The JLS at 50: Art, literature and socio‐legal studies

Hughes-Moore, Barbara 2025. The JLS at 50: Art, literature and socio‐legal studies. Journal of Law and Society 10.1111/jols.12542

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Abstract

This article began life as a lecture the author was invited to deliver as part of the Journal's 50th‐anniversary celebrations in the summer of 2024. The piece explores how law, literature and socio‐legal studies in the United Kingdom have evolved alongside each other since the birth of the Journal of Law and Society in 1974. It examines the Journal's role in this evolution, and how it has provided space for legal scholars, and particularly socio‐legal scholars, to critique, problematise and mull over dilemmas common to law and the arts – sometimes by drawing on methods and insights from the arts themselves. In doing so, the author adopts a Gothic framework for further illuminating the Journal's work in this area, arguing that Gothic fiction helps us to confront ghosts and monsters – especially in those places where the law (or, at least, legal scholars) may fear to tread.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Schools > Cardiff Law & Politics
Additional Information:	License information from Publisher: LICENSE 1: URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0263-323X
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	15 July 2025
Last Modified:	15 Jul 2025 09:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/179826

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