Tag: Law in Society and Culture
Article reframes legal-sex decertification through utopian failure
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in LawExplore how prefigurative law reform reshapes legal proposals on sex and gender through utopian studies, reframing failure as productive rather than disqualifying.
Evidence rules may help limit prejudice in rape trials
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in LawExamination of how evidentiary rules admit prejudicial stereotypes about rape victims in trials, with reform recommendations for Ireland’s sexual experience and personal records disclosure rules.
Legal awareness does not always lead to legal action
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in LawStudy examines why precarious housing tenants avoid legal remedies despite awareness, identifying structural barriers including landlord dependency and interconnected institutional vulnerabilities.
Assam courts may encode majoritarian domination through judicial practice
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in LawAnalysis of 1,200+ Indian court rulings reveals how judges produce majoritarian domination through suspicion-generating doctrines and silence, making authoritarianism legally sanctioned
Ghana’s stamp duty system creates legal uncertainty and access barriers
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in LawGhana’s stamp duty system creates barriers to justice through institutional opacity and inflated costs. This study reveals how Lands Commission practices diverge from law and proposes reforms.
Designerly practices can help make the constitutive idea more available
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Designerly approaches to make the constitutive idea of law and social life accessible to scholars and wider audiences, addressing empirical, conceptual, and normative dimensions.
AI predictive models do not make law deterministic
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in LawExplores how predictive AI in judicial decision-making operates within legal indeterminacy rather than eliminating it, examining theoretical limits and practical constraints of machine learning in.
