Critical Concepts in Law

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1. Law and Development

   Edited by Julio Faundez

   Series: Critical Concepts in Law

   Law and Development emerged in the United States in the 1960s and rapidly spread throughout the world. Its intellectual origins can be traced back to the boundless confidence of some American legal academics about the possibilities of achieving democratic change in developing countries through...

   Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge
2. Critical Legal Theory

   Edited by Costas Douzinas, Colin Perrin

   Series: Critical Concepts in Law

   Critical Legal Theory has conventionally been traced to the social, political, and philosophical movements of the 1960s and, before that, to the early-twentieth-century ‘realist’ critique of modern jurisprudence. In truth, however, its origins go back to classical and pre-modern thought, and to...

   Published December 13th 2011 by Routledge
3. International Law

   Edited by Joseph Weiler, Alan Nissel

   Series: Critical Concepts in Law

   This Critical Concepts series (a Routledge Major Work) is an anthology of influential works on international law. The collection covers the principal facets of both classical and contemporary international law. In making their selection, J.H.H. Weiler and Alan T. Nissel consulted with a wide range...

   Published June 30th 2011 by Routledge
4. Law and Institutions of Modern China

   Edited by Sanzhu Zhu

   Series: Critical Concepts in Law

   In the past three decades, the Chinese legal system has undergone a substantial transformation, reflecting the economic, social, culture, administrative, and political changes taking place in China. Compared with the situation in the early 1950s when the newly established People’s Republic of China...

   Published June 16th 2011 by Routledge
5. International Economic Law

   Edited by Asif H. Qureshi, Xuan Gao

   Series: Critical Concepts in Law

   The legal foundations of the international economy—which underpin both the actions of sovereign states, as well as the conduct of individuals and business entities engaged in cross-border transactions—are now more than ever a crucial site for scholarly exploration. Indeed, with the growing impact...

   Published July 13th 2010 by Routledge
6. Feminist Legal Studies

   Edited by Joanne Conaghan

   Series: Critical Concepts in Law

   A close engagement with law has long been a core dimension of feminist activism. However, it is only since the late twentieth century that a distinct and vital body of academic literature addressing the nature, effects, and limits of that engagement has emerged. In particular, from the 1980s...

   Published January 7th 2009 by Routledge
7. Law and Economics

   Edited by Nicholas Mercuro

   Series: Critical Concepts in Law

   Edited and introduced by a leading academic in the field, this is a new Routledge Major Work in the Critical Concepts in Law series. Law and Economics is a five-volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge research on the application of economic theory - primarily microeconomics and the basic...

   Published August 29th 2007 by Routledge
8. Intellectual Property Rights

   Edited by David Vaver

   Series: Critical Concepts in Law

   Countries with innovative local industries almost invariably have laws to foster innovation by regulating the copying of inventions, identifying symbols and creative expressions. These laws encompass four separate and distinct types of intangible property – patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade...

   Published December 14th 2005 by Routledge