In this week's Frontiers’ 🎙️Talking about Methods podcast, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr. Allison Lindner (University of College London) about trust in ethnographic research, drawing from her work with informal waste workers. 🎧Listen to the full episode here:

Trust in Ethnographic Research

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We are recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher for the HuRiEE project. An exciting opportunity to contribute to research on human rights mobilisation in Eastern Europe and Russia. Find out more about the role: www.law.ox.ac.uk/postdoctoral... #Oxford #CSLS #HuRiEE #ResearchJobs

In this week's Frontiers’ Methodological Musings section, Dr. Madhuri Kamtam (University of East Anglia) explores how disclosing her Dalit identity shaped fieldwork interactions in her research on labour welfare in Telangana.  📖 Read the full article here:

Who Are You, Really?

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In this week's Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies‘ 🗺️ Borderlands section, James Campbell (University of Oxford, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies) discusses the benefits of looking at the unknown while mapping (research) landscapes. 📖 Read the full article here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/monstrous-me...

In this week's Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies 📚A Good Read section, Krzysztof Lukaszek (University of Oxford, CSLS) reviews the edited collection, Ideology and Private Law: Polish Experiences in the Long 20th Century (Brill Nijhoff 2025).  📖 Read the full article here:

Private Law and Ideology in the 20th Century Poland

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We’re excited to launch 🛠️🧰 Methodological Toolkits, a new series from Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies, designed to support socio-legal scholars interested in adopting particular methodological approaches and instructors looking for materials to use in seminars. Read the first toolkit here 👇

Toolkit 1: Critical Race, Positionality and Counter-Colonial Methodologies

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In this week's Frontiers blog, Methodological Musings section, Frankco Harris reflects on the use of participatory action research-informed methods in his doctoral study of gang violence in Bermuda. 📖 Read the full article here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/using-partic...

Using Participatory Action Research in a Study of Gang Violence in Bermuda

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In this week's Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies 🌎 Borderlands section, researchers from the Laboratorio de Estudios Socio-Legales (Socio-Legal Studies Laboratory, Lab ESL) explore the field's emergence and evolution in Chile. 📖 Read the full article here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/the-state-an...

In this week's Frontiers’ 📚 A Good Read section, Professor Lawrence Rosen (Princeton University) reviews Melissa Crouch’s book, The Palimpsest Constitution: The Social Life of Constitutions in Myanmar (OUP, 2025).  📖 Read the full article here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/social-life-...

In this week's Frontiers’ 🎙️Talking about Methods podcast, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to ethnographer and essayist Dr Kate Rossmanith about unstructured and narrative interviewing. 🎧 Listen to the full episode here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/unstructured...

In a new Frontiers’ Methodological Musings contribution, Niharika Salar reflects on building trust while researching the impact of legal frameworks on artisans in India. 📖 Read the full article here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/the-space-be...

The space between us: an attempt to build trust when I was not fully local

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In this week's Frontiers’ Borderlands Section 🌏 Poorva Sharma and Vasujit Dubey analyse the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change. 📖 Read the full article here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/the-other-si...

In this week's Frontiers’ 📚 A Good Read section 📚 post, Professor Hilary Sommerlad reviews Bryant G. Garth and Yves Dezalay’s book, Law as Reproduction and Revolution (University of California Press, 2021). 📖 Read the full article here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/room-at-the-...

In this week's Frontiers Talking About Methods podcast, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Professor Eddie Bruce-Jones (SOAS University of London) about deconstructing the colonial archive and his process of researching indentureship through various archival methods.  Listen to the full episode here:

Deconstructing the Colonial Archive

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In this week's Frontiers' 💡Methodological Musings 💡 Dr. Dina Bolokan reflects on the presence of epistemic and ontic injustice in the adjudication of Russian draft evaders. 📖 Read the full article here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/epistemic-an...

In this week's Frontiers‘ 🌍 Borderlands section, Professor Edvaldo Moita (University of Brasília) discusses structural noncompliance and the implications of informality in the legal system. 📖 Read the full article here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/what-if-ther...

In this week's Frontiers’ 📚 A Good Read section, Ayesha Pattnaik reviews Oreva Olakpe’s book, South-South Migrations and the Law from Below (Hart, 2024). 📖 Read the full article here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/migrant-marg...

Beyond Migrant Marginality in International Law - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

In this post for A Good Read, Ayesha Pattnaik reviews Oreva Olakpe’s book, South-South Migrations and the Law from Below (Hart, 2024).

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In this week's #Frontiers 🎙️ Talking about Methods podcast, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Aislinn Fanning, Cristy Clark, Zoe Tongue, and Ruth Houghton about utopia as a method.  🎧 Listen to the full episode here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/utopia-as-a-...

Utopia as a Method - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Aislinn Fanning, Cristy Clark, Zoe Tongue and Ruth Houghton about utopia as a method.

