News: socio-legal publications
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Public Law Project: latest newsletter
Sentencing Council Annual Report 2023/2024 published
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Books
New book: The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India, edited by Philippe Cullet, Lovleen Bhullar and Sujith Koonan
This volume offers the most comprehensive coverage of the diverse and complex discipline of environmental and natural resources law in India over the past 50years. With 42 contributions from law and non-law scholars, the handbook presents multiple perspectives on varied areas including biodiversity, climate change, water, forests, agriculture, health, resource extraction and industrial development. By departing from the existing approach that examines natural resources law and environmental law separately, this handbook offers a much-needed integrated analysis of the development of domestic jurisprudence vis-à-vis environment and natural resources. See website for details.
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New book: Law and War in Popular Culture, edited by Stefan Machura
Leading international scholars are providing fresh perspectives on law and war in popular culture. They analyse works of popular culture, place them into their context at the time of origin and discuss their meaning for today’s audiences. Law and war in film, television series, opera and pop music are investigated in the 10 chapters of the book by authors in the fields of media studies, political science, sociology, law and criminology and music. Wars not only produce war crimes, law is also deeply involved on a wider scale: by enabling warfare, regulating or failing to regulate its conduct and in the aftermath of wars. Readers can gain from a range of perspectives and approaches to depictions of law and war. With contributions by Nathan Abrams, Michael Asimow, Ann Ching, John Cunningham, Steve Greenfield, Michael Lipiner, Stefan Machura, Iker Nabaskues Martínez de Eulate, Peter Robson and Ferdinando Spina. Available in English and German. See website for details.
New book: Digital Justice by Linda Mulcahy & Anna Tsalapatanis
This book explores an increasingly important issue for legal systems across the world. It asks what do we lose and gain when legal proceedings go online? Adopting a multi-disciplinary socio-legal perspective, it draws on an emerging body of empirical evidence from the UK, Australia, Canada and the US about the ways in which digital justice is being conceived of and experienced. Insights are drawn from across the social sciences to discuss the interface of digitalisation with a range of issues such as due process, procedural justice, digital disadvantage, ceremony and ritual, science and technology studies and the dematerialisation of the civic sphere. Written accessibly and provocatively, it poses questions from a variety of different perspective with a particular focus on marginalised groups. See announcement and website for details.
Research Handbook on Gender, History, and Law: call for abstracts
Abstracts are invited for this new volume in Edward Elgar’s Research Handbooks in Gender and Law Series. Edited by Rosemary Auchmuty, Caroline Derry and Caroline Derry this volume on Gender, History, and Law aims to bring together critical and thought-provoking contributions on the most pressing topics, issues and approaches within legal and gender history. See announcement for full details. Call closes: 30 September 2024.
New book: UK Earth Law Judgments: Reimagining law for people and planet by Helen Dancer, Bonnie Holligan and Helena Howe: OA or 20% discount
This open access book collects 12 reimagined judgments from the UK and challenges anthropocentrism in legal decision-making across a range of legal areas, drawing from a range of Earth law approaches including earth jurisprudence, rights of nature, ecocide, animal rights, environmental human rights, green criminology and critical environmental law. Beyond the judgments, the book critically reflects on the developing field of Earth law and its potential for reshaping legal reasoning in the UK and beyond. See website for details. Use code GLR BD8 at checkout for 20% discount on hardback. SLSA members are eligible for 20% discount on all Hart titles.
Contagion, Technology, and Law at the Limits, by Lynette J Chua and Jack Jin Gary Lee (eds): OA or 20% discount
This open access book explores law, politics, and inequality in fights against infectious diseases. Guided by a theoretical framework called 'governing through contagion', the studies in this book analyse how past and present governments have tried to combat contagious diseases, such as the bubonic plague, cholera, HIV/AIDS, and Covid-19. They examine how these governments used law and other technologies, including waste management, mask-wearing, quarantine stations, house inspections, and the burning of entire neighbourhoods, to achieve their aims of protecting populations and ensuring productivity. See website for details. Use code GLR BD8 at checkout for 20% discount on hardback. SLSA members are eligible for 20% discount on all Hart titles.
Journals
Journal of Human Rights and the Environment: new publication model
The Journal of Human Rights and the Environment has announced an innovative ‘slow publication’ model overtly aimed at celebrating depth, imagination and rigour, and resisting the spiralling pressures in our sector for more frequent publications and issues. In addition, the journal now invites longer submissions of 20,000 words or so, as well as much shorter submissions that might explicitly be experimental, out-of-the-box, imaginative, critical and prefigurative work. See announcement for full details.
European Journal of Risk Regulation: call for papers for special issue on 'Climate interventions governance'
The special issue is co-edited by Alberto Alemanno (HEC Paris) and Masahiro Sugiyama (University of Tokyo). It aims to bring together social scientists interested in how to govern future, largely speculative climate interventions, in terms of research, development, demonstration, and deployment. It is interested in contributions focusing on the governance of climate interventions, from both disciplinary (law, political science, public policy, international relations, geography, moral philosophy, sociology) and interdisciplinary approaches (risk governance and regulation, climate change studies, critical geopolitics, EU studies). See website for details. Call closes: 1 October 2024.
Military Law and the Law of War Review: call for papers
The Review's editorial board welcomes submissions that come within the broader scope of the Review, including military law, law of armed conflict, law on the use of force, as well as international criminal law and human rights law (inasmuch as related to situations of armed conflict). See webpage for details. Closing date: 15 November 2024.
European Law Open latest issue of this fully OA journal
See announcement for the full table of contents.
