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University of Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

A Good Read

Thompson - Quiet Revolutionaries

A Model of Feminist Legal History

In this post for A Good Read, Professor Rosemary Auchmuty reviews SLSA prize-winner Sharon Thompson's new book, Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law (Bloomsbury, 2022)

by Rosemary Auchmuty | 26 April 2023
Falciola - Up Against the Law

Co-Conspirators? Radical Lawyers Who Chose to Work in and beyond the Law

In this post for A Good Read, Professor Linda Mulcahy reviews Luca Falciola's new book, Up Against the Law: Radical Lawyers and Social Movements, 1960s–1970s (University of North Carolina Press, 2022)

by Linda Mulcahy | 29 March 2023
Grabham - Women, Precarious Work, and Care

Why Flexibility Fails Precarious Workers

In this post for A Good Read, Professor Joanne Conaghan reviews Emily Grabham's new book, Women, Precarious Work, and Care: The Failure of Family-Friendly Rights (Bristol University Press, 2021).

by Joanne Conaghan | 22 February 2023
Front cover of Erwin Chemerinsky' book, Presumed Guilty

The Books We Don’t Recommend but Can’t Stop Thinking about

In this post for A Good Read, Professor Patrick Schmidt reviews Erwin Chemerinsky's new book, Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights (Liveright, 2022).

by Patrick Schmidt | 25 January 2023
Kinghan - Lawyers Networks and Progressive Social Change

In Search of Progressive Lawyers

In this post Andy Boon reviews Jacqueline Kinghan's new book, Lawyers, Networks and Progressive Social Change: Lawyers Changing Lives (Hart, 2021).

by Andy Boon | 14 December 2022
Global Pro Bono

What is Global Pro Bono About?

Pierre-Louis Sanchez reviews Scott L. Cummings, Fabio de Sa e Silva, and Louise G. Trubek's new collection, 'Global Pro Bono: Causes, Context, and Contestation' (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

by Pierre-Louis Sanchez | 23 November 2022
Book cover of Henry Redwood - The Archival Politics of International Courts

Reading the Archives of International Law

In this post for A Good Read, Trish Luker (UTS) reviews Henry Alexander Redwood's new book, The Archival Politics of International Courts (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

by Trish Luker | 26 October 2022
Perry-Kessaris Book Cover

“Designerly ways can help”

In this post, Dr Emma Rowden (Oxford Brookes University) reviews Amanda Perry-Kessaris' book, Doing Sociolegal Research in Design Mode (Routledge, 2022).

by Emma Rowden | 21 September 2022
Grisel Book Cover

Common Seas, Private Orders

In this post for A Good Read, Ciarán O’Kelly (Queen's University Belfast) reviews Florian Grisel's new book, The Limits of Private Governance: Norms and Rules in a Mediterranean Fishery (Hart, 2021).

by Ciarán O’Kelly | 24 August 2022
Jo Wilding The Legal Aid Market

Re-Thinking the Legal Aid Market in Immigration and Asylum Representation

In this post Nick Gill reviews Jo Wilding's new book, The Legal Aid Market: Challenges for Publicly Funded Immigration and Asylum Legal Representation (Policy Press, 2021).

by Nick Gill | 3 August 2022
Roach Anleu and Mack

Judging and Emotions: A Socio-Legal Empirical Masterclass

In this post Professor Leslie Moran reviews Sharyn Roach Anleu and Kathy Mack's new book, Judging and Emotion: A Socio-Legal Analysis (Routledge, 2021).

by Leslie J Moran | 20 July 2022
Campesi - Policing Mobility Regimes

The Many Tensions at the Heart of European Border Management

In this post Dr Anna Tsalapatanis reviews Giuseppe Campesi's new book Policing Mobility Regimes: Frontex and the Production of the European Borderscape (Routledge, 2021).

by Anna Tsalapatanis | 22 June 2022