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Lynette J. Chua is the author of Mobilizing Gay Singapore: Rights and Resistance in an Authoritarian State (2014); The Politics of Love in Myanmar: LGBT Mobilization and Human Rights as a Way of Life (2019); and The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia (2022). She is also President of the Asian Law & Society Association (2022–23). A former President of the Law & Society Association, David Engel has received its Kalven Award, Book Prize, and Article Prize. He is author or co-author of Injury and Injustice (2018); The Myth of the Litigious Society (2016); and Tort, Custom, and Karma: Globalization and Legal Consciousness in Thailand (2010). Sida Liu is a sociologist of law specializing in Chinese law, the legal profession, and sociolegal theory. He is co-author of Criminal Defense in China: The Politics of Lawyers at Work (with Terence C. Halliday, 2016).