Legal Theory 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. Sedition and the Advocacy of Violence

   Free Speech and Counter-Terrorism

   By Sarah Sorial

   This book employs the theoretical framework of ‘speech act theory’ to analyse current legislative frameworks and cases pertaining to sedition or the advocacy of violence and the issue of freedom of speech. An analysis of the relation between speech and action offers a promising way of clarifying...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. Transitional Justice, Judicial Accountability and the Rule of Law

   By Hakeem O. Yusuf

   Series: Transitional Justice

   Transitional Justice, Judicial Accountability and the Rule of Law addresses the importance of judicial accountability in transitional justice processes. Despite a general consensus that the judiciary plays an important role in contemporary governance, accountability for the judicial role in...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Interaction between World Trade Organisation (WTO) Law and External International Law

   The Constrained Openness of WTO Law (A Prologue to a Theory)

   By Ronnie R.F. Yearwood

   Series: Routledge Research in International Economic Law

   International legal scholarship is concerned with the fragmentation of international law into specialised legal systems such as trade, environment and human rights. Fragmentation raises questions about the inter-systemic interaction between the various specialised systems of international law. This...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
5. Law and Religion in Public Life

   The Contemporary Debate

   Edited by Nadirsyah Hosen, Richard Mohr

   With religion at centre stage in conflicts worldwide, and in social, ethical and geo-political debates, this book takes a timely look at relations between law and religion. To what extent can religion play a role in secular legal systems? How do peoples of various faiths live successfully by both...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
6. Deleuze & Guattari

   Emergent Law

   By Jamie Murray

   Series: Nomikoi Critical Legal Thinkers

   Deleuze & Guattari: Emergent Law is an exposition and development of Deleuze & Guattari's legal theory. Although there has been considerable interest in Deleuze & Guattari in critical legal studies, as well as considerable interest in legality in Deleuze & Guattari studies, this is...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge-Cavendish
7. Althusser and Law

   Edited by Laurent de Sutter

   Series: Nomikoi Critical Legal Thinkers

   Althusser & Law is the first book specifically dedicated to the place of law in Louis Althusser’s philosophy. The growing importance of Althusser’s philosophy in contemporary debates on the left has - for practical and political, as well theoretical reasons - made a sustained&...

   Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge
8. Law and Art

   Justice, Ethics and Aesthetics

   Edited by Oren Ben-Dor

   In engaging with the full range of 'the arts', contributors to this volume consider the relationship between law, justice, the ethical and the aesthetic. Art continually informs the ethics of a legal theory concerned to address how theoretical abstractions and concrete oppressions overlook...

   Published February 19th 2013 by Routledge-Cavendish
9. Justice as Improvisation

   The Law of the Extempore

   By Sara Ramshaw

   Justice as Improvisation: The Law of the Extempore theorises the relationship between justice and improvisation through the case of the New York City cabaret laws. Discourses around improvisation often imprison it in a quasi-ethical relationship with the authentic, singular ‘other’. The same can be...

   Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
10. Habermas and Rawls

    Disputing the Political

    Edited by James Gordon Finlayson, Fabian Freyenhagen

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    Habermas and Rawls are two heavyweights of social and political philosophy, and they are undoubtedly the two most written about (and widely read) authors in this field. However, there has not been much informed and interesting work on the points of intersection between their projects, partly...

    Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge