Social Sciences, Vol. 14, Pages 420: Racial Injustice, Violence, and Resistance: New Approaches Under Multidimensional Perspectives Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci14070420

Authors: Marcelo Paixão Norma Fuentes-Mayorga Thomas McNulty [...]

This article investigates the burgeoning trend of proceduralization within corporate law, with a spotlight on the board of directors. It delves into the tension between nurturing

skill diversity within the board and outsourcing specific functions, and the related paradoxical challenge: while external consultants and specialized directors enhance [...]

According to the Nordic Model, criminalising sex workers' clients is intended to combat human trafficking and promote gender equality. While well-intentioned, this approach

often overlooks sex workers' rights. In an ECtHR decision, the Court deferred to national discretion, upholding this legal framework at the expense of sex workers' [...]

This contribution discusses the continued relevance but changing appearance of research connecting law, economy and society in the socio-legal field. It uses the perspective

of the Journal of Law and Society (JLS), which indeed seems to be a good place to start, as it kept the economy on the agenda throughout five decades of scholarly [...]

This short article reviews research on the sociology of labour law and the economy, highlighting, in the final paragraph, research of that nature that has been published in

this journal. As a supplement to Sabine Frerichs’ more general reconstruction, in this issue, of how different generations of socio-legal thinking have dealt with [...]

Flora Renz's paper ‘Gender (de)certification and the home: A new focus for feminist legal scholarship?’ draws attention to instances in which the question of gender (de)certification

is relevant to the private sphere. This response to Renz's paper reflects on the fact that gender categories remain highly salient in the ‘private’ realm of family [...]

How should the law regulate the use and management of a resource in market activity? The resource can be perceived as an entitlement, granting market participants veto power

over its use and management. Alternatively, market participants can be protected as consumers with rules focusing on disclosure, repair, and safety. [...]

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 [...]