law and Social Inquiry-Journal of the American Bar Foundation is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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LSI volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Back matter20
Taxation, Lactation, and Validation: The Symbolic Power of Tax Law to Legitimize Breast Milk Expression17
The Policy Impact of Court Decisions in Latin America and South Asia17
Revealing the Hidden Influencers: Euro-Lawyers as Ghostwriters of European Legal Integration16
The Failed Idea of Judicial Restraint: A Brief Intellectual History15
A Fair Process Matters: The Relationship between Public Participation and Constitutional Legitimacy14
Agency Entrenchment: Sociological Legitimacy in a Politically Contested Occupation13
From Taxi to Didi: Voice and Balancing in the Industrial Transition12
Public Participation, Group Inclusion, and the Durability of National Constitutions11
Symbolic Rule of Law Promotion11
International Book Essay Section10
Understanding China’s Social Policies and Practices9
African Constitutionalism: Between Power, Persuasion, and Irrelevance?9
Law and the Political Discourse of Skill9
LSI volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Back matter9
Constituting Religious Conflict in a Multicultural State9
Subduing Asylum-Seekers’ Voices: Narrative Genres and the Impossibility of Credibility Tests During Refugee Status Determination Hearings9
“Pimping in the Non-Traditional Sense”: How Police Discretion and Abuse Allowed Authorities to Benefit from the Labor of Sex Workers in Late-1970s and Early-1980s Boston8
State-Sponsored Activism: How China’s Law Reforms Impact NGOs’ Legal Practice8
The Atrato River as a Bearer and Co-creator of Rights: Unveiling Black People’s Legal Mobilization Processes in Colombia8
Conscience and Convenience: How Social Workers Pursue Rehabilitation in Chinese Community Corrections8
The Making of Colonial and Postcolonial Law by South Asian Muslims7
When More Leads to More: Constitutional Amendments and Interpretation in Mexico 1917-20207
How Should Courts Respond to Political Questions? Exploring the Dialogical Turn in the Supreme Court of Canada’s Federalism and Indigenous Case Law7
Business Courts as Loci of Privilege: The Business Judgment Rule Abroad7
State-Enabled Killing of Same-Sex-Attracted People: A Legal Pluralist Account7
Marginalized Identity and Active Resistance: Milwaukee Socialists and German-Americans During World War I6
A Network Analysis of Judicial Cross-Citations in Europe6
Property Markers and the Hassle of Leniency: Building Code Enforcement in the Courtroom6
Uncertainty and Condemnation. An Experimental Study on Lay and Expert Intuitions Regarding the Object of Criminal Punishment6
Threat to Family Stability or Social Stability? Domestic Violence Protection Orders in Two Chinese Courts6
LSI volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Back matter6
The States of Inequality: Methods for Mapping Legal Pluralism in Reproductive Autonomy6
LSI volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter6
Judging Genocide: Emotional Labor During Transitional Justice5
Book Notes5
Book Notes5
Lawyering in Hard Places: Comparative Dispatches from the Margins of Legality5
Preference or Penalty? The Law and Employers’ Diverging Hiring Intentions of Latino Immigrants5
Rethinking Inclusion: Ideal Minorities, Inclusion Cultures, and Identity Capitals in the Legal Profession5
LSI volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Back matter5
LSI volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Front matter5
What’s Law Got To Do with It?: Anthropological Engagement with Legal Scholarship5
“I’ve Had Cases That Have Gone in the Wrong Direction and That Has Affected Me”: A Qualitative Examination of Decision Making, Liminality, and the Emotional Aspects of Parole Work5
Remembering Internet Openness: From the Information Age to the Disinformation Era5
India’s Quotidian Constitution5
The Global Contention for Law’s “Special Character”5
“He Is Still Your Father”: Tetherings, Social Welfare, and Troubled Parental Maintenance Litigation in Taiwan5
Why Do In-State Plaintiffs Invoke Diversity Jurisdiction?4
The Judge Is “No Snitch”: A Progressive Era Collision between Juvenile Justice and Criminal Law4
Reimagining Public Safety: Defining “Community” in Participatory Research4
International Book Essay Section4
Contesting Caste: Institutionalized Oppression and Circumventive Legal Resistance4
LSI volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Back matter4
Anticarceral Feminisms, Penal Violence Against Women, and the Limits of Human Rights: Grassroots Knowledge from Ecuador4
Militarism and Law in Africa: A Governing Paradox4
Book Notes4
Erosion, Backsliding, or Abuse: Three Metaphors for Democratic Decline4
