This collection of workshop presentations refined into critical articles is excellent evidence of the service provided by the International Institute of the Sociology of Law (the "IISL") to the global community of socio-legal scholars interested in the sociology of law. For many years, the IISL has drawn together an elite band of researchers and thinkers in a summer workshop programme; the topics for which are selected to stimulate the broadest cutting-edge consideration around the intersection of law and society.