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:

Revealing the Hidden Influencers: Euro-Lawyers as Ghostwriters of European Legal Integration by Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom

Tommaso Pavone. The Ghostwriters: Lawyers and the Politics behind the Judicial Construction of Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

The Policy Impact of Court Decisions in Latin America and South Asia by Lydia Brashear Tiede

Sandra Botero. Courts that Matter: Activists, Judges, and the Politics of Rights Enforcement Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.

The Ordinary, Liminal Lives of Informants in Participatory Dictatorships: Lessons for Transitional Justice by Kjersti Lohne

Mark Drumbl and Barbora Holá. Informers Up Close: Stories from Communist Prague, Oxford University Press, 2024.