The Journal of Law and Society

Meet the JLS authors - Reforming Surrogacy Law: Listening to Children Through Art by Katherine Wade and Charlotte Mills.

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Meet the Book Editors - Socio-legal trajectories across Europe: comparative perspectives by Christian Boulanger, Naomi Creutzfeldt and Jen Hendry.

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Meet the Book Editor - Intellectual Property and the Human Right to a Healthy Environment by Elena Izyumenko, University of Amsterdam.

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Digitising Cultural Heritage: Clashes with Copyright Law by Pinar Oruc, University of Manchester

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The Intermediary in the Criminal Justice System by John Taggart at Queens University Belfast.

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Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment by David Garland.

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Meet the Book Author: The Regulation of Medical Products: Dope, Drugs and Devices by Penny Gleeson, Deakin Law School.

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AI as Legal Persons – Past, Patterns, and Prospects by Claudio Novelli, Yale University

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A cover of Epidemics and the Law from the Plague to the Present, featuring an illustration of a skeleton standing on coffins with historic London in the background.

How have epidemics shaped the law over the course of history? 🦠📚
Meet the editors of Epidemics and the Law: From Plague to the Present – including UCL Laws’ Professor Charles Mitchell – in this new blog post from @journallawsociety.bsky.social.
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Anti-intellectualism and Scepticism of Expertise in Capital Cases: A Persistent Challenge for Mentally Ill Defendants by Dr Chloé Deambrogio, University of Warwick.

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🔍 New on the JLS blog: Solid in Shape, Shattered in Practice? The ‘Sentencing Pyramid’ in China by Dr Enshen Li (City University of Hong Kong).

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Speeding up, slowing down, and managing time through managing atmospheres - new 🔓paper in @journallawsociety.bsky.social on immigration bail tribunal hearings.

Indebted in particular to Nick Gill's, Jess Hambly's and Melanie Griffiths' work on law and time.

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Happy to see Sam Adelman's wonderful review of my book in @journallawsociety.bsky.social, which raises key concerns about the efficacy of international environmental law - for example, the fact that the ongoing session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop a treaty on plastic 1/2

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Environmental protest, contention, and the law: conceptualizing the Public Order Act 2023 by Dr Richard Martin, Law School, London School of Economics.

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The JLS at 50: Art, literature and socio‐legal studies This article began life as a lecture the author was invited to deliver as part of the Journal's 50th-anniversary celebrations in the summer of 2024. The piece explores how law, literature and socio-l...

Really enjoyed this article by Barabara Hughes-Moore on the @journallawsociety.bsky.social's 50th anniversary, the gothic, and how law is dead... oh wait, it's undead... oh god, oh no... it's ALIVE

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Gender (de)certification and the home: A new focus for feminist legal scholarship? This article considers three sites that draw out the contemporary role of gender categories in the home in the context of a wider project on gender decertification. Firstly, the presence of those who...

I've got a new piece out in @journallawsociety.bsky.social looking at what legal gender decertification means for the space of the home and the public/private distinction in feminist legal scholarship. Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/jols...

Meet the JLS author blog just published:

Giving rap a chance: the cultural policing and consequences of the suppression of rap music in England in the twenty-first century by Ayush Sanghavi, University of Cambridge.

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Meet the book authors: Rational anger – an international comparison of legal systems by Stina Bergman Blix and Nina Törnqvist.

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Property in Contemporary Capitalism By Paddy Ireland, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024, 310 pp., £19.99 Click on the article title to read more.

Very happy to see our co-authored review of Paddy Ireland's great book 'Property in Contemporary Capitalism' (@brisunipress.bsky.social) published in @journallawsociety.bsky.social. Give it a read!

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A new Meet the JLS author blog added to website:

'Regulating for trustworthy autonomous systems: exploring stakeholder perspectives on answerability' by Dr Louise Hatherall, Birmingham Law School (Vol 51, issue 4, 2024)

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The Structural Limits of the Law: The Event Horizon of Legality by Stephen Young, University of Otago

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Meet the JLS authors: The policing and mental health detention of self-harming protesters | Journal of Law and Society Dr James Greenwood-Reeves, University of Leeds and Dr Rory Ellwood, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust In our recent article published in the JL ...

We wrote a blog post about our latest article in @journallawsociety.bsky.social - it's about self-harming protest, the limits of liberal legal theory, the problems with mental health practice, policing, and more.

It's interesting and gratifyingly short!

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Meet the editors: Pseudolaw and Sovereign Citizens | Journal of Law and Society Harry Hobbs (University of New South Wales), Stephen Young (University of Otago) and Joe McIntyre (University of South Australia). Pseudolaw and Sovereign C ...

And also thanks to @jessmant.bsky.social and the team @journallawsociety.bsky.social for a lovely meet the editors:

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A new meet the book author post has been added to the JLS website:

Biotechnology, Gestation, and the Law by Chloe Romanis, Durham University.

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A new 'Meet the book author' blog has been published on our website: Judicial Individuality on the UK Supreme Court by Lewis Graham, University of Cambridge.

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New "Meet the JLS Author" post published: 'The Hidden Histories of the Pinochet Case' by David Sugarman, Lancaster University. Featured in JLS Vol 51, Issue 4, 2024.

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Trust at the border: identifying risk and assessing credibility on reality television Every day, officers working at international airports investigate potential risks to state safety and security. But how do they decide who they can trust, and also ensure that the broader public trus....

I also wanted to explore synergies between frontline borderwork - and how it's presented in this show - and my existing work on the construction of (in)credibility in migration procedures and media representations of migrants/migration. This resulted in our OA @journallawsociety.bsky.social article

Meet the JLS author: Trust at the border: reality TV, securitization and the construction of (in)credibility | Journal of Law and Society Laura Smith-Khan, University of New England Anyone who has ever travelled to or from Australia will agree that the last thing you want after getting off a l ...

This was our first foray into international socio-legal scholarship, so we're very pleased to have published in such a great journal. It also has its own blog, so we were sure to add a summary there too
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Special Supplement S1: Relational rights and legal consciousness research: theoretical and methodological innovations: Journal of Law and Society: Vol 51, No S1 Click on the title to browse this issue

This new special issue on relational rights and legal consciousness in @journallawsociety.bsky.social looks fantastic. Looking forward to taking a closer read in the new year.

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Special Supplement S1: Relational rights and legal consciousness research: theoretical and methodological innovations: Journal of Law and Society: Vol 51, No S1 Click on the title to browse this issue

@journallawsociety.bsky.social Special Research Issue on "Relational rights and legal consciousness research" with lots of fab important contributions from outstanding scholars (no housing stuff).

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