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Book Review: Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial by AGATA FIJALKOWSKI Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 DAVID SEYMOUR
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Book Review: Essentially a Mother: A Feminist Approach to the Law of Pregnancy and Motherhood by JENNIFER HENDRICKS Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 BAYU PRADITYA HERUSANTOSO, HENDI SETIAWAN
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Pressing Evidence: Activating Khmer Rouge Archives Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Maria Elander, Rachel Hughes
Across the world, non-state actors are documenting international crimes and creating archives for accountability purposes. In this article, we consider how archives and their records are ‘pressed into’ legal service. At a time of wider archive creations, we suggest the archives pertaining to the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979) provide insights as a compelling ‘post-accountability’ case of the continuum
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Symbiotic Justice: Hate Crimes, Police Humiliation, and Layered Legal Consciousness in Dalit Human Rights Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Sandhya Irina Fuchs
This article responds to scholarly critiques, which highlight the failures of hate crime legislation in delivering justice to historically oppressed groups. Drawing on ethnographic data on the mobilisation of India's only hate crime law – the Prevention of Atrocities (PoA) Act– among Dalit (untouchable) communities, the article proposes that the potential of hate crime law to create a restitution must
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‘Legal Marriage is Paperwork Day’: Independent Celebrant-Led Wedding Ceremonies as a Critical Institutional Response to Changing Social Norms Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Sharon Blake
Informed by a critical institutional perspective, in this article attention is turned to the choice to have an independent celebrant-led wedding ceremony in England or Wales. As these ceremonies fall outside the current legal framework, it explores how the decision to have a further wedding ceremony in addition to a legally binding wedding may indicate a weakening of legal marriage norms. Triangulating
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Book Review: The Abortion Act 1967: A Biography of a UK Law by SALLY SHELDON, GAYLE DAVIS, JANE O'NEILL AND CLARE PARKER Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 BARBARA BAIRD
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Book Review: The Spaces of Mental Capacity Law: Moving Beyond Binaries by BEVERLEY CLOUGH Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 AMBER PUGH
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Anti-pluralism, Labour Market Policy and the Pandemic: Political Uses and Social Consequences of COVID-19 in Hungary Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Judit Gárdos, Sára Hungler, Miklós Illéssy
Combining sociological, legal and political science approaches, our article investigates some pandemic-related national policy measures and analyses survey studies on the reactions of the labour market and its actors to the COVID-19 pandemic in Hungary, a neoliberal national-populist country. Our surveys conducted with employers and employees show that job losses and working time reductions especially
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Housing and Social Control: Reassessing the Protection Asymmetries of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Serde Atalay
This article explores how the right to respect one's home under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights would apply in the context of housing and social control. After explaining the connections between social control, housing, and human rights, it analyzes the selected case law of the European Court of Human Rights on Article 8 in certain cases concerning housing with a view to understanding
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Migrant Reception Centres and Coercive Social Control: Rule by Legal Uncertainty? Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Isabella Leroy
Large-scale accommodation for refugees and migrants is often approached from a humanitarian angle, examining the reception conditions on the ground. However, scholars have long shown how such care-providing spaces are also sites of social control. A close examination of the legal framework of an accommodation centre for migrants in Spain, the CETI of Melilla, finds that beyond the content of the law
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Social Control and Homeless Encampments: Shifting the Role of Shelters Through Judicial Review Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Alexandra Flynn
In Canadian cities, unaffordable housing and the lack of community supports have led to an increase in the number of encampments in public spaces. Municipal governments argue that short-term shelter spaces are a reasonable response to the ongoing, amplified housing crisis. However, shelters are an example of the many ‘every day’ regulatory approaches used by public officials in related to unhoused
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Regulating Public Property: The Account of the Homeless Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Sue-Mari Viljoen
