This short essay follows an invitation from this journal to reflect on the relation between socio-legal and critical legal studies over the past 50 years, a period during which
the Journal of Law and Society has been one of the primary conduits for scholarship of both persuasions. [...]
How do justice professionals, in their everyday practices, reconcile what they regard as their competing obligations: Whether in a both to allow participation and yet to conclude
cases efficiently? This article argues that rather than doing so through individual self-talk denying the value of participation, or, by overt pressure on the defendant, [...]
Researchers conducting policy ethnography in conflict environments are faced with a valuable ethical dilemma – is there an ethical standard to determine how a dataset should
be pursued in the field? What if the method of pursuing data carries the potential of possibly disrupting one's rapport with the community and being perceived as [...]
Studies of legal pluralism and decolonisation are both concerned with the relationship between law and power, and with understanding how people experience law in practice.
Legal pluralists are concerned with decentring the powerful from the study of law, and with centring the voices of those traditionally excluded from conversations [...]
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 are employed to do care work in the home. Secondly, the introduction of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 and the way in which the parliamentary [...]
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-legal studies in the United Kingdom have evolved alongside each other since the birth of the Journal of Law and Society in 1974. [...]
