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The Substantive Law of the EU - The Four Freedoms

Notable for its detailed coverage of the substantive aspects of European law, and including case studies, flowcharts, and diagrams, this text focuses principally on the four freedoms: the free movement of goods, persons, services, and capital, and...

Inclusion and Democracy

In the long awaited follow-up to Justice and the Politics of Difference, Iris Marion Young- one of the world's leading political philosophers- makes major and controversial contribution to the debates about democracy in a multicultural society. Th...

Neuroethics - Defining the issues in theory, practice, and policy

Recent advances in the brain sciences have dramatically improved our understanding of brain function. As we find out more and more about what makes us tick, we must stop and consider the ethical implications of this new found knowledge. This groun...

Legal Traditions of the World - Sustainable Diversity in Law

The third edition of this prize-winning work provides a new and inclusive means of reconciling the diverse laws and peoples of the world, through placing national laws in the broader context of legal traditions. All major legal traditions of the w...

The End of Lawyers? - Rethinking the nature of legal services

This widely acclaimed legal bestseller has ignited an intense debate within the legal profession. It examines the effect of advances in IT upon legal practice, analysing anticipated developments in the next decade. It urges lawyers to consider the...

Moral Dilemmas of Modern War - Torture, Assassination, and Blackmail in an Age of Asymmetric Conflict

Asymmetric conflict is changing the way that we practise and think about war. Torture, rendition, assassination, blackmail, extortion, direct attacks on civilians, and chemical weapons are all finding their way to the battlefield despite longstand...

McCoubrey & White's Textbook on Jurisprudence

This textbook provides an introduction to and analysis of the major theories and controversies of jurisprudence. Starting with an overview of the nature of jurisprudence, then moving on to examine the theories and main protagonists in more detail,...

The Anatomy of Corporate Law - A Comparative and Functional Approach

This is the long-awaited second edition of this highly regarded comparative overview of corporate law. This edition has been comprehensively updated to reflect profound changes in corporate law. It now includes consideration of additional matters ...

Transitional Justice in the Twenty-First Century - Beyond Truth versus Justice

Dealing with the aftermath of civil conflict or the fall of a repressive government continues to trouble countries throughout the world. Whereas much of the 1990s was occupied with debates concerning the relative merits of criminal prosecutions an...

A Guide to Early Irish Law

Eichmann in Jerusalem - A Report on the Banality of Evil

Hannah Arendt's authoritative and controversial report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in the "New Yorker" in 1963. This revised edition of "Eichmann in Jerusalem" contai...

EU Employment Law

The new edition of this major work is a must-buy for all students studying EU employment law. It offers comprehensive coverage of an increasingly complex subject, tackling both case law and legislation, and provides detailed analysis of the EU's D...

Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England

An extended study of gender and crime in early modern England. It considers the ways in which criminal behaviour and perceptions of criminality were informed by ideas about gender and order, and explores their practical consequences for the men an...

Judges, Legislators and Professors - Chapters in European Legal History

In Judges, legislators and professors one of the world's foremost legal historians shows how and why continental and common law have come to diverge so sharply. Using ten specific examples he investigates the development of European law, not as th...

An Introduction to Islamic Law

The study of Islamic law can be a forbidding prospect for those entering the field for the first time. Wael Hallaq, a leading scholar and practitioner of Islamic law, guides students through the intricacies of the subject in this absorbing introdu...

European Legal History - A Cultural and Political Perspective

The rediscovery of Roman law and the emergence of classical canon law around AD 1100 marked the beginnings of the civil law tradition in Europe. Between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries, a highly sophisticated legal science of a truly European...

Making People Illegal - What Globalization Means for Migration and Law

This book examines the relationship between illegal migration and globalization. Under the pressures of globalizing forces, migration law is transformed into the last bastion of sovereignty. This explains the worldwide crackdown on extra-legal mig...

European Comparative Company Law

Company law is undergoing fundamental change in Europe. All European countries have undertaken extensive reform of their company legislation. Domestic reform has traditionally been driven by corporate failures or scandals. Initiatives to make corp...

The Art of Cross Examination

The State of Play - Law, Games and Virtual Worlds

"The State of Play" presents an essential first step in understanding how new digital worlds will change the future of our universe. Millions of people around the world inhabit virtual words: multiplayer online games where characters liv...