Law Books

New and Published Books

1. Private Copying

   By Stavroula Karapapa

   Series: Routledge Research in Intellectual Property

   This book offers an original analysis of private copying and determines its actual scope as an area of end-user freedom. The basis of this examination is Article 5(2)(b) of the Copyright Directive. Despite the fact that copying for private and non-commercial use is permitted by virtue of this...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
2. Extending the Protection of Geographical Indications

   Case Studies of Agricultural Products in Africa

   Edited by Michael Blakeney, Thierry Coulet, Getachew Mengistie, Marcelin Tonye Mahop

   The TRIPS Agreement (for trade-related intellectual property rights) provides for the general protection of geographical indications (GIs) of product origin, including for example the special protection of wines and spirits and for the creation of a multilateral register for wines. The African...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
3. Techniques of Crime Scene Investigation, Eighth Edition

   By Barry A. J. Fisher, David R. Fisher

   "If you are a Professional Crime Scene Investigator, then this book is a must have for both your personal forensic reference library, as well as your office reference library." —Edward W. Wallace Jr., Certified Senior Crime Scene Analyst, Retired First Grade Detective, NYPD"Techniques of Crime...

   Published May 21st 2012 by CRC Press
4. Conservation and Sustainable Development

   Linking Practice and Policy in Eastern Africa

   Edited by Jonathan Davies

   Series: Earthscan Conservation and Development

   The links between policy and practice in natural resource management are often depicted as a cyclical and rational process. In reality, policymaking and implementation are often irrational, unpredictable and highly political. Many science and knowledge-based institutions undertake rigorous research...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
5. Maritime Slavery

   Edited by Philip Morgan

   Think of maritime slavery, and the notorious Middle Passage – the unprecedented, forced migration of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic – readily comes to mind. This so-called ‘middle leg’ – from Africa to the Americas – of a supposed trading triangle linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
6. Human Rights Rhetoric

   Traditions of Testifying and Witnessing

   Edited by Arabella Lyon, Lester C Olson

   Series: Rhetoric Society Quarterly

   Rhetoric scholars have articulated diverse approaches to both civil and human rights as political, ethical, and academic discourses. “Traditions of Testifying and Witnessing” initiates important interdisciplinary conversations within human rights rhetoric concerning the construction of rights...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
7. Women in the Judiciary

   Edited by Ulrike Schultz, Gisela Shaw

   Does gender matter in judging? And if so, in what way? Why were there so few women judges only two or three decades ago, and why are there so many now in most countries of the Western world? How do women judges experience their work in a previously male-dominated environment? What are their...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
8. Crime Control and Community

   Edited by Gordon Hughes, Adam Edwards

   Community-based crime control has become one of the principal policy responses to crime and disorder across western societies, and is regarded now as one of the keys to successful crime prevention and reduction. The aim of this book is to bring together findings from case studies of community-based...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
9. Police Custody

   Governance, Legitimacy and Reform in the Criminal Justice Process

   By Layla Skinns

   Police custody acts as an important gateway to the criminal justice process. Much is at stake here for both staff and suspects as what happens in police custody can have important consequences further down the line. This book offers a timely contribution to research on police custody, which has...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
10. Policing Images

    By Rob Mawby

    In recent years the police have become one of the most watched and most visible organisations, and across the media there has been constant interest in the police. In such a situation the police themselves have been intensely concerned with promoting, projecting and protecting the police image....

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge