Social & Legal Studies

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print.

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Across the world, non-state actors are documenting international crimes and creating archives for accountability purposes. In this article, we consider how archives and their records are ‘pressed into’ legal s…

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. This article responds to scholarly critiques, which highlight the failures of hate crime legislation in delivering justice to historically oppressed groups. Drawing on ethnographic data on the mobilisation of …

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Informed by a critical institutional perspective, in this article attention is turned to the choice to have an independent celebrant-led wedding ceremony in England or Wales. As these ceremonies fall outside t…

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print.

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print.

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Combining sociological, legal and political science approaches, our article investigates some pandemic-related national policy measures and analyses survey studies on the reactions of the labour market and its…

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. This article explores how the right to respect one’s home under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights would apply in the context of housing and social control. After explaining the connections b…

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Large-scale accommodation for refugees and migrants is often approached from a humanitarian angle, examining the reception conditions on the ground. However, scholars have long shown how such care-providing sp…

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. In Canadian cities, unaffordable housing and the lack of community supports have led to an increase in the number of encampments in public spaces. Municipal governments argue that short-term shelter spaces are…