The Journal of Law and Society
@journallawsociety.bsky.social
The Leading British Periodical for Socio-Legal Studies
Meet the JLS authors - Reforming Surrogacy Law: Listening to Children Through Art by Katherine Wade and Charlotte Mills.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Meet the JLS authors - Reforming Surrogacy Law: Listening to Children Through Art by Katherine Wade and Charlotte Mills.
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Read the new blog here - journaloflawandsociety.co.uk/blog/reformi...
Meet the Book Editors - Socio-legal trajectories across Europe: comparative perspectives by Christian Boulanger, Naomi Creutzfeldt and Jen Hendry.
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October 31, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Meet the Book Editors - Socio-legal trajectories across Europe: comparative perspectives by Christian Boulanger, Naomi Creutzfeldt and Jen Hendry.
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Meet the Book Editor - Intellectual Property and the Human Right to a Healthy Environment by Elena Izyumenko, University of Amsterdam.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Meet the Book Editor - Intellectual Property and the Human Right to a Healthy Environment by Elena Izyumenko, University of Amsterdam.
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A new 'Meet the Book Author' blog added to the website:
Digitising Cultural Heritage: Clashes with Copyright Law by Pinar Oruc, University of Manchester
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Digitising Cultural Heritage: Clashes with Copyright Law by Pinar Oruc, University of Manchester
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October 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
A new 'Meet the Book Author' blog added to the website:
Digitising Cultural Heritage: Clashes with Copyright Law by Pinar Oruc, University of Manchester
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Digitising Cultural Heritage: Clashes with Copyright Law by Pinar Oruc, University of Manchester
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New Meet the Book Author blog added to website:
The Intermediary in the Criminal Justice System by John Taggart at Queens University Belfast.
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The Intermediary in the Criminal Justice System by John Taggart at Queens University Belfast.
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October 15, 2025 at 6:45 AM
New Meet the Book Author blog added to website:
The Intermediary in the Criminal Justice System by John Taggart at Queens University Belfast.
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The Intermediary in the Criminal Justice System by John Taggart at Queens University Belfast.
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Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment by David Garland.
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Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment by David Garland.
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October 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
New Meet the Book Author blog added to website:
Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment by David Garland.
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Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment by David Garland.
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Meet the Book Author: The Regulation of Medical Products: Dope, Drugs and Devices by Penny Gleeson, Deakin Law School.
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October 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Meet the Book Author: The Regulation of Medical Products: Dope, Drugs and Devices by Penny Gleeson, Deakin Law School.
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AI as Legal Persons – Past, Patterns, and Prospects by Claudio Novelli, Yale University
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AI as Legal Persons – Past, Patterns, and Prospects by Claudio Novelli, Yale University
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September 22, 2025 at 6:16 AM
🚨A new meet the JLS author blog post added to the website 🚨
AI as Legal Persons – Past, Patterns, and Prospects by Claudio Novelli, Yale University
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AI as Legal Persons – Past, Patterns, and Prospects by Claudio Novelli, Yale University
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How have epidemics shaped the law over the course of history? 🦠📚
Meet the editors of Epidemics and the Law: From Plague to the Present – including UCL Laws’ Professor Charles Mitchell – in this new blog post from @journallawsociety.bsky.social.
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Meet the editors of Epidemics and the Law: From Plague to the Present – including UCL Laws’ Professor Charles Mitchell – in this new blog post from @journallawsociety.bsky.social.
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September 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
How have epidemics shaped the law over the course of history? 🦠📚
Meet the editors of Epidemics and the Law: From Plague to the Present – including UCL Laws’ Professor Charles Mitchell – in this new blog post from @journallawsociety.bsky.social.
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Meet the editors of Epidemics and the Law: From Plague to the Present – including UCL Laws’ Professor Charles Mitchell – in this new blog post from @journallawsociety.bsky.social.
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🚨New meet the JLS author blog post 🚨
Anti-intellectualism and Scepticism of Expertise in Capital Cases: A Persistent Challenge for Mentally Ill Defendants by Dr Chloé Deambrogio, University of Warwick.
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Anti-intellectualism and Scepticism of Expertise in Capital Cases: A Persistent Challenge for Mentally Ill Defendants by Dr Chloé Deambrogio, University of Warwick.
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September 18, 2025 at 5:59 AM
🚨New meet the JLS author blog post 🚨
Anti-intellectualism and Scepticism of Expertise in Capital Cases: A Persistent Challenge for Mentally Ill Defendants by Dr Chloé Deambrogio, University of Warwick.
