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Just announced at #LSA2024 📣 The 2024 winner of the LSI Grad Student Paper Competition is Walter G Johnson (ANURegNet)! “It’s (Not) Just Semantics: Neurotechnology as a Novel Space of Transnational Legal Governance" uses a case study to show how spaces of global governance emerge.

Transforming constitutionalism in a continent shaped by colonialism urges a new political vision. In LSI’s #FirstView, Klug (UW–Madison) advocates for “recalibrating the African constitutional imagination,” citing Gould's ethnography on Zambia's struggles. rb.gy/yefvpl

My article in Law & Social Inquiry has an issue & is Open Access. Signing CEDAW & Women’s Rights:Human Rights Treaty Signature & Legal Mobilization bit.ly/3XjCGla Across multiple measures, I find that singing CEDAW shaped states' women's rights behaviors prior to ratification

What to do when justice is impeded by punctilious application of law? Mark Drumbl (W&L Law School) addresses this question in a review of Liana Minkova's Responsibility on Trial (Cambridge University Press - Law), introducing systemic solutions to impunity in international atrocities. bit.ly/4c2AiDH

“Who should be in prison?” is an urgent question in the face of the staggering size and racial disparities of US prisons. In LSI’s #firstview, Dalke (ISSI) shows how the parole board’s old ideas around punishment justify keeping people in prison.bit.ly/4eKLPJZ

Parole work is perhaps the hardest but also most crucial part of criminal justice systems. In LSI’s latest issue,Katharina Maier (UWinnipeg) Rose Ricciardelli and @markdavidnorman (Memorial University) explore how parole officers experience their occupational authorities.bit.ly/3xniUuE

“He Is Still Your Father” illuminates the power of law in individual-family-state dynamics. In LSI’s #firstview, Chua (NUS) explores Taiwan’s parental maintenance litigation, advancing feminist vulnerability theory through the concept of tethering.bit.ly/3XUVEi6

Law’s moral legitimacy impacts people’s responses to legal evasion. In LSI’s #firstview, Qian Liu's (U Calgary) research on Chinese villages under the one-child policy reveals how interpersonal relations and distrust of the law shape legal consciousness. bit.ly/4eWVtZI

Why do people with lower credit scores “deserve” to pay more for things like car insurance? Reyes (UBuffalo) and Headworth’s (Purdue Department of Sociology) article explains how legal infrastructure solidified an economy of moral judgment around the auto loan market. bit.ly/3xSyrCM

The US Supreme Court is under a legitimacy crisis. In LSI’s #firstview, Williams (Bates College) and @leahchristiani (Hunter College) highlight ideology, partisanship, and descriptive representation's effects on how and why the public supports the Court. bit.ly/3W3X07R

How do US states determine which gender boxes to include on govt. forms? In LSI, Ari Ezra Waldman (UC Irvine School of Law) directs attention to institutional, technological, political, and sociolegal contexts. Far from neutral, forms shape knowledge and gender inclusivity.bit.ly/3W8KEeO

Voicing grievances activates legal rights. In LSI’s #firstview article, Professor Linda Mulcahy (Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies) studies the NHS to raise questions around what motivates people to articulate their concerns in formal settings, independent of claims for recompense. bit.ly/3YgcWGE

Financial regulations oversimplify society, making them unequipped to handle financial crises. In LSI, Giuliano Castellano (HKU Faculty of Law) argues that “neglecting complexity is not only intellectually flawed but also politically dangerous and socially irresponsible”. bit.ly/4d1lA0v

Can aspirational laws change how people act? Depoorter (UC Law San Francisco, Ben Depoorter) and Tontrup (NYU Law) explore this question on an LSI article that analyzes the impact of an unenforced public smoking ban on individuals' attitudes and behavior. bit.ly/3LJIayA

Congrats to Prof. Gary Lee on receiving the 2024 Best Scholarly Article Award from the ASA Sociology Global and Transnational Sociology Section for "Racialized Legalities: The Rule of Law, Race, and the Protection of Women in Britain's Crown Colonies 1886-1890" cambridge.org/core/journals/…

🚨 new pub, first view 🚨 really excited to share my new article, which draws on in-depth interviews with ICE attorneys to understand how they understand & legitimize the work of prosecuting immigrant removal, out now in Law & Social Inquiry. Full article here: tinyurl.com/7kajvp6j

The latest issue of LSI has been published, featuring cutting-edge research and insights in sociolegal studies! Explore the new articles and contributions here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Don’t miss the opportunity 10/18 to engage in critical discussions about inclusion, "bleached out" identity, and ethics at “Widening the Lens of Justice,” a 20th-anniversary #NewLegalRealism conference cosponsored by American Bar Foundation/HLS Center on the Legal Profession. Register today! bit.ly/NewLegalRealism

Calling all grad students—and faculty who work w/ grad students! Don’t miss the chance to apply for the 2025 Law & Social Inquiry Graduate Student Paper Competition. Showcase your research for a chance to win $500 and get published. 📌Deadline: 4/11 🔗americanbarfoundation.org/law-social-inq…