Nick Cheesman is a Fellow in the Department of Political & Social Change, Australian National University, where he convenes the Interpretation, Method and Critique network with April Biccum. His research sits at the nexus between law, violence and politics, in principle and in practice. Currently, he is studying the work that torture does in mainland Southeast Asia. He is the author of Opposing the Rule of Law: How Myanmar’s Courts Make Law and Order (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and joint editor of the Southeast Asia Publications Series for NUS Press. From 2019 he is hosting a new podcast series, New Books in Interpretive Social Science, on the New Books Network.