Jurisprudence & General Issues Books

New and Published Books

1. The Europeanisation of Contract Law

   Current Controversies in Law, 2nd Edition

   By Christian Twigg-Flesner

   A process of Europeanising contract law has been driven by the legislative activity of the European Union (EU), which has adopted a string of Directives touching on various aspects of contract law, mainly consumer law. Many of these Directives have dealt with a fairly isolated aspect of...

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
2. The Rule of Reason in European Constitutionalism and Citizenship

   By Yuri Borgmann-Prebil

   Series: Discourses of Law

   Identifying crucial deficiencies in the legal theories of Hart and Dworkin, The Rule of Reason in European Constitutionalism and Citizenship draws on the work of Habermas and Alexy in order to elaborate a new juridical conception of citizenship. Taking Europe as its focus, the central substantive...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Law, Place and Maps

   Balancing Protection and Exclusion

   By Antonia Layard

   Law, Place & Maps: Balancing Protection and Exclusion analyse law’s distinctively normative contribution to place-making. In an original, cross-disciplinary, analysis drawing on scholarship in law, geography, philosophy and politics, Antonia Layard considers how, both formally and formally, law...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. The English Legal System

   2013-2014, 14th Edition

   By Gary Slapper, David Kelly

   Slapper and Kelly’s The English Legal System explains and critically assesses how our law is made and applied. Annually updated, this authoritative textbook clearly describes the legal rules of England and Wales and their collective influence as a sociocultural institution. This latest edition of...

   Published March 13th 2013 by Routledge
5. Althusser and Law

   Edited by Laurent de Sutter

   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&...

   Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge
6. Law and Art

   Justice, Ethics and Aesthetics

   Edited by Oren Ben-Dor

   In engaging with the full range of 'the arts', contributors to this volume consider the relationship between law, justice, the ethical and the aesthetic. Art continually informs the ethics of a legal theory concerned to address how theoretical abstractions and concrete oppressions overlook...

   Published February 19th 2013 by Routledge-Cavendish
7. 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...

   Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge
8. 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 February 4th 2013 by Routledge
9. 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 17th 2012 by Routledge
10. 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