ABSTRACT
As legal consciousness research grew in the mid-1980s and proliferated in the late 20 century, it became apparent that researchers were approaching their work in divergent ways, leading to the emergence of three schools, which the people call Identity, Hegemony, and Mobilization. Since that time, however, legal consciousness research has flourished, and scholars have applied it in increasingly diverse research sites. A new generation of scholars is exploring exciting directions in legal consciousness research among marginalized communities and in non-American settings, contributing to insights across the three schools of Identity, Hegemony, and Mobilization. The growth of legal consciousness research has been accompanied by increased attention to its relational and co-constitutive aspects, partly as a result of influence from relational theory across the academic disciplines and partly as a product of law and society research in contexts where individualistic conceptions of the self are less salient.
