Professors in Print

Ruskola wins distinguished book award

The Section on East Asian Law and Society for the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) has selected Emory Law Professor Teemu Ruskola’s book, Legal Orientalism: China, the United States, and Modern Law, for its first-ever Distinguished Book Award. Nomination of monographs on a topic related to East Asian law and society, notably published from 2013 to 2016, were considered for the award. Panelists ultimately selected the “path- breaking” Legal Orientalism as “most worthy of the accolade.” Ruskola is a professor of law, and his scholarship researches comparative and international legal history and theory with a focus on Chinese law.

The book was also released in Chinese this past fall as 法律东方主义: 中国, 美国与现代法律 (China University of Politics and Law Press, 2016), translated by Professor Wei Leijie of Xiamen University.

Terrell publishes book on legal reasoning

Emory Law Professor Timothy P. Terrell has published his newest book on legal reasoning, The Dimensions of Legal Reasoning: Developing Analytical Acuity from Law School to Law Practice.

The book, for both legal beginners and veteran practitioners, begins with some basics of legal thinking, then explores fundamental issues of legal theory and current legal conflict.

The Dimensions of Legal Reasoning gathers in one place the message of the first 40 percent of Terrell’s Jurisprudence course. “I can now concentrate my approach and make it more accessible to law students. With this book, I try to present a comprehensive picture of what a thorough and ambitious argument would entail in a difficult case or policy argument,” he says.