Law and Social Inquiry-Journal of the American Bar Foundation

Papers
(The TQCC of Law and Social Inquiry-Journal of the American Bar Foundation is 1. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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LSI volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Back matter24
International Book Essay Section19
Book Notes13
Agency Entrenchment: Sociological Legitimacy in a Politically Contested Occupation12
Negotiating Status: Pro Bono Partners and Counsels in Large Law Firms11
Taxation, Lactation, and Validation: The Symbolic Power of Tax Law to Legitimize Breast Milk Expression10
From Thin to Thick Justice and Beyond: Access to Justice and Legal Pluralism in Indigenous Taiwan9
Revealing the Hidden Influencers: Euro-Lawyers as Ghostwriters of European Legal Integration9
The Failed Idea of Judicial Restraint: A Brief Intellectual History8
Understanding China’s Social Policies and Practices8
A Fair Process Matters: The Relationship between Public Participation and Constitutional Legitimacy8
The Policy Impact of Court Decisions in Latin America and South Asia8
LSI volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Back matter8
International Book Essay Section6
Law and the Political Discourse of Skill6
African Constitutionalism: Between Power, Persuasion, and Irrelevance?5
The Atrato River as a Bearer and Co-creator of Rights: Unveiling Black People’s Legal Mobilization Processes in Colombia5
Constituting Religious Conflict in a Multicultural State5
Conscience and Convenience: How Social Workers Pursue Rehabilitation in Chinese Community Corrections5
The Gender Pay Gap and High-Achieving Women in the Legal Profession5
Subduing Asylum-Seekers’ Voices: Narrative Genres and the Impossibility of Credibility Tests During Refugee Status Determination Hearings5
State-Sponsored Activism: How China’s Law Reforms Impact NGOs’ Legal Practice5
Marginalized Identity and Active Resistance: Milwaukee Socialists and German-Americans During World War I4
Gramophones, Paper Money, and Brimmed Hats: Sharia under Colonial Rule4
Business Courts as Loci of Privilege: The Business Judgment Rule Abroad4
The Making of Colonial and Postcolonial Law by South Asian Muslims3
A Network Analysis of Judicial Cross-Citations in Europe3
Book Notes3
“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 Work3
LSI volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Front matter3
How Should Courts Respond to Political Questions? Exploring the Dialogical Turn in the Supreme Court of Canada’s Federalism and Indigenous Case Law3
Rethinking Sanctuary: The Origins of Non-Cooperation Policies in Social Welfare Agencies3
When More Leads to More: Constitutional Amendments and Interpretation in Mexico 1917-20203
LSI volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter3
“He Is Still Your Father”: Tetherings, Social Welfare, and Troubled Parental Maintenance Litigation in Taiwan3
India’s Quotidian Constitution3
Rethinking Inclusion: Ideal Minorities, Inclusion Cultures, and Identity Capitals in the Legal Profession3
Uncertainty and Condemnation. An Experimental Study on Lay and Expert Intuitions Regarding the Object of Criminal Punishment3
Property Markers and the Hassle of Leniency: Building Code Enforcement in the Courtroom3
State-Enabled Killing of Same-Sex-Attracted People: A Legal Pluralist Account3
Torture in Thailand at the Limits of Law3
Judging Genocide: Emotional Labor During Transitional Justice3
The States of Inequality: Methods for Mapping Legal Pluralism in Reproductive Autonomy3
Book Notes3
LSI volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Back matter3
Threat to Family Stability or Social Stability? Domestic Violence Protection Orders in Two Chinese Courts3
Book Notes3
LSI volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Back matter3
Political Divide, Weak Property Rights, and Infrastructure Provision: An Empirical Examination of Takings Decisions in Jerusalem3
Anthropologists as Experts: Cultural Expertise, Colonialism, and Positionality2
Environmental Governance and Whistleblower Rewards: Balancing Prosocial Motivations with Monetary Incentives2
Law, Legal Socializations, and Epistemic Injustice2
Undignified Jurispathy: Muslim Family Law at Ghanaian Courts2
International Book Essay Section2
Toward a Sociology of International Law: John Hagan and Beyond2
Contesting Caste: Institutionalized Oppression and Circumventive Legal Resistance2
Erosion, Backsliding, or Abuse: Three Metaphors for Democratic Decline2
LSI volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Back matter2
Preference or Penalty? The Law and Employers’ Diverging Hiring Intentions of Latino Immigrants2
