Routledge Cavendish imprint: 297 books
by David Seymour
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2007
Whilst an increasing amount of attention is being paid to law's connection or involvement with National Socialism, less attention is focused upon thinking through the links between law and the emergence of antisemitism. As a consequence, antisemitism is presented as a pre-existent given, as something...
Evgeny Pashukanis
A Critical Reappraisal
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
A thorough examination of Pashukanis’ writings, this book is a significant contribution to a proper assessment of Pashukanis’ work, the value of his theoretical legacy and the contemporary relevance of Marxist legal theory.
Interest in the best-known Soviet legal scholar, Evgeny Pashukanis,...
Jurisprudence
From The Greeks To Post-Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This challenging book on jurisprudence begins by posing questions in the post-modern context,and then seeks to bridge the gap between our traditions and contemporary situation.
It offers a narrative encompassing the birth of western philosophy in the Greeks and moves through medieval Christendom,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
Examining specific areas of family law from a feminist perspective, this book assesses the impact that feminism has had upon family law. It is deliberately broad in scope, as it takes the view that family law cannot be defined in a traditional way. In addition to issues of long-standing concern for...
by Ilias Bantekas, Susan Nash
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Providing an introduction to, and detailed examination of substantive, enforcement and procedural aspects of international criminal law, this book’s examination of international and transnational crimes under treaty and customary law has been fully updated and revised.
Exploring the enforcement...
Welfare's Forgotten Past
A Socio-Legal History of the Poor Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
That ‘poor law was law’ is a fact that has slipped from the consciousness of historians of welfare in England and Wales, and in North America. Welfare's Forgotten Past remedies this situation by tracing the history of the legal right of the settled poor to relief when destitute. Poor law was not...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Law and the City offers a lateral, critical and often unexpected description of some of the most important cities in the world, including Moscow, Istanbul, Berlin, Singapore, Athens, Mexico City, Toronto, Sydney, Johannesburg: each one from a distinctive legal perspective.
An invaluable 'guide'...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
A Developing World Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
This book highlights the tremendous shift in the traditional arrangements for the delivery of civil justice in the Commonwealth Caribbean, from litigation to alternative dispute resolution (ADR) processes. Over the last quarter of a century, much learning has taken place on the topic of ADR and the...
by Brian Pillans, Nicholas Bourne
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The second edition of this successful book incorporates many important developments, such as the changing judicial approach to directors' duties and disqualification orders, recent developments in auditors' liability and the effect of the House of Lords decision in Sharp v Thompson. New legislation...
Re-thinking Intellectual Property
The Political Economy of Copyright Protection in the Digital Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2008
Copyright laws, along with other Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), constitute the legal foundation for the "global knowledge-based economy" and copyright law now plays an increasingly important role in the creation of business fortunes, the access to and dissemination of knowledge, and...
Rules, Rubrics and Riches
The Interrelations between Legal Reform and International Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Rules, Rubrics and Riches highlights the limitations of existing approaches to understanding the relationship of the law to the process of development. It interrogates neoclassical economic thinking that draws on the narrow rubric of self-interest to understand the acquisition of riches. It takes...
Human Rights and the Protection of Privacy in Tort Law
A Comparison between English and German Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
In its case law, the European Court of Human Rights has acknowledged that national courts are bound to give effect to Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) which sets out the right to private and family life, when they rule on controversies between private individuals. Article...
Judicial Recourse to Foreign Law
A New Source of Inspiration?
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Accessible and clearly structured, this is the first book to include examinations of public and private law in the discussion about access to foreign laws. With commentaries by an international collection of leading judges in the field, it looks at the practice in a range of countries spread across...
by Ian Ward
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Introduction to Critical Legal Theory provides an accessible introduction to the study of law and legal theory. It covers all the seminal movements in classical, modern and postmodern legal thought, engaging the reader with the ideas of jurists as diverse as Aristotle, Hobbes and Kant, Marx, Foucault...