Law Books

This book examines the longstanding, yet ambiguous and deeply complex, relationship between law and aesthetics.Despite numerous studies dedicated to the topic, the relationship between aesthetics and...

Through real calls, field narratives, and thinkers from Du Bois and Weber to Simmel and Foucault, this book reframes the dispatcher’s role from a clerical function to a moral one. Dispatchers make...

This book discusses the validity, ethics, and usefulness of professional public commentary of politician’s mental health and provides an alternative model for professionals to do so in an ethical...

This book is aimed at a diverse audience including students, researchers, academicians, cybersecurity professionals, IT managers, Metaverse developers, business leaders, policymakers, and tech...

Focusing solely on the UN Convention on the International Effects of Judicial Sales of Ships 2023 (the ‘Beijing Convention’), readers of this unique book will gain a full and detailed understanding...

In the modern world, references to Shakespeare frequently mark moments of catastrophe and of the accompanying longing for restoring social order, remedying injuries, and building strong communities...

This book offers a multidisciplinary examination of the international crimes committed in the Russia-Ukraine War, and the challenges of their prosecution and documentation.As the largest...

Many attempts have been made in recent decades by liberal market economies to reconstruct public workplace conflict resolution agencies in response to major changes in patterns of workplace conflict...

This book is the outcome of an interdisciplinary research process aimed at capturing the complexity of the social mobilisation for climate change. It brings together various academic perspectives to...

This book proposes using a ‘jury-centric approach’ for improving laws, practices, and procedures in jury trials. Courts assume that jurors in a criminal trial understand and apply the judge’s...

In 2017, in Ivey v. Genting Casinos, the Supreme Court judged that the dishonesty test is objective and should be the single one in use for any area of law. The judgment sparked some criticism...

Forensic Psychology in Prisons and Probation provides a broad overview of practice in the field by discussing the contribution of forensic psychology in the context of His Majesty’s Prison and...

This is the first book to focus on the law and practice relating to the production and delivery of liquified natural gas (LNG) using offshore floating facilities. This segment of the offshore oil and...

Proof is the property of a disputed fact being established inferentially from an extant fact. This book explicates the structural components of this phenomenon in the context of hate crimes across...

The second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Political Corruption showcases the most innovative research being conducted globally in the field of political corruption and provides a new point of...

Additive manufacturing (AM) is a manufacturing process that has emerged as a viable technology for the production of engineering components. The aspects associated with additive manufacturing, such...

Drawing on Ireland as its primary case study, this book is an in- depth critical examination of how rights protection bodies and mechanisms are experienced by those in prison in Ireland.Through its...

Offering a new perspective on intimate partner abuse and homicide, this book recognises the families of victims as legitimate agents of knowledge in terms of the harm experienced by their family...

Deagon addresses the need for a robust theoretical foundation for religious freedom that accounts for its transcendent nature.What is the idea of religious freedom? Where does it come from? Why...

This timely volume sets out the author’s novel concept of the Organic model of internationalisation, developed using participants’ perceptions, lived experiences, and recommendations for a better...

This book undertakes a sociolegal examination of the intermediary role within the criminal justice system.The intermediary special measure is one of the most innovative and controversial developments...

This book brings clarity and understanding to the concept of accountability through the lens of conceptual political analysis. As the structure of the modern state has become more complex, the...

This book uses the concept of “learning disability” to explore what it means to be human. It argues that we need to learn with rather than from or about learning disability. This crucial distinction...

The book brings together a range of socio-legal and law and humanities scholars to elaborate and explore the idea of the legal ‘masterplot’.There is a class of narrative, sometimes referred to as...

Comparative Approaches to Law and Religion examines the methodological challenges of studying the interplay between law and religion across diverse jurisdictions. This volume fills a critical gap in...

Exploring the role of food in enabling people with convictions to live a “good life”, this book examines the tangible ways in which growing food, cooking, and eating together has the potential to be...

Enclosure Fire Dynamics, Second Edition explores the science of enclosure fires and how they cause changes in the environment of a building on fire. The authors discuss mechanisms controlling...

In recent times, comparative law has moved towards a new type of visualisation of the law, which is mainly based on indexes and indicators. Through these, legal scholars and practitioners measure...

This book provides an understanding of what is required to engineer and manufacture drug products. It bridges established concepts and provides for a new outlook by concentrating and creating new...

Tort Law is a foundation subject in every law degree in England and Wales. Unlocking Torts will ensure you grasp the main concepts of this subject with ease.Containing accessible explanations in a...

Tort Law is a foundation subject in every law degree in England and Wales. Unlocking Torts will ensure you grasp the main concepts of this subject with ease.Containing accessible explanations in a...

Aligning global governance to the challenges of sustainability is one of the most urgent international issues to be addressed. This book is a timely and up-to-date compilation of the main pieces of...

Aligning global governance to the challenges of sustainability is one of the most urgent international issues to be addressed. This book is a timely and up-to-date compilation of the main pieces of...

Drawing together an international team of historians, lawyers and historical sociolinguists, this volume investigates urban cultures of law in Scotland, with a special focus on Aberdeen and its rich...

This book documents the complex, drawn out and harsh legal procedures and historically racist and toxic immigration culture that await people arriving by plane and subsequently seeking refugee status...

Explores the failures of family court and calls for immediate and permanent change At the turn of the twentieth century, American social reformers created the first juvenile court. They imagined a...

Psychological research can provide constructive explanations of key problems in the criminal justice system--and can help generate solutions. This state-of-the-art text dissects the psychological...

How forty years of neoliberal policy choices created an American health care system that prioritizes profit over people. How can a nation with unmatched wealth and medical innovation also have the...

Rupert Murdock, Julian Assange and Mohamed Haneef illustrate the heat that develops when the media and the law face off. Courts struggle to insulate justice from Twitter, Facebook and google, while...

Results from a conference that brought together distinguished international academics and Australian legal practitioners who have litigated some of the most controversial cases in Australian asylum...

Solutions don't come easily to the dilemmas posed by such phenomena as: Cloning people, Trade in organs and human tissue, Body enhancement technologies, Drug testing on people, Performance enhancing...

This long-awaited second edition of our best-selling book has been fully updated by its expert editors, Dr Russell Wate QPM and Nigel Boulton, both former police officers and current specialist...

Many of Australia's leading judges, journalists, politicians and academics examine fundamental issues relating to media coverage, the law and public awareness. Some of the issues being discussed are:...

Mediation and Dispute Resolution addresses contemporary challenges and new developments in mediation. It aims to provide you with the key tools needed as an ADR practitioner to develop your own style...

Compliance can be a burden... but it can also be your secret weapon! If you want to turn regulatory challenges into something that gives you a competitive edge, helps you protect your brand and...

Despite being least affected by the virus itself, children and young people bore the brunt of Covid-19 pandemic restrictions. When schools were closed, playgrounds taped up and play outlawed,...

During the 2016 presidential campaign, millions of voters, concerned about the economic impact of illegal immigration, rallied behind the notion of a wall between the United States and Mexico. Not...