Studies about authoritarianism build the foundation of legal mobilization scholarship and
continue to advance this area of sociolegal research. The contributions of these studies …

Since the Civil Litigation Research Project in the 1980s, sociolegal researchers have
referenced the metaphor of the dispute pyramid to understand dispute resolution. The …

How can human beings be induced to sacrifice their lives—even one minute of their lives-for
the sake of their group? This question, central to understanding the dynamics of social …

The Oppositional “Spectrum”: No Single Continuum Will Do We are tempted to think of
oppositional consciousness as simply running along one continuum from less to more. One …

A wave of scholarship about legal consciousness has demonstrated how law shapes the
everyday lives of ordinary people (Ewick and Silbey 1992, 1998; Sarat 1990; White 1990; …

Examining the relationship between law and social change in the context of employees'
everyday problems with sexual harassment, this volume elaborates a framework for studying …

When he wrote Debtors in Court almost 30 years ago, Herbert Jacob laid the foundation for
the legal mobilization research that has flourished in recent years. In arguing that litigants …

My role—if nothing else—is to remind people and ourselves that AIDS is much more
complex than we think. PWAs [People With AIDS] can become people with disabilities. That …

What makes people sue? Why do individuals who have lost their cases decide to appeal? In
this book, the author offers a comprehensive description of the motives and concerns …

We analyse the profession of criminal defence lawyers (“advocates”) in Russia to
understand their potential for collective action in an imperfect institutional environment. In …