Legal Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. Weak Constitutionalism

   Democratic Legitimacy and the Question of Constituent Power

   By Joel Colón-Ríos

   Series: Routledge Research in Constitutional Law

   It has been frequently argued that democracy is protected and realized under constitutions that protect certain rights and establish the conditions for a functioning representative democracy. However, some democrats still find something profoundly unsettling about contemporary constitutional...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. Risk and the Law

   Edited by Gordon Woodman, Diethelm Klippel

   Natural and man-made risks have long been recognised as vital conditioning factors in the formation of social institutions and the conduct of social life. In this volume internationally recognised experts examine in detail the implications in practice of the modern concept of risk in particular...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
3. The Fragility of Law

   Constitutional Patriotism and the Jews of Belgium, 1940–1945

   By David Fraser

   The Fragility of Law examines the ways in which, during the Second World War, the Belgian government and judicial structure became implicated in the identification, exclusion and killing of its Jewish residents, and in the theft - through Aryanization - of Jewish property. David Fraser...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
4. Justice, Judocracy and Democracy in India

   Boundaries and Breaches

   By Sudhanshu Ranjan

   This book is an innovative approach to studying ‘judicial activism’ in the Indian context. While discussing the varying roles of the judiciary, it delineates the boundaries of different organs of the State — judiciary, executive and legislature — and highlights the points where these boundaries...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge India
5. Jurisprudence

   Themes and Concepts, 2nd Edition

   By Scott Veitch, Emilios Christodoulidis, Lindsay Farmer

   Jurisprudence: Themes and Concepts offers an original introduction to, and critical analysis of, the central themes studied in jurisprudence courses. The book is presented in three parts each of which contains General Themes, Advanced Topics, tutorial questions and guidance on further reading:...

   Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
6. Reading Modern Law

   Critical Methodologies and Sovereign Formations

   Edited by Ruth Buchanan, Stewart Motha, Sundhya Pahuja

   Reading Modern Law identifies and elaborates upon key critical methodologies for reading and writing about law in modernity. The force of law rests on determinate and localizable authorizations, as well as an expansive capacity to encompass what has not been pre-figured by an order of rules. The...

   Published May 3rd 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
7. Reaffirming Legal Ethics

   Taking Stock and New Ideas

   Edited by Kieran Tranter, Francesca Bartlett, Lillian Corbin, Michael Robertson, Reid Mortensen

   Series: Routledge Research in Legal Ethics

   It has been over thirty years since the founding crises that birthed legal ethics as both a field of study and a discrete field of law. In that time thinking about the ethical dimension of legal practice has taken several turns: from justifications of zealous advocacy, to questions of process and...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
8. Reading The Legal Case

   Cross-Currents between Law and the Humanities

   Edited by Marco Wan

   This volume examines the nature, function, development and epistemological assumptions of the legal case in an interdisciplinary context. Using the question of ‘reading’ as a guiding principle, it opens up new ways of understanding case law and the doctrine of precedent by bringing the law into...

   Published April 29th 2012 by Routledge
9. Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical

   By Amy Swiffen

   Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical explores the idea that legal authority is no longer related to national sovereignty, but to the ‘moral’ attempt to nurture life. The book argues that whilst the relationship between law and ethics has long been a central concern in legal studies, it is now the...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
10. Jurisdiction in Deleuze: The Expression and Representation of Law

    By Edward Mussawir

    Jurisdiction in Deleuze: The Expression and Representation of Law explores an affinity between the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and jurisprudence as a tradition of technical legal thought. The author addresses and reopens a central aesthetic problem in jurisprudence: the difference between the...

    Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge