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Atieh Babakhani (2026), “Navigating Codified Gender Inequality: Drivers of Legal Practice in Iranian Family Lawyers’ Approaches to Divorce”

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Atieh Babakhani. “Navigating Codified Gender Inequality: Drivers of Legal Practice in Iranian Family Lawyers’ Approaches to Divorce.” Law & Social Inquiry (2026): 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1017/lsi.2026.10153. While prior research has focused on the role of cause lawyers in legal and social reforms within authoritarian regimes, the everyday practices of non-cause lawyers handling controversial cases remain unexplored. Drawing …

Aguiar Aguilar (2026), “Backlash Against the Courts: The Path Toward Authoritarianism in Mexico”

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Azul A. Aguiar Aguilar. “Backlash Against the Courts: The Path Toward Authoritarianism in Mexico.” Law & Policy 48, no. 3 (2026): e70014. https://doi.org/10.1111/lapo.70014 This article examines how leaders with autocratic tendencies capture the judiciary in order to concentrate power legally, using Mexico under Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018–2024) as its central case. Aguiar Aguilar argues …