Law Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Towards a Social Science of Drugs in Sport

   Edited by Jason Mazanov

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   The debate around the role of drugs in sport is vibrant. There is a wealth of evidence from the hard end of science, telling us how drugs work, how drug testing works, and how many athletes have fallen foul of the system. The evidence from social science is still building momentum. For example,...

   Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge
2. From Heritage to Terrorism

   Regulating Tourism in an Age of Uncertainty

   By Brian Simpson, Cheryl Simpson

   Critical in style, From Heritage to Terrorism: Regulating Tourism in an Age of Uncertainty examines the law and its role in shaping and defining tourism and the tourist experience. Using a broad range of legal documents and other materials from a variety of disciplines, it surveys how the...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge-Cavendish
3. The Law on the Use of Force

   A Feminist Analysis

   By Gina Heathcote

   Series: Routledge Research in International Law

   The book presents the international laws on the use of force whilst demonstrating the unique insight a feminist analysis offers this central area of international law. The book highlights key conceptual barriers to the enhanced application of the law of the use of force, and develops international...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
4. Structural Adjustment, the Environment and Sustainable Development

   By David Reed

   Series: Environmental and Resource Economics Set

   This is a pioneering study which should serve as a model for future research and will to a wide audience' Dharam Ghai, Director United Nations Research Institute for Social Development Structural Adjustment and the Environment (Earthscan, 1992) was the first book to fully examine the effects of '...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
5. Combating Economic Crimes

   Balancing Competing Rights and Interests in Prosecuting the Crime of Illicit Enrichment

   By Ndiva Kofele-Kale

   Series: Routledge Research in Transnational Crime and Criminal Law

   In the last decade a new tool has been developed in the global war against official corruption through the introduction of the offense of "illicit enrichment" in almost every multilateral anti-corruption convention. Illicit enrichment is defined in these conventions to include a reverse burden...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
6. Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia

   Edited by Vivienne Bath, Luke Nottage

   Series: Routledge Research in International Economic Law

   This book considers foreign investment flows in major Asian economies. It critically assesses the patterns and issues involved in the substantive law and policy environment which impact on investment flows, as well as the related dispute resolution law and practice. The book combines insights from...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
7. Genomic Negligence

   An Interest in Autonomy as the Basis for Novel Negligence Claims Generated by Genetic Technology

   By Victoria Chico

   Series: Biomedical Law and Ethics Library

   Advances in genetic technology will lead to novel legal challenges. This book identifies four potential genomic claims which may be articulated as novel negligence challenges. Each of these claims is considered from the perspective of the English courts’ approach to novel kinds of damage. It is...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
8. Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region

   Towards Institution Building

   Edited by Hitoshi Nasu, Ben Saul

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   The Asia-Pacific is known for having the least developed regional mechanisms for protecting human rights. This edited collection makes a timely and distinctive contribution to contemporary debates about building institutions for human rights protection in the Asia-Pacific region, in the wake of...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
9. Environmental Justice and the Rights of Ecological Refugees

   By Laura Westra

   Climate change and other environmental problems are increasingly leading to the displacement of populations from their homelands, whether through drought, flooding, famine or other causes. Worse, there is currently no protection in international law for people made refugees by such means....

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
10. Environmental Justice and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

    International and Domestic Legal Perspectives

    By Laura Westra

    More than 300 million people in over 70 countries make up the world?s indigenous populations. Yet despite ever-growing pressures on their lands, environment and way of life through outside factors such as climate change and globalization, their rights in these and other respects are still not fully...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge