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A Good Read

Rasheedah Phillips - Dismantling the Master's Clock

Race, Time, and Quantum Physics

In this post for A Good Read, Professor Emily Grabham reviews Rasheedah Phillips’s new book, Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time (AK Press, 2025).

Cressida Auckland - Values and Disorder in Mental Capacity Law

Putting ‘Values’ Back in Mental Capacity Law

In this post for A Good Read, Dr Urania Chiu reviews Cressida Auckland’s monograph, Values and Disorder in Mental Capacity Law (Cambridge University Press, 2024).

Lynette J. Chua and Mark Fathi Massoud - Out of Place: Fieldwork and Positionality in Law and Society

The Power and Pain of Positionality

In this post for A Good Read, Dr Ellie Whittingdale reviews Chua and Massoud's edited collection, Out of Place: Fieldwork and Positionality in Law and Society (Cambridge University Press, 2024).

Conor Heaney - Contemporary Capitalism and Mental Health: Rhythms of Everyday Life

Rhythm as Method

In this post for A Good Read, Dr Jess Connolly-Smith reviews Conor Heaney's new book, Contemporary Capitalism and Mental Health: Rhythms of Everyday Life (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).

Claerwen O’Hara and Tamsin Phillipa Paige - Queer Encounters with International Law and Queer Engagements with International Law

Que(e)rying International Law

In this post for A Good Read, Dr. Senthorun Raj reviews O’Hara and Paige's collection, Queer Encounters with International Law and Queer Engagements with International Law (Routledge 2024, 2025)

Zoe Adams - The Legal Concept of Work

The Law’s Making of Work

In this post for A Good Read, Francesca Barp reviews Zoe Adams' book, The Legal Concept of Work (Oxford University Press, 2022).

Jaime Lindsey - Reimagining the Court of Protection

Unheard Voices in the Court of Protection: Reimagining Justice for the Vulnerable

In this post for A Good Read, Viktoriia Hamaiunova reviews Jaime Lindsey’s book, Reimagining the Court of Protection (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Agata Fijalkowski - Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial

Expanding the Archive of Show Trials

In this post for A Good Read, Dr. Minou Arjomand reviews Agata Fijalkowski’s book, Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial (Routledge, 2023).

Valérie Hayaert - Lady Justice

Encounters with Justice

In this post for A Good Read, Dr. Isobel Roele reviews Valérie Hayaert’s new book, Lady Justice: An Anatomy of an Allegory (Edinburgh University Press, 2023).

Ethan Michelson - Decoupling

Marital and Institutional Decoupling in China

In this post for A Good Read, Dr. Anna High reviews Ethan Michelson’s book, Decoupling: Gender Injustice in China’s Divorce Courts (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

David Graeber and David Wengrow - The Dawn of Everything

What if the State Isn’t Inevitable?

In this post for A Good Read, Dr. Dominik Krell reviews David Graeber and David Wengrow's new book, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Penguin Books, 2022).

Jonas Bens - The Sentimental Court

The Power of Emotions: The Affective Nature of International Criminal Justice

In this post for A Good Read, Dr. Florian Grisel reviews Jonas Bens' new book, The Sentimental Court: The Affective Life of International Criminal Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2022)