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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Toward a Sociology of International Law: John Hagan and Beyond21
Genocide: Theories of Participation and Opportunities for Intervention17
Taxation, Lactation, and Validation: The Symbolic Power of Tax Law to Legitimize Breast Milk Expression15
Case Sensitive: Lawyers and the Formation of Legal Arguments in Tanzania14
LSI volume 46 issue 2 Cover and Front matter11
Judicial Loyalty to the Military in Authoritarian Regimes: How the Courts Are Militarized in Myanmar9
From Global Interventionism to Domestic Police Militarization: The Transnational Routes of American Policing9
Legal Elites and the Fading History of Global Legal Imperialism9
Agency Entrenchment: Sociological Legitimacy in a Politically Contested Occupation8
Understanding Legal Convergence: Economic Theories and Alternatives8
Opening the Gender Box: Legibility Dilemmas and Gender Data Collection on U.S. State Government Forms8
International Book Essay Section8
A Fair Process Matters: The Relationship between Public Participation and Constitutional Legitimacy7
International Book Essay Section6
Labor and the Contradictions of Law in China6
LSI volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Back matter5
LSI volume 46 issue 4 Cover and Front matter5
Book Notes5
Representing Disability in Tort Litigation: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Discourse (1998–2018)4
Unspectacular Atrocities and the Aesthetics of International Trials4
How UN Counter-Terrorism Sanctions Are Made4
Strategic Adaptation in a Crisis: Treatment Court Responses to COVID-194
Inequality and the Human Right to Tuition-Free Higher Education: Mobilizing Human Rights Law in the German Movement against Tuition Fees3
Home-State Interest, Nationalism, and the Legitimacy of the International Criminal Court3
Monitoring Prisons in Europe: Understanding Perspectives of People in Prison and Prison Staff3
Supreme Court Nominations at the Bar of Political Conflict: The Strange and Uncertain Career of the Liberal Consensus in Law3
Not “Civilized” Enough to Be Taxed: Indigeneity, Citizenship, and the 1919 Alaska School Tax3
LSI volume 47 issue 1 Cover and Front matter3
LSI volume 47 issue 3 Cover and Front matter3
From Double Agents to Bouncers: Corporate Lawyers and the Making of the Public-Private State3
Book Notes3
Introduction3
LSI volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Front matter3
From Thin to Thick Justice and Beyond: Access to Justice and Legal Pluralism in Indigenous Taiwan3
The Rise of Women Lawyers in India3
Judicial Populism and Corruption Prosecutions in the Mani Pulite Operation3
Book Notes3
Punishment by Association: The Burden of Attending Court for Legal Bystanders2
Law and the Political Discourse of Skill2
Everyday Lawmaking in International Human Rights Law: Insights from the Inclusion of Domestic Violence in the Prohibition of Torture2
Contextualizing Advocates of Humanity: History, Ecology of Fields, and Transnational Legal Ordering2
Supply Chain Governance at a Distance2
Justice in the Vernacular: An Anthropological Critique of Commensuration2
The Lure of the Law for the Formerly Convicted: Pursuing the Legal Profession as a Resistance Strategy2
Constitutionalism with Adjectives: Conceptual Innovation in the Comparative Study of Law2
Finding the “Humanity” in Human Rights: LGBT Activists and the Vernacularization of Human Rights in Hong Kong2
International Book Essay Section2
The Psychology of Migrant “Illegality”: A General Theory2
Anti-Carceral Approaches to Addressing Harms Against Animals: Considerations on Multispecies Restorative and Transformative Justice2
Lawfare and Security Labor: Subjectification and Subjugation of Police Workers in India2
The Process of Legal Institutionalization: How Privacy Jurisprudence Turned towards the US Constitution and the American State2
International Book Essay Section2
The Policy Impact of Court Decisions in Latin America and South Asia2
“It Now Exists”: The Birth of the Chilean Professional Legal Academia in the Wake of Neoliberalism2
The Possibility of Rights Claims-Making in Court: Looking Back on Twenty-Five Years of Social Rights Constitutionalism in South Africa2
Negotiating Status: Pro Bono Partners and Counsels in Large Law Firms2
Rural Social Safety Nets for Migrant Farmworkers in Michigan, 1942–19712
Law and the Laboratory: The British Vivisection Inspectorate in the 1890s2
The Failed Idea of Judicial Restraint: A Brief Intellectual History2
Competing Allies: Legal Pluralism, and Gendered Agency in Mumbai’sShariaCourts2
“You Don’t Need a Rocket Scientist to Figure Out What Could Happen”: Reasoning Practices in Police Use of Force Trials1
The Death Penalty in Black and White: Execution Coverage in Two Southern Newspapers, 1877–19361
