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: 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:

Contested Knowledge, the Politics of Memory, and the Armenian Genocide by Devin O. Pendas

Joachim J. Savelsberg, Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021.

The Rise of Women Lawyers in India by Fiona M. Kay

Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen. Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility among India’s Professional Elite. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021.

The Global Contention for Law’s “Special Character” by Antoine Vauchez

Abel, Richard L., Hilary Sommerlad, Ole Hammerslev, and Ulrike Schultz eds. Lawyers in 21^st Century Societies: Volume 2: Comparisons and Theories. Hart, 2022.

Understanding China’s Social Policies and Practices by Xiaoyuan Shang and Karen R. Fisher

Anna High, Non-governmental Orphan Relief in China: Law, Policy, and Practice (New York: Routledge, 2019), pp 174. Hardcover: $53.99.