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Law & Society Review

Published on behalf of The Law and Society Association

Edited by:
Carroll Seron

Book Review Editor:
Kathleen Hull

Managing Editor:
Danielle McClellan

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 33/104 Law; 17/99 Sociology
Impact Factor: 1.389

Founded in 1966, Law & Society Review (LSR) is regarded by sociolegal scholars worldwide as a leading journal in the field. LSR is a peer-reviewed publication for work bearing on the relationship between society and the legal process, including:

• articles or notes of interest to the research community in general
• new theoretical developments
• results of empirical studies
• and reviews and comments on the field or its methods of inquiry

Broadly interdisciplinary, Law & Society Review welcomes work from any tradition of scholarship concerned with the cultural, economic, political, psychological, or social aspects of law and legal systems.

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  Geoff Ward, Amy Farrell, and Danielle Rousseau

  Confronting Government after Welfare Reform: Moralists, Reformers, and Narratives of (Ir)responsibility at Administrative Fair Hearings

  Vicki Lens

  From Rights to Claims: The Role of Civil Society in Making Rights Real for Vulnerable Workers

  Shannon Gleeson

  Self-Help, Policing and Procedural Justice: Ghanaian Vigilantism and the Rule of Law

  Justice Tankebe

  Human Rights in an Era of Neoliberal Globalization: The Alien Tort Claims Act & Grassroots Mobilization in Doe v. Unocal

  Cheryl Holzmeyer