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  1. Cage for the Birds: On the Social Transformation of Chinese Law, 1999–2019

    Article • China Law and Society Review, April 2021, Brill

    Prof. Sida Liu

  2. Between social spaces

    Article • European Journal of Social Theory, February 2020, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Sida Liu

  3. Presentation: Professions in the Twenty-First Century

    Article • Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, August 2018, Wiley

    Prof. Sida Liu

  4. Boundaries and professions: Toward a processual theory of action

    Article • Journal of Professions and Organization, December 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Sida Liu

  5. Overlapping Ecologies

    Article • Sociology of Development, September 2017, University of California Press

    Prof. Sida Liu

  6. The Elastic Ceiling: Gender and Professional Career in Chinese Courts

    Article • Law & Society Review, February 2017, Wiley

    Prof. Sida Liu

  7. Discussion Law & Society Review at Fifty: A Debate on the Future of Publishing by the Law & Society Association

    Article • Law & Society Review, November 2016, Wiley

    Prof. Sida Liu

  8. The Ecology of Organizational Growth: Chinese Law Firms in the Age of Globalization

    Article • American Journal of Sociology, November 2016, University of Chicago Press

    Prof. Sida Liu

  9. Mapping the Ecology of China’s Corporate Legal Sector: Globalization and Its Impact on Lawyers and Society

    Article • Asian Journal of Law and Society, August 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Sida Liu

  10. Field and Ecology

    Article • Sociological Theory, March 2016, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Sida Liu

  11. Criminal Defense in China

    Article • January 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Sida Liu

  12. The Fall and Rise of Law and Social Science in China

    Article • Annual Review of Law and Social Science, November 2015, Annual Reviews

    Mr Zhizhou Wang, Prof. Sida Liu

  13. Boundary Work and Exchange: The Formation of a Professional Service Market

    Article • Symbolic Interaction, January 2015, Wiley

    Prof. Sida Liu

  14. Law's Social Forms: A Powerless Approach to the Sociology of Law

    Article • Law & Social Inquiry, January 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Sida Liu

  15. Advocates, experts, and suspects: three images of lawyers in Chinese media reports

    Article • International Journal of the Legal Profession, May 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Sida Liu

  16. The Trial of Li Zhuang: Chinese Lawyers’ Collective Action against Populism

    Article • Asian Journal of Law and Society, February 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Sida Liu

  17. The Shape of Chinese Law

    Article • Peking University Law Journal, February 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Sida Liu

  18. Migration and Social Structure: The Spatial Mobility of Chinese Lawyers

    Article • Law & Policy, January 2014, Wiley

    Prof. Sida Liu

  19. The Legal Profession as a Social Process: A Theory on Lawyers and Globalization

    Article • Law & Social Inquiry, January 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Sida Liu

  20. Political Liberalism and Political Embeddedness: Understanding Politics in the Work of Chinese Criminal Defense Lawyers

    Article • Law & Society Review, December 2011, Wiley

    Prof. Sida Liu

  21. Lawyers, State Officials and Significant Others: Symbiotic Exchange in the Chinese Legal Services Market

    Article • The China Quarterly, June 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Sida Liu

  22. The Politics of Crime, Punishment, and Social Order in East Asia

    Article • Annual Review of Law and Social Science, December 2010, Annual Reviews

    Prof. Sida Liu

  23. Recursivity in Legal Change: Lawyers and Reforms of China's Criminal Procedure Law

    Article • Law & Social Inquiry, January 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Sida Liu

  24. Globalization as Boundary-Blurring: International and Local Law Firms in China's Corporate Law Market

    Article • Law & Society Review, December 2008, Wiley

    Prof. Sida Liu

  25. Dancing Handcuffed in the Minefield: Survival Strategies of Defense Lawyers in China's Criminal Justice System

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2008, Elsevier

    Prof. Sida Liu

  26. Client Influence and the Contingency of Professionalism: The Work of Elite Corporate Lawyers in China

    Article • Law & Society Review, December 2006, Wiley

    Prof. Sida Liu

  27. Beyond Global Convergence: Conflicts of Legitimacy in a Chinese Lower Court

    Article • Law & Social Inquiry, February 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Sida Liu