{"title":"Permeating the boundaries: A call for critical socio-legal scholarship","authors":"LIZZY WILLMINGTON","doi":"10.1111/jols.70006","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>The focus of this paper is to challenge the boundary demarcation between socio-legal and critical legal studies. Through identifying and interrogating similarities and divergences, this paper argues that it would be more productive to work along the permeated border between the two, towards a critical socio-legal scholarship. This article will argue how critically, socially and interdisciplinary engaged scholarship challenges separations and divisions, which motivates agency and participation needed for a progressive approach to researching law and legal cultures.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"52 S1","pages":"S148-S167"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jols.70006","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.70006","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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Abstract
The focus of this paper is to challenge the boundary demarcation between socio-legal and critical legal studies. Through identifying and interrogating similarities and divergences, this paper argues that it would be more productive to work along the permeated border between the two, towards a critical socio-legal scholarship. This article will argue how critically, socially and interdisciplinary engaged scholarship challenges separations and divisions, which motivates agency and participation needed for a progressive approach to researching law and legal cultures.
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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.