Forthcoming Law Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Governing Sustainable Urban Renewal

   Partnerships in Action

   By Rory Shand

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

   Environmental and sustainability issues are currently stretched by economic concerns and policy areas such as housing and education are therefore needed more than ever to help regenerate the social and urban environment. Governing Sustainable Urban Renewal: Partnerships in Action uses detailed case...

   To Be Published April 7th 2013 by Routledge
2. Deleuze & Guattari

   Emergent Law

   By Jamie Murray

   Series: Nomikoi Critical Legal Thinkers

   Deleuze & Guattari: Emergent Law is an exposition and development of Deleuze & Guattari's legal theory. Although there has been considerable interest in Deleuze & Guattari in critical legal studies, as well as considerable interest in legality in Deleuze & Guattari studies, this is...

   To Be Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge-Cavendish
3. Texts and Materials on International Human Rights

   3rd Edition

   By Rhona K.M. Smith

   Text and Materials on International Human Rights offers a carefully tailored overview of the subject, divided into four sections that cover: sources and theories; institutions and structures; substantive rights; and a new concluding section on the challenges for human rights law. The third edition...

   To Be Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge-Cavendish
4. Energy and Electricity in Industrial Nations

   The Sociology and Technology of Energy

   By Allan Mazur

   Energy is at the top of the list of environmental problems facing industrial society, and is arguably the one that has been handled least successfully, in part because politicians and the public do not understand the physical technologies, while the engineers and industrialists do not understand...

   To Be Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
5. Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade

   Remedying the 'Past'?

   Edited by Fernne Brennan, John Packer

   Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade: Remedying the ‘Past’? Addresses how reparations might be obtained for the legacy of the Trans Atlantic slave trade. This collection lends weight to the argument that liability is not extinguished on the death of the plaintiffs or perpetrators. Arguing...

   To Be Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
6. Combating Economic Crimes

   Balancing Competing Rights and Interests in Prosecuting the Crime of Illicit Enrichment

   By Ndiva Kofele-Kale

   Series: Routledge Research in Transnational Crime and Criminal Law

   In the last decade a new tool has been developed in the global war against official corruption through the introduction of the offense of "illicit enrichment" in almost every multilateral anti-corruption convention. Illicit enrichment is defined in these conventions to include a reverse burden...

   To Be Published April 12th 2013 by Routledge
7. Prospects for the Professions in China

   Edited by William P Alford, William Kirby, Kenneth Winston

   Series: Routledge Studies on Civil Society in Asia

   Professionals are a growing group in China and increasingly make their presence felt in governance and civil society. At the same time, however, professionals in the West are under increasing pressure from commercialism or scepticism about their ability to rise above self-interest. This book...

   To Be Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. Policing Serious Crime in China

   From 'Strike Hard' to 'Kill Fewer'

   By Susan Trevaskes

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   Despite a resurgence in the number of studies of Chinese social control over the past decade or so, no sustained work in English has detailed the recent developments in policy and practice against serious crime, despite international recognition that Chinese policing of serious crime is relatively...

   To Be Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. Fraud and Carbon Markets

   The Carbon Connection

   By Marius-Christian Frunza

   Series: Environmental Market Insights

   The VAT Carousel Fraud has seriously undermined the financial integrity of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). This timely book is the first to give an overview of fraud in the carbon market. Written by a former broker, it presents unique material on the carbon fraud mechanics and...

   To Be Published April 15th 2013 by Routledge
10. Theory and Practice of Dialogical Community Development

    International Perspectives

    By Peter Westoby, Gerard Dowling

    This book proposes that community development has been increasingly influenced and co-opted by a modernist, soulless, rational philosophy - reducing it to a shallow technique for ‘solving community problems’. In contrast, this dialogical approach re-maps the ground of community development practice...

    To Be Published April 16th 2013 by Routledge