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On to Lisbon: Liminal Moments in Law and Society David TrubekUniversity of Wisconsin-Madisonhttps://law.wisc.edu/profiles/dmtrubekIn their excellent essay on the early history of the Law and Society...
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Call for Symposia Due Date: Friday, September 25, 2020 The Law & Society Review seeks proposals for themed symposia to appear in late volume 55 and volume 56, which will appear in print in...
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In Memoriam: Sally Engle Merry In celebration and remembrance of the many contributions to our field of the late Sally Engle Merry, Law & Society Review invites short essays describing her impact...
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In the most recent Law & Society Review
Reconfiguring the Deserving Refugee: Cultural Categories of Worth and the Making of US Asylum PolicyTalia ShiffLecturer on SociologyPostdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars ProgramHarvard...
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In the most recent Law & Society Review
Jailing Immigrant Detainees: A National Study of County Participation inImmigration Detention, 1983-2013Emily RyoProfessor of Law & SociologyUniversity of Southern CaliforniaGould School of LawIan...
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In the most recent Law & Society Review
On the Radar: Why Immigrant ‘Legality’ Can Feel as Scary as Immigrant ‘Illegality’Photo by Harrison Truong Asad L. AsadAssistant Professor of Sociology Faculty Affiliate of the Center for Comparative...
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Knowledge is power? Think again.
In the most recent issue of the Review, Kathryne M. Young and Katie R. Billings reported on their study of people’s willingness to assert rights in a variety of encounters with police, including...
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Just out in Law & Society Review. On the heels of the warmest January on record, a new paper on indigenous groups' human rights claims in the face of climate change...Realizing the Right to Be...
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Navigating between antidiscrimination, labor, and social rights. The legal...
Aude Lejeune and Julie RingelheimWheel chair access call point, Royal Court of Justice, London (Aude Lejeune)Americans with Disabilities Act (1990), European Union Employment Directive (2000), United...
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Law & Society Review: Call for Virtual Special IssuesThe Law & Society Review anticipates producing several virtual special issues over the next three volume years (2020–2022). A virtual...
View ArticleInviting Papers for a Symposium on Immigration Detention
Law & Society Review Symposium: Facing Immigration DetentionRevised Submission Deadline: February 15, 2020Immigration detention is one of the most pressing civil and human rights issues of our time...
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Switching Up the Metaphor: from Baseball to Knitting
Susan M. Sterett, University of Maryland, Baltimore CountyMetaphors guide what we see. In studying law and courts, metaphors for the law have come from baseball: Justice Roberts famously said in his...
View ArticleWhat Courts do with Executive Privilege Claims
By Gbemende Johnson, Hamilton College“Because Congress requires this material in order to perform our constitutionally-mandated responsibilities, I will issue a subpoena for the full report and the...
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The Mechanisms behind Litigation’s “Radiating Effects”: Historical Grievances...
Celeste L. Arrington The George Washington Universityhttps://zh.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Saikosaibansho.jpgLook beyond rulings to see the social changes radiating out from post-WWII compensation...
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Rebecca L. Sandefur The Law and Society Associationand the whole field of law and society research owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Jeannine Bell, Susan Sterett, and Margot Young, for their work...
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How do text messages complicate contemporary sexual assault adjudication?
By Heather Hlavka and Sameena Mulla Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Marquette University“There’s no video, no injury. It’s purely one hundred percent ‘he said, she said.’ They had a...
View ArticleLynchings and Contemporary Whites’ Perceptions of Blacks as Criminals
By Daniel P. Mears, Eric A. Stewart, Patricia Y. Warren, Miltonette O. Craig, and Ashley N. ArnioFor this study, we examined the idea that Whites who resided in areas where lynchings occurred would be...
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TASER Technology and Police Officers’ Understanding and Use of Force
Michael Sierra-ArévaloRutgers University-Newark The TASER--a weapon that uses electric current to incapacitate a subject by causing complete neuromuscular incapacitation--is ubiquitous among U.S....
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The first opportunity is the Sociolegal Studies Early Career Writing Workshop, March 21-23, 2019, at the University of Cape Town. This intensive workshop, co-sponsored by Law & Society Review, is...
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The Drug War’s Aftermath: How Federal Crack Prosecutions Drive Institutional...
By Mona Lynch & Marisa OmoriWe are in the midst of a national opioid addiction crisis that rivals the 1980s’ drug crisis involving crack cocaine. So far, the official governmental response to the...
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