{"title":"Environmental public hearings and intersectionality: women's voices from Gujarat, India","authors":"GITANJALI NAIN GILL, FALGUNI JOSHI","doi":"10.1111/jols.12476","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jols.12476","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the application of the intersectionality framework to the Indian statutory institutional environmental public hearing (EPH) process that seeks to promote environmental justice. Intersectionality provides a framework to capture the processes of gender marginalization and exclusion. It critically demonstrates how the required gender participation in the regulatory EPH process is failing rural women in the state of Gujarat, India, thereby exacerbating discrimination and inequality. Building on the researchers’ mixed-methods (quantitative and qualitative) data, the article creates an evidence-based ‘fresh dossier’ reflecting the non-existent or limited participatory involvement of women as valuable stakeholders in the EPH process. Drawing on the evidence of lived experiences creates spaces for women's voices that are excluded from the social system due to dominant powers and institutional structures. We argue that respecting the diversity of interests and identities of rural Gujarati women within the institutionalized public sphere would promote participation and recognition of their knowledge and role as crucial stakeholders.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"51 2","pages":"163-188"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jols.12476","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141108461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘There is just nothing to hold on to in this case’: legal technicalities and the use of psychological reports in Chilean domestic violence procedures","authors":"IGNACIO RIQUELME ESPINOSA","doi":"10.1111/jols.12475","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jols.12475","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This ethnographic study examines how Chilean family courts adjudicate domestic violence (DV) cases, highlighting a paradoxical shift away from their intended flexibility towards rigid bureaucratic procedure by examining the undue influence of psychological reports, which are expensive and difficult-to-obtain documents, on case outcomes. This research explores the role of these reports as ‘legal technicalities’, serving as both products and catalysts of specific social relations and tensions, and reveals an earnest yet unsuccessful effort to establish judicial authority amid poorly conceived DV reform. The article contributes to an empirical, bottom-up analysis of authority construction techniques used in recent widespread judicial reforms in Chile, providing fresh insights into the complexities of institutional changes within these contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"51 2","pages":"239-262"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141110862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Bodyguards of Lies: Lawyers’ Power and Professional Responsibility By Christopher Whelan, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 364 pp., £85.00","authors":"AVROM SHERR","doi":"10.1111/jols.12473","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jols.12473","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"51 2","pages":"294-296"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141123257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives By Emily Jones, London: Routledge, 2023, 216 pp., £35.99","authors":"JANNICE KÄLL","doi":"10.1111/jols.12474","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jols.12474","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"51 2","pages":"290-293"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140962228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The familialization of terrorism and the securitization of the family: gendered narratives of infantilization and demonization","authors":"FATIMA AHDASH","doi":"10.1111/jols.12478","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jols.12478","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the recent proliferation of gendered narratives underpinning and shaping counter-terrorism laws, policies, and practices. Looking specifically at the United Kingdom, there has been shift in the place of women and gender within international and national security discourses and practices, from historic absence to contemporary presence and influence. The article identifies and critiques some of the gendered and racialized tropes through which Muslim women involved in or associated with Islamist terrorism have been represented since the advent of the ‘War on Terror’. Gendered narratives that oscillate between infantilizing and demonizing Muslim women underline, and are manifested in, two particularly important shifts in the global counter-terrorism landscape: the familialization of (Islamist) terrorism and the securitization of the (Muslim) family. These changes – which foreground the importance of the private realm in understanding and countering terrorism, and have turned the attention of the security state to the relationship between private intimacies and public threats – rest on gendered assumptions and have gendered implications. Their power is most clearly seen in the rhetoric of the family judiciary in cases that have recently emerged in the English family courts dealing with the radicalization of children and their construction of three discursive figures: the radicalized girl, the radicalized woman/wife, and the radicalized mother.