A global socio-economic problem concerns the unlawful occupation of public spaces. At a time when states are more inclined to adopt welfare-orientated, inclusive social policies, property rules continue to forbid the homeless from exercising those activities that should ideally be done in private. The City of Cape Town serves as an interesting case study to critically reflect on social policies and
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The Rule of Law in an Ethnocracy: India's Citizenship Amendment Act and the Will of the Hindu Ethnos Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Indrajit Roy
What is the fate of the rule of law in India that is transitioning to an ethnocracy? Drawing on a ‘thin’ conception of the rule of law, this article argues that the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act responds to the emergence of a political ideal that constructs the Hindu ethnos as central to the Indian nation. Drawing on a variety of sources that include pronouncements by leaders of the RSS,
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Indigenous Housing Rights and Colonial Sovereignty: Self-Determination and Housing Rights beyond a White Possessive Frame Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Thalia Anthony, Jessie Hohmann
Through the lens of Aileen Moreton-Robinson's ‘white possessive logics’, this article addresses a series of legal cases concerning inhumane Aboriginal housing in the Northern Territory of Australia. It critiques successive government policies in relation to First Nations people since the colonisation of the Northern Territory in the nineteenth century, setting the cases in their historical context
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Legislation as Disinformation: The Love Jihad Conspiracy Theory in Law and Lived Experience Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Yash Sharma, Laura Dudley Jenkins
The “love jihad” conspiracy theory in India purports that Muslim men are deceptively seducing or kidnapping non-Muslim women in large numbers to convert and marry them. State laws in India have moved to control conversions—resulting in legislation as disinformation—and sparked violent attacks against Muslims. We identify this as the third wave of state-level anti-conversion laws in India and study
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Let Me Move: A Legal Analysis of Residence Restrictions on Asylum-Seekers in Ceuta, Melilla and the Canary Islands Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Juan Ruiz Ramos
For over a decade, Spanish police have prevented asylum-seekers in Ceuta and Melilla—two Spanish exclaves in Northern Africa—from moving to mainland Spain. Since 2020, similar measures have been taken in the Canary Islands. However, this practice has not taken place in a vacuum. This article shows that the Spanish authorities have long drafted and interpreted Spanish law in such a way as to create
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Registering Cosmetics? The Constitution of Legal Form and Injurious Substance in Canada (1945–1946) Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Lara Tessaro
In midcentury Canada, legislative drafters, government lawyers, food and drug officials, and ministers grappled with cosmetics. Faced with constitutional concerns about cosmetic licensing, these ac...
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Temperature behavior of cable-stayed bridges. Part II — temperature actions by using unified analysis Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Yushi Shan, Qiang Jing, Lingfang Li, Wenbo Gao, Zili Xia, Yong Xia
The temperature action of long-span cable-stayed bridges is complicated because of the high indeterminacy of their structure. Previous studies on the temperature behavior of bridges were either lim...
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Investigation into Grief Experiences of the Bereaved During the Covid-19 Pandemic Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Mohammad Asgari, Mahdi Ghasemzadeh, Asgar Alimohamadi, Shiva Sakhaei, Clare Killikelly, Elham Nikfar
The objective of the current study was to investigate the grief experiences of people affected by COVID-19. The study adopted a qualitative design of descriptive phenomenology. Fifteen adults who h...
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Status of homestay tourism in Indian Himalayan region: Analysis of customer review and policy support for sustainable tourism Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Smriti Thakur, Sagar Sood, Rakesh Kumar Singh, Ranjeet Singh
Homestays, which have emerged as a popular idea in the growing tourism industry, act as the most suitable alternative to encourage sustainable tourism activities in the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR...
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Death Anxiety and Accosiated Factors Among Oncology Nurses and Physicians Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Bushra Alhusamiah, Ruqayya S. Zeilani
Background: Providing care for dying patients is a stress-inducing, complicated, as well as essential responsibility for health care providers. Furthermore, end-of-life care is associated with inte...
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Research on signal separation method of micro-speed difference dual-rotor based on ZFFT and FT algorithm Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Zhang Meng, Lu Jiaqiao, Pan Xin
Aiming at the problem that the traditional analysis methods such as Zoom-FFT (ZFFT) heavily depend on the data length in the frequency separation accuracy when separating the unbalanced signals of ...
