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,…
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Focusing on the Portuguese case, this article explores the role of feminism in counter-trafficking. Through analysing feminist discourse on human trafficking, the article interrogates feminism’s ability and it…
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Postcolonial feminists and anthropologists have criticised anti-female genital mutilation (FGM) efforts for being ethnocentric and for imposing ‘Western’ values onto African communities. Recently, a Kenyan med…
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. The legal right to be heard by a judge is an important human right. However, what happens if a claimant does not meet the requirements of legal communication when given the opportunity to be heard in court? In…
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. This paper develops a methodological framework to understand criminal laws as cultural artefacts—as manifestations of structures, processes and struggles which are part of the broader social (re)production of …
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Disciplinary differences between mental health and legal discourses limit the implementation of mental health knowledge (MHK) in legal proceedings. This study examined the interchange between these discourses,…
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Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. New drugs with the potential to cure hepatitis C have emerged. There is great optimism within medicine about the transformative potential of cure, but this overlooks the entrenched discrimination and stigma as…
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. The academic response to Bourdieu’s sociology of law has mainly followed his Weberian focus on the role of legal professionals in state transformations. However, rereading Bourdieu’s “The Force of Law” through…