Law and Social Inquiry is excited to announce a new feature—building a community of book authors who both write books and who also write essays on others’ books. Launching later 2021, in every issue, LSI will present four to five compact essays, 3000 words max, on notable works on law and society beyond the shores of the US.

The topics will reach as widely as the exciting sociolegal work found around the globe: International human rights NGOs and global counter-insurgency; reform of Islam in its 19^th C encounters with  colonial Egypt; surveillance capitalism and the code of capital;  from India’s Supreme Court to the India’s police violence; spanning the Nigerian civil war and Japanese criminal justice; from local courts to workers and orphan relief in China; Islamic law in Somalia and Malaysia as well as US immigration policies and impacts on the Caribbean; spanning corporate lawyers in France to settler colonialism in Canada, Australia, and Israel and Palestine – and so much more.

LSI seeks to create a community of mutually supportive scholars that also embrace the interdisciplinary spectrum on law—anthropologists and historians, economists and interdisciplinary legal scholars, political scientists and specialists in international organizations, global governance and regulatory order scholars, sociologists and interdisciplinary humanities scholars.

The idiom of the international essay section will be constructive and respectful, yet always open to raising questions and pointing out perspective directions for future work on a given topic.

The LSI International Book Essays section is edited by Terence Halliday (American Bar Foundation and Australian National University), a former editor of LSI. The new section is informed by an editorial panel of outstanding book authors, currently including: 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).

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