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A Good Read

Kalyani Ramnath - Boats in a Storm

On A Sea of Paper

In this post for A Good Read, Shruti Iyer reviews Kalyani Ramnath's book, Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942–1962 (Stanford University Press, 2023)

Lucy Welsh - Access to Justice in Magistrates' Courts

A Magistracy without Majesty

In this post for A Good Read, James Campbell reviews Lucy Welsh's book, Access to Justice in Magistrates’ Courts (Hart, 2022).

Silvana Tapia Tapia - Feminism, Violence Against Women and Law Reform

How Rights-based Penality Leads Nowhere

In this post for A Good Read, Dr. Linnea Wegerstad reviews Silvana Tapia Tapia's new book, Feminism, Violence Against Women, and Law Reform: Decolonial Lessons from Ecuador (Routledge, 2022).

Russell Sandberg - Subversive Legal Education

Subversive Legal History belongs in Law Schools

In this post for A Good Read, Dr. Nick Cartwright reviews Russell Sandberg's new book, Subversive Legal History: A Manifesto for the Future of Legal Education (Routledge, 2022).

Andrew Boon - Lawyers and the Rule of Law

The Rule-of-Law Myth and Its Advocates

In this post for A Good Read, Professor Sida Liu reviews Andrew Boon's new book, Lawyers and the Rule of Law (Hart, 2022).

Melissa Crouch - Women and the Judiciary in the Asia Pacific

The Promising Paradox of Women and the Judiciary

In this post for A Good Read, Professor Erika Rackley reviews Melissa Crouch's edited collection, Women and the Judiciary in the Asia-Pacific (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Adébísí - Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility

How to Decolonise Legal Knowledge for All?

In this post for A Good Read, Dr Shailesh Kumar reviews Folúkẹ́ Adébísí's book, Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility (Bristol University Press, 2023).

Pavone - The Ghostwriters

The Judicial Construction of Europe, from the Bar and the Bench

In this post for A Good Read, Dr Florian Grisel reviews Tommaso Pavone's book, The Ghostwriters: Lawyers and the Politics behind the Judicial Construction of Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Series - Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution

Social Care Detention in the Post-Carceral Era

In this post for A Good Read, Dr Ezgi Taşcıoğlu reviews Lucy Series' book, Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution (Bristol University Press, 2022).

Bloomer and Campbell - Decriminalizing Abortion in Northern Ireland

Abortion Rights Activism and Law Reform in Northern Ireland

In this post for A Good Read, Dr. Zoe L. Tongue reviews Fiona Bloomer and Emma Campbell's edited collection, Decriminalizing Abortion in Northern Ireland (Bloomsbury, 2022).

Raj - Feeling Queer Jurisprudence

Decoding the Affective Life of Law

In this post for A Good Read, Professor Aleardo Zanghellini reviews Senthorun Raj's book, Feeling Queer Jurisprudence: Injury, Intimacy, Identity (Routledge, 2020).

Suresh - Terror Trials

Truth and Technicalities in Terror Trials

In this post for A Good Read, Ayesha Pattnaik reviews Mayur Suresh's new book, Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts (Fordham University Press, 2022)