Legal Skills, Method & System Books

New and Published Books

1. European Union Law

   3rd Edition

   By Alina Kaczorowska

   Fully revised and updated, the third edition of EU Law provides an exhaustive, yet easily readable, account of the complex and ever changing subject of EU law. The author gives thorough, authoritative, and up-to-the-minute treatment to the institutional, constitutional and substantive elements of...

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
2. 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
3. Rhetoric and Discourse in Supreme Court Oral Arguments

   Sensemaking in Judicial Decisions

   By Ryan Malphurs

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   While legal scholars, psychologists, and political scientists commonly voice their skepticism over the influence oral arguments have on the Court’s voting pattern, this book offers a contrarian position focused on close scrutiny of the justices’ communication within oral arguments. Malphurs...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
4. Privatising the Public University

   The Case of Law

   By Margaret Thornton

   Privatising the Public University: The Case of Law is the first full-length critical study examining the impact of the dramatic reforms that have swept through universities over the last two decades. Drawing on extensive research and interviews in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Canada, Margaret...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
5. Lawyers and the Construction of Transnational Justice

   Edited by Yves Dezalay, Bryant Garth

   Series: Law, Development and Globalization

   Lawyers and the Construction of Transnational Justice will show students and scholars what it means in practice to talk about building transnational justice – both on the side of economic regulation and on the side of human rights and humanitarian law. It links national and transnational processes,...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Ethics Project in Legal Education

   Edited by Michael Robertson, Lillian Corbin, Kieran Tranter, Francesca Bartlett

   Series: Routledge Research in Legal Ethics

   The contributions in this volume suggest that "the ethics project in legal education" is increasingly an international one. Even though the strength of commitment by both the profession and the legal academy to "ethics learning" within law schools varies, two fundamental questions confront all who...

   Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge
7. Alternative Perspectives on Lawyers and Legal Ethics

   Reimagining the Profession

   Edited by Reid Mortensen, Francesca Bartlett, Kieran Tranter

   Series: Routledge Research in Legal Ethics

   The study of legal ethics and the legal profession has emerged as a distinct and important field of scholarship over the last 30 years. However, as in other disciplines, academic recognition can in turn entrench static and powerful meta-theories and narratives about professional ethos and practise,...

   Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
8. Women, Judging and the Judiciary

   From Difference to Diversity

   By Erika Rackley

   Women, Judging and the Judiciary examines debates about gender representation in the judiciary and the importance of judicial diversity. It offers a fresh look at the role of the (woman) judge and the process of judging and provides a new analysis of the assumptions which underpin and constrain...

   Published September 3rd 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
9. Human Rights Rhetoric

   Traditions of Testifying and Witnessing

   Edited by Arabella Lyon, Lester C Olson

   Rhetoric scholars have articulated diverse approaches to both civil and human rights as political, ethical, and academic discourses. “Traditions of Testifying and Witnessing” initiates important interdisciplinary conversations within human rights rhetoric concerning the construction of rights...

   Published June 30th 2012 by Routledge
10. Reaffirming Legal Ethics

    Taking Stock and New Ideas

    Edited by Kieran Tranter, Francesca Bartlett, Lillian Corbin, Michael Robertson, Reid Mortensen

    Series: Routledge Research in Legal Ethics

    It has been over thirty years since the founding crises that birthed legal ethics as both a field of study and a discrete field of law. In that time thinking about the ethical dimension of legal practice has taken several turns: from justifications of zealous advocacy, to questions of process and...

    Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge