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This article began life as a lecture the author was invited to deliver as part of the Journal's 50th-anniversary celebrations in the summer of 2024. The piece explores how law, literature and socio-legal studies in the United Kingdom have evolved alongside each other since the birth of the Journal of Law and Society in 1974. It examines the Journal's role in this evolution, and how it has provided space for legal scholars, and particularly socio-legal scholars, to critique, problematise and mull over dilemmas common to law and the arts – sometimes by drawing on methods and insights from the arts themselves. In doing so, the author adopts a Gothic framework for further illuminating the Journal's work in this area, arguing that Gothic fiction helps us to confront ghosts and monsters – especially in those places where the law (or, at least, legal scholars) may fear to tread.
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Established as the leading British periodical for Socio-Legal Studies The Journal of Law and Society offers an interdisciplinary approach. It is committed to achieving a broad international appeal, attracting contributions and addressing issues from a range of legal cultures, as well as theoretical concerns of cross- cultural interest. It produces an annual special issue, which is also published in book form. It has a widely respected Book Review section and is cited all over the world. Challenging, authoritative and topical, the journal appeals to legal researchers and practitioners as well as sociologists, criminologists and other social scientists.
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