Law Books

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11. 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
12. 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
13. 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
14. 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
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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
18. 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
19. Wildlife Forensic Investigation

    Principles and Practice

    By John E Cooper, Margaret E. Cooper

    Wildlife forensics is the application of forensic science to the conservation and protection of non-domesticated animals, both in the wild and in captivity. Providing an in-depth introduction to this rapidly evolving field, Wildlife Forensic Investigation: Principles and Practice also chronicles...

    Published May 12th 2013 by CRC Press
20. Comparative and International Criminal Justice Systems

    Policing, Judiciary, and Corrections, Third Edition

    Edited by Obi N. I. Ebbe

    Comparative and International Criminal Justice Systems: Policing, Judiciary, and Corrections, Third Edition examines the history, dynamics, structure, organization, and processes in the criminal justice systems in a number of selected countries. Designed for courses in comparative criminal justice...

    Published May 12th 2013 by CRC Press