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 Book Essay 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:

Gramophones, Paper Money, and Brimmed Hats: Sharia under Colonial Rule by Nurfadzilah Yahaya

Halevi, Leor. Modern Things on Trial: Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865–1935. Columbia University Press, 2019.

From Double Agents to Bouncers: Corporate Lawyers and the Making of the Public-Private State by Sara Dezalay

Vauchez, Antoine and France, Pierre. The Neoliberal Republic: Corporate Lawyers, Statecraft, and the Making of Public-Private France. Cornell University Press, 2020.

Whither Chinese Courts and What Their Future Will Tell Us About Non-Chinese Courts by Frank Upham

Ng, Kwai and He, Xin. Embedded Courts: Judicial Decision-Making in China. Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Contextualizing Advocates of Humanity: History, Ecology of Fields, and Transnational Legal Ordering by Joachim J. Savelsberg

Lohne, Kjersti. Advocates for Humanity: Human Rights NGOs in International Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press, 2019.