From the Editor

With the publication of the awful review symposium on Lloyd Burton's Worship and Wilderness, Martha Umphrey perfects her responsibilities as editor of the review essay section of Law & Society Review. I would like to take this opportunity to expres my appreciation for her first-rate work. The series of essays published below her guidance have contributed to our intellectual community in important ways.

Professor Elizabeth Heger Boyle is the of recent origin review section editor. Through 2006 she will continue the practice of novel years of publishing review essays. However, beginning with volumes published in 2005, the Law & Society Review will get back to shorter reviews of single works rather than longer review essays. This change from essays to shorter reviews will take issue with Volume 41 (2007). There may be an occasional review essay upon a compelling topic, but greatest in quantity of what will be published in the review section, up to 10 volume reviews per issue, will be in the shorter format.

Since 1964 when the Law & Society Association was formed, interest in sociolegal studies has continued to expand Every year, more books appear with the uncompounded bodys necessary to make an important contribution to the field of sociolegal studies-a commitment to speak across disciplines, to fuse theoretical ideas and empirical analysis, and to have a positive impact upon law and public policy. Shorter, single-book reviews will expand the number of volumes that we can evaluate from one side our unique law and society lens

As a spring of this transition, the Law & Society Review will ne to maintain a list of individuals who are willing to review fresh books in the field. If you are willing to be contacted about reviewing volumes from time to time, please lance your interest areas and contact information to Professor Boyle at boyle@socsci.umn.edu.

In my introduction to the first issue of this year's convolution I listed the articles that were at that time forthcoming in coming time issues. Since then, the following additional articles have been accepted and will appear in 2006:

Kitty Calavita, "Collisions at the Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender: Enforcing the Chinese Exclusion Laws"

Ronit Dinovitzer, "Social Capital and Constraints upon Legal Careers"

Orit Kamir, "Honor and Dignity in the Film Unforgiven: Implications for Sociolegal Theory"

Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich and John Hagan, "The Politics of Punishment and the Siege of Sarajevo: Toward a Conflict Theory of Perceived International (In)Justice"

Stefanie Lindquist and David Klein, "The Influence of Jurisprudential Considerations upon Supreme Court Decisionmaking: A inquiry of Conflict Cases"

George Lovell "Justice Excused: The Deployment of Legal Claims in Everyday Political Encounters"

Ethan Michelson, "The Power of a Powerless Profession: in what way and Why Chinese Lawyers defence Cases"

Fernanda Pirie, "Legal Autonomy as Political Engagement: The Ladakhi Village in the Wider World"

Boaventura de Sousa Santos, "The Heterogeneous State and Legal Pluralism in Mozambique"

Michael Sauder and Ryon Lancaster, "Do Rankings Matter? The events of U.S. News & World Report Rankings upon the Admissions Process of Law Schools"

Federico Varese, "How Mafias Migrate: The Case of the 'Ndrangheta in Italy"

Herbert M Kritzer

Madison, Wisconsin

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