This new addition to Law & Social Inquiry offers an innovative approach to the publishing and review of books. LSI seeks to create a community of book authors and book essayists who are mutually supportive of new frontiers in sociolegal and interdisciplinary scholarship on law outside the United States. LSI invites only those who are already authors of books to write essays on other books, thus assuring each other that authors and essayists share in the distinctive challenge and genre of book writing. Other things being equal, LSI will give priority to the review of new books written by scholars who themselves have already written essays for LSI’s international review section.

International Essay Review Editor: Terence C. Halliday (American Bar Foundation)

Editorial Panel: Bernadette Atuahene (American Bar Foundation/Chicago Kent Law School), Andrea Ballestero (Rice University), Nick Cheesman (Australian National University), Rohit De (Yale University), Matthew Erie (University of Oxford), Tom Ginsburg (University of Chicago/American Bar Foundation), John Hagan (American Bar Foundation/Northwestern University), Carol Heimer (American Bar Foundation/Northwestern University), Iza Hussin (University of Cambridge), Gregoire Mallard (Graduate Institute Geneva), Tamir Moustafa (Simon Fraser University), Jothie Rajah (American Bar Foundation).

Essays:

Cyborgs, Torturers, and the Making of Forensic Psychological Knowledge by Nick Cheesman

Lokaneeta, Jinee. The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Investigations in India. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020.

Is There a Chinese “Code of Capital”? by Matthew S. Erie

Pistor, Katharina. The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019.

Property Rights: (Probabilistically) Necessary or Sufficient for Economic Development in China and Beyond? by Yun-chien Chang

Upham, Frank. The Great Property Fallacy: Theory, Reality, and Growth in Developing Countries. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Protecting the Script of the Japanese Criminal Justice System by Dimitri Vanoverbeke

Herber, Erik. Lay and Expert Contributions to Japanese Criminal Justice. London: Routledge, 2019