This is what sociolegal scholars call "autocratic legalism." Kim Lane Scheppele's analysis of Orbán in Hungary is especially relevant: chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/uclrev/vol85...
Law LLB -> Intl Human Rights and Public Policy LLM -> Intl Human Rights PhD I've just gotten more sociolegal, more sociology, more gender theory, while staying technically within the bounds of law.
Optimist, pessimist, etc. Sociolegal academic: the cup is a social construct designed to normatively regulate the water.
Imagine the most prominent sociolegal societies in America celebrating being freed from... the rule of law. Can't imagine it? Well then good news everyone! You don't have to! You can just watch it happen!
Suggestions for a journal for a sociolegal, sort-of theory article on non-binary identities and the law? Too left-field for SLS or MLR; have an article held up in publication with FLS at the moment; recently published in F@L; missed deadline for AusFLJ's open issue. Open to outside UK also, obvs.
JOIN US for “Notes Toward an Otherwise Anthropology of the Black Atlantic World” with Kamari Maxine Clarke, Distinguished Professor of Transnational Justice and Sociolegal Studies, U of Toronto at the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, on March 5, at 12:00 p.m. on Zoom.
Looks like Law's a Drag will be hosting an event in Leeds on 14th June! We will be talking to drag artists to find out how to make sociolegal research that is ethical, sustainable, and empowering for them. Watch this space!
It takes great naïveté to believe that the sociolegal framework we have for adoption, pioneered and promoted as it was less than 100 years ago by kidnappers and traffickers whose goal was to supply wealthy childless couples with babies, has somehow remedied its inherent structural wrongs. 🥚
![Mother Jones
For people who can't have their own kids, do you think that adoption is an ethical practice to turn to given how adoption works in America today?
[Long pause] I don't think so. It's hard for me to say that. There are a lot of ethical people who participate in adoption and are really committed to the well-being of their children and to preserving relationships with their child's birth parents. I believe that the system is unethical, given the extent to which it is premised on inequity and the extent to which it's often predatory. I believe that you can have ethical players that participate in it and do the best they can, but I don't think that that makes the way that we practice this morally correct.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:2sfy6irvmfmnwxe4ouhrrn7a/bafkreigp6mjvdj7s3zv6zfogcrgoudcbr55atzjm3ai4qzwfcofrrygucq@jpeg)
And it is woven throughout adoption as a sociolegal practice. The fact that some people justify the alleged right to abandon a child in a box, or to hide and falsify their vital records, on the grounds of reproductive autonomy? Category mistake. Adoption is post-reproduction. 🥚
Sociolegal scholar Swethaa Ballakrishnen joins the latest #UncommonSense#podcast#ruleswww.uncommonsensepodcast.org
