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  • Lawyers, Archivists, and the Turn to Transparency in the French State

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  • Ron Levi, Sophie Marois, Sara Dezalay
  • Journal:
    AJIL Unbound / Volume 118 / 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    15 January 2024, pp. 30-35
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  • In 2021, the French government commissioned two reports on episodes of extreme violence involving France's past: the Algerian War and the Rwandan genocide. Both reports grapple with how “the past haunts the present and the future,”3 a theme that is central to Karen Knop's scholarly legacy. In both reports, legal, historical, and archival expertise are positioned to redraw and recast relations of France to Africa. We argue that the reports’ focus on the role of a particular class of experts (namely archivist and historians, rather than lawyers) reflects France's current approach to narrating historical injustice, emphasizing public memory of violent pasts, rather than legal responsibility of the French state.

  • Streets, Suites, and States: John Hagan’s Contributions to the Study of Law, Power, and Inequality

  • Ron Levi, Traci Burch, Robert L. Nelson
  • Journal:
    Law & Social Inquiry / Volume 48 / Issue 4 / November 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    27 November 2023, pp. 1109-1116
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    November 2023
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  • We start this special issue with two perspectives. First, that the sociological study of crime and law often intersects with the study of inequality, power, the state, and life chances. Second, that the study of crime and law are deeply interconnected—institutionally, politically, and culturally. Legal institutions build on normative ideas, organizations, careers, and power to govern, to criminalize, and to punish (and, conversely, to ignore or absolve), and everyday understandings of crime are deeply tied to cultural understandings of legality, perceptions of justice and injustice, and hopes for everyday life. Law and crime are thus dynamically tied to social aspirations, fears, and divisions, and are political and social contests over what unites and what divides societies.

  • Chapter Eleven - Performance, Power, and Transnational Legal Ordering

  • from Part IV - Transnational Legal Ordering and Human Rights Standards in Criminal Justice
  • Edited by Gregory Shaffer, University of California, Irvine, Ely Aaronson, University of Haifa, Israel
  • Book:
    Transnational Legal Ordering of Criminal Justice
    Published online:
    05 June 2020
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    02 July 2020, pp 333-366

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    This chapter connects analyses of transnational legal orders with research in field sociology and cultural sociological work on performance and power. Research on transnational legal orders opens up the opportunity to study processes of legal change that focus on status enhancement, networks, and peer review, in addition to more formal processes of legal regulation, enforcement, and compliance. We do so by focusing on human rights recommendations regarding rape and sexual violence, within the context of the UN’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The UPR process is uniquely suited to studying global norms, since the materials reviewed include national state reports, civil society reports, and a compiled report from international institutions – and within a peer review framework, states then respond by either accepting or merely noting the recommendations they receive. Through multiple correspondence analysis, we geometrically map out distinct groups of states involved in the process, and using a series of growth curve models, we show that recommendation acceptance is partially driven by particular types of states interacting within the UPR. In so doing, we develop connecting points between research on transnational legal orders, field sociology, and cultural sociology in order to better understand the performance of human rights.

The Cambridge Handbook of Deliberative Constitutionalism
  • Edited by Ron Levy, Hoi Kong, Graeme Orr, Jeff King
  • Published online:
    18 April 2018
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    19 April 2018
  • Deliberative democratic theory emphasises the importance of informed and reflective discussion and persuasion in political decision-making. The theory has important implications for constitutionalism - and vice versa - as constitutional laws increasingly shape and constrain political decisions. The full range of these implications has not been explored in the political and constitutional literatures to date. This unique Handbook establishes the parameters of the field of deliberative constitutionalism, which bridges deliberative democracy with constitutional theory and practice. Drawing on contributions from world-leading authors, this volume will serve as the international reference point on deliberation as a foundational value in constitutional law, and will be an indispensable resource for scholars, students and practitioners interested in the vital and complex links between democratic deliberation and constitutionalism.

  • Neurogenic Stunned Myocardium with Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Malfunction

  • Ron Levy, Walter J. Hader
  • Journal:
    Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Volume 38 / Issue 3 / May 2011
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 December 2014, pp. 518-521
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