Environmental Governance and Whistleblower Rewards: Balancing Prosocial Motivations with Monetary Incentives4
Undignified Jurispathy: Muslim Family Law at Ghanaian Courts4
Unspectacular Atrocities and the Aesthetics of International Trials3
Ethnographies of Counterterrorism Trials in India3
LSI volume 50 issue 2 Cover and Back matter3
Legal Consciousness and Vigilantism: Seeking Justice for Witchcraft Harms in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo3
LSI volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Back matter3
Revisiting the Concept of Voice: Expression of Grievances across the English and Welsh National Health Service3
Justice in the Vernacular: An Anthropological Critique of Commensuration3
Is White-Collar Crime White? Racialization in the National Press Coverage of White-Collar Crime from 1950 to 20103
Authoritarian Legacies in Law and Democratic Backsliding: The Case of Turkey’s Specially Authorized Courts3
“The Ancestral Line is through the Father”: The Gendered Production of Statelessness in Rural Myanmar3
Toward a Sociology of International Law: John Hagan and Beyond3
The Lure of the Law for the Formerly Convicted: Pursuing the Legal Profession as a Resistance Strategy3
International Book Essay Section3
From the “Legal Culture of Slavery” to Black Legal Culture: Reimagining the Implications and Meanings of Black Litigiousness in Slavery and Freedom3
Book Notes3
Diverse Disconnectedness: Homophily, Social Capital Inequality, and Student Experiences in Law School2
Navigating Codified Gender Inequality: Drivers of Legal Practice in Iranian Family Lawyers’ Approaches to Divorce2
International Book Essay Section2
Reparations, But for What? Presenting a New Approach to Coding Reparations2
Court Watching’s Promise: A Preliminary Survey2
The Justice Gap for Unaccompanied Children in US Immigration Court: Rurality, Resources, and Client Characteristics as Determinants of Access to Counsel2
International Book Essay Section2
The Anthropology of Legal Form: Ethnographic Contributions to the Study of Transnational Law2
Rethinking Europe’s Margins: Between Fortress Europe and Its Invisibilized Internal Others2
Revolving Doors: Social Dimensions of Law Firm Culture and Pathways out of Firms2
Constitutional Roots of Judicial Populism in India2
New Approaches to Socio-legal Writing: Locating Sovereignty Between the State and Society in India2
Measures of Justice: A Symposium in Honor of Sally Engle Merry (1944–2020)2
LSI volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter2
How the Public Became the Caller: The Emergence of Reactive Policing, 1880–19702
Prefigurative Legality2
Democracies and Non-Democracies: The Use of International Law and Institutions2
Caring Like a State: Publicizing Family Caregiving through Medicalization2
Book Notes2
LSI volume 50 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
Law versus Justice in International Atrocity Prosecutions1
LSI volume 50 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
LSI volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
International Book Essay Section1
Generative Constitutional Bricolage: From Thailand to Authoritarianism Elsewhere1
How UN Counter-Terrorism Sanctions Are Made1
The Re-Combinatory Nature of Property within Racial Regimes of Ownership1
Book Notes1
Law and Its Other: The Everyday Life of Crime in Post–Civil War Nigeria1
The Paradox of Rights: Refusal, Resistance, and Everyday Justice in Myanmar1
International Book Essay Section1
Reframing Debt, Reshaping Governance: Legal Mobilization and Processual Legalism in Japan1
Many Shades of Success: Bottom-up Indicators of Individual Success in Community Courts1
Same-sex Marriage Legalization and the Stigmas of LGBT Co-parenting in Taiwan1
International Book Essay Section1
Legal Collusion: Legal Consciousness under China’s One-Child Policy1
Between Empires: Arab, Asian, and European Legal Orders in the Nineteenth-Century Indian Ocean1
Book Notes1
International Book Essay Section1
The Possibility of Rights Claims-Making in Court: Looking Back on Twenty-Five Years of Social Rights Constitutionalism in South Africa1
Staging Legality: How Legitimacy Budgeting Codifies Symbolic Governance in China’s Charity Law1
Are You Talking to Me? How Ideological and Gender Characteristics Moderate the Effect of Legitimizing Rhetoric on SCOTUS Legitimacy1
A Battle of Ideas: Modes of Liability and Mass Atrocities1
(Re)constructing Prisoner Death Investigations: A Case Study of Suicide Investigations from England and Wales1
Wrongfully Convicted and in Lock-Up: Understanding Innocence and the Development of Legal Consciousness behind Prison Walls1
Popular Constitutionalism in the US Empire: The Legal History of US Citizenship in Guam1
Protecting the Rights of Children and Young People in Detention: Evaluating Credibility and Effectiveness of Human Rights Monitoring Bodies1
