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Law & Social Inquiry
Published on behalf of the American Bar Foundation
Edited by:
Laura Beth Nielsen
Review Section Editor:
Howard S. Erlanger
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 41/104 Law
Impact Factor: 1.203
Law & Social Inquiry (LSI) features both empirical and theoretical studies of law that make original contributions to the understanding of sociolegal processes. LSI content spans the social sciences disciplines, including:
- Anthropology
- Criminology
- Economics
- History
- Law
- Philosophy
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Social Psychology
Law & Social Inquiry offers readers a remarkable range of empirical analyses and theoretical studies on specific topics in law and society, including legal institutions, the legal profession, and legal history.
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2009 GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION ANNOUNCEMENT
We are pleased to announce the results of Law and Social Inquiry's 2009 Graduate Student Paper Competition. The winner is Shoaib Ghias, a PhD candidate in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, University of California, Berkeley. The Editors offer their sincere congratulations to Mr. Ghias.
The winning paper will be published during 2010 in a forthcoming issue of the Journal. In the meantime, we are pleased to take this opportunity to honor and acknowledge our winning author and to supply readers with the abstract of his paper as a foretaste of what to expect.
Miscarriage of Chief Justice: Lawyers, Media and the Struggle for Judicial Independence in Pakistan
Shoaib Ghias
This study explains the rise and fall of judicial power in Pakistan under Musharraf focusing on two questions. First, how do pro-regime judges expand judicial power leading to a confrontation with the regime? Instead of supporting economic liberalization in a period of economic growth, I find that the Court expanded power by scrutinizing privatization and deregulation policies as part of public interest litigation. Second, how were the bar and the bench mobilized in the struggle for judicial power? I find that the bench consolidated the legal fraternity, while the consolidated lawyers organized a social movement to support the bench. The Pakistani case challenges some of our basic assumptions about the factors at play in the judicialization of authoritarian politics. The case also invites scholars to explore the role of courts in judicial support consolidation and the role of lawyers in social movements.
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TopHighlights
- Making Meaning of Megan's Law
Rose Corrigan - Comparative Sociology of Law: Legal Fields, Legal Scholarships, and Social Sciences in Europe and the United States
Mauricio García-Villegas - 'Jurisdictional Politics' in the Occupied West Bank: Territory, Community, and Economic Dependency in the Formation of Legal Subjects
Toby Kelly - Constitutions and Empires
Lauren Benton - Narrative and 'Compulsory Compassion'
John Braithwaite - American Exceptionalism and Racialized Inequality in American Capital Punishment
Paul J. Kaplan
