Social & Legal Studies
Book Review: Law, Narrative and Masterplot: New Research Perspectives by CHRIS BEVAN & DAVID GURNHAM
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Inter Arma, Judicialis: Legal Bricolage and the Agency of Ukrainian Judiciary in Wartime
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. This paper investigates how Ukrainian judges respond to the challenges of wartime adjudication following Russia’s invasion. Based on 17 interviews with judges across Ukraine, it explores their adaptive legal s…
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Book Review: Law and Jewish Difference: Ambivalent Encounters by MAREIKE RIEDEL
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Book Review: The Structural Limits of the Law: The Event Horizon of Legality by STEPHEN M YOUNG
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False Hope and Fictitious Patents: Evaluating the Intellectual Property of OxyContin
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. This article evaluates the opioid epidemic through the lens of intellectual property law, focusing on OxyContin’s trajectory from conception to market. Using interdisciplinary analysis and doctrinal legal exam…
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“Overriding Health and/or Safety Concerns”: Vague Correctional Policies and Targeted Trans Feminine Governance
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. In Canada, federal, provincial, and territorial correctional policies appear to uphold human rights for trans people in custody. However, critical scholars highlight contradictions within these reforms—especia…
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Cultural Rights in Motion: Legal Invisibility, Forced Migration, and the Limits of Universality
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. This paper rethinks the place of cultural rights in international human rights law through the lens of forced displacement. While cultural rights are increasingly referenced in legal discourse, they remain fra…
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Book Review: Race, Law and Hypercriminality by SARAH CORBETT-BATSON
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Social & Legal Studies
Public Order and the Internal Security Apparatus: Affective Tension Monitoring as Police Epistemology
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Farmer develops the concept of the civil order to help understand the function of criminal law, but civil order is a particularly capacious concept. In this article I use it to frame the field of public order …
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The Best Interests of the State: How Racialised Fear Steered the Hague Child Abduction Convention Away From Children’s Interests
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. In 1980, two international bodies – the Council of Europe and the Hague Conference on Private International Law – each adopted a different treaty to address international parental child abduction (the removal …