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"The Emergence and Transformation of Disputes: Naming, Blaming, Claiming …" is a socio-legal article written by Bill Felstiner, Richard Abel and Austin Sarat and published in the Law & Society Review in 1980.[1] In the article, the authors critique the field of sociology of law at the time for not focusing more on the pre-dispute stage of legal cases,[2] namely how injurious experiences go from being unperceived to being perceived as injurious by those injured ("naming"); how they turn into grievances when the injury is attributed to the fault of another ("blaming"); how those grievances are presented to the blamed party with a request for a remedy ("claiming"); and how they are turned into a dispute when the request is rejected. The process is referred to as the transformation of a dispute. The article further discusses how various factors affect this transformation.

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Influence

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The article has been hugely influential, being one of the five most cited articles from the Law & Society Review as of 2016.[3] It has been described as a "one of the most groundbreaking articles on the pre-legal phase and the legal transformation [of disputes]" and as having had "decisive analytical effect on countless studies concerning the transformation of a social problem into a legal case",[4] as well as being "truly seminal research".[5] A 2020 literature review found 572 articles between the publication and June 2018 had referred to the article or used the naming, blaming and claiming framework.[6] In 2011, it was awarded the Lasting Contribution Award by the American Political Science Association's Law and Courts section.[7]

According to Olesen and Hammerslev, Pierre Bourdieu was heavily inspired by the article when he developed the framework for the sociological study of law expressed in his seminal article "The Force of Law", which also devotes much attention to the transformation of disputes.[8]

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  1. ^ Felstiner, Abel & Sarat 1980
  2. ^ Olesen & Hammerslev 2021, p. 297.
  3. ^ Savelsberg et al. 2016, p. 1023.
  4. ^ Hammerslev & Olesen 2020, p. 13: "En af de mest banebrydende artikler om den før-retlige fase og den retlige transformation var Felstiner, Abel & Sarat's (1980/1981) The Emergence and Transformation of Disputes: Naming, Blaming, Claiming … […] som siden hen har haft afgørende analytisk indvirkning på utallige studier, der omhandler den transformation, hvor et socialt problem kan udvikle sig til en retlig sag.".
  5. ^ Collins 2018, p. 379.
  6. ^ Hammerslev & Olesen 2020, p. 15.
  7. ^ Olesen & Hammerslev 2021, p. 296.
  8. ^ Olesen & Hammerslev 2020. See Bourdieu 1987 (originally published in French as Bourdieu 1986).

Bibliography

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  • Bourdieu, Pierre (1986). "La force du droit – Eléments pour une sociologie du champ juridique". Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales (in French). 64: 3–19.
  • Bourdieu, Pierre (1987). "The Force of Law: Toward a Sociology of the Juridical Field". Hastings Law Journal. 38 (5). Translated by Richard Terdiman: 814–853.
  • Collins, Paul M. (2018). "Reputational Rankings of Peer-Reviewed Law Journals: A Survey Approach". PS: Political Science & Politics. 51 (2): 377–386. doi:10.1017/S1049096517002529. ISSN 1049-0965 – via Cambridge Core.
  • Felstiner, William L.F.; Abel, Richard L.; Sarat, Austin (1980). "The Emergence and Transformation of Disputes: Naming, Blaming, Claiming …". Law & Society Review. 15 (3/4): 631–654. doi:10.2307/3053505. ISSN 0023-9216. JSTOR 3053505 – via JSTOR.
  • Hammerslev, Ole; Olesen, Annette (2020). "Den komplekse før-retlige fase: Transformationen fra et socialt problem til en retlig sag" [The Complex Pre-Legal Phase: The Transformation from a Social Problem to a Legal Case]. Retfærd: Nordisk Juridisk Tidsskrift (in Danish). 43 (1/164): 11–28.
  • Olesen, Annette; Hammerslev, Ole (2020). "Bidrag til Pierre Bourdieus retssociologi og den retlige transformationsproces" [Contribution to Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology of Law and the Legal Transformation Process] (PDF). Praktiske grunde: Nordisk tidsskrift for kultur- og samfundsvidenskab (in Danish). 2020 (1–2): 5–22. ISSN 1902-2271.
  • Olesen, Annette; Hammerslev, Ole (2021). "Naming, Blaming, Claiming: An Interview with Bill Felstiner, Rick Abel, and Austin Sarat". Journal of Law and Society. 48 (3): 295–307. doi:10.1111/jols.12314. ISSN 1467-6478 – via Wiley Online Library.
  • Savelsberg, Joachim J.; Halliday, Terence; Liu, Sida; Morrill, Calvin; Seron, Carroll; Silbey, Susan (2016). "Law & Society Review at Fifty: A Debate on the Future of Publishing by the Law & Society Association". Law & Society Review. 50 (4): 1017–1036. doi:10.1111/lasr.12246. ISSN 1540-5893 – via Wiley Online Library.
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