{"title":"Managing time: speeding up and slowing down in the immigration bail court","authors":"JO HYNES","doi":"10.1111/jols.70016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.70016","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article draws on recent theoretical interventions into the relationship between time and law to make sense of the role of time in the context of immigration bail hearings in the United Kingdom. It presents an analysis of the ways in which the Home Office, the First-Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber), and immigration judges manage time, and proposes that the impacts of this management are threefold. First, there is a trend towards the speeding up of hearings. Second, there is a simultaneous trend towards the slowing down of hearings. Third, both of these trends are mobilized to generate specific atmospheres that indirectly manage time. In exploring both the obvious and the obscured ways in which time is managed, this article untangles the seemingly contradictory processes of simultaneous speeding up and slowing down, facilitating a fuller understanding of the consequential ways in which power operates within immigration tribunals.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"52 3","pages":"434-455"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jols.70016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144832769","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":"Reflections of an academic activist","authors":"JANE KELSEY","doi":"10.1111/jols.70010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.70010","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article is a contribution to the occasional series dealing with a major book that has influenced the author. Previous contributors include Stewart Macaulay, John Griffith, William Twining, Carol Harlow, Geoffrey Bindman, Harry Arthurs, André-Jean Arnaud, Alan Hunt, Michael Adler, Lawrence O. Gostin, John P. Heinz, Roger Brownsword, Roger Cotterrell, Nicola Lacey, Carol J. Greenhouse, David Garland, Peter Fitzpatrick, David Nelken, Lynn Mather, Terence C. Halliday, and Mariana Valverde.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"52 3","pages":"345-362"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jols.70010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144832839","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":"Loss and damage, plastic pollution, and the effectiveness of international environmental law","authors":"SAM ADELMAN","doi":"10.1111/jols.70011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.70011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"52 3","pages":"507-515"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144832386","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":"Law, Vulnerability, and the Responsive State: Beyond Equality and Liberty Edited by Martha Albertson Fineman and Laura Spitz, London: Routledge, 2024, 290 pp., £34.95","authors":"CATRIONA MACKENZIE","doi":"10.1111/jols.70015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.70015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"52 3","pages":"522-527"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144832385","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":"Resolving labour disputes in the Philippines: legitimacy and effectiveness in a polycentric regulatory framework","authors":"CAROLYN SUTHERLAND, AMANDA DARSHINI SELVARAJAH","doi":"10.1111/jols.70008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.70008","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article provides an empirically informed account of the processes for resolving labour disputes in the Philippines. Moving beyond earlier studies that have focused on the ineffectiveness of formal processes, we widen the scope of our inquiry to examine the labour dispute resolution regime as a polycentric regulatory framework. We focus on disputes about firms’ labour-hire practices to explore the roles of state-based and non-state-based regulatory actors and the interaction of formal and informal processes within the dispute resolution regime. Despite the failings of the formal dispute resolution system, we find that it provides a central focus for these disputes and that regulatory actors move fluidly between formal and informal processes to bolster their legitimacy claims and to overcome obstacles in the formal system. The strategic use of informal processes also allows workers’ representatives to influence the broader political and economic forces that underpin the widespread adoption of precarious working conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"52 3","pages":"480-506"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jols.70008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144832398","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":"Hegemony as promises: rationalizing restrictiveness and the legal consciousness of asylum seekers in Belgium","authors":"LAURA VICTORIA RAKOTOMALALA","doi":"10.1111/jols.70013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.70013","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Asylum seekers arriving in Belgium are confronted with increasing legal restrictions and criminalizing discourse. As a result, many individuals must rethink their migration projects. How do asylum seekers rationalize intrusive regulations and maintain faith in the legitimacy of the law despite experiencing setbacks? Drawing on qualitative data from interviews with 17 asylum seekers in Belgium and participant observation in a reception centre, this article demonstrates how, despite negative experiences with the law, asylum seekers continue to associate legality with promises of protection, fair treatment, and recognition. Even when the law falls short of these ideals, they employ cognitive frameworks to uphold the legitimacy of the legal system. By shedding light on the cognitive strategies that asylum seekers use to reconcile negative experiences with their normative expectations regarding legality, the article demonstrates how legal hegemony is reinforced by the perspective of the group that it disadvantages the most.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"52 3","pages":"414-433"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144832401","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":"Prosecutors and anti-intellectualism as a trial tactic: the cultural roots of scepticism towards expertise in capital cases","authors":"CHLOÉ DEAMBROGIO","doi":"10.1111/jols.70012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.70012","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Mentally ill defendants are regularly sentenced to death in Texas, the leading executioner in the United States. In this article, I explore the reasons for this phenomenon by analysing the arguments developed by prosecuting attorneys in capital punishment trials involving defendants who advance insanity or diminished capacity claims but are, nonetheless, sentenced to death. Based on the analysis of 27 trial transcripts spanning the past 100 years, I argue that one of the reasons for the phenomenon is that Texan prosecutors use anti-intellectual arguments that, by appealing to jurors’ scepticism of psychiatric expertise and populist approach to mental illness, discredit the mental disability evidence presented by the defence, encouraging the imposition of death sentences. Finally, I identify three cultural traits that help to explain why these anti-intellectual sentiments are so pronounced in Texan proceedings and why they seem to correlate with the regular imposition of death sentences.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"52 3","pages":"456-479"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jols.70012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144832531","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":"‘Only connect’? The role of emotion in the practice of social welfare law advice and casework","authors":"MARIE BURTON","doi":"10.1111/jols.70014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.70014","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article rejects the traditional dichotomy between rationality and feeling in law and legal practice. Drawing on law and emotion scholarship, it uses a qualitative research project involving clients, lawyers, and advisers to question the standardized view that emotion has no place in legal casework. It argues that interpersonal factors – such as trust and reassurance, adviser commitment, emotional support, empathy and sympathy, and emotional accessibility – have an instrumental impact on legal work. It develops this argument further by comparing the relational elements of telephone-only and in-person lawyer–client interaction. It considers how these modes of delivery differ at an interpersonal level and explores the possible implications for clients, lawyers, and legal practice of any emotional dissimilarities between telephone-only and face-to-face services. This analysis concludes that the potential for greater emotional engagement as a result of in-person contact may have significant advantages for clients with more complex needs and/or cases.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"52 3","pages":"390-413"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jols.70014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144832399","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":"Permeating the boundaries: A call for critical socio-legal scholarship","authors":"LIZZY WILLMINGTON","doi":"10.1111/jols.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.70006","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":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jols.70006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145197019","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":"Reflections on the journal's visual turn","authors":"LESLIE J. MORAN","doi":"10.1111/jols.12551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12551","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This reflection is a response to an intervention by Barbara Hughes-Moore about the impact of the humanities on scholarship about law published by the <i>Journal of Law and Society</i> during its 50 years of operation. Barbara's resort to the gothic imagination in her survey is firmly planted within the cultural turn in the wider domain of the social sciences. From this point of departure, my focus is more specific: to consider the impact of the visual turn on the work published in the journal.</p>","PeriodicalId":51544,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and Society","volume":"52 S1","pages":"S220-S223"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jols.12551","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145196958","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}