Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. This paper explores how love, grief and kinship operate in families’ struggles for truth and justice following a death in custody of a racialised person in England and Wales. Racialised people are disproportio…
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print.
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. This article examines the origins of procurement offences and their historical development in England. Procurement offences were created in 1885 to tackle so-called white slavery, as trafficking in women was t…
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print.
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. In this paper, we chart the context in which contemporary legal debates around traditional healing in Senegal unfold, pointing in particular to the type of power–knowledge relations that are at stake in both t…
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Both territoriality and political status serve as parameters for determining the extent of a state’s obligation to uphold human rights. Scholars have shown that different actors may manipulate the scope of the…
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print.
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Health inequalities are a social injustice experienced globally. State action to address this has generally been insufficient, with inequities persisting, or – as in the case of the UK – worsening. This articl…
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Embedded in early debates about the transition to capitalism is the idea that law and legal relations play a pre-determined yet artificial role. While this reflects Marx’s general claims about law and capitali…
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Given a concern with legal repression of protests and based on the premise that judges inevitably draw upon common sense ideas in judicial decision-making, this article examines how understandings of protests,…