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GlassHouse specialises in books that offer a fresh perspective on law and contemporary legal issues. Our aim is to publish books that re-think conventional approaches to law, and that address new objects or subjects of legal enquiry.
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Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment
Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment examines criminal sentencing courts’ changing characterisations of Indigenous peoples’ identity, culture and postcolonial status. Focusing largely on Australian Indigenous peoples, but drawing also on the Canadian experiences, Thalia Anthony critically...
To Be Published June 13th 2013 by Routledge
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Identity, Reconciliation and Transitional Justice
Overcoming Intractability in Divided Societies
Series: Transitional Justice
Building upon an interdisciplinary synthesis of recent literature from the fields of transitional justice and conflict transformation, this book introduces a groundbreaking theoretical framework that highlights the critical importance of identity in the relationship between transitional justice and...
Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
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Law and the Question of the Animal
A Critical Jurisprudence
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...
To Be Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge
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Families of the Missing
A Test for Contemporary Approaches to Transitional Justice
Series: Transitional Justice
Addressing the needs of Families of the Missing interrogates the current practice of transitional justice from the viewpoint of the families of those disappeared and missing as a result of conflict and political violence. Studying the needs of families of the missing in two contexts, Nepal and...
To Be Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
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State Violence and the Execution of Law
Biopolitcal Caesurae of Torture, Black Sites, Drones
Series: Law and the Postcolonial
State Violence and the Execution of Law stages a provocative analysis of how the biopolitical divide between human and animal has played a fundamental role in enabling state violence, including torture, secret imprisonment and killing-at-a-distance via drones. Analyzing the complex ways in which...
To Be Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Althusser and Law
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&...
To Be Published February 19th 2013 by Routledge
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Socio-Legal Approaches to International Economic Law
Text, Context, Subtext
This collection explores the analytical, empirical and normative components that distinguish socio-legal approaches to international economic law both from each other, and from other approaches. It pays particular attention to the substantive focus (what) of socio-legal approaches, noting that they...
Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
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The Experience of Tragic Judgment
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
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Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities:
Latin American and African Perspectives
Series: Law, Development and Globalization
Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities: Latin American and African Perspectives examines the relationship between legal pluralities and the prospects for greater gender justice in developing countries. Rather than asking whether legal pluralities are ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for women, the starting point of...
Published November 7th 2012 by Routledge
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Organised Sexual Abuse
Organised Sexual Abuse offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary investigation of this phenomenon. Since the early 1980s, social workers and mental health professionals around the globe have encountered clients reporting sexual abuse by organized groups or networks. These allegations have been...
Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge