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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 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 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
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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October 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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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October 15, 2025 at 6:45 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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October 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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
🚨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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September 22, 2025 at 6:16 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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September 18, 2025 at 5:59 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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August 26, 2025 at 7:02 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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July 25, 2025 at 6:38 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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June 23, 2025 at 6:25 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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May 16, 2025 at 7:45 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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March 28, 2025 at 7:24 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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March 21, 2025 at 8:24 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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March 11, 2025 at 8:39 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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February 7, 2025 at 7:54 AM
New "Meet the JLS Author" post published: 'The Hidden Histories of the Pinochet Case' by David Sugarman, Lancaster University. Featured in JLS Vol 51, Issue 4, 2024.

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January 21, 2025 at 7:17 AM
A new 'Meet the Book Author' blog post is live on our website - The Migrant’s Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration by Brianna Nofil, The College of William & Mary.

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December 11, 2024 at 7:44 AM
Check out our "Meet the JLS Author" blog post featuring Lorraine Talbot from the University of Birmingham. Her article, When Less is Less: The Complexities of Growth and the Degrowth Company, was published in the Winter 2024 issue.

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November 14, 2024 at 6:28 AM
🚨 Exciting News! 🚨

The JLS Editorial Board is thrilled to announce 12 new appointments to our Advisory Board for 2024!

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October 18, 2024 at 8:27 AM
A new Meet the Book Author post had been added to the JLS website 📖

Join us as Hendrik Hartog shares insights into his book 'Nobody's Boy and His Pals: The story of Jack Robbins and the boys' brotherhood republic'.

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September 1, 2024 at 10:24 AM
A new Meet the Book Author post had been added to the JLS website 📖

Join us as Russell L. Dees shares insights into his book 'Great Trials and the Law in the Historical Imagination: A Law and Humanities Approach'.

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August 16, 2024 at 7:07 AM