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Study on excitation threshold of strong modulation response and vibration suppression performance of bistable nonlinear energy sink Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Yujiang Wang, Haiyan Yang, Weizhi Song, Chihua Lu, Zhien Liu, Hui Zhou
The dynamics and vibration reduction performance of bistable nonlinear energy sink (BNES) are studied in this paper. First, the negative stiffness of BNES is realized by geometric nonlinearity, and...
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Durability of bond between carbon/glass hybrid fiber-reinforced polymer (HFRP) bar and concrete in water Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Gaojie Xu, Yixun Yu, Yunfeng Pan, Biao Li
Glass-fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) bars have been widely used as a reinforcement in concrete, and glass fibers are susceptible to reacting with alkali ions in concrete pores. Thus, carbon fibers...
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Justice in English-Only Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Joseph van Buuren
Australia has long sought to portray itself as a proudly multicultural nation that claims to welcome and celebrate cultural and linguistic diversity. This article seeks to illustrate how the law, l...
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Who is the Addict-Offender? A Historical Ontology Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Simon Flacks
The relationship between addiction and crime, and the political preoccupation with the addict-offender, has been the source of some academic commentary. However, most of this research assumes that ...
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Children's Legal Geographies, and the “Make-Believe” of Property Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Elsa Noterman, Nicholas Blomley
What is a wall to a child? It may be an obstacle course, a balance beam, a “car,” a seat, a home for spiders and ladybugs, a place to play hide and seek, a support to lean on when learning to walk,...
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The Work of Acknowledgment: ‘Loud Fence’ as Community-Level Response to Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Testimony Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Dave McDonald
Since the 1980s, the global dimensions of institutional child sexual abuse have become increasingly apparent. In some countries this has had a profound impact locally. In Australia, one such place ...
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Learning Lessons from the Populist Defeats: From Negative to Positive Constitutionalism Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Anna Śledzińska-Simon
The article explains how populists have exploited the weaknesses of liberal constitutionalism and the public-private divide. It argues that populists have not rejected constitutionalism as a projec...
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Believing Asylum-Seeking Women: Doing Gender in Legal Narratives of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Abigail Stepnitz
In this article I seek to expand the understanding of what it means to credibly “do gender” for women seeking asylum in the United States. I present an empirical analysis of documents related to 30...
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Legal Struggles: A Social Theory Perspective on Strategic Litigation and Legal Mobilisation Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Sonja Buckel, Maximilian Pichl, Carolina A. Vestena
Social movements, NGOs and other political actors often mobilise the law for social change. Strategic litigation and collective legal mobilisation can be key instruments to face current political c...
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Analysis of the Colombian Constitutional Court's Transformative Approach to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Isabel Inguanzo, Angélica Rodríguez Rodríguez
This paper aims to assess whether the Colombian Constitutional Court has had a transformative approach to transitional justice in relation to conflict-related sexual violence. Building upon previou...
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Understanding Populism Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Jeremy Webber
The diversity of features attributed to populism - and, as a result, the variety of critiques leveled at it - are remarkable. It sometimes seems as though people are using the same terms to address...
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Jurisdictional Relationships: Democracy and the Administrative State Through the Lens of Caring Society v Canada Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2023-02-12 Patricia Cochran
This paper draws on theorists of jurisdiction to make visible how democratic self-government and the rule of law take effect in the modern administrative state. Through the lens of Caring Society v...
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In What Sense Does Right-Wing Populism Pose a Democratic Challenge for the European Union? Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 John Erik Fossum
What kind of challenge is right-wing populism for the European Union (EU)? The EU has been frequently criticized by populists and non-populists alike for being a remote technocracy that suffers fro...
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Re-viewing Video Evidence and Police Violence in the Criminal Courts in Turkey Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Deniz Pınar Konuk
This article offers an analysis of audiovisual evidence claims in the struggle for identifying and documenting police violence in Turkish criminal courts. Focusing on a fatal police shooting in an ...
