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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. The Politics of Imagination

    Edited by Chiara Bottici, Benoît Challand

    Series: Birkbeck Law Press

    The Politics of Imagination offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the contemporary relationship between politics and the imagination. What role does our capacity to form images play in politics? And can we define politics as a struggle for people’s imagination? As a result of the increasingly...

    Published December 16th 2012 by Birkbeck Law Press

  3. The Digital Evolution of an American Identity

    By C. Waite

    Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

    The Digital Evolution of an American Identity details how the concept of American individualism is challenged by the digital revolution. As digital media alter our print-dominant culture, assumptions regarding the relationship of the individual to the larger community become increasingly...

    Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge

  4. On the Right of Exclusion

    Law, Ethics and Immigration Policy

    By Bas Schotel

    On the Right of Exclusion: Law, Ethics and Immigration Policy addresses Western immigration policies regarding so-called ‘normal migrants’, i.e. migrants without a legal right to admission. The book argues that if authorities cannot substantially justify the exclusion of a normal migrant, the...

    Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. The Ends of History

    Questioning the Stakes of Historical Reason

    Edited by Amy Swiffen, Joshua Nichols

    Over two decades ago we were confronted by the end of the Soviet Union and collapse of the geo-political divisions that had defined much of the twentieth century. From this particular end, the ‘end of history’was proclaimed. But is it still possible to argue that liberal democracy and free market...

    Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge

  8. 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

  9. The Scene of the Mass Crime

    History, Film, and International Tribunals

    Edited by Christian Delage, Peter Goodrich

    Series: Discourses of Law

    The Scene of the Mass Crime takes up the unwritten history of the peculiar yet highly visible form of war crimes trials. These trials are the first and continuing site of the interface of law, history and film. From Nuremberg to the contemporary trials in Cambodia, film, in particular, has been...

    Published November 11th 2012 by Routledge

  10. 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

Forthcoming Books

  1. Law and the Question of the Animal: A Critical Jurisprudence
    Edited by Yoriko Otomo, Edward Mussawir
    To Be Published February 7th 2013
  2. Justice as Improvisation: The Law of the Extempore
    By Sara Ramshaw
    To Be Published February 12th 2013
  3. Althusser and Law
    Edited by Laurent Desutter
    To Be Published February 19th 2013
  4. Habermas and Rawls: Disputing the Political
    Edited by James Gordon Finlayson, Fabian Freyenhagen
    To Be Published February 27th 2013
  5. Human Rights Law and Personal Identity
    By Jill Marshall
    To Be Published March 27th 2013

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