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:

Militarism and Law in Africa: A Governing Paradox by Rabiat Akande

Samuel Fury Childs Daly. Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024

Beyond US Models of Judicial Behavior: Choosing Constitutional Judges in Chile and Colombia by Sandra Botero

Lydia Brashear Tiede: Judicial Vetoes. Decision-Making on Mixed Selection Constitutional Courts.

Subduing Asylum-Seekers’ Voices: Narrative Genres and the Impossibility of Credibility Tests During Refugee Status Determination Hearings by Dagmar Rita Myslinska

Vogl, Anthea. Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination, Cambridge and New York: CUP, 2024.