Lawyering in Hard Places: Comparative Dispatches from the Margins of Legality2
Militarism and Law in Africa: A Governing Paradox2
Long-Term Contractual Commitments and Our Future Selves2
Unspectacular Atrocities and the Aesthetics of International Trials2
LSI volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Back matter2
Crimmigrating Narratives: Examining Third-Party Observations of US Detained Immigration Court2
What’s Law Got To Do with It?: Anthropological Engagement with Legal Scholarship2
Reimagining Public Safety: Defining “Community” in Participatory Research2
The Global Contention for Law’s “Special Character”2
International Book Essay Section2
Revisiting the Concept of Voice: Expression of Grievances across the English and Welsh National Health Service2
Justice in the Vernacular: An Anthropological Critique of Commensuration2
Lawfare and Security Labor: Subjectification and Subjugation of Police Workers in India2
The Lure of the Law for the Formerly Convicted: Pursuing the Legal Profession as a Resistance Strategy2
Why Do In-State Plaintiffs Invoke Diversity Jurisdiction?2
The Anthropology of Legal Form: Ethnographic Contributions to the Study of Transnational Law1
Prefigurative Legality1
Persistence Despite Change: The Academic Gender Gap in Australian Law Schools1
Legal Consciousness and Vigilantism: Seeking Justice for Witchcraft Harms in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo1
International Book Essay Section1
Book Notes1
Diverse Disconnectedness: Homophily, Social Capital Inequality, and Student Experiences in Law School1
Wrongfully Convicted and in Lock-Up: Understanding Innocence and the Development of Legal Consciousness behind Prison Walls1
How UN Counter-Terrorism Sanctions Are Made1
Book Notes1
International Book Essay Section1
Before and After Ban the Box: Who Complies with Anti-Discrimination Law?1
Liquidity: Water and Investment in Mandate Palestine1
Dynamic and Constrained: Using the Judiciary to Pursue Social Justice in India1
International Book Essay Section1
Measures of Justice: A Symposium in Honor of Sally Engle Merry (1944–2020)1
Standardizing States of Emergency: Fragmented Legitimacy of Model Public Health Lawmaking1
LSI volume 47 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
“The Ancestral Line is through the Father”: The Gendered Production of Statelessness in Rural Myanmar1
Book Notes1
From the “Legal Culture of Slavery” to Black Legal Culture: Reimagining the Implications and Meanings of Black Litigiousness in Slavery and Freedom1
Captured Courts and Legitimized Autocrats: Transforming Kazakhstan’s Constitutional Court1
The People’s Court: Dissonant Institutionalization and Judicial Populism in Pakistan1
Court Watching’s Promise: A Preliminary Survey1
LSI volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
A Vertiginous Experience: Historical Ethics and Practice in the Age of Trump1
Property Rights: (Probabilistically) Necessary or Sufficient for Economic Development in China and Beyond?1
International Book Essay Section1
(Re)constructing Prisoner Death Investigations: A Case Study of Suicide Investigations from England and Wales1
Representing Disability in Tort Litigation: An Empirical Analysis of Judicial Discourse (1998–2018)1
Money As Justice: Work-Related Deaths, Victim Workers’ Families, and Injustice in Turkey1
A Battle of Ideas: Modes of Liability and Mass Atrocities1
Competing Allies: Legal Pluralism, and Gendered Agency in Mumbai’sShariaCourts1
Democracies and Non-Democracies: The Use of International Law and Institutions1
International Book Essay Section1
Book Notes1
LSI volume 50 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
Constitutional Roots of Judicial Populism in India1
Appointed or Elected: How Justices on Elected State Supreme Courts Are Actually Selected1
Is White-Collar Crime White? Racialization in the National Press Coverage of White-Collar Crime from 1950 to 20101
International Book Essay Section1
How the Public Became the Caller: The Emergence of Reactive Policing, 1880–19701
Law and Its Other: The Everyday Life of Crime in Post–Civil War Nigeria1
The Anatomy of the Rise and Demise of the World Trading System1
From Datafication to Data State: Making Sense of China’s Social Credit System and Its Implications1
Contextualizing Advocates of Humanity: History, Ecology of Fields, and Transnational Legal Ordering1
LSI volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
From Global Interventionism to Domestic Police Militarization: The Transnational Routes of American Policing1
Revolving Doors: Social Dimensions of Law Firm Culture and Pathways out of Firms1
Reparations, But for What? Presenting a New Approach to Coding Reparations1
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