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In this week's Frontiers’ Methodological Musings section, Dr. Kay Crosby(Newcastle University) reflects on her approach to researching women's participation in the criminal jury system after 1919. 📖 Read the full article here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/census-recor...

Census Records and Group Biographies as a Tool for Researching Women’s Citizenship - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

In this post, Dr. Kay Crosby reflects on methods used to research women's participation in the criminal jury system after 1919.

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In this week's Frontiers’ 🌍 Borderlands section, Julien Moriceau discusses his experiences conducting fieldwork in the Kongo-Central and Kasaï-Central provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  📖 Read the full article here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/reframing-in...

Reframing “Informal Justice”: Local Legal Practices in the DRC and Their Unexpected Formality - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

In this Borderlands piece, Julien Moriceau discusses his findings from fieldwork conducted in Kongo-Central and Kasaï-Central provinces in DRC.

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In this week's Frontiers 📚 A Good Read section, Dr. Trevor Clark reviews Christopher Whelan’s book, Lawyers on Trial: Hired Guns or Heroes? (Hart, 2024). 📖 Read the full article here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/legal-ethics...

Legal Ethics Across Borders - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

In this post for A Good Read, Dr. Trevor Clark reviews Christopher Whelan’s book, Lawyers on Trial: Hired Guns or Heroes? (Hart, 2024).

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Thank you to Linda Mulcahy for inviting me to discuss 'Archival Methods' on her podcast 'Talking About Methods' with @oxfordcsls.bsky.social. We went into what archives are, why that matters, why legal researchers might use them, and what we do there. frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/making-and-u...

Making and Unmaking Archival Methods - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Cris van Eijk about making and unmaking archives.

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In this week's Frontiers, 🎙️ Talking about Methods podcast, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to international lawyer Cris van Eijk about the often-unseen labour behind archival research. 🎧 Listen to the full episode here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/making-and-u...

Making and Unmaking Archival Methods - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Cris van Eijk about making and unmaking archives.

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In this week's Frontiers' 📕 Methodological Musings section, Richard Mullender (Newcastle Law School) reflects on how deconstruction can be used to understand cross-pressures in law.  📖 Read the full article here:  frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/law-cross-pr...

Law, Cross-Pressures, and Deconstruction - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

In this Methodological Musings post, Richard Mullender reflects on how deconstruction can be used to understand cross-pressures in law.

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In this week's Frontiers’ 🌏 Borderlands section, Dr. Hafidz Hakimi reflects on interviews with policymakers and youth leaders in Malaysia, discussing the conditions that fuel hate speech.  📖 Read the full article here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/digital-hate...

In this week's Frontiers, 📚 A Good Read section, Dr. Florian Grisel reviews Pierre Legrand’s book, “Negative Comparative Law: A Strong Programme for Weak Thought“. 📖 Read the full article here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/comparative-...

Comparative and Socio-Legal Studies: Joining Forces? - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

In this post for A Good Read, Dr. Florian Grisel reviews Pierre Legrand’s book, Negative Comparative Law: A Strong Programme for Weak Thought (CUP, 2022).

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In this week's Frontiers’ 🎙️ Talking about Methods section, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks with James Campbell about walking interviews and how moving through space can bring the materiality of law into sharper view.  🎧Listen to the full episode here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/walking-inte...

Walking Interviews - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to James Campbell about walking interviews.

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In this week's Frontiers’ Methodological Musings Section , Faraz Firouzi Mandomi reflects on his research on Iranian Kurdish practices of divorce and personal status law in Sanandaj.  📖 Read the full article here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/negotiating-...

Negotiating Fear and Surveillance: Methodological Challenges of Fieldwork on Law in Iranian Kurdistan - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

In this Methodological Musings post, Faraz Firouzi Mandomi reflects on his research on Iranian Kurdish practices of divorce and personal status law in Sanandaj.

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In this week's #Frontiers’ 🌏 Borderlands section, Aniq Jiwani discusses the perils of technofeudalism and the changing nature of ownership in digital spaces. 📖 Read the full article here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/technofeudal...

Vanishing Libraries: Technofeudalism and the Illusory Promise of Digital Ownership - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

In this Borderlands piece, Aniq Jiwani discusses the perils of technofeudalism and the changing nature of ownership in digital spaces.

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In this week's #Frontiers 📚 A Good Read section, Professor Hakeem Yusuf reviews Alice Panepinto’s book, Truth and Transitional Justice: Localising the International Legal Framework in Muslim Majority Legal Systems (Hart, 2022). 📖 Read the full article here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/towards-loca...

Towards Local Truth - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

In this post for A Good Read, Professor Hakeem Yusuf reviews Alice Panepinto’s book, Truth and Transitional Justice: Localising the International Legal Framework in Muslim Majority Legal Systems (Hart...

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