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Anti-intellectualism and Scepticism of Expertise in Capital Cases: A Persistent Challenge for Mentally Ill Defendants by Dr Chloé Deambrogio, University of Warwick.
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🔍 New on the JLS blog: Solid in Shape, Shattered in Practice? The ‘Sentencing Pyramid’ in China by Dr Enshen Li (City University of Hong Kong).
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August 26, 2025 at 7:02 AM
🔍 New on the JLS blog: Solid in Shape, Shattered in Practice? The ‘Sentencing Pyramid’ in China by Dr Enshen Li (City University of Hong Kong).
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Speeding up, slowing down, and managing time through managing atmospheres - new 🔓paper in @journallawsociety.bsky.social on immigration bail tribunal hearings.
Indebted in particular to Nick Gill's, Jess Hambly's and Melanie Griffiths' work on law and time.
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Indebted in particular to Nick Gill's, Jess Hambly's and Melanie Griffiths' work on law and time.
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August 20, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Speeding up, slowing down, and managing time through managing atmospheres - new 🔓paper in @journallawsociety.bsky.social on immigration bail tribunal hearings.
Indebted in particular to Nick Gill's, Jess Hambly's and Melanie Griffiths' work on law and time.
eprints.gla.ac.uk/361308/1/361...
Indebted in particular to Nick Gill's, Jess Hambly's and Melanie Griffiths' work on law and time.
eprints.gla.ac.uk/361308/1/361...
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Happy to see Sam Adelman's wonderful review of my book in @journallawsociety.bsky.social, which raises key concerns about the efficacy of international environmental law - for example, the fact that the ongoing session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop a treaty on plastic 1/2
August 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Happy to see Sam Adelman's wonderful review of my book in @journallawsociety.bsky.social, which raises key concerns about the efficacy of international environmental law - for example, the fact that the ongoing session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop a treaty on plastic 1/2
A new blog has been published on the JLS website -
Environmental protest, contention, and the law: conceptualizing the Public Order Act 2023 by Dr Richard Martin, Law School, London School of Economics.
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Environmental protest, contention, and the law: conceptualizing the Public Order Act 2023 by Dr Richard Martin, Law School, London School of Economics.
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July 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
A new blog has been published on the JLS website -
Environmental protest, contention, and the law: conceptualizing the Public Order Act 2023 by Dr Richard Martin, Law School, London School of Economics.
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Environmental protest, contention, and the law: conceptualizing the Public Order Act 2023 by Dr Richard Martin, Law School, London School of Economics.
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Really enjoyed this article by Barabara Hughes-Moore on the @journallawsociety.bsky.social's 50th anniversary, the gothic, and how law is dead... oh wait, it's undead... oh god, oh no... it's ALIVE
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The JLS at 50: Art, literature and socio‐legal studies
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-l...
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July 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Really enjoyed this article by Barabara Hughes-Moore on the @journallawsociety.bsky.social's 50th anniversary, the gothic, and how law is dead... oh wait, it's undead... oh god, oh no... it's ALIVE
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I've got a new piece out in @journallawsociety.bsky.social looking at what legal gender decertification means for the space of the home and the public/private distinction in feminist legal scholarship. Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/jols...
Gender (de)certification and the home: A new focus for feminist legal scholarship?
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...
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July 16, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I've got a new piece out in @journallawsociety.bsky.social looking at what legal gender decertification means for the space of the home and the public/private distinction in feminist legal scholarship. Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/jols...
Meet the JLS author blog just published:
Giving rap a chance: the cultural policing and consequences of the suppression of rap music in England in the twenty-first century by Ayush Sanghavi, University of Cambridge.
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Giving rap a chance: the cultural policing and consequences of the suppression of rap music in England in the twenty-first century by Ayush Sanghavi, University of Cambridge.
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June 23, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Meet the JLS author blog just published:
Giving rap a chance: the cultural policing and consequences of the suppression of rap music in England in the twenty-first century by Ayush Sanghavi, University of Cambridge.
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Giving rap a chance: the cultural policing and consequences of the suppression of rap music in England in the twenty-first century by Ayush Sanghavi, University of Cambridge.
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New blog added to website.
Meet the book authors: Rational anger – an international comparison of legal systems by Stina Bergman Blix and Nina Törnqvist.
