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  1. Constitutions

    Writing Nations, Reading Difference

    By Judith Pryor

    Series: Birkbeck Law Press

    Bringing a postcolonial perspective to UK constitutional debates and including a detailed and comparative engagement with the constitutions of Britain’s ex-colonies, this book is an original reflection upon the relationship between the written and the unwritten constitution. Can a nation have an...

    Published August 8th 2007 by Birkbeck Law Press

  2. Jurisprudence

    Themes and Concepts

    By Scott Veitch, Emilios Christodoulidis, Lindsay Farmer

    Jurisprudence: Themes and Concepts takes an innovative approach to the study of jurisprudence. Drawing together a range of specialists making original contributions, it provides a summary, analysis and critique of basic themes in, and major contributions to, the study of jurisprudence. The book...

    Published June 27th 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish

  3. Judicial Law-Making in Post-Soviet Russia

    By Alexander Vereshchagin

    A novel and incisive investigation of the role of judicial precedents and customs in Russian law, this book examines the trends in the development of judge-made law in Russian civil law since the demise of the Soviet Union. Exploring the interrelated propositions that a certain creative element is...

    Published May 30th 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish

  4. Human Rights and Empire

    The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism

    By Costas Douzinas

    Erudite and timely, this book is a key contribution to the renewal of radical theory and politics. Addressing the paradox of a contemporary humanitarianism that has abandoned politics in favour of combating evil, Douzinas, a leading scholar and author in the field of human rights and...

    Published March 21st 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish

  5. Judith Butler: Ethics, Law, Politics

    By Elena Loizidou

    Series: Nomikoi Critical Legal Thinkers

    The first to use Judith Butler’s work as a reading of how the legal subject is formed, this book traces how Butler comes to the themes of ethics, law and politics analyzing their interrelation and explaining how they relate to Butler’s question of how people can have more liveable and viable lives....

    Published February 25th 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish

  6. Cricket and the Law

    The Man in White is Always Right

    By David Fraser

    Series: Routledge Studies in Law, Society and Popular Culture

    Cricket, law and the meaning of life ... In a readable, informed and absorbing discussion of cricket’s defining controversies – bodyline, chucking, ball-tampering, sledging, walking and the use of technology, among many others – David Fraser explores the ambiguities of law and social order in...

    Published July 25th 2005 by Routledge