{"title":"Green Transitional Justice By Rachel Killean and Lauren Dempster, London: Routledge, 2025, 304 pp., £31.99","authors":"SHASHI KANT YADAV","doi":"10.1111/jols.70032","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jols.70032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"53 1","pages":"174-179"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683794","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":"Biotechnology, Gestation, and the Law By Elizabeth Chloe Romanis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025, 240 pp., £100.00","authors":"AMEL ALGHRANI","doi":"10.1111/jols.70033","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jols.70033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"53 1","pages":"180-183"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683882","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}
NIGEL BALMER, CATRINA DENVIR, HUGH MCDONALD, EMILY S. TAYLOR POPPE
{"title":"What makes a legal problem? Dispute characteristics and the construction of legality","authors":"NIGEL BALMER, CATRINA DENVIR, HUGH MCDONALD, EMILY S. TAYLOR POPPE","doi":"10.1111/jols.70036","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jols.70036","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Individuals rarely turn to law when faced with civil legal problems and often do not perceive the problems that they experience as legal matters. Though not all justiciable problems require recourse to lawyers or legal institutions, the dynamics of legal characterization and responsive behaviour are important for understanding dispute processing and developing targeted policy interventions. Extant survey research documents the importance of problem type in shaping perceptions of legality and responsive action but has been limited in its ability to interrogate problem-level predictors. Using an experimental approach, this study extends existing research by investigating the effect of the amount at stake, the position within the dispute, and the allocation of fault on the likelihood that respondents identify problems as legal matters and would seek legal assistance. The findings confirm that characterization is not a wholly subjective phenomenon and that certain contextual features amplify the likelihood of a problem being viewed as legal.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"53 1","pages":"3-26"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jols.70036","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147684024","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":"Pornography, Rough Sex and Gendered Harm: Just Sex on Screen? By Samantha Keene, London: Routledge, 2025, 204 pp., £145.00","authors":"VANESSA E. MUNRO","doi":"10.1111/jols.70034","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jols.70034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"53 1","pages":"170-173"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147684253","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 governance of global supply chains: empirical insights from the ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh a decade after Rana Plaza","authors":"TASKIN IQBAL","doi":"10.1111/jols.70049","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jols.70049","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The regulation of activities in global supply chains presents significant challenges, particularly in establishing corporate accountability for human rights violations and addressing extraterritorial oversight. Due to the unwillingness or limited capacity of governments to regulate the social externalities of global business activities, the last decade has seen an increase in schemes that use non-state authority to govern corporate conduct beyond borders. Drawing on a qualitative study of the ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh, this article examines the effectiveness of industry-led private governance regimes and the corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices of multinational corporations in global supply chains, as well as the extent to which private governance can serve as an effective alternative to obligatory regulatory frameworks. The findings confirm that, while both voluntary and mandatory regulatory mechanisms are beneficial, various factors hinder their execution and limit their ability to adequately address corporate abuses of human rights.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"53 1","pages":"100-123"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jols.70049","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683901","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":"Legal mobilization and anti-fluoridation campaigning in post-war Britain","authors":"JANET WESTON","doi":"10.1111/jols.70048","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jols.70048","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The fluoridation of public water supplies to improve dental health is often cited as an example of an ‘intractable controversy’ in public health, reflecting deeply held principles about rights and the public sphere. This article examines legal mobilization to prevent fluoridation in Britain, from the first pilot studies in the mid-1950s through to <i>McColl</i> v. <i>Strathclyde</i> in 1983 and the subsequent Water (Fluoridation) Act 1985. I argue that efforts to evade the objections of anti-fluoridationists helped to create an ambiguous legal position from the outset, generating an opportunity for campaigners to use the law to stop fluoridation schemes. I show that, despite there being no decisive legal judgments in their favour, the legal campaigns of anti-fluoridationists were remarkably successful in terms of their indirect effects. Finally, building on recent work that highlights legal mobilization by conservative causes, this historical case study offers insight into the rights claims of a politically diverse populist movement.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"53 1","pages":"150-169"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jols.70048","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683954","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.70055","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jols.70055","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"53 1","pages":"E1-E16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147684182","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":"Webs within the web: the role of epistemic injustice in creating barriers to public legal information about rights in a digital age","authors":"LINDA MULCAHY, JOSEPH PATRICK MCAULAY","doi":"10.1111/jols.70050","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jols.70050","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite concerns over the ability of citizens to understand and act on their legal rights, there has been little debate about what the effective provision of public legal information about rights entails. Viewed through the lens of epistemic injustice, this article reveals the ways in which organizations with epistemic privilege can obfuscate the understanding of rights by resorting to displays of epistemic superiority and pre-emptive smothering of testimony. The article draws on the results of a critical discourse analysis of over 250 authoritative webpages that provide information on how to complain about healthcare provision. Focusing on tone, language, vocabulary, and format, the analysis looks at the role played by political design and fragmented discursive infrastructures, the characterization of information seekers as occupying liminal spaces, the use of professional and rarefied language in pre-emptively undermining the testimony of the laity, and the ways in which the internet and hyperlinks facilitate epistemic obfuscation.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"53 1","pages":"124-149"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jols.70050","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147682920","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":"Changing interpretations: freedom of association in Germany and the United Kingdom","authors":"FELIX SYROVATKA","doi":"10.1111/jols.70037","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jols.70037","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the transformation in the dominant understanding of freedom of association in Germany and the United Kingdom (UK) within the context of industrial relations liberalization. It argues that both countries have experienced a shift from collectivist to individualist interpretations of freedom of association, driven by a ‘liberal script’ that emphasizes individual autonomy and subjective rights. The study employs a comparative historical analysis to demonstrate how this reinterpretation manifests differently in each country's distinct institutional context. In the UK, the shift occurred through direct legislative reforms, whereas in Germany, it evolved through gradual jurisprudential reinterpretation.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"53 1","pages":"27-50"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jols.70037","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683955","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}
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