Law in Society and Culture

Explore how prefigurative law reform reshapes legal proposals on sex and gender through utopian studies, reframing failure as productive rather than disqualifying.

Public housing residents use smartphones to create counter-visual documentation challenging surveillance systems, reclaiming agency over how they are seen and represented in their communities.

Examination of how evidentiary rules admit prejudicial stereotypes about rape victims in trials, with reform recommendations for Ireland's sexual experience and personal records disclosure rules.

Study examines why precarious housing tenants avoid legal remedies despite awareness, identifying structural barriers including landlord dependency and interconnected institutional vulnerabilities.

Analysis of 1,200+ Indian court rulings reveals how judges produce majoritarian domination through suspicion-generating doctrines and silence, making authoritarianism legally sanctioned

Triadic model integrating cognition, emotion, and motivation to explain how legal socialization produces internalized compliance across Chinese and Western contexts.

Comparative study of how Netherlands, Germany, and Sweden translate international war crimes prohibitions into domestic law and apply them through courts.

Ghana's stamp duty system creates barriers to justice through institutional opacity and inflated costs. This study reveals how Lands Commission practices diverge from law and proposes reforms.

Digital legal awareness intervention reduces anxiety among Chinese vocational students through enhanced positive coping strategies. Theory-based interactive multimedia program shows moderate to.

Methodological framework for document analysis in legal institutions, establishing analytical strategies for authoritative texts with applications to criminal justice research.

Explore how artificial mechanisms and electronic systems can modernize wills to prevent failed legacies and outdated beneficiary information through regular updates.

Designerly approaches to make the constitutive idea of law and social life accessible to scholars and wider audiences, addressing empirical, conceptual, and normative dimensions.

Comparative study of e-court reforms in Italy and Indonesia examining how judicial digitalization affects access to justice, procedural transparency, and efficiency across different institutional.

Explores how predictive AI in judicial decision-making operates within legal indeterminacy rather than eliminating it, examining theoretical limits and practical constraints of machine learning in.

First multimodal analysis of actual jury deliberation examines how jurors construct justice through embodied practices including laughter, gesture, and poetic interplay.

Sociological analysis of how neoliberal law displaces political conflict from democratic arenas into juridical domains, fragmenting collective agency and neutralizing dissent through claims of.