Law Books

New and Published Books

1. Sex Trafficking

   A Private Law Response

   By Tsachi Keren-Paz

   Sex Trafficking: A Private Law Response examines existing and potential causes of action against sex traffickers, clients and the state and argues for fair and effective private law remedies. Combining a theoretical inquiry about the borders of liability in torts and restitution with a political...

   Published May 16th 2013 by Routledge
2. Legal Writing

   3rd Edition

   By Lisa Webley

   Legal Writing guides students comprehensively through this vital legal skill and addresses a range of assessment methods, from exam questions to final essays and problem answers. It considers how to deconstruct essay and problem questions and how to conduct and apply legal research to answer set...

   Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
3. Discrimination and the Law

   By Malcolm Sargeant

   Discrimination and the Law provides an exploration and evaluation of Discrimination Law, with a primary focus on discrimination in employment. Introducing readers to the concepts of equality and the historical origins of discrimination law, Malcolm Sargeant explores the wider political, social and...

   Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
4. Families of the Missing

   A Test for Contemporary Approaches to Transitional Justice

   By Simon Robins

   Series: Transitional Justice

   Addressing the needs of Families of the Missing interrogates the current practice of transitional justice from the viewpoint of the families of those disappeared and missing as a result of conflict and political violence. Studying the needs of families of the missing in two contexts, Nepal and...

   Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
5. Gender, Violence, and Law

   By Melanie Randall

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   The law has been the major site of advocacy, reform efforts and social change in relation to a variety of complex social problems. Gendered violence is one of them. After nearly three decades of advocacy and law reform, what can we understand about current legal responses to, and engagement with,...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South

   Scarcity, Marketization and Participation

   Edited by Leila M. Harris, Jacqueline A. Goldin, Christopher Sneddon

   Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management

   The litany of alarming observations about water use and misuse is now familiar—over a billion people without access to safe drinking water; almost every major river dammed and diverted; increasing conflicts over the delivery of water in urban areas; continuing threats to water quality from...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
7. Marine Genetic Resources, Access and Benefit Sharing

   Legal and Biological Perspectives

   By Bevis Fedder

   Access to genetic resources and Benefit Sharing (ABS) has been promoted under the Convention on Biological Diversity, with the aim of combining biodiversity conservation goals with economic development. However, as this book shows, since its inception in 1992, implementation has encountered...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. Sentencing and the Legitimacy of Trial Justice

   By Ralph Henham

   This book discusses the under-researched relationship between sentencing and the legitimacy of punishment. It argues that there is an increasing gap between what is perceived as legitimate punishment and the sentencing decisions of the criminal courts. Drawing on a wide variety of empirical...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. Policing and the Mentally Ill

   International Perspectives

   Edited by Duncan Chappell

   Series: Advances in Police Theory and Practice

   In countries with democratic traditions, police interactions with the mentally ill are usually guided by legislative mandates giving police discretion and possibly resulting in referrals for assistance and treatment. But all too frequently, the outcome of these interactions is far less therapeutic...

   Published May 13th 2013 by CRC Press
10. Bioethics: The Basics

    By Alastair Campbell

    Series: The Basics

    Bioethics: The Basics is an introduction to the foundational principles, theories and issues in the study of medical and biological ethics. Readers are introduced to bioethics from the ground up before being invited to consider some of the most controversial but important questions facing us today....

    Published May 13th 2013 by Routledge