Taylor & Francis India: Public Law

By Owen Taylor

This book explores the historical inter-relations between international law and revolution, with a focus on how international anti-capitalist struggle plays out through law. The book approaches the topic by analysing the meaning of revolution and what revolutionary activity might look like, before…

Hardback – 2019-08-01 
Routledge
Routledge Research in International Law

By Aileen McHarg

The Politics of Adjudication addresses the pragmatics of legal decision-making. Against a dominant constitutional paradigm that has asserted the primacy of ideals of independence and impartiality in governing the organisation and conduct of the judiciary, a more critical constitutional…

Hardback – 2019-07-31 
Routledge

By Kajit Bagu

This book presents the case that liberal constitutionalism in the global South is a legacy of colonialism and is inappropriate as a means of securing effective peace in regions that have been subject to recurrent conflict. The work demonstrates the failure of liberal constitutionalism in…

Hardback – 2019-07-22 
Routledge

By Janan Al-Asady

　 Oil, an integral part of the contemporary global economy, is considered a driving force behind the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Hydrocarbon reserves in Iraq have a significant role to play in global supply, with oil revenue accounting for more than 90% of Iraqi government income. This book provides a…

Hardback – 2019-07-02 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Energy Law and Regulation

By Keren Wang

This book examines the subtle ways in which rhetorics of sacrifice have been re-appropriated into the workings of the global political economy in the 21st Century. It presents an in-depth analysis of the ways in which ritual practices are deployed, under a diverse set of political and legal…

Hardback – 2019-06-24 
Routledge
Globalization: Law and Policy

By Paul Quinn

This book demonstrates that the difficulties the law is likely to encounter in regulating the expressive activities of the state, particularly with regard to the stigmatization of vulnerable groups and minorities. Freedom of speech is indispensable to a democratic society, enabling it to operate…

Hardback – 2019-06-10 
Routledge

Edited by Simon Hale-Ross, David Lowe

This book is a collection of work based on selected papers presented at a symposium ‘Removing Safe Spaces: Terrorism, Communication and International Human Rights’, organised by the Editors at Leeds Beckett University in June 2018. The main theme of the book focuses on the terrorist threat facing…

Hardback – 2019-05-22 
Routledge

By Mark Tunick

In 2014, Conrad Roy committed suicide following encouragement from his long-distance girlfriend, Michelle Carter, in what has become known as the Texting Suicide case. The case has attracted much attention, largely focusing on the First Amendment free speech issue. This book takes the view that the…

Hardback – 2019-04-17 
Routledge

By Burke Uğur Başaranel, Umut Türkşen

Since the 9/11 attacks the world has witnessed the creation of both domestic and international legal instruments designed to disrupt and interdict the financial activities of terrorists. This book analyses the counter-terrorist financing law (CTF), policy and practice at the national level,…

Hardback – 2019-04-16 
Routledge
The Law of Financial Crime

By Aoife Duffy

This book presents a compelling and highly sophisticated politico-legal history of a particular security operation that resulted in one of the most high profile torture cases in the world. It reveals the extent to which the Ireland v. United judgment misrepresents the interrogation system that was…

Hardback – 2019-04-11 
Routledge

By Adnan Sattar

This book examines the relationship between international human rights discourse and the justifi cations for criminal punishment. Using interdisciplinary discourse analysis, it exposes certain paradoxes that underpin the ‘International Bill of Human Rights’, academic commentaries on human rights…

Hardback – 2019-03-29 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

Edited by Richard Albert, Joel I. Colón-Ríos

This book examines the interstices among statutory enactment, constitutional convention and  formal constitution in which quasi-constitutionality exists. It provides a focal resource that can serve as a point of reference for scholars interested in quasi-constitutionality as a whole, from…

Hardback – 2019-03-11 
Routledge
Comparative Constitutional Change