Law & Social Inquiry
The ABF sponsors Law & Social Inquiry (LSI), a multidisciplinary quarterly publication of original research articles and review essays that analyze law, legal institutions, and the legal profession from a sociolegal perspective.
LSI contributors examine law and society issues across multiple disciplines, including anthropology, criminology, economics, history, philosophy, political science, sociology, and social psychology. The journal’s combination of empirical and theoretical scholarship and critical appraisal of the latest sociolegal scholarship makes LSI an indispensable source for legal scholars and practitioners.
For more information and submission guidelines, please visit the journals’ page at Cambridge University Press.
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Graduate Student Paper Competition
The editors of Law & Social Inquiry are pleased to announce our annual competition for the best journal-length paper in the field of law and social science written by a graduate or law student. Law & Social Inquiry publishes empirical and theoretical studies of sociolegal processes from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Entries will be accepted from January 1, 2024 until March 31, 2024.
LSI invites direct submissions from graduate and law students and nominations of student work from faculty. The author must be a graduate student or law student at the time the paper was written and when submitted. Faculty nominations should include a short description along with the paper and contact details for the student. Submissions will be evaluated by our editors. The winning submission will be sent to selected scholars for advisory reviews to aid with revisions prior to publication. All submissions (direct and faculty nominated) are weighted equally in the competition. The winning paper will be published in Law & Social Inquiry and the author(s) will receive a total cash prize of $500 (US).
Please send your article as a Microsoft Word document to lsi-abf@abfn.org. Please indicate that (1) you intend to be considered in the competition, (2) you are currently a graduate student, and (3) you have not submitted your article to LSI or any other journals for publication. Submissions are limited to one paper per student.
Submissions must include a title page with a mailing address, email address, and phone number, and an abstract of no more than 200 words. The total length of submissions, including references and footnotes, must not exceed 15,000 words.
Questions regarding the competition can be directed to Mari Knudson: mknudson@abfn.org
“Public Defender Contestation and Compliance in Southern Courtrooms”
Caity Curry
“Public Defender Contestation and Compliance in Southern Courtrooms” examines the role of public defenders in criminal justice reform and transformation using a multimethod case study of Gideon’s Promise, an Atlanta-based public defense organization that trains defenders to resist mass incarceration. Caity Curry finds that many Gideon’s Promise attorneys in the U.S. South engage in resistance lawyering, using their skills to combat mass criminalization and entrenched class and racial inequalities.
Curry (they/them) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. Their research uses qualitative methods to investigate how the criminal legal system exacerbates and legitimizes racial and class inequalities.
Editorial Staff
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