Social Care Detention in the Post-Carceral Era

Series - Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution

Social Care Detention in the Post-Carceral Era

In this post for A Good Read, Dr Ezgi Taşcıoğlu reviews Lucy Series' book, Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution (Bristol University Press, 2022).

by Ezgi Taşcıoğlu | 16 August 2023

Bloomer and Campbell - Decriminalizing Abortion in Northern Ireland

Abortion Rights Activism and Law Reform in Northern Ireland

In this post for A Good Read, Dr. Zoe L. Tongue reviews Fiona Bloomer and Emma Campbell's edited collection, Decriminalizing Abortion in Northern Ireland (Bloomsbury, 2022).

by Zoe L. Tongue | 19 July 2023

Decoding the Affective Life of Law

In this post for A Good Read, Professor Aleardo Zanghellini reviews Senthorun Raj's book, Feeling Queer Jurisprudence: Injury, Intimacy, Identity (Routledge, 2020).

by Aleardo Zanghellini | 21 June 2023

Truth and Technicalities in Terror Trials

In this post for A Good Read, Ayesha Pattnaik reviews Mayur Suresh's new book, Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts (Fordham University Press, 2022)

by Ayesha Pattnaik | 24 May 2023

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

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

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