Law’s Normative Influence on Gender Schemas: An Experimental Study on Counteracting Workplace Bias against Mothers and Caregivers1
LSI volume 50 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
Representing Disability in Tort Litigation: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Discourse (1998–2018)1
Book Notes1
The Price of Justice: The Bombay Legal Aid Society and the Birth of the Legal Aid Movement in Colonial India1
Children of War Resisters: Intergenerational Transmission of Activism, Political Orientation, Injustice Frames, and Law Resistance1
From Stratification to Reconfiguration: Toward a New Research Agenda on Lawyers’ Careers1
Transforming “Transformative Accommodation”: Palestinian-Muslim Women’s Maintenance Suits as a Case Study1
The People’s Court: Dissonant Institutionalization and Judicial Populism in Pakistan1
LSI volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
Shifting the Landscape of Power: Interstitial Strategies in Criminal Court Activism1
Darfur Model, Rwanda, and the ICTR: John Hagan’s Sociology of Genocide Continued1
International Book Essay Section1
Misrecognitions of Victimhood: Discretionary Power of Street-level Bureaucrats in Humanitarian Visas1
The Paradox of Sanctuary: How Punitive Exceptions Converge to Criminalize and Punish Latinos/as1
Ideology and Historiographic License in Chinese Legal Scholarship0
Not “Civilized” Enough to Be Taxed: Indigeneity, Citizenship, and the 1919 Alaska School Tax0
LSI volume 47 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Judging for the People: Public Interest and Public Spectacle0
Constitutionalism with Adjectives: Conceptual Innovation in the Comparative Study of Law0
Africa and African Resources as a Terrain for Legal Mediation: From Françafrique to the Mobile Lawyering of Wall Street Firms0
The Evolution and Implementation of Norway’s Ultimate Penalty: An Exceptional Approach to Life Imprisonment?0
“It Now Exists”: The Birth of the Chilean Professional Legal Academia in the Wake of Neoliberalism0
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Streets, Suites, and States: John Hagan’s Contributions to the Study of Law, Power, and Inequality0
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How Minimum Sentences Benefit Offenders—The Case of Suspended Sentences0
Armenia, Gaza, and the Trouble of Political Trial0
California Civil Asset Forfeiture and the Policing of Minority Residents0
Why Study Lawyers?0
Macro-criminology and Freedom: The Durability of Later John Braithwaite0
Rescaling the Legal Complex: Lawyers and the Resilience of the Liberal International Order0
Book Notes0
Reflecting on the Future of Human–Water Relationships0
Pathways to Eviction0
Uncovering the Rule of Law in European Countries0
The False Marking Gold Rush: A Case Study of the Private Enforcement of Public Laws0
The Ordinary, Liminal Lives of Informants in Participatory Dictatorships: Lessons for Transitional Justice0
LSI volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Frontline Enforcement in the Age of Information0
Thinking Holistically About Procedural Justice in Alternative Dispute Resolution: A Case Study of the German Federal Ombudsman Scheme0
Good Bye, Liberal-Legal Democracy!0
Degradation or Redemption? A Parole Board Polices a Moral Boundary0
Reinventing “Youth” in Socio-Legal Studies0
Dynamic, Regressive, or Obstructionist Courts? What Kinds of Hopes for Judicial Review0
The Shadow of the Law: Adversarial Formalism in Prisoner-Staff Relations0
Imprisonment and Human Rights in Israel: Uncertainty and Volatility0
Dignity Defied: Legal-Rational Myths and the Surplus Legitimacy of the Carceral State0
Exclusion from Within: Noncitizens and the Rise of Discriminatory Licensing Laws0
With the Law or against the Law? A Qualitative Analysis of the Development and Outcomes of Legal Consciousness among Law-Abiding Firearms Owners0
Genocide: Theories of Participation and Opportunities for Intervention0
Democratic Defense in Comparative Perspective: Richard Abel on Defending American Democracy0
The Politics of Legal Facts: The Erasure of Pushback Evidence from the European Court of Human Rights0
The Drunkometer and the Birth of Chemical Citizenship: How the Original Breathalyzer Reconfigured the Relationship between the State and the Body0
Understanding Legal Convergence: Economic Theories and Alternatives0
Canceling Disputes: How Social Capital Affects the Arbitration of Disputes on Wikipedia0
Giving and Taking Voice: Metapragmatic Dismissals of Parents in Child Welfare Court Cases0
The Unintended Consequences of Judicial Valiance0
The Paradox of Justice: From Transitional to Everyday Justice0
Professional Liquidation in the Context of Autocratic Legalism: Lawyers, Class, and Status in Turkey, 2002–?0