Conscience and Convenience: How Social Workers Pursue Rehabilitation in Chinese Community Corrections1
Legal Reactivity: Correctional Health Care Certifications as Responses to Litigation1
Generative Constitutional Bricolage: From Thailand to Authoritarianism Elsewhere1
Islamic Law, Secularism, and the Modern State: Recasting a Scholarly Debate1
The Atrato River as a Bearer and Co-creator of Rights: Unveiling Black People’s Legal Mobilization Processes in Colombia1
I Come before You a Changed Man: “Insight,” Compliance, and Refurbishing Penal Practice in California1
Darfur Model, Rwanda, and the ICTR: John Hagan’s Sociology of Genocide Continued1
Violence against Women and Specialized Justice in Guatemala: Advances and Limitations1
Bad Queers: LGBTQ People and the Carceral State in Modern America1
LSI volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Back matter1
Good Bye, Liberal-Legal Democracy!1
International Book Essay Section1
The Sources of Resilience of International Human Rights Courts: The Case of the Inter-American System1
Book Notes1
Protecting the Rights of Children and Young People in Detention: Evaluating Credibility and Effectiveness of Human Rights Monitoring Bodies1
Liquidity: Water and Investment in Mandate Palestine1
Are You Talking to Me? How Ideological and Gender Characteristics Moderate the Effect of Legitimizing Rhetoric on SCOTUS Legitimacy1
State-Enabled Killing of Same-Sex-Attracted People: A Legal Pluralist Account1
Rethinking Sanctuary: The Origins of Non-Cooperation Policies in Social Welfare Agencies1
Book Notes1
The Boundaries of Twenty-first-Century Policing1
Wrongfully Convicted and in Lock-Up: Understanding Innocence and the Development of Legal Consciousness behind Prison Walls – CORRIGENDUM1
Is White-Collar Crime White? Racialization in the National Press Coverage of White-Collar Crime from 1950 to 20101
Captured Courts and Legitimized Autocrats: Transforming Kazakhstan’s Constitutional Court1
Condominium to the Country: The Sprawl of Ownership within Private Local Government in British Columbia1
Contested Knowledge, the Politics of Memory, and the Armenian Genocide1
A Conservative Right to Privacy: Legal, Ideological, and Coalitional Transformations in US Social Conservatism1
Xenophobia in Juror Decision-Making1
State-Sponsored Activism: How China’s Law Reforms Impact NGOs’ Legal Practice1
Learning to Detain Asylum Seekers and the Growth of Mass Immigration Detention in the United States1
Thinking Holistically About Procedural Justice in Alternative Dispute Resolution: A Case Study of the German Federal Ombudsman Scheme1
International Book Essay Section1
The Re-Combinatory Nature of Property within Racial Regimes of Ownership1
How Civility Matters in Civil Matters: Procedural Justice and Court Legitimacy in the Midst of a Legitimacy Crisis1
Understanding China’s Social Policies and Practices1
Revisiting the Concept of Voice: Expression of Grievances across the English and Welsh National Health Service1
International Book Essay Section1
Imprisonment and Human Rights in Israel: Uncertainty and Volatility1
The Search for an Anchor: Living Constitutionalism from the Progressives to Trump1
Children of War Resisters: Intergenerational Transmission of Activism, Political Orientation, Injustice Frames, and Law Resistance1
The Gender Pay Gap and High-Achieving Women in the Legal Profession1
African Constitutionalism: Between Power, Persuasion, and Irrelevance?1
Constituting Religious Conflict in a Multicultural State1
Popular Constitutionalism in the US Empire: The Legal History of US Citizenship in Guam1
LSI volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Back matter1
LSI volume 47 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
“Tighten, Cull and Focus”: An Experiment Examining Lay and Lawyer Claims in a Mock Online Court1
Torture in Thailand at the Limits of Law1
International Book Essay Section1
Exploring Litigation, Court Rulings, and Legal Mobilization in Response to Death and Suicide from Overwork: Implications for Labor Law Reform Policy Making in Japan0
The Exception as the Rule: Negligent Hiring Liability, Structured Uncertainty, and the Rise of Criminal Background Checks in the United States0
The Logic of NIMBYism: Class, Race, and Stigma in the Making of California’s Legal Cannabis Market0
The Family Friendliness That Wasn’t: Access, but Not Progress, for Women in the Czech Judiciary0
Aspirational Laws in Action: A Field Experiment0
The Datafication of Law: How Technology Encodes Carceral Power and Affects Judicial Practice in the United States0
Militarism and Law in Africa: A Governing Paradox0
Institutions and the New History of Humanity0
Ethnography at an Intersection: Law, Anti-Trafficking NGOs, and Prostitution in India0