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Political Constitutionalism and Referendums: The Case of Brexit Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Richard Bellamy
The UK's political constitution rests on the checking and balancing operations of a representative system in which parliament is sovereign. By contrast, referendums are often considered instances o...
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The ‘Will of the People’: The Populist Challenge to Democracy in the Name of Popular Sovereignty Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2023-01-29 Oliver Schmidtke
This article analyses how right-wing populist actors claim to represent the “voice of the people” and express “popular sovereignty” as a mode of challenging the traditional constitutional foundatio...
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Embedding digital economy: Fictitious triple movement in the European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Joanna Mazur, Renata Włoch
In this article, we show how the European Union styles itself as the sole political actor able to effectively protect its citizens from the threats engendered by new technologies while balancing th...
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Governing Through Scalar Elasticity: An Analysis of the Accountability Gap in Migration Control in the Central Mediterranean Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Kiri Olivia Santer
Accountability has become elusive in the context of migration control, especially at the external borders of the EU. In the Central Mediterranean, a regime of cooperative interdiction has developed...
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A Chronotopic Evaluation of Autonomous Rog: The Spatiotemporalities of a “Quasi-Public” Urban Squat Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Jenny Kanellopoulou, Nikos Ntounis
The paper explores an urban squat in Ljubljana, Slovenia, following a chronotopic narrative approach. Urban squats often represent a manifestation of alternative notions of who belongs where, when,...
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Confronting Populism Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Daniel M Weinstock
The core populist claim is that ‘the people’ have been unjustly neglected by government. This core claim, while unexceptionable on its face, tends to be associated with claims that would corrode li...
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The Language of Violence: Exploring the Contested Relationship Between Violence Against Women and Sex-Work/Prostitution Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Rebecca MF Hewer
Definitions of violence are never merely descriptive. Rather, defining violence is an evaluative and normative project, struggles over which reflect a range of contexts, particularly relations of p...
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A Gendered EU Settlement Scheme: Intersectional Oppression of Immigrant Women in a Post-Brexit Britain * Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Adrienne Yong
The EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) is a transitory immigration regime rolled out by the Home Office as part of the measures for the UK withdrawing from the EU. More can be said about whether the EUSS ...
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‘They Just Let Us Rot to Death:’ Anti-Colonialism, Contestation, and Resistance to Reparations for Indian Residential School Abuse Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Konstantin Petoukhov
In the wake of increasing attention to reparations for settler colonialism in recent years, the politics of refusal and contestation of reparations has remained an underexplored area in socio-legal...
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Deservingness on Trial: Neutralisation Techniques in Public Housing Jurisprudence Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Yael Cohen-Rimer, Netanel Dagan
How do judges formulate their written decisions when rejecting plaintiffs’ requests in a welfare context? In this paper, based on our thematic analysis, we show how judges construct a nuanced conce...
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Moving Beyond Formal Truth Practices and Forensic Truth in the Syrian Conflict: How Informal Truth Practices Contribute to Thicker Understandings of Truth Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Brigitte Herremans, Tine Destrooper
Truth is a central concept in the struggle for justice for Syrians. Many justice actors have turned to the tools and rhetoric of transitional justice to further the quest for justice and truth. Yet...
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Workers’ Perspectives on State-Constructed Vulnerability to Labour Exploitation: Experiences of Migrant Fishers in Ireland Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Clíodhna Murphy, David M. Doyle, Stephanie Thompson
This article examines migrant workers’ experiences of state-constructed vulnerability to labour exploitation, through the case study of non-European Economic Area (EEA) migrant fishers in Ireland. ...
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From Love to Justice: Families’ Interrogation of Racial State Violence Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Nadine El-Enany
This paper explores how love, grief and kinship operate in families’ struggles for truth and justice following a death in custody of a racialised person in England and Wales. Racialised people are ...
