Social & Legal Studies
Regulating Public Property: The Account of the Homeless
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. A global socio-economic problem concerns the unlawful occupation of public spaces. At a time when states are more inclined to adopt welfare-orientated, inclusive social policies, property rules continue to for…
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Indigenous Housing Rights and Colonial Sovereignty: Self-Determination and Housing Rights beyond a White Possessive Frame
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Through the lens of Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s ‘white possessive logics’, this article addresses a series of legal cases concerning inhumane Aboriginal housing in the Northern Territory of Australia. It critiqu…
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The Rule of Law in an Ethnocracy: India’s Citizenship Amendment Act and the Will of the Hindu Ethnos
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. What is the fate of the rule of law in India that is transitioning to an ethnocracy? Drawing on a ‘thin’ conception of the rule of law, this article argues that the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act resp…
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Legislation as Disinformation: The Love Jihad Conspiracy Theory in Law and Lived Experience
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. The “love jihad” conspiracy theory in India purports that Muslim men are deceptively seducing or kidnapping non-Muslim women in large numbers to convert and marry them. State laws in India have moved to contro…
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Book Review: New Directions in Sexual Violence Scholarship by KATE GLEESON AND YVETTE RUSSELL
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Let Me Move: A Legal Analysis of Residence Restrictions on Asylum-Seekers in Ceuta, Melilla and the Canary Islands
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. For over a decade, Spanish police have prevented asylum-seekers in Ceuta and Melilla—two Spanish exclaves in Northern Africa—from moving to mainland Spain. Since 2020, similar measures have been taken in the C…
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Book Review: Transitional Justice and the Historical Abuses of Church and State by JAMES GALLEN
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‘You Can Sue for Anything’: Student Rights to Participate in School Disciplinary Procedures and Legal Socialisation
Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. This study explored how participatory disciplinary systems in democratic (open) schools reflect distinct models of students’ collective rights to participate in decision making embedded in different patterns o…
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Book Review: Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities by MOYUKH CHATTERJEE
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