Legal Consciousness and Vigilantism: Seeking Justice for Witchcraft Harms in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo0
LSI volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Erosion, Backsliding, or Abuse: Three Metaphors for Democratic Decline0
LSI volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
“The Ancestral Line is through the Father”: The Gendered Production of Statelessness in Rural Myanmar0
Book Notes – CORRIGENDUM0
Administering New Anti-Bullying Law: The Organizational Field and School Variation During Initial Implementation0
The Anatomy of the Rise and Demise of the World Trading System0
A Battle of Ideas: Modes of Liability and Mass Atrocities0
Book Notes0
Dynamic and Constrained: Using the Judiciary to Pursue Social Justice in India0
Racial Disparities in Lifer Parole Outcomes: The Hidden Role of Professional Evaluations0
Legal Disagreement0
Contesting Caste: Institutionalized Oppression and Circumventive Legal Resistance0
Divorced from Citizenship: Palestinian-Christian Women between the Church and the Jewish State0
Transforming “Transformative Accommodation”: Palestinian-Muslim Women’s Maintenance Suits as a Case Study0
Law and Its Other: The Everyday Life of Crime in Post–Civil War Nigeria0
Voices in Hostile Sources: In The Matter of Nat Turner and the Historiography of Reading Rebellion0
From Datafication to Data State: Making Sense of China’s Social Credit System and Its Implications0
LSI volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Strong-arm Sobriety: Addressing Precarity through Probation0
Postscript: Corporate Person Potentialities0
Unlawful Intimacy: The Criminalization of Interracial Relationships in Progressive-Era Chicago0
A Political Theology of Law0
International Book Essay Section0
Understanding the Local Complexities in Land Law Reforms: The Case of Land Inalienability in Ethiopia, 1991–20180
In Pursuit of Statehood: Palestinian Performativity in Human Rights Treaty Bodies0
When More Leads to More: Constitutional Amendments and Interpretation in Mexico 1917-2020 – CORRIGENDUM0
(Re)constructing Prisoner Death Investigations: A Case Study of Suicide Investigations from England and Wales0
Disciplinary Deities and How to Please Them0
Between Contestation and Support: Explaining Elites’ Confidence in the International Criminal Court0
The Supreme Court and the Allocation of Burden: Truncating the Voting Rights Act0
Adminigration: City-Level Governance of Immigrant Community Members0
Ideology and Historiographic License in Chinese Legal Scholarship0
LSI volume 47 issue 1 Cover and Back matter0
Substituting Invalid Contract Terms: Theory and Preliminary Empirical Findings0
Dynamic, Regressive, or Obstructionist Courts? What Kinds of Hopes for Judicial Review0
LSI volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Anthropologists as Experts: Cultural Expertise, Colonialism, and Positionality0
A Translocal Compromise: Adoption of Anti-corruption Reforms in East Timor0
Book Notes0
Sex Ambiguity in Early Modern Common Law (1629–1787)0
Dignity Defied: Legal-Rational Myths and the Surplus Legitimacy of the Carceral State0
Religious Exemption, LGBT Rights, and the Social Construction of Harm and Freedom0
The Judicial Manufacturers of International Law0
Modeling Repressive Policing: Computational Analysis of Protocols from the Israeli State Commission of Inquiry into the October 2000 Events0
Canceling Disputes: How Social Capital Affects the Arbitration of Disputes on Wikipedia0
Many Shades of Success: Bottom-up Indicators of Individual Success in Community Courts0
Undignified Jurispathy: Muslim Family Law at Ghanaian Courts0
Can Liberal Constitutionalism Survive the Rise of the Megacity?0
The People’s Court: Dissonant Institutionalization and Judicial Populism in Pakistan0
Critical Theory in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: How to Regulate the Production and Use of Personal Information in the Digital Age0
Business Courts as Loci of Privilege: The Business Judgment Rule Abroad0
Book Notes0
Saying What the Law Is0
The Search for Universal Laws0
Book Notes0
Intersectional Invisibility: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Erasure of Sexual Minority Women in US Asylum Law0
Diplomats in Robes: Judicial Career Paths and Free Speech Decision-Making at the European Court of Human Rights0
Legal Collusion: Legal Consciousness under China’s One-Child Policy0
LSI volume 46 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
With the Law or against the Law? A Qualitative Analysis of the Development and Outcomes of Legal Consciousness among Law-Abiding Firearms Owners0
Order in the Bazaar: The Transformation of Non-state Law in Afghanistan’s Premier Money Exchange Market0
Law versus Justice in International Atrocity Prosecutions0
LSI volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Lawyering in Hard Places: Comparative Dispatches from the Margins of Legality0
