Legal Theory 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. 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