Dear readers,
As usual, the year ended with a high output of papers and issues - four monographs (La Sociología Jurídica en América Latina y el Caribe: Debates Actuales y Perspectiva Futura [+], State of Exception, Law and Economy: A socio-legal approach to the economic state of exception in an era of crisis [+], Sex Work in the Early 21st Century – Law, Policy and Reality [+], and Feminist Judgments: Comparative Socio-legal Perspectives on Judicial Decision Making and Gender Justice [+]) and our December miscellany (+). All five issues covered a variety of topics within the socio-legal field. We are glad to share them with you. Enjoy!
Vol 8, No 5: La Sociología Jurídica en América Latina y el Caribe
Número editado por Lucero Ibarra Rojas (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) - México) y Mariana Anahí Manzo (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC) Argentina).
Lucero Ibarra, Mariana Manzo: Introducción [+PDF]
Lucero Ibarra: América Latina y la Mirada Socio-Jurídica del Instituto Internacional de Sociología Jurídica de Oñati (IISJ) (Latin America and the socio-legal perspective of the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law) [+PDF]
Jorge Peláez Padilla: La identidad precipitada. Los límites del derecho como marco para la acción colectiva (Hasty Identity. The Limits of the Law as a Frame for Collective Action) [+PDF]
Flávia Carlet, J. Flávio Ferreira: Para una Socio-antropología Jurídica poscolonial: del "ethos" occidental a las narrativas de resistencia afroecuatorianas (Toward a Post-colonial Socio-anthropology of law: from the western "ethos" to the Afro-Ecuadorian narratives of resistance) [+PDF]
Mariana Anahí Manzo: La movilización del derecho por Movimientos Sociales: dinámicas de la política radical de transformación y el espacio de lo jurídicamente pensable (The mobilization of the right by Social Movements: dynamics of the radical policy of transformation...) [+PDF]
Orlando Aragón Andrade: Otro derecho es posible. Una biografía (intelectual y militante) del Colectivo Emancipaciones (Another law is possible. A biography – intellectual and militant – of the Colectivo Emancipaciones) [+PDF]
María Eugenia Monte: Disputas sobre la regulación jurídica del aborto en Argentina. La abogacía feminista frente a resistencias conservadoras en el proceso judicial T.S. (2000): ecografía, visualización fetal y producción del discurso jurídico (Feminist disputes over...) [+PDF]
Erika Bárcena Arévalo: La reproducción judicial y la cultura jurídica. El sistema de nombramiento de personal en la Suprema Corte mexicana (Judicial reproduction and legal culture. The hiring system of the clerks in the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice)[+PDF]
Mónica N. Acosta García: Law and Globalization: the ‘multi-sited’ uses of Transitional Justice by indigenous peoples in Colombia (2005-2016) [+PDF]
Elisa Cruz Rueda: Los derechos económicos, sociales y culturales, hacia una política pública de justiciabilidad: el derecho a la consulta (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Towards a public policy of justiciability: The right of consultation) [+PDF]
José Manuel Atiles-Osoria, David Whyte: Introduction: State of Exception, Law and Economy: A socio-legal approach to the economy of exception in an era of crisis [+PDF]
Colonial state of exception
José Manuel Atiles-Osoria: State of Exception as Economic Policy: A Socio-Legal Analysis of the Puerto Rican Colonial Case [+PDF]
Silvia Rodríguez-Maeso: “Europe” and the Narrative of the “True Racist”: (Un-)thinking Anti-Discrimination Law through Race. [+PDF]
Lara Montesinos Coleman: Rights in a State Of Exception. The Deadly Colonial Ethics of Voluntary Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights [+PDF]
Economic state of exception
Gustavo Rojas-Páez: Narratives from the margins of the state: resisting the politics of exceptionality in the Comuna 13 [+PDF]
Ignasi Bernat: The permanent state of exception in the southern periphery of Europe [+PDF]
Corporate exceptionalism
David Whyte: The Corporate Citizen and the Sovereign Exception: from 'homo sacer' to 'homo supra' [+PDF]
Pablo Leandro Ciocchini, Stefanie Khoury: Investor State Dispute Settlement: Institutionalising "Corporate Exceptionality" [+PDF]
Vol 8, No 7: Investigations - Investigaciones - Ikerlanak
Iker Nabaskues: Law, Crime, Morals, and Sense of Justice in Treasure Island [+PDF]
David Otieno Ngira: Re-examining Burial Disputes in Kenyan Courts through the Lenses of Legal Pluralism [+PDF]
Florencia Radeljak: Autonomy of the Community and Complementary Currencies in relation to State Law. The Eusko, the Ekhi and the Txantxi in the Basque Country [+PDF]
Silvana Estefanía Santi Pereyra: La construcción de la política española sobre inmigración. Ideas, legislación y discursos desde 1969 a 1996 [+PDF]
Valeria Vázquez Guevara: Political Coexistence in the Basque Case: Institutional Action on Violence, Pluralism and Agreements [+PDF]
Book review / Reseña
Ixusko Ordeñana Gezuraga: Reseña: Proceso penal desde la historia. Desde su origen hasta la sociedad global del miedo. [+PDF]
Vol 8, No 8: Sex Work in the Early 21st Century – Law, Policy and Reality
Mavis Maclean: Introduction. Sexwork in the UK: stereotypes and statistics in the 21st Century [+PDF]
Izabela Ślęzak: Research on indoor sex work in Poland – an ethnographer's dilemmas [+PDF]
Jacek Kurczewski: Institutionalized Hypocrisy: Sex, Money and Law [+PDF]
Małgorzata Fuszara: Sponsorship: a form of prostitution or a form of traditional gender relations? [+PDF]
Claudia Vorheyer: What does change of the law change? – Prostitution and the law in action: National regulation and local practices of public health policy in Germany [+PDF]
Paula Arce Becerra: A debate on prostitution in Spain: Barcelona’s bylaw on coexistence [+PDF]
Issue edited by Linda L. Berger (University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA), Bridget J. Crawford (Pace University, New York, USA), and Kathryn M. Stanchi (Temple University, Philadelphia, USA).
Linda L. Berger, Bridget J. Crawford, Kathryn M. Stanchi: Introduction: Feminist Judgments: Comparative Socio-Legal Perspectives on Judicial Decision Making and Gender Justice [+PDF]
Part I: Methods in the Feminist Judgments Projects
Loveday Hodson: Collaboration as Feminist Methodology: Experiences from the Feminist International Judgments Project [+PDF]
Elisabeth McDonald, Paulette Benton-Greig: Accessing Court Files as a Feminist Endeavour: Reflections on ‘Feminist Judgments of Aotearoa - Te Rino: A Two-Stranded Rope’ [+PDF]
Melina Buckley: Women’s Court of Canada Act and Rules [+PDF]
Part II: Measuring the Impact of Feminist Judgments
Rosemary Hunter: Feminist Judging in the 'Real World' [+PDF]
Denise Réaume: Turning Feminist Judgments into Jurisprudence: The Women’s Court of Canada on Substantive Equality [+PDF]
Jennifer Koshan: Impact of the Feminist Judgment Writing Projects: The Case of the Women’s Court of Canada [+PDF]
Part III: The Reach of Feminist Judgments
Francesca Bartlett, Heather Douglas: ‘Benchmarking’ a Supreme Court and Federal Court judge in Australia [+PDF]
Sharon Cowan: The Scottish Feminist Judgments Project: A New Frontier [+PDF]
