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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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LSI volume 48 issue 3 Cover and Back matter22
International Book Essay Section19
Book Notes15
A Fair Process Matters: The Relationship between Public Participation and Constitutional Legitimacy12
Agency Entrenchment: Sociological Legitimacy in a Politically Contested Occupation10
Taxation, Lactation, and Validation: The Symbolic Power of Tax Law to Legitimize Breast Milk Expression10
Negotiating Status: Pro Bono Partners and Counsels in Large Law Firms10
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 Policy Impact of Court Decisions in Latin America and South Asia8
The Psychology of Migrant “Illegality”: A General Theory8
State-Sponsored Activism: How China’s Law Reforms Impact NGOs’ Legal Practice7
The Failed Idea of Judicial Restraint: A Brief Intellectual History7
Understanding China’s Social Policies and Practices6
Law and the Political Discourse of Skill6
LSI volume 48 issue 1 Cover and Back matter6
Constituting Religious Conflict in a Multicultural State5
The Atrato River as a Bearer and Co-creator of Rights: Unveiling Black People’s Legal Mobilization Processes in Colombia5
International Book Essay Section5
African Constitutionalism: Between Power, Persuasion, and Irrelevance?5
Gramophones, Paper Money, and Brimmed Hats: Sharia under Colonial Rule4
Business Courts as Loci of Privilege: The Business Judgment Rule Abroad4
Conscience and Convenience: How Social Workers Pursue Rehabilitation in Chinese Community Corrections4
Marginalized Identity and Active Resistance: Milwaukee Socialists and German-Americans During World War I4
The Gender Pay Gap and High-Achieving Women in the Legal Profession4
LSI volume 49 issue 2 Cover and Back matter3
The States of Inequality: Methods for Mapping Legal Pluralism in Reproductive Autonomy3
State-Enabled Killing of Same-Sex-Attracted People: A Legal Pluralist Account3
Book Notes3
Book Notes3
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
Property Markers and the Hassle of Leniency: Building Code Enforcement in the Courtroom3
The Making of Colonial and Postcolonial Law by South Asian Muslims3
Rethinking Sanctuary: The Origins of Non-Cooperation Policies in Social Welfare Agencies3
Torture in Thailand at the Limits of Law3
Uncertainty and Condemnation. An Experimental Study on Lay and Expert Intuitions Regarding the Object of Criminal Punishment3
India’s Quotidian Constitution3
“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
A Network Analysis of Judicial Cross-Citations in Europe3
How Should Courts Respond to Political Questions? Exploring the Dialogical Turn in the Supreme Court of Canada’s Federalism and Indigenous Case Law3
When More Leads to More: Constitutional Amendments and Interpretation in Mexico 1917-20203
Political Divide, Weak Property Rights, and Infrastructure Provision: An Empirical Examination of Takings Decisions in Jerusalem3
Judging Genocide: Emotional Labor During Transitional Justice3
“He Is Still Your Father”: Tetherings, Social Welfare, and Troubled Parental Maintenance Litigation in Taiwan3
LSI volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Front matter3
Rethinking Inclusion: Ideal Minorities, Inclusion Cultures, and Identity Capitals in the Legal Profession3
LSI volume 49 issue 1 Cover and Front matter3
Contesting Caste: Institutionalized Oppression and Circumventive Legal Resistance2
Toward a Sociology of International Law: John Hagan and Beyond2
Lawyering in Hard Places: Comparative Dispatches from the Margins of Legality2
Militarism and Law in Africa: A Governing Paradox2
Diplomats in Robes: Judicial Career Paths and Free Speech Decision-Making at the European Court of Human Rights2
Long-Term Contractual Commitments and Our Future Selves2
Erosion, Backsliding, or Abuse: Three Metaphors for Democratic Decline2
Lawfare and Security Labor: Subjectification and Subjugation of Police Workers in India2
Justice in the Vernacular: An Anthropological Critique of Commensuration2
Anthropologists as Experts: Cultural Expertise, Colonialism, and Positionality2
