The universal promise of contemporary international law has long inspired countries of the
Global South to use it as an important field of contestation over global inequality. Taking …

This review examines the scholarship at the intersection of immigration law, race, and
identity. Historically, much of the literature has focused on the ways immigration law has …

Starting from concrete legal issues, Alan Norrie develops a critical vision of law in its relation
to morality and socio-historical context. Traced historically, the conflicts he describes can be …

To address the question of whether there is a cultural studies of law, I will explore
contemporary scholarship that assumes cultural perspectives on law by focusing on some of …

Italy's Supreme Court recently overturned a rape conviction on the grounds that the woman
was wearing blue jeans at the time. The Court reasoned that blue jeans cannot be removed …

As I was preparing my remarks for today, I thought about other LSA Presidential Addresses
that had resonated with me, from Felice Levine's (1990) description of Lily Tomlin's “Trudy,” …

JL ology of law. Boaventura de Sousa Santos has written of community (or popular) justice,
alongside legal pluralism, as part of the core debate in the sociology of law, but he notes the …

Moral Agendas for Children's Welfare examines the roles played by politics, religion, ethics,
aesthetics, law and science in identifying children's needs and rights and critically analyses …

Ashley Smith lived and died at a confluence of legal sanctions and correctional policy,
norms, decisions, and indifference. This article approaches her incarceration primarily …

Ashley Smith lived and died at a confluence of legal sanctions and correctional policy,
norms, decisions, and indifference. This article approaches her incarceration primarily …