Recent Articles

1. 

   Great Online Resources with Law Textbooks

   Did you know that the two new textbooks published in our range of legal research skills and systems books have a range of online resources that benefit tutor and student? The third edition of Legal English by Rupert Haigh combines and integrates print and online elements. You can see what is available on the companion website here.

   The 13th edition of The English Legal System by Gary Slapper and David Kelly published in March. This authoritative and respected textbook benefits from a companion website that has been described by Richard Lee, Senior Lecturer in Law at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK as 'one of the best sets of online resources I have ever seen'. You can find more information about this comprehensive resource today.

2. 

   Medical Law Online Catalog Now Available

   The 2012 Medical Law 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

3. 

   New Research Books Publishing in May

   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.

4. 

   New Textbooks Now Available

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

5. 

   GlassHouse 2012 Online Catalog Now Available

   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.

6. 

   New Research Books Publishing in April

   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.

7. 

   New Edition of Shipping Law Out Now

   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.
    

8. 

   Rights of Passage Joint Winner of the SLSA-Hart Book Prize

   Rights of Passage by Nicholas Blomley has jointly won the SLSA-Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize. Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow documents a powerful and under-researched form of urban governance that focuses on pedestrian flow. You can see the full list of shortlisted books and further details about the prize here. Everyone at Routledge Law congratules Nicholas on his achievement in following fellow Routledge author Rosie Harding who won the prize last year for her book Regulating Sexuality: Legal Consciousness in Lesbian and Gay Lives.
    

9. 

   Security Games Website Launched

   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.

10. 

    Is a law that is meant to protect battered women being abused by brutal men?

    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.

More Articles…