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Trafficking, Rape, or Deceptive Sex? A Historical Examination of Procurement Offences in England Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Laura Lammasniemi
This article examines the origins of procurement offences and their historical development in England. Procurement offences were created in 1885 to tackle so-called white slavery, as trafficking in...
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Traditional Healing and Law in Contemporary Senegal: Legitimacies, Normativities and Practices Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Emilie Cloatre, Tidiane Ndoye, Dioumel Badji, Adams Diedhiou
In this paper, we chart the context in which contemporary legal debates around traditional healing in Senegal unfold, pointing in particular to the type of power–knowledge relations that are at sta...
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Territoriality and Status in Human Rights Litigation: The Case of Israel/Palestine Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2022-09-10 Irit Ballas
Both territoriality and political status serve as parameters for determining the extent of a state's obligation to uphold human rights. Scholars have shown that different actors may manipulate the ...
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Book Review: Sexual Violence on Trial: Local and Comparative Perspectives by RACHEL KILLEAN, EITHNE DOWDS AND ANNE-MARIE MCALINDEN Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 KELLIE TURTLE
The edited volume Sexual Violence on Trial: Local and Comparative Perspectives, is framed by a highly contentious rape trial that took place in Northern Ireland in 2018. Dubbed the ‘Belfast Rugby Rape Trial’, the case involved four rugby players two of whom were Ireland international players, accused of various offences relating to the alleged rape of a 19 year old woman at a house party in June 2016
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Health Inequalities: Law & the Pain of Others Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Michael Thomson
Health inequalities are a social injustice experienced globally. State action to address this has generally been insufficient, with inequities persisting, or - as in the case of the UK - worsening....
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Is Anti-FGM Legislation Cultural Imperialism? Interrogating Kenya's Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Act Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2022-08-15 Hannelore Van Bavel
Postcolonial feminists and anthropologists have criticised anti-female genital mutilation (FGM) efforts for being ethnocentric and for imposing ‘Western’ values onto African communities. Recently, ...
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Feminism and Counter-Trafficking: Exploring the Transformative Potential of Contemporary Feminism in Portugal Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2022-08-15 Mara Clemente
Focusing on the Portuguese case, this article explores the role of feminism in counter-trafficking. Through analysing feminist discourse on human trafficking, the article interrogates feminism's ab...
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Dangerous Patterns: Joint Enterprise and the Culture of Criminal Law Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Henrique Carvalho
This paper develops a methodological framework to understand criminal laws as cultural artefacts—as manifestations of structures, processes and struggles which are part of the broader social (re)production of meanings, values and affects. The first section sets out the groundwork for a cultural examination of criminal law, deploying insights from cultural theory to understand criminal law's function
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Silence and Voice in Oral Hearings: Spatial, Temporal, and Relational Conditions for Communication in Asylum and Compulsory Care Hearings Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Livia Johannesson
The legal right to be heard by a judge is an important human right. However, what happens if a claimant does not meet the requirements of legal communication when given the opportunity to be heard ...
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Two Roads Converge: The Interchange Between the Mental Health and Legal Discourses in Sexual Assault Trials Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Inbar Cohen, Tali Gal, Guy Enosh
Disciplinary differences between mental health and legal discourses limit the implementation of mental health knowledge (MHK) in legal proceedings. This study examined the interchange between these discourses, focusing on sexual assault cases that required testimonies of mental health expert witnesses (MHEWs) in Israel. 42 multi-perspective interviews including 16 MHEWs and 26 legal practitioners were
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Bringing Sociology of Law Back into Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology: Elements of Bourdieu's Sociology of Law and Dispute Transformation Social & Legal Studies (IF 1.79) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Annette Olesen, Ole Hammerslev
The academic response to Bourdieu's sociology of law has mainly followed his Weberian focus on the role of legal professionals in state transformations. However, rereading Bourdieu's “The Force of Law” through the lens of its references and relating it to the sociology of law “of the moment” (i.e. that of the 1980s), it becomes clear that Bourdieu's sociology of law is more sophisticated than has generally