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1. Amateur Media

   Social, cultural and legal perspectives

   Edited by Dan Hunter, Ramon Lobato, Megan Richardson, Julian Thomas

   The rise of Web 2.0 has pushed the amateur to the forefront of public discourse, public policy and media scholarship. Typically non-salaried, non-specialist and untrained in media production, amateur producers are now seen as key drivers of the creative economy. But how do the activities of citizen...

   Published July 11th 2012 by Routledge
2. Competing Sovereignties

   By Richard Joyce

   Competing Sovereignties provides a critique of the concept of sovereignty in modernity in light of claims to determine the content of law at the international, national and local levels. In an argument that is illustrated through an analysis of debates over the control of intellectual property law...

   Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Domain Name Registration System

   Liberalisation, Consumer Protection and Growth

   By Jenny Ng

   Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and E-Commerce Law

   This book offers a comparative analysis of the domain name registration systems utililsed in Australia and the United Kingdom. Taking an international perspective, the author analyses the global trends and dynamics of the domain name registration systems and explores the advantages and...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Enlightened Shareholder Value Principle and Corporate Governance

   By Andrew Keay

   Series: Routledge Research in Corporate Law

   The enlightened shareholder value principle (ESV) was formulated during the comprehensive review of UK company law by the Company Law Steering Group in the late 1990s and early 2000’s and requires directors of companies to act in the collective best interests of shareholders. The principle was...

   Published July 4th 2012 by Routledge
5. Improving International Investment Agreements

   Edited by Armand De Mestral, Céline Lévesque

   Series: Routledge Research in International Economic Law

   This book presents the reflections of a group of researchers interested in assessing whether the law governing the promotion and protection of foreign investment reflects sound public policy. Whether it is the lack of "checks and balances" on investor rights or more broadly the lack of balance...

   Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge
6. Public Health in International Investment Law and Arbitration

   By Valentina Vadi

   Series: Routledge Research in International Economic Law

   Is a State free to adopt measures to protect the public health of its citizens? If so, what are the limits, if any, to such regulatory powers? This book addresses these questions by focusing on the clash between the regulatory autonomy of the state and international investment governance. As a wide...

   Published July 8th 2012 by Routledge
7. Sex, Culpability and the Defence of Provocation

   By Danielle Tyson

   Series: Discourses of Law

   The partial defence of provocation is one of the most controversial doctrines within the criminal law. It has now been abolished in a number of international jurisdictions. Addressing the trajectory of debates about reform of the provocation defence across different jurisdictions, Sex, Culpability...

   Published July 11th 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
8. Britain's Hidden Role in the Rwandan Genocide

   The Cat's Paw

   By Hazel Cameron

   Britain’s Hidden Role in the Rwandan Genocide examines the role of the United Kingdom as a global elite bystander to the crime of genocide, and its complicity, in violation of international criminal laws during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. As prevailing accounts confine themselves to the role and...

   Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge