Forthcoming Law Books

Forthcoming Books

1. International Watercourses Law in the Nile River Basin

   Three States at a Crossroads

   By Tadesse Kassa Woldetsadik

   The Nile River and its basin extend over a distinctive geophysical cord connecting eleven sovereign states from Egypt to Tanzania, which are home to an estimated population of 422.2 million people. The Nile is an essential source of water for domestic, industrial and agricultural uses throughout...

   To Be Published February 5th 2013 by Routledge
2. Law and the Question of the Animal

   A Critical Jurisprudence

   Edited by Yoriko Otomo, Edward Mussawir

   Series: Law, Justice and Ecology

   This book addresses the problem of ‘animal life’ in terms that go beyond the usual extension of liberal rights to animals. The discourse of animal rights is one that increasingly occupies the political, ethical and intellectual terrain of modern society. But, although the question of the status of...

   To Be Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge
3. Boy Racer Culture

   Youth, Masculinity and Deviance

   By Karen Lumsden

   Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

   On the public roads boy racers are a foreboding presence, viewed with suspicion and derision by the ‘respectable’ motorist. The problem of the young (male) driver is one which has plagued authorities and governments due to youths’ acclaimed propensity to engage in deviant and dangerous driving...

   To Be Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge
4. Justice as Improvisation

   The Law of the Extempore

   By Sara Ramshaw

   Justice as Improvisation: The Law of the Extempore theorises the relationship between justice and improvisation through the case of the New York City cabaret laws. Discourses around improvisation often imprison it in a quasi-ethical relationship with the authentic, singular ‘other’. The same can be...

   To Be Published February 12th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Sustainable University

   Progress and prospects

   Edited by Stephen Sterling, Larch Maxey, Heather Luna

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development

   The direction of higher education is at a crossroads against a background of mounting sustainability-related issues and uncertainties. This book seeks to inspire positive change in higher education by exploring the rich notion of the sustainable university and illustrating pathways through which...

   To Be Published February 12th 2013 by Routledge
6. Environmental Regulation and Public Disclosure

   The Case of PROPER in Indonesia

   By Shakeb Afsah, Allen Blackman, Jorge H. Garcia, Thomas Sterner

   Series: Environment for Development

   This book is a remarkable case study of an environmental policy initiative for a national environmental regulatory system in the information age. In 1995 the Indonesian Ministry of Environment took the bold step to launch an environmental disclosure initiative called the Program for Pollution...

   To Be Published February 17th 2013 by RFF Press
7. Talking Criminal Justice

   Language and the Just Society

   By Michael Coyle

   Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

   The words we use to talk about justice have an enormous impact on our everyday lives. As the first in-depth, ethnographic study of language, Talking Criminal Justice examines the speech of moral entrepreneurs to illustrate how our justice language encourages social control and punishment. This...

   To Be Published February 18th 2013 by Routledge
8. International Law and Civil Wars

   Intervention and Consent

   By Eliav Lieblich

   Series: Law, Conflict and International Relations

   This book examines the international law of forcible intervention in civil wars, in particular the role of party-consent in affecting the legality of such intervention. In modern international law, it is a near consensus that no state can use force against another – the main exceptions being...

   To Be Published February 18th 2013 by Routledge
9. Althusser and Law

   Edited by Laurent Desutter

   Series: Nomikoi Critical Legal Thinkers

   Althusser & Law is the first book specifically dedicated to the place of law in Louis Althusser’s philosophy. The growing importance of Althusser’s philosophy in contemporary debates on the left has - for practical and political, as well theoretical reasons - made a sustained&...

   To Be Published February 19th 2013 by Routledge
10. Land and Resource Scarcity

    Capitalism, Struggle and Well-being in a World without Fossil Fuels

    Edited by Andreas Exner, Peter Fleissner, Lukas Kranzl, Werner Zittel

    Series: Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy

    This book brings together geological, biological, radical economic, technological, historical and social perspectives on peak oil and other scarce resources. The contributors to this volume argue that these scarcities will put an end to the capitalist system as we know it and alternatives must be...

    To Be Published February 19th 2013 by Routledge