This review essay looks at the relationship between Deborah Tuerkheimer's Credible (2021)
and Meera Deo's Unequal Profession (2019) in order to make a substantive point about …

Over the past 150 years, the development of the Sociology of Law followed a dual trajectory
drawing from the writings of nineteenth century European social theorists and early twentieth …

This Chapter contribution to C. Tomlins & J. Desautels-Stein (Eds.), Searching for
Contemporary Legal Thought (CUP, 2017), begins with the general thesis that traditions of …

While Dworkin views law as the embodiment of moral principles, the sources of those
principles that he identifies do not supply the justification of force he ascribes to them. In this …

In 1930, two giants in the US legal tradition heralded the onset of a new approach to
studying law. Karl Llewellyn (1930) published an article listing twenty scholars as “legal …

Laws supply us with guidelines and solutions. But what if our survival were to depend on
normative transformations that the law is structurally disabled from recognizing? How do we …

In this paper, I argue that the computational turn in law poses a potential challenge to the
legal protections that the rule of law has traditionally afforded us, of a distinctively …

Since its emergence as a field of study, law and society scholarship has grown to
encompass an array of disciplines, perspectives, methods, and political orientations. A …

Over the course of my career, I have navigated a research agenda that moves between
scholarly and policy-oriented research. Building on this experience, I argue that it is time for …

I am a Salvadoran immigrant scholar in the United States. This means that I have lived and
built a research career in the country whose settler-colonial government funded the civil war …