Congratulations to Eve Darian-Smith, Professor and Chair of Global Studies. Her recent book,  Laws and Societies in Global Contexts: Contemporary Approaches, has received the 2015 International Book Award in the Law category.

About the book:  Law and society scholarship in the United States and elsewhere typically assumes one legal system and one society and explores the relationship between them. Such a narrow endeavor perpetuates a Western international relations model that too often conflates law, culture, and the nation-state. A more global sociolegal perspective engages with multiple laws and societies within and across national borders and recognizes diverse sociolegal systems based on very different historical and cultural traditions, interacting on multiple local, national, and global levels.