{"title":"Raising a claim for (animal) justice: The end(s) of socio-legal and critical legal studies","authors":"STEWART MOTHA","doi":"10.1111/jols.70000","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>This short essay follows an invitation from this journal to reflect on the relation between socio-legal and critical legal studies over the past 50 years, a period during which the <i>Journal of Law and Society</i> has been one of the primary conduits for scholarship of both persuasions. After interrogating their commonalities and differences, hopes and anxieties, I go on to suggest that legal studies should be oriented by the objective of opening claims for justice, and I argue that this needs to be extended to animal justice.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"52 S1","pages":"S168-S175"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jols.70000","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Law and Society","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jols.70000","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"LAW","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This short essay follows an invitation from this journal to reflect on the relation between socio-legal and critical legal studies over the past 50 years, a period during which the Journal of Law and Society has been one of the primary conduits for scholarship of both persuasions. After interrogating their commonalities and differences, hopes and anxieties, I go on to suggest that legal studies should be oriented by the objective of opening claims for justice, and I argue that this needs to be extended to animal justice.
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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.