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Meet the book authors: Rational anger – an international comparison of legal systems by Stina Bergman Blix and Nina Törnqvist.
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May 16, 2025 at 7:45 AM
New blog added to website.
Meet the book authors: Rational anger – an international comparison of legal systems by Stina Bergman Blix and Nina Törnqvist.
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Meet the book authors: Rational anger – an international comparison of legal systems by Stina Bergman Blix and Nina Törnqvist.
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Very happy to see our co-authored review of Paddy Ireland's great book 'Property in Contemporary Capitalism' (@brisunipress.bsky.social) published in @journallawsociety.bsky.social. Give it a read!
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Property in Contemporary Capitalism By Paddy Ireland, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024, 310 pp., £19.99
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April 7, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Very happy to see our co-authored review of Paddy Ireland's great book 'Property in Contemporary Capitalism' (@brisunipress.bsky.social) published in @journallawsociety.bsky.social. Give it a read!
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A new Meet the JLS author blog added to website:
'Regulating for trustworthy autonomous systems: exploring stakeholder perspectives on answerability' by Dr Louise Hatherall, Birmingham Law School (Vol 51, issue 4, 2024)
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'Regulating for trustworthy autonomous systems: exploring stakeholder perspectives on answerability' by Dr Louise Hatherall, Birmingham Law School (Vol 51, issue 4, 2024)
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March 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
A new Meet the JLS author blog added to website:
'Regulating for trustworthy autonomous systems: exploring stakeholder perspectives on answerability' by Dr Louise Hatherall, Birmingham Law School (Vol 51, issue 4, 2024)
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'Regulating for trustworthy autonomous systems: exploring stakeholder perspectives on answerability' by Dr Louise Hatherall, Birmingham Law School (Vol 51, issue 4, 2024)
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A new meet the book author blog has been added to JLS website:
The Structural Limits of the Law: The Event Horizon of Legality by Stephen Young, University of Otago
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The Structural Limits of the Law: The Event Horizon of Legality by Stephen Young, University of Otago
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March 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
A new meet the book author blog has been added to JLS website:
The Structural Limits of the Law: The Event Horizon of Legality by Stephen Young, University of Otago
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The Structural Limits of the Law: The Event Horizon of Legality by Stephen Young, University of Otago
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We wrote a blog post about our latest article in @journallawsociety.bsky.social - it's about self-harming protest, the limits of liberal legal theory, the problems with mental health practice, policing, and more.
It's interesting and gratifyingly short!
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It's interesting and gratifyingly short!
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Meet the JLS authors: The policing and mental health detention of self-harming protesters | Journal of Law and Society
Dr James Greenwood-Reeves, University of Leeds and Dr Rory Ellwood, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust In our recent article published in the JL ...
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February 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
We wrote a blog post about our latest article in @journallawsociety.bsky.social - it's about self-harming protest, the limits of liberal legal theory, the problems with mental health practice, policing, and more.
It's interesting and gratifyingly short!
journaloflawandsociety.co.uk/blog/meet-th...
It's interesting and gratifyingly short!
journaloflawandsociety.co.uk/blog/meet-th...
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And also thanks to @jessmant.bsky.social and the team @journallawsociety.bsky.social for a lovely meet the editors:
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Meet the editors: Pseudolaw and Sovereign Citizens | Journal of Law and Society
Harry Hobbs (University of New South Wales), Stephen Young (University of Otago) and Joe McIntyre (University of South Australia). Pseudolaw and Sovereign C ...
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February 14, 2025 at 7:08 AM
And also thanks to @jessmant.bsky.social and the team @journallawsociety.bsky.social for a lovely meet the editors:
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A new meet the book author post has been added to the JLS website:
Biotechnology, Gestation, and the Law by Chloe Romanis, Durham University.
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Biotechnology, Gestation, and the Law by Chloe Romanis, Durham University.
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March 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
A new meet the book author post has been added to the JLS website:
Biotechnology, Gestation, and the Law by Chloe Romanis, Durham University.
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Biotechnology, Gestation, and the Law by Chloe Romanis, Durham University.
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A new 'Meet the book author' blog has been published on our website: Judicial Individuality on the UK Supreme Court by Lewis Graham, University of Cambridge.
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February 7, 2025 at 7:54 AM
A new 'Meet the book author' blog has been published on our website: Judicial Individuality on the UK Supreme Court by Lewis Graham, University of Cambridge.
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Read here 👇
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