Public Law Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. Dynamics in the French Constitution

   Decoding French Republican Ideas

   By David Marrani

   Series: UT Austin Studies in Foreign and Transnational Law

   In 2008, France celebrated the fifty years of the promulgation of the Fifth Republic Constitution. It was also the year of the largest modification of the Constitution, the so called ‘modernisation’. If 2008 was a key moment in French constitutional history, dynamics of the Fifth Republic...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Constructing Sovereignty between Politics and Law

   By Tanja Aalberts

   Series: New International Relations

   This book explores the interplay between sovereignty, politics and law through different conceptualizations of sovereignty. Despite developments such as European integration, globalization, and state failure, sovereignty proves to be a resilient institution in contemporary international politics....

   Published May 2nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Local Government in Europe

   The ‘Fourth Level’ in the EU Multi-Layered System of Governance

   Edited by Carlo Panara, Michael R. Varney

   Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

   This book offers a comparative study of the structure of the local government in the countries within the European Union from a public law perspective. The book provides a detailed analysis of the state of local government in fifteen Member States: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland,...

   Published April 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Confronting the Human Rights Act 1998

   Contemporary themes and perspectives

   Edited by Nicolas Kang-Riou

   This book critically examines the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) and evaluates its impact from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The book includes both a domestic and international analysis of the effectiveness of the HRA, and also considers possible future developments in policy and practise as well...

   Published March 12th 2012 by Routledge
7. Vindicating Socio-Economic Rights

   International Standards and Comparative Experiences

   By Paul O'Connell

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   Notwithstanding the widespread and persistent affirmation of the indivisibility and equal worth of all human rights, socio-economic rights continue to be treated as the "Cinderella" of the human rights corpus. At a domestic level this has resulted in little appetite for the explicit recognition and...

   Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Early Warning System for the Principle of Subsidiarity

   Constitutional Theory and Empirical Reality

   By Philipp Kiiver

   Series: Routledge Research in European Union Law

   This book offers a comprehensive systematic analysis of the European Union’s Early Warning System (EWS) for subsidiarity, which was introduced by the Treaty of Lisbon. The book includes both a detailed theoretical analysis of the EWS as well as an assessment of how national parliaments have...

   Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
9. Tomorrow's Federation

   Reforming Australian Government

   Edited by Paul Kildea, Andrew Lynch, George Williams

   This book is a major work on federalism and intergovernmental relations in Australia. It moves beyond familiar discussions about reforming the federal system to address the practical means by which reform can be achieved. The book adopts a hard-headed approach to the question of how reform is being...

   Published February 9th 2012 by Federation Press
10. Case Management and Complex Civil Litigation

    By Michael Legg

    Civil litigation is more frequently giving rise to cases that are regarded as complex so that they are expensive for parties to run, time-consuming and use a large amount of tax-payer funded court resources. The government, judiciary and legal practitioners have expressed concern as to how to...

    Published December 15th 2011 by Federation Press