This issue of the Review offers two timely contributions. The first is a symposium on a phenomenon at the nexus of criminal and civil justice, affecting vulnerable people in the US and around the world: immigrant detention. The articles and the introduction by special issue editor Emily Ryo mark, as Professor Ryo observes, the development of “a systematic field of study devoted to investigating the causes, conditions, and the consequences of immigration detention.”
The second contribution is a collection of tributes to the work and life of the late Sally Engle Merry. As the tributes reveal, Professor Merry was a brilliant and accomplished scholar, a generous mentor, an engaged and supportive colleague, and a dear and valued friend. She was also a past-president of the Law and Society Association (1993–1995), and won in 2007 the Association's Kalven Prize for an outstanding body of scholarship in the law and society field. In 2002, she was awarded the Association's Hurst Prize for the best book in sociolegal history (Colonizing Hawai'i: The Cultural Power of Law, Princeton University Press).
As the contributions in this issue attest, the work of law and society scholars is important, illuminating, and impactful.