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"51 2","pages":"212-238"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jols.12478","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140926076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Placing Property: A Legal Geography of Property Rights in Land By Amanda Byer, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 88 pp., £24.99","authors":"ALEXANDRE (SANDY) KEDAR","doi":"10.1111/jols.12472","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jols.12472","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"51 2","pages":"297-301"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140841904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trauma-informed lawyering in the context of civil claims for sexual violence","authors":"NIKKI GODDEN-RASUL, CLARE WIPER","doi":"10.1111/jols.12453","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jols.12453","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Over the last decade, there has been an increase in civil compensation claims for sexual violence in the United Kingdom (UK). Given that trauma-informed approaches have been called for in relation to legal responses to sexual violence, we put forward seven key principles of trauma-informed lawyering in this context and draw on interviews with UK-based civil lawyers who represented sexual violence survivors to explore the extent to which trauma-informed work is taking place. While we found that our sample of lawyers typically had a very good knowledge of sexual violence and the trauma that it can cause, there was less certainty about how to accommodate the impacts in practice. Moreover, there was a tendency to prioritize individual healing and medicalize a form of social injustice. We conclude by emphasizing the need for legal training and education on a trauma-informed approach that accounts for the social and political dimensions of sexual violence and trauma.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"51 2","pages":"189-211"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jols.12453","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140810382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SLSA E-Newsletter","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/jols.12470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12470","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"51 1","pages":"E1-E16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140333365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘We can't help you – it doesn't concern us’: the legal consciousness of young people seeking asylum in Sweden who report violent crime","authors":"HANNA SCOTT","doi":"10.1111/jols.12452","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jols.12452","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Young people seeking asylum face many different forms of violence, including violent crime, yet their illegalization, as well as their experiences of police contact and border violence, often lead to reporting of crime not being perceived as a safe or viable option. But what are the experiences of those who, in spite of their fears, do attempt to engage with law by reporting crime? Drawing on in-depth interviews with Omid, Hussein, and Akram – three young men who have sought refuge in Sweden – this article examines their attempts to mobilize law as victims of crime at the intersection of restrictive migration controls and welfare exclusions. I argue that the legal consciousness of young people in this situation is shaped by the same legal structures that create the underlying conditions for their victimization as well as by other people's perceptions of how law operates in relation to their legal status. Relationships of trust, friendship, and support can aid engagement with the criminal justice system, yet such engagement often results in re-victimization instead of protection and a lack of meaningful remedies, reinforcing feelings of disenchantment with law.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"51 1","pages":"36-56"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jols.12452","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140202275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MARKUS CIESIELSKI, CARLOS ANDRÉS GARCÍA CARVAJAL, JULIETTE VARGAS TRUJILLO
{"title":"Shortcuts and detours of environmental collective legal mobilizations: the cases of the Atrato River and the Amazon region in Colombia","authors":"MARKUS CIESIELSKI, CARLOS ANDRÉS GARCÍA CARVAJAL, JULIETTE VARGAS TRUJILLO","doi":"10.1111/jols.12467","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jols.12467","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Colombia's Atrato River and Amazon region were declared legal entities by Colombian judges in 2016 and 2018 respectively. This set the stage for a new era of environmental litigation in Colombia, in which a number of natural entities have been granted this status. In both contrasting cases, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) brought dramatic environmental harms to court through the special <i>acción de tutela</i> procedure, but did not claim a new ecocentric legal status for nature. This article asks how rights were collectively mobilized in the Atrato and Amazon cases and led to ecocentric judgments. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in 2020 with members of NGOs and grassroots organizations involved in these two cases, revealing the emergence of grievance collectives. Through the analysis of these qualitative data, we argue for a perspective that considers the interdependence of legal mobilization and the collective as a social relationship. Collective support led to the choice of an unconventional process. However, this supported the litigation collectives and resulted in ecocentric judgments that generated challenges for the associated collectives in the post-litigation phase. Thus, the analysis of legal mobilization and social relations in the collectives as interdependent improves the understanding of the shortcuts and detours through which complex conflicts have been presented in cases of environmental litigation, and helps to strengthen the scope and concepts of collective legal mobilization.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"51 1","pages":"82-103"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jols.12467","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140202001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}