Social movements have increasingly incorporated legal strategies into their repertoires of contention. Yet, both sociolegal and social movement scholarship lack a systematic and theoretically coherent way to conceptualize legal mobilization. In fact, scholars disagree (sometimes in fundamental ways) about what constitutes legal mobilization, which has resulted in conceptual slippage around how the term is used. This article proposes a more self-conscious approach that will facilitate the aggregation of findings across studies. To do so, it sets forth a systematic conceptualization of legal mobilization and situates it within a typology of uses of the law. It also contextualizes the typology with respect to emerging literatures within social movement and sociolegal scholarship and proposes areas for further research that would benefit from a more rigorous conceptualization of legal mobilization.

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将法律动员概念化：我们应该如何理解法律策略的部署？

社会运动越来越多地将法律策略纳入其争论的全部内容。然而，社会法律和社会运动的学术研究都缺乏系统的和理论上连贯的方式来概念化法律动员。事实上，对于什么是法律动员，学者们（有时在根本上）存在分歧，这导致了关于如何使用该术语的概念上的滑移。本文提出了一种更加自觉的方法，该方法将促进跨研究结果的汇总。为此，它提出了法律动员的系统概念化，并将其置于法律使用的类型学中。