Law and Society provides a balanced and comprehensive analysis of the interplay between
law and society using both Canadian and international examples. This clear and readable …

Criminal Defense in China studies empirically the everyday work and political mobilization
of defense lawyers in China. It builds upon 329 interviews across China, and other social …

Social movements have been implicated in long-term societal transformations, helping bring
about political democratization, economic freedom, and social equality. In recent years …

Court is admirable in scope in illuminating developments in each nation, and in offering a
more general perspective on immigration law and policy because of the author's …

In the last 8 years, activist pressure has increased attention to sexual violence at
universities. Most recently, the# MeToo movement has widened the conversation about …

The Philippines is not typically the focus of transitional justice (TJ) scholarship. Yet, it has
had to deal with violent legacies pertaining to each generation of TJ and has installed …

The article develops the concept of “lawfare” to capture the increasingly common
phenomenon of legalized contestations over political and social change, where …

Because attorneys are essential to a fair legal process, it is important to understand the
experience of a legal career. This article first reviews research on the influence of attorneys …

What do the activities of twenty-first-century Chinese lawyers tell us about the origins and
prospects of legal activism under authoritarianism? This essay fits China's Human Rights …

The responsibility of any state is to protect its citizens. But if a state, either through omission
or commission, fails to investigate and prosecute crime then what remedies do citizens …