Routledge Cavendish imprint: 297 books
Law and Evil
Philosophy, Politics, Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Law and Evil opens, expands and deepens our understanding of the phenomenon of evil by addressing the theoretical relationship between this phenomenon and law. Hannah Arendt said 'the problem of evil will be the fundamental question of post-war intellectual life in Europe'. This statement is, unfortunately,...
by Guido Alpa, Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Italian Private Law provides an excellent overview and analysis of Italian private law and its transition from the early twentieth century legal tradition to a system based on constitutional values, geared towards European integration.
Exploring the eclectic yet systematically solid foundations...
The Politics of the Common Law
Perspectives, Rights, Processes, Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The Politics of the Common Law offers a critical introduction to the legal system of England and Wales. Unlike other conventional accounts, this revised and updated second edition presents a coherent argument, organised around the central claim that contemporary postcolonial common law must be understood...
Informal Reckonings
Conflict Resolution in Mediation, Restorative Justice, and Reparations
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
The 'reparational turn' in the field of law has resulted in the increased use of so-called 'informal' approaches to conflict resolution, including primarily the three mechanisms considered in this book: mediation, restorative justice and reparations. While proponents of these mechanisms have acclaimed...
Lawscape
Property, Environment, Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Lawscape: Property, Environment, Law considers the ways in which property law transforms both natural environments and social economies. Addressing law's relationship to land and natural resources through its property regime, Lawscape engages the abstract philosophy of property law with the material...
by Patricia Tuitt
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Race, Law, Resistance is an original and important contribution to current theoretical debates on race and law. The central claims are that racial oppression has profoundly influenced the development of legal doctrine and that the production of subjugated figures like the slave and the refugee has...
Property
Meanings, Histories, Theories
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2007
This critique of property examines its classical conception: addressing its ontology and history, as well as considering its symbolic aspects and connection to social relations of power.
It is organized around three themes:
the ways in which concepts of property are symbolically and...
by Bruno Zeller
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Pushing the boundaries between domestic and unified laws, this book explores the differences between unification and harmonization. Bruno Zeller provides a critical examination of the Convention for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), the advances of international jurisprudence and the role of...
The Currency of Justice
Fines and Damages in Consumer Societies
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
Fines and monetary damages account for the majority of legal sanctions across the whole spectrum of legal governance. Money is, in key respects, the primary tool law has to achieve compliance. Yet money has largely been ignored by social analyses of law, and especially by social theory.
The...
Law in the Pursuit of Development
Principles into Practice?
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Law in the Pursuit of Development critically explores the relationships between contemporary principles and practice in law and development. Including papers by internationally renowned, as well as emerging, scholars and practitioners, the book is organized around the three liberal principles which...
Governance through Development
Poverty Reduction Strategies, International Law and the Disciplining of Third World States
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Governance through Development locates the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) framework within the broader context of international law and global governance, exploring its impact on third world state engagement with the global political economy and the international regulatory norms and institutions...
Law and Development
Facing Complexity in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This new book is an edited collection of papers arising from a conference on Law and Development in the twenty-first century held in 2001. It is in honour of the work of Dr Peter Slinn.
by Ross Coates, Nicholas Attwell
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
The basic essentials of the conveyancing transaction are of long standing, but recent years have seen many developments, which this book incorporates. As the legal profession has endeavoured to adapt to commercial pressures, so the art and practice of conveyancing has had to respond to the realities...
Assisted Dying
Reflections on the Need for Law Reform
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2007
Assisted Dying explores the law relating to euthanasia and assisted suicide, tracing its development from prohibition through to the laissez faire attitude adopted in a number of countries in the 21st Century. This book provides an in-depth critique of the arguments surrounding legislative control...