Reimagining Public Safety: Defining “Community” in Participatory Research0
The States of Inequality: Methods for Mapping Legal Pluralism in Reproductive Autonomy0
Property Rights: (Probabilistically) Necessary or Sufficient for Economic Development in China and Beyond?0
Preface: Gwendolyn J. Gordon0
Dismantling Rights: Forthcoming Independence and the Revocation of US Military Benefits from Filipino WWII Veterans0
Flipping the “New Penology” Script: Police Misconduct Insurance, Grassroots Activism, and Risk Management–Based Reform0
The Shadow of the Law: Adversarial Formalism in Prisoner-Staff Relations0
Between Human Rights and Civil Society: The Case of Israel’s Apartheid Enablers0
Patchwork Protection: The Politics of Prisoners’ Rights Accountability in the United States0
Long-Term Contractual Commitments and Our Future Selves0
Justice Sites and the Fight against Atrocity Crimes0
International Book Essay Section0
Tort Liability, Combatant Activities, and the Question of Over-Deterrence0
Pathways to Eviction0
Whistleblowing Decisions by Police Officers0
US Asylum Lawyering and Temporal Violence0
The Global Contention for Law’s “Special Character”0
Developing a Public Interest Response to State-Orchestrated Corruption0
Environmental Governance and Whistleblower Rewards: Balancing Prosocial Motivations with Monetary Incentives0
The False Marking Gold Rush: A Case Study of the Private Enforcement of Public Laws0
LSI volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
India’s Quotidian Constitution0
Same-sex Marriage Legalization and the Stigmas of LGBT Co-parenting in Taiwan0
LSI volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Contestation in Global Norm Making0
The Ability of Human Rights to Limit the State’s Power to Punish in Europe: Connecting Prison and Mental Health Policies through the Concept of “Transpolicies”0
How Should Courts Respond to Political Questions? Exploring the Dialogical Turn in the Supreme Court of Canada’s Federalism and Indigenous Case Law0
Streets, Suites, and States: John Hagan’s Contributions to the Study of Law, Power, and Inequality0
Coda: Law, History, and Theory0
A Vertiginous Experience: Historical Ethics and Practice in the Age of Trump0
The Making of Colonial and Postcolonial Law by South Asian Muslims0
Whither Chinese Courts and What Their Future Will Tell Us About Non-Chinese Courts0
LSI volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
LSI volume 47 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
The Paradox of Justice: From Transitional to Everyday Justice0
Crimmigrating Narratives: Examining Third-Party Observations of US Detained Immigration Court0
Is There a Chinese “Code of Capital”?0
The Case for Religious Constitutions: Comparative Constitutional Law among Buddhists and Other Religious Groups0
Wrongfully Convicted and in Lock-Up: Understanding Innocence and the Development of Legal Consciousness behind Prison Walls0
How Minimum Sentences Benefit Offenders—The Case of Suspended Sentences0
What’s Law Got To Do with It?: Anthropological Engagement with Legal Scholarship0
The Paradox of Sanctuary: How Punitive Exceptions Converge to Criminalize and Punish Latinos/as0
Rights Constitutionalism and the Challenge of Belonging: An Empirical Inquiry into the Israeli Case0
LSI volume 46 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Before and After Ban the Box: Who Complies with Anti-Discrimination Law?0
Exclusion from Within: Noncitizens and the Rise of Discriminatory Licensing Laws0
Book Notes0
Book Notes0
Judicial Populism: A Conceptual and Normative Inquiry0
Diverse Disconnectedness: Homophily, Social Capital Inequality, and Student Experiences in Law School0
California Civil Asset Forfeiture and the Policing of Minority Residents0
“Hearing Nat Turner”: Within the 1831 Slave Rebellion0
Prison Disproportion in Democracies: A Comparative Analysis0
“The Right Kind of Crazy”: How Patrol Officers Police the Boundaries of Mental Illness through Hybridized Strategies0
The Knowns and Unknowns of Repression under Authoritarianism: How the Focus of Transitional Justice Shapes the Quality of Democracy0
Book Notes0
“He Is Still Your Father”: Tetherings, Social Welfare, and Troubled Parental Maintenance Litigation in Taiwan0
Law, Legal Socializations, and Epistemic Injustice0
Understanding the Litigation Priorities of Legal Impact Organizations0
Human Rights in Japanese Prisons: Reconsidering Segregation as a Disciplinary Measure0
The Judge as a Negotiator: Claims Negotiating and Inequalities in China’s Judicial Mediation0
The New Politics of Judicial Appointments in Southern Africa0
Credit Cars: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Auto Loans0
Why Do In-State Plaintiffs Invoke Diversity Jurisdiction?0
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