Jurisprudence & General Issues Books

New and Published Books

1. Rethinking Law as Process

   Creativity, Novelty, Change

   By James MacLean

   Rethinking Law as Process draws on insights from 'process philosophy' in order to rethink the nature of legal decision-making. While there have been significant developments in the application of ‘process’ thought across a number of disciplines, little notice has been taken of Whiteheadian...

   Published December 31st 2012 by Routledge
2. Rethinking Corporate Governance

   The Law and Economics of Control Powers

   By Alessio Pacces

   Series: Routledge Research in Corporate Law

   The standard approach to the legal foundations of corporate governance is based on the view that corporate law promotes separation of ownership and control by protecting non-controlling shareholders from expropriation. This book takes a broader perspective by showing that investor protection is a...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Dual System of Privacy Rights in the United States

   By Mary McThomas

   Series: Law, Courts and Politics

   Theoretically, the right to privacy is an individual’s right to space away from the public gaze to make life choices that are best for her or him, regardless of the beliefs of the majority. Yet the right to privacy in the United States has proven problematic for both political theorists and...

   Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
4. Q&A Jurisprudence 2013-2014

   6th Edition

   By David Brooke

   Series: Questions and Answers

   Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in an exam situation. Each book contains up to fifty essay and problem-based questions on the most commonly examined topics, complete with expert guidance and...

   Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
5. Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Law

   Edited by Mark Tushnet, Thomas Fleiner, Cheryl Saunders

   The Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Law is an advanced level reference work which surveys the current state of constitutional law. Featuring new, specially commissioned papers by a range of leading scholars from around the world, it offers a comprehensive overview of the field as well as...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
6. Human Rights and Constituent Power

   Without Model or Warranty

   By Illan Wall

   With the emergence of modern human rights in the Universal Declaration, what remained of a radical political potential of the discourse withdrew: statism and individualism became its authorised foundations and the possibilities of other human rights traditions were denied. The strife that once lay...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
7. Law and Politics

   Edited by Keith Whittington

   Series: Critical Concepts in Political Science

   Law and politics are deeply intertwined. Law is an essential tool of government action, an instrument with which government tries to influence society. Law is also the means by which government itself is structured, regulated, and controlled. It is no surprise, then, that law is an important prize...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
8. Jacques Derrida: Law as Absolute Hospitality

   Law as Absolute Hospitality

   By Jacques de Ville

   Series: Nomikoi Critical Legal Thinkers

   Jacques Derrida: Law as Absolute Hospitality presents a comprehensive account and understanding of Derrida’s approach to law and justice. Through a detailed reading of Derrida’s texts, Jacques de Ville contends that it is only by way of Derrida's deconstruction of the metaphysics of presence, and...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Experience of Tragic Judgment

   By Julen Etxabe

   Adjudication between conflicting normative universes that do not share the same vocabulary, standards of rationality, and moral commitments cannot be resolved by recourse to traditional principles. Such cases are always in a sense tragic. And what is called for, in our pluralistic and conflictual...

   Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
10. The Concept of Injustice

    By Eric Heinze

    The Concept of Injustice challenges traditional Western justice theory. Thinkers from Plato and Aristotle through to Kant, Hegel, Marx and Rawls have subordinated the idea of injustice to the idea of justice. Misled by the word’s etymology, political theorists have assumed injustice to be the...

    Published October 23rd 2012 by Routledge