Environmental Governance and Whistleblower Rewards: Balancing Prosocial Motivations with Monetary Incentives2
Reimagining Public Safety: Defining “Community” in Participatory Research2
The Global Contention for Law’s “Special Character”2
Law, Legal Socializations, and Epistemic Injustice2
Crimmigrating Narratives: Examining Third-Party Observations of US Detained Immigration Court2
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
Preference or Penalty? The Law and Employers’ Diverging Hiring Intentions of Latino Immigrants2
What’s Law Got To Do with It?: Anthropological Engagement with Legal Scholarship2
Undignified Jurispathy: Muslim Family Law at Ghanaian Courts2
LSI volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Back matter2
International Book Essay Section2
How UN Counter-Terrorism Sanctions Are Made1
The People’s Court: Dissonant Institutionalization and Judicial Populism in Pakistan1
Law and Its Other: The Everyday Life of Crime in Post–Civil War Nigeria1
From Global Interventionism to Domestic Police Militarization: The Transnational Routes of American Policing1
A Battle of Ideas: Modes of Liability and Mass Atrocities1
Reparations, But for What? Presenting a New Approach to Coding Reparations1
LSI volume 48 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
Democracies and Non-Democracies: The Use of International Law and Institutions1
The Anatomy of the Rise and Demise of the World Trading System1
Book Notes1
Before and After Ban the Box: Who Complies with Anti-Discrimination Law?1
Money As Justice: Work-Related Deaths, Victim Workers’ Families, and Injustice in Turkey1
From the “Legal Culture of Slavery” to Black Legal Culture: Reimagining the Implications and Meanings of Black Litigiousness in Slavery and Freedom1
Is White-Collar Crime White? Racialization in the National Press Coverage of White-Collar Crime from 1950 to 20101
LSI volume 47 issue 4 Cover and Back matter1
Legal Consciousness and Vigilantism: Seeking Justice for Witchcraft Harms in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo1
Wrongfully Convicted and in Lock-Up: Understanding Innocence and the Development of Legal Consciousness behind Prison Walls1
Prefigurative Legality1
Book Notes1
International Book Essay Section1
From Datafication to Data State: Making Sense of China’s Social Credit System and Its Implications1
Persistence Despite Change: The Academic Gender Gap in Australian Law Schools1
Dynamic and Constrained: Using the Judiciary to Pursue Social Justice in India1
International Book Essay Section1
Diverse Disconnectedness: Homophily, Social Capital Inequality, and Student Experiences in Law School1
“The Ancestral Line is through the Father”: The Gendered Production of Statelessness in Rural Myanmar1
Book Notes1
Appointed or Elected: How Justices on Elected State Supreme Courts Are Actually Selected1
Revisiting the Concept of Voice: Expression of Grievances across the English and Welsh National Health Service1
Unspectacular Atrocities and the Aesthetics of International Trials1
Revolving Doors: Social Dimensions of Law Firm Culture and Pathways out of Firms1
Book Notes1
LSI volume 48 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
How the Public Became the Caller: The Emergence of Reactive Policing, 1880–19701
Property Rights: (Probabilistically) Necessary or Sufficient for Economic Development in China and Beyond?1
(Re)constructing Prisoner Death Investigations: A Case Study of Suicide Investigations from England and Wales1
Standardizing States of Emergency: Fragmented Legitimacy of Model Public Health Lawmaking1
A Vertiginous Experience: Historical Ethics and Practice in the Age of Trump1
LSI volume 47 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
The Anthropology of Legal Form: Ethnographic Contributions to the Study of Transnational Law1
Court Watching’s Promise: A Preliminary Survey1
Captured Courts and Legitimized Autocrats: Transforming Kazakhstan’s Constitutional Court1
International Book Essay Section1
International Book Essay Section1
Measures of Justice: A Symposium in Honor of Sally Engle Merry (1944–2020)1
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