424 - Regular Session. Law and Society I - When Reforms Meet Routines

Session Submission Type: Paper Session

Abstract

This session brings together a set of richly developed papers examining how the established routines of legal institutions filter the impact of legal reforms. These pieces harken back to a foundational law-and-society interest in the "gap" between law-on-the-books and law-in-action. However, the authors extend this vision into new and important domains, exploring how routine legal/organizational structures and practices filter issues of gender equality and violence across a diverse array of cultural and national contexts.

Sub Unit

• Law & Society / Law and Society

Session Organizer

• Mark C. Suchman, Brown University

Presider

• Mark C. Suchman, Brown University

Individual Presentations

• Silencing Women’s Voices: Battered Women and Nuisance Property Laws - Gretchen W. Arnold, St. Louis University; Megan Slusser, Safe Connections

• The Legal Translation and Documentation of Immigrant Abuse and Helpfulness - Sarah Morando Lakhani, American Bar Foundation

• Divorce Litigation and Gender Inequality in Rural China - Ke Li, Indiana University-Bloomington

• Finding the Truth: Forensic Reports and the Medico-Legal Discourse on Sexual Violence in Turkey - Tugce Ellialti, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant

• Valerie Jenness, University of California-Irvine