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 …
The Justice Department has filed a judicial misconduct complaint with the Eighth Circuit against all but one of Minnesota’s federal district judges, after most of them spoke to the New York Times about Operation Metro Surge, last winter’s immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities. The complaint names Judges Patrick Schiltz and John Tunheim, says they …
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 …
In January 2025, a group of researchers who would later become part of LADD gathered at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington for Lawyers as Agents for Change in Countries Facing Distress, a two-day symposium co-sponsored by LADD and hosted by the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies. The event was organized …
Green, Bruce A. and Wald, Eli, Lawyers, the Rule of Law, and the Executive Orders Targeting Law Firms (July 12, 2026). U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 26-12, 78 Okla. L. Rev. XXX (2026), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7113919 In the spring of 2025, President Trump issued a series of executive orders, and threatened to issue …
In March and April 2025, the Trump Administration issued a series of executive orders directed at various law firms that had represented clients or undertaken actions with which the President disagreed. Those executive orders imposed various sanctions capable of destroying the firms financially. The Administration also threatened numerous other law firms with similar types of …
Charles R. Epp. “The Legal Complex In The Struggle To Control Police Brutality In India.” In Fates of Political Liberalism in the British Post-Colony: The Politics of the Legal Complex. Edited by Terence C. Halliday, Lucien Karpik, and Malcolm M. Feeley, pp. 91-111. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2012. This chapter examines the Indian legal …
Terence C. Halliday, Lucien Karpik, and Malcolm M. Feeley, eds. Fates of Political Liberalism in the British Post-Colony: The Politics of the Legal Complex. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2012. This book explores why new nations sharing the same British colonial heritage developed divergent levels of political liberalism after independence. Through comparative essays on former …
Edward L. Rubin. “The Varieties Of Judicial Independence And The Judiciary’s Role In Political Reform.” In The Legal Process and the Promise of Justice: Studies Inspired by the Work of Malcolm Feeley. Edited by Rosann Greenspan, Hadar Aviram, and Jonathan Simon, pp. 335-360. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2019. This chapter highlights the crucial role …
Mark Fathi Massoud. “The Legal Profession’s Promise Of Justice: Choices And Challenges In Legal And Socio-Legal Work.” In The Legal Process and the Promise of Justice: Studies Inspired by the Work of Malcolm Feeley. Edited by Rosann Greenspan, Hadar Aviram, and Jonathan Simon, pp. 314-334. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2019. This chapter examines the …