Research Handbook on Law, Movements and Social Change

Research Handbooks in Law and Society series

Edited by Steven A. Boutcher, Executive Officer, Law and Society Association, Corey S. Shdaimah, Daniel Thursz Distinguished Professor of Social Justice, University of Maryland, School of Social Work and Michael W. Yarbrough, Associate Professor of Law and Society, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, US

The study of law and social movements provides an ideal lens for rethinking fundamental questions about the relationship between law and power. This Research Handbook takes up that challenge, framing a new, more global, dynamic, reflexive, and contextualised phase of social movement studies.

‘Steven Boutcher, Corey Schdaimah and Michael Yarbrough's new title Research Handbook on Law, Movements and Social Change, goes beyond legal strategies and legal mobilization to expand our notions of when and how the law intersects with forms of democracy and authoritarianism, the constitution of law through practice, and the role of narrative in advancing/challenging forms of legal thinking. The book goes well outside the precincts of the global North to deal with law’s intersections with a variety of historical and social contexts.’
– Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University, US

‘This Handbook revisits and reinvigorates the law and social movements literature. Chapters connect old debates on law’s mobilization in power disputes with new developments in social thought, political organization, and the geopolitics of knowledge. Amid the end of the liberal-democratic consensus and growing skepticism of law, it sets a new research agenda for socio legal scholars and offers valuable insights for practitioners and activists who will not give up on change.’
– Fabio de Sa e Silva, University of Oklahoma, US