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:

The Knowns and Unknowns of Repression under Authoritarianism: How the Focus of Transitional Justice Shapes the Quality of Democracy by Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos

Nalepa Monika. After Authoritarianism: Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Lawyering in Hard Places: Comparative Dispatches from the Margins of Legality by Tommaso Pavone

Mcevoy, Kieran, Louise Mallinder, and Anna Bryson. Lawyers in Conflict and Transition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Law versus Justice in International Atrocity Prosecutions by Mark A. Drumbl

Class of 1975 Alumni Professor and Director, Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA, United States.

Liana Georgieva Minkova. Responsibility on Trial: Liability Standards in International Criminal Law. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023.