Amicus Curiae: latest issue, including Part 2 of a special secion on 'Children’s Rights: Contemporary Issues in Law and Society' edited by Dr Maria Federica Moscati
Issue 5.3 of Amicus Curiae Series 2 opens with Part 2 of a Special Section on Children’s Rights: Contemporary Issues in Law and Society, organized, developed and edited by Dr Maria Federica Moscati (Sussex University) and includes contributions like essays, poems, drawings and videos, from Caralyn Blaisdell, Fatmata K Daramy & Pavithra Sarma, Susie Bower-Brown, Debra L DeLaet, Brian D Earp & Elizabeth Mills, Marianna Iliadou, Carmelo Danisi & Tomas Caprara, Maria Mercedes Frabboni and Chelsea Wallis. Also in the Special Section, Kristen Hope with a cohort of children and young people who are poets, child rights activists and defenders, presents ‘Poetry for Rights!’, a contribution placing children and young people front at the centre of the discussion of their own rights. Part 2 is complemented by videos on our YouTube channel. Part 1 is available in Amicus Curiae 2.5.2.
The remainder of the issue offers articles from Justice Sir Dennis Adjei of the Court of Appeal, Ghana, on freedom of expression, Neels Kilian on insurance law principles, Dominic Spenser Underhill on compulsory ADR in British Courts, and Mei Ning YAN on newsgathering in Hong Kong. The issue closes with Visual Law, featuring a final Special Section contribution by Alankrita S which presents artistic reflections on children in conflict with the law in India.
Competition Law & Policy Debate: call for papers
Competition Law & Policy Debate is a quarterly journal focusing on major developments in mergers, cartels, antitrust and state aid. The journal contains articles of academic value written in an approachable style to address practical questions and suggest solutions to new issues. Its focus is on dissecting, analysing and criticising the most recent and important legislation and case law, as well as on discussing questions faced by enforcers and practitioners but neglected in the existing literature. See website for submission details.
Journal of Global Health Law: call for papers
The journal publishes two issues a year and welcomes scholarly articles as well as shorter commentaries, case notes and book reviews. Articles are subject to double blind peer review. The Journal welcomes submissions that analyze aspects of global health governance, including new developments and assessments of existing treaties and governance mechanisms. See announcement for details.
Call for Papers: Crime, Law and Social Change special Issue on White Collar Crime – Challenges and Solutions
Submissions are invited for this special issue of this peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal guest-edited by Dr Penny Giosa, University of Portsmouth, and Ms Michala Meiselles, University of Derby. Deadline for submission of full papers. 15 November 2024. See attachment for full details.
Blogs and other online resources
'It’s time to talk about research culture and the REF' by Research England Executive Chair Jessica Corner
In this WONKHE blogpost, the chair of Research England broaches a sector-wide debate.
Baldy Center, University of Buffalo: latest newsletter
Read the latest news from the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy.
New podcast series: Not for Want of Trying, hosted by Sharon Thompson & Erica Rackley
This is a new legal history podcast that uncovers key events in women’s legal history during the Interwar years. Erika Rackley and Sharon Thompson talk to leading experts – including Lady Hale, Kay Crosby, Caroline Derry, Rosemary Auchmuty and others – about key legal landmarks for women and why they still matter today. Available to download from Apple and Amazon Music. Listen to trailer here.
Webinar recording: The illusion of level playing fields: on the myth of meritocracy
Hear Shubham Jain, from the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge talk about the 'gentlemen's game', challenging perceptions of cricket and the myth of meritocracy in the game. See website for details.
Centre for Sport & Human Rights: Human Rights Playbook
The Centre has announced the launch of the Human Rights Playbook series – an initiative designed to empower sports bodies worldwide to make robust human rights commitments. The two guidance documents offer a detailed walkthrough of the human rights due diligence process and a thorough framework for creating robust human rights policies through a series of strategic guiding questions. See website for details.
Nuffield Foundation: August newsletter
Read the latest updates from the Nuffield Foundation.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation: Monthly News
The latest JRF newsletter is now available.
National Centre for Research Methods: Methods News August 2024
Read the latest issue including details of the National Centre for Research Method's many events and training opportunities.
Public Law Project: latest newsletter
For the latest Public Law Project news, see the full update here.
AcSS eBulletin: September 2024
See the latest AcSS eBulletin for news of all Academy of Soscial Sciences activities.
Judicial Appointments Commission newsletter latest issue: Judging your Future
The Judicial Appointments Commission has published its latest newsletter. See webpage for details.
Latest from the JLS Blog: Meet the book authors
- Trauma-informed Lawyering in the Context of Civil Claims for Sexual Violence by Dr Nikki Godden-Rasul, Newcastle University and Dr Clare Wiper, Northumbria University
Latest from Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies
A reflection on power dynamics and equality in participatory research methods
Rebecca French (Northumbria) reflects on valuing knowledge in Participatory Action Research. Read the full post here, which is published as part of the blog’s Methodological Musings section.
The blog always welcomes submissions providing analysis of recent socio-legal research, methodological issues, ethical issues, and publications from around the globe: Frontiers can be found at Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies and on Twitter @OxfordCSLS.
Other
Sentencing Council Annual Report 2023/2024 published
The Sentencing Council’s annual report for 2023/24 is Lord Justice William Davis’s second report as Chairman. It documents the Council’s achievements of the year 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024 in the context of the objectives set in the Council’s five-year strategy, Sentencing Council strategic objectives 2021-2026. See website for details.
REF2029 Steering Group Open Access Policy for REF2029 announcement
The REF 2029 Open Access Policy will be published later this year. On Wednesday the 14 August 2024, we set out some early policy decisions relating to implementation dates for journal articles, conference proceedings and longform outputs. This responds to sector concerns raised in consultation and in recognition of the broad set of challenges currently facing the sector.