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:

The Anatomy of the Rise and Demise of the World Trading System by Michael J. Trebilcock

Gregory Shaffer. Emerging Powers and the World Trading System: The Past and Future of International Economic Law. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Can Liberal Constitutionalism Survive the Rise of the Megacity? by James A. Gardner

Ran Hirschl. City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.

The Re-Combinatory Nature of Property within Racial Regimes of Ownership by Andrea Ballestero

BRENNA BHANDAR. Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018.

The Search for Universal Laws by Mark Fathi Massoud

DARRYL LI. The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020.