Routledge Handbooks in Law present state-of-the-art surveys of important and emerging topics in Law and Legal Studies, providing accessible yet thorough assessments of key fields, themes and recent developments in research.
All chapters for each volume are specially commissioned, and written by leading and emerging scholars in the field. Carefully edited and organized, Routledge Handbooks in Law provide indispensable reference tools for students and researchers seeking a comprehensive overview of new and exciting topics in the relevant subject areas. They are also valuable teaching resources as accompaniments to textbooks, anthologies, and research-orientated publications.
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By Joelle Grogan, Alice Donald
January 29, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic not only ravaged human bodies but also had profound and possibly enduring effects on the health of political and legal systems, economies and societies. Almost overnight, governments imposed the severest restrictions in modern times on rights and freedoms, elections, ...
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By Virginie Tassin Campanella
December 29, 2023
For years, exploration of seabed natural resources has been ongoing while exploitation in deep marine areas remained unrealistic due to land-based mineral availability and costs. However, mounting pressures from the green transition, climate change, and long-lasting fears of terrestrial minerals ...
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By Brendan D. Kelly, Mary Donnelly
October 12, 2023
Mental health law is a rapidly evolving area of practice and research, with growing global dimensions. This work reflects the increasing importance of this field, critically discussing key issues of controversy and debate, and providing up-to-date analysis of cutting-edge developments in Africa, ...
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By Lesley Jane Smith, Ingo Baumann, Susan-Gale Wintermuth
July 31, 2023
The Routledge Handbook of Commercial Space Law provides a definitive survey of the transitions and adjustments across the stakeholder community contributing to outer space activities. The interaction between NewSpace, traditional aerospace industrials, and non-traditional space-related technologies...
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By Yoshifumi Tanaka, Rachael Johnstone, Vibe Ulfbeck
July 25, 2023
Polar law describes the normative frameworks that govern the relationships between humans, States, Peoples, institutions, land and resources in the Arctic and the Antarctic. These two regions are superficially similar in terms of natural environmental conditions but the overarching frameworks that ...
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By Iris Chiu, Gudula Deipenbrock
January 09, 2023
Financial technology is rapidly changing and shaping financial services and markets. These changes are considered making the future of finance a digital one.This Handbook analyses developments in the financial services, products and markets that are being reshaped by technologically driven changes ...
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By Eleonora Rosati
January 09, 2023
The Routledge Handbook of EU Copyright Law provides a definitive survey of copyright harmonization in the European Union, capturing the essential and relevant issues of this relatively recent phenomenon. Over the past few years, two themes have emerged: on the one hand, copyright policy and ...
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By Virginia A. Suveiu
December 14, 2022
In today’s highly globalized and regulated economy, private and public organizations face myriad complex laws and regulations. A process designed to detect and prevent regulatory compliance failures is vital. However, such an effective process cannot succeed without development and maintenance of a...
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By Silvio Ferrari, Mark Hill QC, Arif A Jamal, Rossella Bottoni
August 01, 2022
Freedom of religion is an issue of universal interest and scope. However, in the last two centuries at least, the philosophical, religious and legal terms of the question have been largely defined in the West. In an increasingly global world, widening our knowledge of this right’s roots in ...
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By John Eekelaar, Rob George
December 03, 2021
Changes in family structures, demographics, social attitudes and economic policies over the last 60 years have had a large impact on family lives and correspondingly on family law. The Second Edition of this Handbook draws upon recent developments to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date ...
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By Erika Techera, Jade Lindley, Karen N. Scott, Anastasia Telesetsky
December 30, 2020
This book critically explores the legal tools, concepts, principles and instruments, as well as cross-cutting issues, that comprise the field of international environmental law. Commencing with foundational elements, progressing on to discrete sub-fields, then exploring regional cooperative ...
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By Tina Hunter, Ignacio Herrera, Penelope Crossley, Gloria Alvarez
May 12, 2020
The Routledge Handbook of Energy Law provides a definitive global survey of the discipline of Energy Law, capturing the essential and relevant issues in Energy today. Each chapter is written by a leading expert, and provides a contemporary overview of a significant area within the field. The book ...