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1. Foucault's Monsters and the Challenge of Law

   By Alex Neville Sharpe

   In contrast to other figures generated within social theory for thinking about outsiders, such as Rene Girard’s ‘scapegoat’ and Zygmunt Bauman’s ‘stranger’, Foucault’s Monsters and the Challenge of Law suggests that the figure of ‘the monster’ offers greater analytical precision and explanatory...

   Published December 14th 2009 by Routledge-Cavendish
2. Men, Law and Gender

   Essays on the ‘Man’ of Law

   By Richard Collier

   What does it mean to speak of ‘men’ as a gender category in relation to law? How does law relate to masculinities? This book presents the first comprehensive overview and critical assessment of the relationship between men, law and gender; outlining the contours of the ‘man’ of law across diverse...

   Published December 13th 2009 by Routledge-Cavendish
3. Rules, Rubrics and Riches

   The Interrelations between Legal Reform and International Development

   By Shailaja Fennell

   Rules, Rubrics and Riches highlights the limitations of existing approaches to understanding the relationship of the law to the process of development. It interrogates neoclassical economic thinking that draws on the narrow rubric of self-interest to understand the acquisition of riches. It takes...

   Published October 22nd 2009 by Routledge-Cavendish
4. Regulation of the Voluntary Sector

   Freedom and Security in an Era of Uncertainty

   By Mark Sidel

   Series: Critical Approaches to Law

   Have we gone too far in enacting laws, promulgating regulations and announcing policies that threaten freedom of association, either now or ‘in waiting’ for the future? Regulation of the Voluntary Sector focuses on the legal and political environment for civil society in an era in which...

   Published October 7th 2009 by Routledge-Cavendish
5. Niklas Luhmann: Law, Justice, Society

   By Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

   Series: Nomikoi Critical Legal Thinkers

   Niklas Luhmann: Law, Justice, Society presents the work of sociologist Niklas Luhmann in a radical new light. Luhmann’s theory is here introduced both in terms of society at large and the legal system specifically, and for the first time, Luhmann’s texts are systematically read together with...

   Published August 26th 2009 by Routledge
6. The Origins of Criminology

   A Reader

   Edited by Nicole H. Rafter

   The Origins of Criminology: A Reader is a collection of nineteenth-century texts from the key originators of the practice of criminology – selected, introduced, and with commentaries by the leading scholar in this area, Nicole Rafter. This book presents criminology as a unique field of study that...

   Published April 20th 2009 by Routledge-Cavendish
7. Foucault's Law

   By Ben Golder, Peter Fitzpatrick

   Foucault’s Law is the first book in almost fifteen years to address the question of Foucault’s position on law. Many readings of Foucault’s conception of law start from the proposition that he failed to consider the role of law in modernity, or indeed that he deliberately marginalized it. In...

   Published February 26th 2009 by Routledge-Cavendish
8. The Currency of Justice

   Fines and Damages in Consumer Societies

   By Pat O'Malley

   Fines and monetary damages account for the majority of legal sanctions across the whole spectrum of legal governance. Money is, in key respects, the primary tool law has to achieve compliance. Yet money has largely been ignored by social analyses of law, and especially by social theory. The...

   Published February 26th 2009 by Routledge-Cavendish
9. Law and Faith in a Sceptical Age

   By Anthony Bradney

   Law and Faith in a Sceptical Age is an analysis of the legal position of religious believers in a dominantly secular society. Great Britain is a society based upon broadly liberal principles. It claims to recognise the needs of religious believers and to protect them from discrimination. But...

   Published January 26th 2009 by Routledge-Cavendish