Social & Legal Studies

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print.

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. In this article, I examine the aftermath of Italy’s 1978 abortion law (Law 194/1978) and the following feminist occupation of a Rome hospital, revealing a little-known chapter in feminist history. The legislat…

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. In the United States and elsewhere, civil legal services are an overlooked strategy in the response to sexual assault. Contrary to the criminal legal system, civil legal remedies can offer supports that are sp…

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Litigants in person (LiPs) are increasingly prominent players in the social world of the court. There is a growing literature addressing many questions relating to litigants in person and this article contribu…

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print.

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Overdose mortality and the legitimacy crisis facing policing have propelled momentum for drug law reform. Yet, resulting reforms and associated protections are often functionally undermined by enforcement prac…

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Drawing on a series of interviews with on-demand food delivery riders, who are rural migrant workers, this paper seeks to explain the workers’ decision to give up stable jobs in factories in favour of largely …

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Extant scholarship on anti-Christian violence in India is scant and predominantly focuses on physical violence. To address this gap, this article explores Freedom of Religion laws (also referred to as anti-con…

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. This paper examines legal mobilisation in socio-environmental movements through the Caimanes case, a Chilean community opposing the Los Pelambres mining project. It integrates structural and agency perspective…

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print.