Socio-Legal Studies - International Law & Politics Books

New and Published Books

1. International Law, Regulation and Resistance

   Critical Spaces

   By Zoe Pearson

   Series: Routledge Research in International Law

   International Law, Regulation and Resistance presents a critique of international law through an interdisciplinary analysis and engagement with the emerging literature from critical legal geography. The book draws upon existing critiques of international law to examine how different spaces affect...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Gender and Transitional Justice

   The Women of East Timor

   By Susan Harris Rimmer

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

   Gender and Transitional Justice provides the first comprehensive feminist analysis of the role of international law in formal transitional justice mechanisms. Using East Timor as a case study, it offers reflections on transitional justice administered by a UN transitional administration. Often...

   Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
3. Reading Modern Law

   Critical Methodologies and Sovereign Formations

   Edited by Ruth Buchanan, Stewart Motha, Sundhya Pahuja

   Reading Modern Law identifies and elaborates upon key critical methodologies for reading and writing about law in modernity. The force of law rests on determinate and localizable authorizations, as well as an expansive capacity to encompass what has not been pre-figured by an order of rules. The...

   Published May 3rd 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
4. Community Futures, Legal Architecture: Foundations for Indigenous Peoples in the Global Mining Boom

   Edited by Marcia Langton, Judy Longbottom

   How are indigenous and local people faring in their dealings with mining and related industries in the first part of the 21st century? The unifying experience in all the resource-rich states covered in the book is the social and economic disadvantage experienced by indigenous peoples and local...

   Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge
5. Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical

   By Amy Swiffen

   Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical explores the idea that legal authority is no longer related to national sovereignty, but to the ‘moral’ attempt to nurture life. The book argues that whilst the relationship between law and ethics has long been a central concern in legal studies, it is now the...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
6. Governance through Development

   Poverty Reduction Strategies, International Law and the Disciplining of Third World States

   By Celine Tan

   Series: Law, Development and Globalization

   Governance through Development locates the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) framework within the broader context of international law and global governance, exploring its impact on third world state engagement with the global political economy and the international regulatory norms and...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
7. Lawyers and the Rule of Law in an Era of Globalization

   Edited by Yves Dezalay, Bryant Garth

   Series: Law, Development and Globalization

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons

   Beyond Restitution

   By Anneke Smit

   The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Beyond Restitution explores how the protection of housing and property rights can contribute to durable solutions to displacement. The focus of most of the international community’s recent protection efforts has been on returning...

   Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
9. Genocide, State Crime, and the Law

   In the Name of the State

   By Jennifer Balint

   Genocide, State Crime, and the Law argues that genocide and other forms of state crime must be located in relation to cultural, political and legal processes if they are to be properly understood and addressed. Discussing a series of case studies of genocide – in Armenia, Nazi Germany,...

   Published March 7th 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
10. Islamophobia in the West

    Measuring and Explaining Individual Attitudes

    Edited by Marc Helbling

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    Since the late 1980s, growing migration from countries with a Muslim cultural background, and increasing Islamic fundamentalism related to terrorist attacks in Western Europe and the US, have created a new research field investigating the way states and ordinary citizens react to these new...

    Published February 15th 2012 by Routledge