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Call for Participation - C4: The Conference on Contemporary Celebrity Culture
I came to the study of celebrity because I was fascinated by the cultural obsession with celebrity pregnancy that I observed among women in the United States, and had a growing concern that such an...
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How Are Women Faring in Islamic Courts? Anthropological and Historical...
By Michael G. PeletzDepartment of Anthropology, Emory UniversityWe live in a time when headlines about Boko Haram in Nigeria, the Taliban in Afghanistan, and the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq...
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Accountability, Courts, Misogyny
By Julie NovkovUniversity at Albany, SUNYWhether or not Republicans acknowledge it, the elevation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court will create a legitimacy problem for the Court. As comparative...
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The Importance of Diversifying Scholarship and Cross-National Cooperation in...
By Susan SterettCo-Editor, Law and Society Review When I stream music online, some algorithm figures out my preferences from the musician I pick, and I hear lots of related music. Music aficionados...
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Gender Bias in Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings
By Christina L. Boyd Department of Political Science, University of GeorgiaPaul M. Collins, Jr. Legal Studies Program and Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and...
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Postdoctoral Opportunity
The Newcomb College Institute of Tulane University seeks two postdoctoral fellows in law and society. We seek applicants whose research takes an intersectional approach to law and society, reflecting...
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Relieving the Tension: Lay Immigration Lawyering and the Management of Legal...
By Jamie Longazel John Jay College, City University of New YorkPicture: Dominguez/Kut, R. (2018, June 30). Thousands gather at the steps of the Texas Capitol to rally against the recent immigration...
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The Christian Conservative Moves to Transform Law Through Legal Education
By Joshua C. Wilson, University of DenverAmanda Hollis-Brusky, Pomona CollegePicture:Wilson, Joshua C. 2018. Photograph. Liberty Law, Lynchburg, VA As “gatekeepers to the profession,” institutions of...
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The Racial Disparity in Police Violence
By: Rory Kramer and Brianna RemsterVillanova UniversityAccusations of racial bias in police use of force have long been a touchstone for civil unrest in the United States. In the 1960s, cities across...
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Why rural land registration is not protecting land rights of women and...
By Mekonnen Firew AyanoPostdoctoral fellow at the Center for African Studies, Harvard UniversityPhoto in the office of a local official at Adami Tulu Jido Kombolcha,Bureau of Rural Land and...
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Federalism and the dynamics of subnational legal mobilization
By Alba Ruibal, Researcher at the National Scientific and Technological Research Council (CONICET), ArgentinaCaption: "Mirtha Sisnero, main plaintiff in gender discrimination case in Salta, Argentina"....
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Disputing the Global Land Grab: Claiming Rights and Making Markets Through...
By Matthew CanfieldDrake University In 2007-2008 the prices of staple cereal skyrocketed, catalyzing a global food crisis that sent over 150 million people into hunger. Activists in social movements...
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The Making and Unmaking of Feminicidio/Femicidio Laws in Mexico and Nicaragua
By Paulina García-DelMoral, University of Guelph andPamela Neumann, Bucknell University Since 2010, eighteen Latin American countries have passed laws criminalizing femicidio(femicide) or feminicidio...
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Unintended Gender Parity and Speculative Isomorphism in India’s Law Firms
By Swethaa S.Ballakrishnen UC Irvine School of Law“Look, we have equal number of male and female partners. A thought like [gender discrimination] doesn’t even arise…the culture is just different...
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On writing
By Susan SterettLaw & Society Review Co-EditorOne thing I know for sure after having co-edited Law and Society Review for almost three years is that just about every college and university would...
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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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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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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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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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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...
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