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A Good Read

Robins and Newman Justice in a Time of Austerity

Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short

Ann Mumford reviews Jon Robins and Daniel Newman's new book Justice in a Time of Austerity: Stories From a System in Crisis (Bristol University Press, 2021)

Watson and Douglas

Finding Justice through Indigenous Voices     

Carson Smith reviews Nicole Watson and Heather Douglas' new edited collection, Indigenous Legal Judgments: Bringing Indigenous Voices into Judicial Decision Making (Routledge, 2021).

Biber, Luker, and Vaughan - Law's Documents - Front Cover

Paratexts

Professor Peter Goodrich reviews the new edited collection by Katherine Biber, Trish Luker, and Priya Vaughan (eds) Law's Documents: Authority, Materiality, Aesthetics (Routledge, 2021).

Hillier and Dingwall - Criminal Justice and the Pursuit of Truth

To be Perfectly Honest …

In this post for A Good Read, Donald Nicolson reviews Tim Hillier and Gavin Dingwall's new book, Criminal Justice and the Pursuit of Truth (Bristol University Press, 2021).

Paul Passavant, Policing Protest

Black Lives, ‘Not a Big Deal’

Maria Aristodemou reviews Paul Passavant's new book, Policing Protest: The Post-Democratic State and the Figure of Black Insurrection (Duke University Press, 2021).

Anna Aseeva, From Corporate Social Responsibility to Corporate Social Liability

The ‘Economic’ and the ‘Legal’ in Corporate Liability and its Negation

David Campbell reviews Anna Aseeva's new book, From Corporate Social Responsibility to Corporate Social Liability: A Socio-Legal Study of Corporate Liability in Global Value Chains (Hart, 2021).

van Oorschot, The Law Multiple

The Making of Truths in Dutch Criminal Court 

Marina Kurkchiyan reviews Irene van Oorschot's new book, The Law Multiple: Judgment and Knowledge in Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Peter Goodrich, Advanced Introduction to Law and Literature

A Prophetic Foretaste of Law’s Past: A Review of Peter Goodrich, Advanced Introduction to Law and Literature

Gary Watt reviews Peter Goodrich's new book, Advanced Introduction to Law and Literature (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021).

Herbert M Kritzer's Advanced Introduction to Empirical Legal Research (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021)

Divergent Histories and Shifting Sands?

Linda Mulcahy reviews Herbert M. Kritzer's new book Advanced Introduction to Empirical Legal Research (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021).

Robyn Bartel and Jennifer Carter (eds) Handbook on Place, Space and Law

Crisis, Hope, and the Journey towards Imagined Legal Futures

Jessica Smith reviews Robyn Bartel and Jennifer Carter (eds) Handbook on Space, Place and Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021).

Brian Tamanaha Legal Pluralism Explained: History, Theory, Consequences (2021) (Oxford University Press)

Learning and Living Legal Pluralism

Jiří Přibáň reviews Brian Z. Tamanaha's new book Legal Pluralism Explained: History, Theory, Consequences (Oxford University Press, 2021).

Sofia Stolk The Opening Statement of the Prosecution in International Criminal Trials

Contradictions and Uneasy Dualities

Victoria McCloud reviews Sofia Stolk's new book, The Opening Statement of the Prosecution in International Criminal Trials: A Solemn Tale of Horror (Routledge, 2021).