{"title":"Democracy and emergency: finding the constitutional foundation of the knowledgeable state in social dynamics","authors":"MING-SUNG KUO","doi":"10.1111/jols.12432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12432","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article aims to bring to light the law–society dynamic relationship in constitutional governance by engaging with the question of political constitutionalism from the perspective of institutional epistemology. It first reframes the debate surrounding legal and political constitutionalism as one concerning the state's ‘epistemic competence’ in governance shaped by the constitution, and then traces how constitutional ordering has given rise to the ‘knowledgeable state’ by setting a unique social dynamic in motion: the ‘epistemico-political constitution’. Using the example of the World Health Organization's initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a the article presents a two-part argument. First, constitutional ordering institutes a process of knowledge production embedded in the interaction between the state and society – a unique law–society dynamic – that responds to governance needs. Second, given the current law–society dynamic in the suprastate political landscape, the legitimacy challenge facing expertise-steered global governance is further intensified as more crisis responses are expected from outside the state.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"50 S1","pages":"S45-S64"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jols.12432","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50146361","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":"Democratic representation and non-majoritarian actors in constitutional orders: a systemic analysis","authors":"CHIARA VALENTINI","doi":"10.1111/jols.12429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12429","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A systemic analysis of constitutional democratic orders can shed light on two important aspects of political representation (PR): first, the complexity of PR as a plural endeavour involving various actors that perform different activities within a common framework; and second, the diachronic dimension of such an endeavour, which takes shape over time. The article elucidates both aspects with a focus on adjudicative bodies, to point out their representative status and potential as part of a systemic continuum that unfolds over time.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"50 S1","pages":"S65-S80"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50119026","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 Abortion Act 1967: A Biography of a UK Law By Sally Sheldon, Gayle Davis, Jane O'Neill, and Clare Parker, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 360 pp., £25.99","authors":"MÁIRÉAD ENRIGHT","doi":"10.1111/jols.12430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12430","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"50 3","pages":"417-420"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50148712","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":"Social Citizenship in an Age of Welfare Regionalism: The State of the Social Union By Mark Simpson, Oxford: Hart, 2022, 198 pp., £76.50","authors":"MICHAEL ADLER","doi":"10.1111/jols.12431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12431","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"50 3","pages":"414-416"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50139185","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":"SLSA E-Newsletter","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/jols.12427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12427","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"50 2","pages":"E1-E16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50144285","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}
ISABEL ARRIAGADA, MARIANNE GONZÁLEZ LE SAUX, JAVIER WILENMANN, FELIPE ÁGUILA
{"title":"‘No, buddy, I will not speak to the press – I am working!’: criminal justice and the interprofessional dynamics of communication production in the Chilean Public Prosecutorial Office","authors":"ISABEL ARRIAGADA, MARIANNE GONZÁLEZ LE SAUX, JAVIER WILENMANN, FELIPE ÁGUILA","doi":"10.1111/jols.12424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12424","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article analyses the interprofessional dynamics of communication production in the criminal justice system. Through 26 in-depth interviews, we investigate the production of media information on prosecutorial work in Chile, tracking the relationships between internal communication agents, prosecutors, and external legal journalists. Previous scholarship has shown the success of police organizations in defining the content of crime communication based on asymmetrical power relations with the media. By contrast, our study reveals that legal journalists can bypass attempts to control the flow of information from the prosecutorial office and impose extra-organizational goals. Lawyers regularly dismiss the work of journalists, particularly those working as strategic communication advisors with prosecutors, but the asymmetrical relationship between the criminal justice agency and the media plays in favour of external legal journalists. Our article considers several explanations for this configuration, including interprofessional values, transactional relationships between journalists and prosecutors, and local legal culture.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"50 2","pages":"185-207"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50141564","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":"Indications of goal displacement induced by budget cuts and output management: a case study of a regulatory enforcement agency in the Netherlands","authors":"KEES HUIZINGA","doi":"10.1111/jols.12425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12425","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A case study was conducted at a regulatory enforcement agency in the Netherlands to explore whether it might be affected by goal displacement and, if so, to gain insight into the possible causes of the phenomenon. The results indicate three distinct types of goal displacement, each of which appears to substantially impair the effectiveness of the agency in a specific way. It is argued that the combination of multiple, consecutive budget cuts imposed on the agency and a strong culture of output management have played a key role in generating goal displacement. In more general terms, the study shows the potential usefulness of a goal displacement perspective in investigating the effectiveness of enforcement agencies.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"50 2","pages":"251-273"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jols.12425","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50139038","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":"Lawyers as infrastructures: mediations, blockages, and new possibilities in grassroots movements","authors":"HEBA M. KHALIL","doi":"10.1111/jols.12422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12422","url":null,"abstract":"<p>What roles do lawyers play when their own subaltern communities are mobilizing for justice? Drawing on the case of anti-eviction mobilization on the island of Al-Warraq in Egypt, this article investigates the infrastructural roles of community lawyers in grassroots movements. As their profession transformed into an underpaid and undervalued occupation, masses of lawyers became precarious professionals living subaltern lives. Living among the poor with the elite knowledge of the law enabled community lawyers to forge new relations between the grassroots and the elites, the streets and the courtroom, and farmers and the national media. Drawing on an ethnography of the movement, I posit that community lawyers operate as social infrastructures: liminal subjects in uncertain times, capable of generating new possibilities and social relations. As social infrastructures within their communities, they shape the opportunities for action, facilitating new modes of resistance while blocking others.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"50 2","pages":"231-250"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50152455","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":"Future-Proofing the Judiciary: Preparing for Demographic Change By Brian Opeskin, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 328 pp., £109.99","authors":"PATRICK O'BRIEN","doi":"10.1111/jols.12416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12416","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"50 2","pages":"278-281"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50127276","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":"Constitutional Imaginaries: A Theory of European Societal Constitutionalism By Jiří Přibáň, London: Routledge, 2022, 176 pp., £130.00","authors":"LUKÁŠ LEV ČERVINKA","doi":"10.1111/jols.12426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12426","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"50 2","pages":"287-291"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50152456","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}