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:

Macro-criminology and Freedom: The Durability of Later John Braithwaite by Kieran McEvoy

John Braithwaite. Macrocriminology and Freedom. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2022.

Democracies and Non-Democracies: The Use of International Law and Institutions by Jure Vidmar

Tom Ginsburg. Democracies and International Law. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

The Making of Colonial and Postcolonial Law by South Asian Muslims by Jeffrey A. Redding

Katherine Lemons, Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019.

Elizabeth Lhost. Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2022.