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 Book Essay 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:

Critical Theory in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: How to Regulate the Production and Use of Personal Information in the Digital Age by Grégoire Mallard

Zuboff, Shoshana. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. New York: Public Affairs, 2019.

Navigating Colonial Law in a “Sea of Islands” by Renisa Mawani

Yahaya, Nurfadzilah. Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020.

Labor and the Contradictions of Law in China by Manfred Elfstrom

Gallagher, Mary E.. Authoritarian Legality in China: Law, Workers, and the State. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

From Global Interventionism to Domestic Police Militarization: The Transnational Routes of American Policing by Ely Aaronson

Schrader, Stuart. Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2019.

Dynamic and Constrained: Using the Judiciary to Pursue Social Justice in India by Gary J. Jacobsohn

Rosenberg, Gerald N., Krishnaswamy, Sudhir and Bail, Shishir, eds. A Qualified Hope: The Indian Supreme Court and Progressive Social Change. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Pres, 2019.