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New meet the JLS author blog post just published. 'If you don’t see it as legal, you won’t get legal help. That’s obvious — and that’s the problem.' by Nigel Balmer.

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04.03.2026 06:53 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Meet the JLS authors - Tax Compliance is Low Among Small Businesses. We Now Know Why by Rita de la Feria and Tu Anh Tran.

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02.03.2026 06:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Just published on the JLS blog: Reflections of an Academic Activist by Jane Kelsey, reflecting on the influence of scholarship, activism and the role of critical academics in society. Jane also featured in our Big Book Series in August 2025.

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20.02.2026 06:56 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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New Meet the JLS Author blog just posted 🚨

Changing Interpretations: Freedom of Association in Germany and the United Kingdom by Felix Syrovatka.

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02.02.2026 08:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New blog just posted 🚨

Meet the JLS author: Global Supply Chains and Corporate Accountability: An Empirical Perspective by Taskin Iqbal.

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30.01.2026 07:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Our latest Meet the Book Author blog is now live. Rachel Horton from the University of Reading discusses her book, Discrimination, Equality and Health Care Rationing.

Read it now on our website 👇

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16.01.2026 07:09 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Happy new year from everyone at the JLS! 🎉

New Meet the JLS Author blog post on website:

Animal Interests in the Public Interest? by Matias J Koivulehto and Tomi Lehtimäki.

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03.01.2026 10:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New blog just posted 🚨

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The Local Injustice of Bankruptcy: Geographical Variation in Access to Debt Relief within England by Dr Joseph Spooner and Professor Saul Schwartz.

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02.12.2025 07:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A new blog has been published on our website 🚨

Why Movements Split Their Work: Legal Mobilisation, Protest, and the Division of Labour in Social Movements by Daniel Fjellborg, postdoctoral researcher in political science, Luleå University of Technology.

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01.12.2025 07:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Meet the JLS authors - Reforming Surrogacy Law: Listening to Children Through Art by Katherine Wade and Charlotte Mills.

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21.11.2025 07:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Meet the Book Editors - Socio-legal trajectories across Europe: comparative perspectives by Christian Boulanger, Naomi Creutzfeldt and Jen Hendry.

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31.10.2025 07:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Meet the Book Editor - Intellectual Property and the Human Right to a Healthy Environment by Elena Izyumenko, University of Amsterdam.

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29.10.2025 06:42 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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A new 'Meet the Book Author' blog added to the website:

Digitising Cultural Heritage: Clashes with Copyright Law by Pinar Oruc, University of Manchester

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19.10.2025 17:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New Meet the Book Author blog added to website:

The Intermediary in the Criminal Justice System by John Taggart at Queens University Belfast.

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15.10.2025 06:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New Meet the Book Author blog added to website:

Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment by David Garland.

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05.10.2025 09:09 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Meet the Book Author: The Regulation of Medical Products: Dope, Drugs and Devices by Penny Gleeson, Deakin Law School.

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03.10.2025 06:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🚨A new meet the JLS author blog post added to the website 🚨

AI as Legal Persons – Past, Patterns, and Prospects by Claudio Novelli, Yale University

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22.09.2025 06:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A cover of Epidemics and the Law from the Plague to the Present, featuring an illustration of a skeleton standing on coffins with historic London in the background.

A cover of Epidemics and the Law from the Plague to the Present, featuring an illustration of a skeleton standing on coffins with historic London in the background.

How have epidemics shaped the law over the course of history? 🦠📚
Meet the editors of Epidemics and the Law: From Plague to the Present – including UCL Laws’ Professor Charles Mitchell – in this new blog post from @journallawsociety.bsky.social.
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18.09.2025 12:30 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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🚨New meet the JLS author blog post 🚨

Anti-intellectualism and Scepticism of Expertise in Capital Cases: A Persistent Challenge for Mentally Ill Defendants by Dr Chloé Deambrogio, University of Warwick.

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18.09.2025 05:59 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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🔍 New on the JLS blog: Solid in Shape, Shattered in Practice? The ‘Sentencing Pyramid’ in China by Dr Enshen Li (City University of Hong Kong).

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26.08.2025 07:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Speeding up, slowing down, and managing time through managing atmospheres - new 🔓paper in @journallawsociety.bsky.social on immigration bail tribunal hearings.

Indebted in particular to Nick Gill's, Jess Hambly's and Melanie Griffiths' work on law and time.

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20.08.2025 10:50 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Happy to see Sam Adelman's wonderful review of my book in @journallawsociety.bsky.social, which raises key concerns about the efficacy of international environmental law - for example, the fact that the ongoing session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop a treaty on plastic 1/2

11.08.2025 09:38 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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A new blog has been published on the JLS website -

Environmental protest, contention, and the law: conceptualizing the Public Order Act 2023 by Dr Richard Martin, Law School, London School of Economics.

Read it here: journaloflawandsociety.co.uk/blog/environ...

25.07.2025 06:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The JLS at 50: Art, literature and socio‐legal studies This article began life as a lecture the author was invited to deliver as part of the Journal's 50th-anniversary celebrations in the summer of 2024. The piece explores how law, literature and socio-l...

Really enjoyed this article by Barabara Hughes-Moore on the @journallawsociety.bsky.social's 50th anniversary, the gothic, and how law is dead... oh wait, it's undead... oh god, oh no... it's ALIVE

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07.07.2025 16:37 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Gender (de)certification and the home: A new focus for feminist legal scholarship? This article considers three sites that draw out the contemporary role of gender categories in the home in the context of a wider project on gender decertification. Firstly, the presence of those who...

I've got a new piece out in @journallawsociety.bsky.social looking at what legal gender decertification means for the space of the home and the public/private distinction in feminist legal scholarship. Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/jols...

16.07.2025 09:40 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Meet the JLS author blog just published:

Giving rap a chance: the cultural policing and consequences of the suppression of rap music in England in the twenty-first century by Ayush Sanghavi, University of Cambridge.

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23.06.2025 06:24 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New blog added to website.

Meet the book authors: Rational anger – an international comparison of legal systems by Stina Bergman Blix and Nina Törnqvist.

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16.05.2025 07:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Property in Contemporary Capitalism By Paddy Ireland, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024, 310 pp., £19.99 Click on the article title to read more.

Very happy to see our co-authored review of Paddy Ireland's great book 'Property in Contemporary Capitalism' (@brisunipress.bsky.social) published in @journallawsociety.bsky.social. Give it a read!

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07.04.2025 08:21 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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A new Meet the JLS author blog added to website:

'Regulating for trustworthy autonomous systems: exploring stakeholder perspectives on answerability' by Dr Louise Hatherall, Birmingham Law School (Vol 51, issue 4, 2024)

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28.03.2025 07:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A new meet the book author blog has been added to JLS website:

The Structural Limits of the Law: The Event Horizon of Legality by Stephen Young, University of Otago

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21.03.2025 08:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0