Broadening the Lens of Procedural Justice Beyond the Courtroom: A Case Study of Legal Financial Obligations in the Juvenile Court0
Rights Constitutionalism and the Challenge of Belonging: An Empirical Inquiry into the Israeli Case0
The Significance of Foreign Law: A Jamaican Case Study0
Anti-trafficking Chains: Analyzing the Impact of Transparency Legislation in the UK Construction Sector0
International Book Essay Section0
Mercy and the Construction of Social Control: A Four-Site Analysis of Clemency0
Credit Cars: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Auto Loans0
Whistleblowing Decisions by Police Officers0
International Book Essay Section0
The Logic of NIMBYism: Class, Race, and Stigma in the Making of California’s Legal Cannabis Market0
Contested Knowledge, the Politics of Memory, and the Armenian Genocide0
The Cruel Optimism of International Prison Regulation: Prison Ontologies and Carceral Harms0
Prison Disproportion in Democracies: A Comparative Analysis0
What’s in a Name: How US Supreme Court Justices Shape Law and Policy in the Lower Courts0
Book Notes0
Beyond US Models of Judicial Behavior: Choosing Constitutional Judges in Chile and Colombia0
LSI volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Book Notes0
Racialized Legalities: The Rule of Law, Race, and the Protection of Women in Britain’s Crown Colonies, 1886–18900
When Loan Sharks Become Litigious: Courts, Informal Finance, and Access to Justice in China0
Challenging the State? Lawyers and the Reformed Administrative Appeals System in Japan0
“Poverty Has Nothing to Do with It”: Criministrative Law and a Call for Poverty Awareness in Child Protection Procedures in Israeli Juvenile Courts0
Saying What the Law Is0
The Anthropocene in Law and Society Research0
Social Norms 2.0: From Private Governance to Co-Evolution0
It’s (Not) Just Semantics: “Neurotechnology” as a Novel Space of Transnational Law0
Peacekeeper-perpetrated sexual exploitation and abuse in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Legal pluralism and legal recession0
Stagnated, on the Verge of Breakthrough, or Both? The State of Big Theories of Legal Phenomena0
The Death Penalty in Black and White: Execution Coverage in Two Southern Newspapers, 1877–19360
The New Politics of Judicial Appointments in Southern Africa0
LSI volume 50 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
The Rise of Women Lawyers in India0
Deciding without Deliberating: Voices from Brazilian Jurors0
Signing CEDAW and Women’s Rights: Human Rights Treaty Signature and Legal Mobilization0
Judicial Populism and Corruption Prosecutions in the Mani Pulite Operation0
US Asylum Lawyering and Temporal Violence0
Homeless Group Representation in Detroit’s Problem-Solving Court0
Law’s Moral Legitimacy and the Future of Asia-Based Legal Consciousness Studies0
LSI volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
LSI volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Adminigration: City-Level Governance of Immigrant Community Members0
Justice Sites and the Fight against Atrocity Crimes0
“It Is Here We Are Loved”: Rural Place Attachment in Active Judging and Access to Justice0
The Search for Universal Laws0
In Pursuit of Statehood: Palestinian Performativity in Human Rights Treaty Bodies0
Legal and Cultural Construction of the Maori Corporate Person0
Contestation in Global Norm Making0
Islamic Law, Secularism, and the Modern State: Recasting a Scholarly Debate0
A Political Theology of Law0
Substituting Invalid Contract Terms: Theory and Preliminary Empirical Findings0
The Boundaries of Twenty-first-Century Policing0
Preface: Gwendolyn J. Gordon0
“You Don’t Need a Rocket Scientist to Figure Out What Could Happen”: Reasoning Practices in Police Use of Force Trials0
Supply Chain Governance at a Distance0
Religious Exemption, LGBT Rights, and the Social Construction of Harm and Freedom0
Exploring Back-end Sentencing: A Study of Predictors of Parole Revocation through a Focal Concerns Theoretical Framework0
State Attorneys General, Revolving Doors and the Market for Regulatory Compliance0
The Supreme Court and the Allocation of Burden: Truncating the Voting Rights Act0
In Transit, Towards Transformation? Penal Change in Russia in a Contested Political Landscape0
LSI volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
International Book Essay Section0
I Come before You a Changed Man: “Insight,” Compliance, and Refurbishing Penal Practice in California0
Book Notes0
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Wrongfully Convicted and in Lock-Up: Understanding Innocence and the Development of Legal Consciousness behind Prison Walls – CORRIGENDUM0
Xenophobia in Juror Decision-Making0
Strong-arm Sobriety: Addressing Precarity through Probation0
Vacationing on a Tax Haven : Law, Visitor Economy, and Offshore Finance in Puerto Rico0
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