Law

Routledge Law is pleased to announce the publication of a number of new textbooks in May. Covering Jurisprudence, Evidence and Family Law, these textbooks are an essential purchase for anyone studying these subjects. Read on for more details.

The 5th edition of Simon Baughen's textbook Shipping Law is now available. This new edition offers a brand new section on arbitration, as well as detailed consideration of recent developments in law from the LOF 2011 and the 2010 Protocol to the HNS Convention. With in-depth commentary and analysis on recent important judical decisions of the Supreme Court in The Cendor Mopu, and of the Court of Appeal in The Eternity, The Wadi Sudr, The Kos, and The Eagle Valencia, this textbook presents fully-to-date and well-balanced coverage of key cases and is an essential reference source for both students and those in practice.
 

Routledge Law is delighted to announce a number of new research titles publishing in May. Edited by Ulrike Schultz and Gisela Shaw, Women in the Judiciary asks is gender matters in judging. Also publishing in May is Human Health and Ecological Integrity edited by Laura Westra, Colin L. Soskolne and Donald W. Spady. The book integrates perspectives from a wide range of disciplines, including ethics, ecology, public health and epidemiology, and human rights and law. Read on for a full list of our research books publishing in May.

Routledge Law is pleased to announce a number of new titles publishing in April. Edited by Janice Richardson and Erika Rackley ,Feminist Perspectives on Tort Law offers a distinctly feminist approach to key topics in tort law. Also publishing in April is Transnational Crime and Human Rights by Susan Kneebone and Julie Debeljak, which offers an evaluation of the responses to human trafficking in the Greater Mekong Subregion. Read on for further details of these and all the research and scholarly titles we are publishing in April.

Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events edited by Colin Bennett and Kevin Haggerty is now available in paperback ... and has a website designed to provide continuous news information, content and analysis on the different dimensions of security and surveillance associated with mega-events around the world.

In Australia controversy is raging as people claim that a law that was brought in to protect battered women is being abused by brutal men. There have been articles in the Herald Sun on this subject which you can read in full here and here. Author of the upcoming Routledge book, Sex, Culpability and the Defence of Provocation, Danielle Tyson discusses this very issue in chapter four of her book. Read on to see her response to the Herald Sun article from the 10th February.

The 2012 GlassHouse catalog is now available online. You can click on a book record for more details, or create your own booklist of titles which you can download into an excel document or email to a friend or colleague. This catalog will be updated as new books publish so bookmark it in your browser today to keep all of the latest titles just a click away.

Come visit Routledge Law at the American Society of International Law conference in Washinton D.C. March 28-31. Conference attendees will receive a 20% discount and free shipping on all display copies.