Judith Townend and Lucy Welsh  In our Meet the Book Author Series, the Journal of Law and Society and the Centre of Law and Society provide first-hand accounts from authors who have recently contributed notable socio-legal books to their respective fields. In this post, we hear from Judith Townend and Lucy Welsh, whose new book Observing Justice: Digital Transparency, Openness and Accountability in Criminal Courts was published in 2023 with Bristol University Press. What is the book about?  Essentially, how one observes the process of criminal justice in the courts, and holds the j ..read more

Paul Burgees, Monash University In our Meet the Book Author Series, the Journal of Law and Society and the Centre of Law and Society provide first-hand accounts from authors who have recently contributed notable socio-legal books to their respective fields. In this post, we hear from Paul Burgees from Monash University, whose new book AI and the Rule of Law: The Necessary Evolution of a Concept was published in 2024 with Bloomsbury Publishing. This is a book that answers a question that has puzzled me for quite some time: how will our concept of the Rule of Law need to change in order to acc ..read more

Briony Jones, Warwick University In our Meet the Book Author Series, the Journal of Law and Society and the Centre of Law and Society provide first-hand accounts from authors who have recently contributed notable socio-legal books to their respective fields. In this post, we hear from Briony Jones from Warwick University, whose new book The Transitional Justice Citizen: From Justice Receiver to Justice Seeker  was published in 2023 with Edward Elgar. What is the book about? This book was a long time in the making, it brings together theoretical threads and empirical analysis which ..read more

Joanne Conaghan and Yvette Russell In our Meet the Book Author Series, the Journal of Law and Society and the Centre of Law and Society provide first-hand accounts from authors who have recently contributed notable socio-legal books to their respective fields. In this post, we hear from Joanne Conaghan and Yvette Russell, whose new book Sexual History and the Rape Trial was published in October 2023 with Bristol University Press. What is the book about?  This book is an in-depth investigation of what is known in sexual offences trials as ‘sexual history evidence’. This is evidence ..read more

Marc Trabsky, La Trobe University In our Meet the Book Author Series, the Journal of Law and Society and the Centre of Law and Society provide first-hand accounts from authors who have recently contributed notable socio-legal books to their respective fields. In this post, we hear from Marc Trabsky, whose new book Death: New Trajectories of Law was published in July 2023 with Routledge. What is the book about? My book examines how legal institutions reify the value of death in the twenty-first century. Its starting point is that bio-technological innovations have extended life to such a ..read more

Shea Elizabeth Esterling, University of Canterbury, Faculty of Law (Aotearoa New Zealand) In our Meet the Book Author Series, the Journal of Law and Society and the Centre of Law and Society provide first-hand accounts from authors who have recently contributed notable socio-legal books to their respective fields. In this post, we hear from Shea Elizabeth Esterling, whose new book Indigenous Cultural Property and International Law: Restitution, Rights and Wrongs was published in October 2023 with Routledge. What is the book about?  Examining the restitution of cultural property to Indig ..read more

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Angelo Capuano, Central Queensland University In our Meet the Book Author Series, the Journal of Law and Society and the Centre of Law and Society provide first-hand accounts from authors who have recently contributed notable socio-legal books to their respective fields. In this post, we hear from Angelo Capuano, whose new book Class and Social Background Discrimination in the Modern Workplace: Mapping Inequality in the Digital Age was published in July 2023 with Bristol University Press. What is the book about?  My book aims to do two main things. First, it unpacks the law in Aust ..read more