Social & Legal Studies

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print.

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print.

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. This article introduces the special issue on Democratic Constitutionalism in a Populist Age.

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. This paper is concerned with exploring legal atmospheres during colonial expansionism and the early period of confederation of British Columbia. By describing the theatrical and performative aspects of legal c…

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. While most criminal cases are resolved by a guilty plea, little empirical research has examined guilty plea wrongful convictions. This study explored this issue through semistructured interviews with 27 legal …

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Monetary expenses are said to prohibit poor rural litigants from accessing official justice institutions, which are often concentrated in urban centres, thus pushing these litigants towards customary forums. A…

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print.

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print.

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. The special section that follows examines registration as a technology of governance regulating the everyday. The introduction illustrates the motivation for the special section, which was an interest in the c…

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. This paper explores FGM-safeguarding in the UK through a decolonial lens. Based on an analysis of the development of law and policy relating to ‘Female Genital Mutilation’ in the UK alongside data collected in…