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Human Genes and Neoliberal Governance
A Foucauldian Critique
Original and interdisciplinary, this is the first book to explore the relationship between a neoliberal mode of governance and the so-called genetic revolution. Looking at the knowledge-power relations in the post-genomic era and addressing the pressing issues of genetic privacy and discrimination...
Published December 19th 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish
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Informal Reckonings
Conflict Resolution in Mediation, Restorative Justice, and Reparations
The 'reparational turn' in the field of law has resulted in the increased use of so-called 'informal' approaches to conflict resolution, including primarily the three mechanisms considered in this book: mediation, restorative justice and reparations. While proponents of these mechanisms have...
Published December 19th 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish
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Choice and Consent
Feminist Engagements with Law and Subjectivity
This current and timely volume presents new thinking and new directions in feminist legal scholarship. Rethinking key concepts in legal feminism, Cowan and Hunter provide a unique examination of key socio-legal concepts in law, jurisprudence and legal and political theory. Written by an...
Published December 5th 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish
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Intimacy and Responsibility
The Criminalisation of HIV Transmission
In what circumstances and on what basis, should those who transmit serious diseases to their sexual partners be criminalised? In this new book Matthew Weait uses English case law as the basis of a more general and critical analysis of the response of the criminal courts to those who have been...
Published December 5th 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish
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Hypercrime
The New Geometry of Harm
Hypercrime develops a new theoretical approach toward current reformulations in criminal behaviours, in particular the phenomenon of cybercrime. Emphasizing a spatialized conception of deviance, one that clarifies the continuities between crime in the traditional, physical context and developing...
Published December 5th 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish
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Law and the Media
The Future of an Uneasy Relationship
Introducing readers to the study of law, media and popular culture, this text, using three original case studies, re-examines the assumptions underpinning existing research and suggests alternatives. Arguing that the study of law, media and popular culture should be embedded in the sociology of...
Published November 28th 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish
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Law, Antisemitism and the Holocaust
Whilst an increasing amount of attention is being paid to law's connection or involvement with National Socialism, less attention is focused upon thinking through the links between law and the emergence of antisemitism. As a consequence, antisemitism is presented as a pre-existent given, as...
Published November 28th 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish
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Law and Irresponsibility
On the Legitimation of Human Suffering
Law is widely assumed to provide contemporary society with its most important means of organizing responsibility. Across a broad range of areas of social life – from the activities of states and citizens, to work, business and private relationships – it is understood that legal regulation plays a...
Published November 21st 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish
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Property
Meanings, Histories, Theories
Series: Critical Approaches to Law
This critique of property examines its classical conception: addressing its ontology and history, as well as considering its symbolic aspects and connection to social relations of power. It is organized around three themes: the ways in which concepts of property are symbolically and...
Published November 21st 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish
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The Making of a European Constitution
Judges and Law Beyond Constitutive Power
An original and innovative recasting of constitutionalism, written by acknowledged experts in the field, this empirically grounded and theoretically informed volume addresses the strategies and philosophies that judges and lawyers bring to bear when creating European constitutional jurisprudence;...
Published September 26th 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish
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Gendered Risks
Edited and contributed to by a collection of eminent international scholars in the field, this is the first book to explore the gendered aspects of risk. It analyzes what is currently known and identifies some of the new directions and challenges for research and theory that emerge from thinking...
Published September 5th 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish
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Evgeny Pashukanis
A Critical Reappraisal
Series: Nomikoi Critical Legal Thinkers
A thorough examination of Pashukanis’ writings, this book is a significant contribution to a proper assessment of Pashukanis’ work, the value of his theoretical legacy and the contemporary relevance of Marxist legal theory. Interest in the best-known Soviet legal scholar, Evgeny Pashukanis, remains...
Published August 22nd 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish
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Constitutions
Writing Nations, Reading Difference
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
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Absent Environments
Theorising Environmental Law and the City
Series: Law, Science and Society
Offering a novel, transdisciplinary approach to environmental law, its principles, mechanics and context, as tested in its application to the urban environment, this book traces the conceptual and material absence of communication between the human and the natural and controversially includes such...
Published June 27th 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish
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Human Rights Controversies
The Impact of Legal Form
Many countries confront similar human rights controversies, but, despite the claimed universality of human rights values they are not always resolved in the same way. Why? What role do local legal conditions play? Is human rights discourse more potent where rights are constitutionally entrenched,...
Published June 20th 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish
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Nazi War Crimes, US Intelligence and Selective Prosecution at Nuremberg
Controversies Regarding the Role of the Office of Strategic Services
Reviewing recently declassified CIA documents, this book provides a balanced but critical discussion of the contribution of American intelligence officials to the Nuremberg war crimes trials. Giving new details of how senior Nazi war criminals, such as SS General Karl Wolff, were provided with...
Published May 23rd 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish
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Levinas, Law, Politics
Emmanuel Levinas' re-formulation of subjectivity, responsibility and the good has radically influenced post-structuralist thought. Political and legal theory, however, have only marginally profited from his moral philosophy. Levinas' theme of one's infinite responsibility for the other has often...
Published May 9th 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish
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The Legality of Boxing
A Punch Drunk Love?
Series: Birkbeck Law Press
The first book of its kind dedicated to an assessment of the legality of boxing, The Legality of Boxing: A Punch Drunk Love? assesses the legal response to prize fighting and undertakes a current analysis of the status of boxing in both criminal legal theory and practice. In this book, Anderson...
Published April 25th 2007 by Birkbeck Law Press
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Feminist Perspectives on Land Law
Series: Feminist Perspectives
The first book to examine the critical area of land law from a feminist perspective, it provides an original and critical analysis of the gendered intersection between law and land; ranging land use and ownership in England and Wales to Botswana, Papua New Guinea and the Muslim world. The authors...
Published March 28th 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish
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Sexuality and the Law
Feminist Engagements
‘Rediscovering’ the peculiarity of feminist perspectives, rather than examining the broader range of gender-oriented analyses, in the area of legal regulation and sexuality, this edited collection avoids the ‘reductionist' and 'essentialist' shortcomings of ‘feminism unmodified’. With a substantial...
Published March 28th 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish
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Human Rights and Empire
The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism
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
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Judith Butler: Ethics, Law, Politics
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
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Captive Images
Race, Crime, Photography
Captive Images examines the law’s treatment of photographic evidence and uses it to investigate the relationship between law, image and fantasy. Based around the scholarly examination of a bank robbery, in which a surveillance camera captures the robbery in progress, Katherine Biber draws upon...
Published February 21st 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish
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Governance and Regulation in Social Life
Essays in Honour of W.G. Carson
Comprising fourteen articles by leading international contributors, including some of the most prominent socio-legal and criminological scholars working in the field, this volume is currently the only work available that critically examines W.G. Carson and his crucial influence in the turn towards...
Published February 21st 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish
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Law and the City
Law and the City offers a lateral, critical and often unexpected description of some of the most important cities in the world, including Moscow, Istanbul, Berlin, Singapore, Athens, Mexico City, Toronto, Sydney, Johannesburg: each one from a distinctive legal perspective. An invaluable 'guide' to...
Published February 19th 2007 by Routledge-Cavendish
