Blog: Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies
In this week’s Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies, Rangga Dachlan reflects on overcoming access roadblocks in sensitive research on official state narratives with interviews. Read the full post here, which is published as part of the blog’s Methodological Musings section. If you would like to receive a summary of all of Frontiers’ latest posts, please sign up to receive our bi-monthly newsletter here.
Dr Rafael Aguilera Gordillo considers corporate criminal liability - providing a critique of systems theory - and puts forward anthropic modelling as a new approach. Read the full post here, which is published as part of the blog’s Borderlands section. If you would like to receive a summary of all of Frontiers’ latest posts, please sign up to receive our bi-monthly newsletter here.
Shruti Iyer (CSLS, Oxford) reviews Kalyani Ramnath's new book, Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942–1962 (Stanford University Press, 2023). Read the full post here, which is published as part of the blog’s A Good Read section. If you would like to receive a summary of all of Frontiers’ latest posts, please sign up to receive our bi-monthly newsletter here.
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