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Shaping and Sharing a Sustainable Global Prosperity James Bacchus | University of Central Florida Aimed equally at scholars of political economy, sustainability, and international law seeking ways to shape rules and structures to achieve global sustainable development, and at general readers wondering how to make the necessary transition from a carbon-dependent economy to a green, sustainable future in which all can prosper and share.
528pp Mar. 2022 9781009202190 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 Jul. 2018 9781108428217 Hardback GBP 33.99 / USD 46.99 eISBN 9781108552417
Trade in Knowledge
intellectual property, Trade and Development in a Transformed Global economy Antony Taubman This book offers a fresh understanding of what it means to trade in knowledge in today’s technological and commercial environment. It offers insights into the prospects for knowledgebased development and ideas for updated systems of governance that promote the creation and sharing of the benefits of knowledge.
866pp Mar. 2022 9781108748476 Paperback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 Mar. 2022 9781108490429 Hardback GBP 99.99 / USD 130 eISBN 9781108780919
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Transparency in the WTO SPS and TBT Agreements
The real Jewel in the crown Marianna B. Karttunen Underlines the benefits of transparency in preventing disputes between WTO Members by enabling regulatory co-operation between them. Of interest to academics of international trade law, government representatives engaged in trade and regulatory policy, and international organisation staff willing to improve transparency in their organisation.
Cambridge International Trade and Economic Law
358pp 31 b/w illus. 11 tables Aug. 2022 9781108732376 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 39.99 Apr. 2020 9781108486453 Hardback GBP 88.99 / USD 116 eISBN 9781108762946
WTO Agreement on Safeguards and Article XIX of GATT
a Detailed commentary Fernando Piérola-Castro Using relevant case law and providing practical guidance, this book is an extensive and detailed commentary on safeguards that emphasises practice, compliance and avoiding risk from an investigating authority’s perspective. Offering a comprehensive and updated overview of the field, it is useful to government officials, practitioners, and scholars.
474pp Jun. 2022 9781108484282 Hardback GBP 175 / USD 230 eISBN 9781108613248
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Aristotle and Law
The Politics of Nomos George Duke | Deakin University, Victoria This book offers a systematic exposition of Aristotle’s legal thought. It argues that Aristotle’s seemingly dispersed statements on legislation and law are unified by a commitment to law’s status as an achievement of practical reason. It will appeal to scholars and students in jurisprudence, philosophy, political science, and classics.
191pp May. 2022 9781316610114 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 29.99 Dec. 2019 9781107157033 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781316661741
Bentham on Democracy, Courts, and Codification
Philip Schofield | University College London Drawing upon manuscripts and The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, this collection represents the latest scholarship on Bentham’s late and mature thought on constitutional law, including courts, codification, and cosmopolitanism. The chapters together offer a comprehensive and detailed account of Bentham’s distinctive theory of democracy.
278pp Sep. 2022 9781316516041 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781009031745
Carl Schmitt’s Institutional Theory
The Political Power of Normality Mariano Croce | Sapienza Università di Roma Dethroning the false centrality of certain key texts, this book offers an ambitious, novel perspective on Carl Schmitt and his legal and political thinking by analysing his writings from across his decades-long career. It explores Schmitt’s varied and developing thoughts on exceptionalism and societal pluralism.
170pp Jul. 2022 9781316511381 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781009052474
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Church Law in Modernity
Toward a Theory of canon Law between Nature and culture Judith Hahn | Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany This book discusses natural law as a traditional but highly contested source of canon law. In doing so it marks a contribution to the heated debates on natural law in general and on the foundation of law, both secular or religious, in legal studies, philosophy, and ethics.
Law and Christianity
284pp Jun. 2022 9781108716598 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 34.99 Mar. 2019 9781108483254 Hardback GBP 88.99 / USD 116 eISBN 9781108673525
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Common Law and Natural Law in America
From the Puritans to the Legal realists Andrew Forsyth | Yale University, Connecticut Students of law, history, ethics, or religion will learn from this fresh and ambitious four-hundred-year narrative of the varied interactions of American common law - the stuff of courtrooms - and natural law, a higher moral law. Arguing against prevailing scholarly views, its chapters re-assess major figures and debates.
Law and Christianity
172pp May. 2022 9781108701815 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 29.99 Apr. 2019 9781108476973 Hardback GBP 88.99 / USD 116 eISBN 9781108576772
Evidential Legal Reasoning
crossing civil Law and common Law Traditions Jordi Ferrer Beltrán The book is for everyone interested in evidentiary reasoning, including lawyers, judges, academics, prosecutors, etc. It offers a global image on evidence and proof, with an overview of topics, legal systems of reference and leading authors from different legal traditions and four continents.
328pp May. 2022 9781316516997 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781009032049
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Flourishing Lives
exploring Natural Law Liberalism Gary Chartier | La Sierra University, California This book develops a winsome and confident understanding of political and social liberalism while exploring issues in ethics, law, and politics -including consumer responsibility, deception by lawyers, war and empire, and the use of victimimpact statements in parole decisions - in light of a rich understanding of fulfilment and flourishing.
307pp Jun. 2022 9781108730372 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 35.99 Jun. 2019 9781108493048 Hardback GBP 88.99 / USD 116 eISBN 9781108675253
International Legal Theory
Foundations and Frontiers Jeffrey L. Dunoff | Temple University, Philadelphia This critical overview of current thinking about the theoretical foundations of international law makes a complex subject accessible. The chapters provide authoritative accounts of the strengths, preoccupations, insights, and limits of leading theoretical approaches to international law.
350pp Aug. 2022 9781108448024 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 Aug. 2022 9781108427715 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108551878
Law as an Instrument
Sources of chinese Law for authoritarian Legality Shucheng Wang As China’s power on the world stage has grown, it has increasingly and pragmatically employed law as an important instrument in an illiberal domestic and global approach. This timely analysis of Chinese law explains how law operates as an instrument in a conservative context very different from Western liberal traditions.
Elements in Bioethics and Neuroethics
310pp Jul. 2022 9781009152563 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781009152556
Law as Religion, Religion as Law
David C. Flatto | Hebrew University of Jerusalem Whereas conventional approaches to law and religion regard these as competing domains, this volume explores a vital alternate perspective, which conceives of them as overlapping and interrelated frameworks that structure the social order. The multi-disciplinary essays address political theology, secularism, church-state conflicts, and divine law.
400pp Aug. 2022 9781108486538 Hardback GBP 95 / USD 125 eISBN 9781108760997
Legal Reasoning
Melvin A. Eisenberg | University of California, Berkeley Legal Reasoning concerns the modes of reasoning utilized in the common law, which is made by courts and consists of the rules that govern the relations between individuals, such as contracts. The book is addressed to legal scholars, law students, pre-law students, and the general public.
180pp Oct. 2022 9781009162500 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Oct. 2022 9781009162524 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781009162517
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Modern Statutory Interpretation
Framework, Principles and Practice Jeffrey Barnes | La Trobe University, Victoria Modern Statutory Interpretation is an original, clear, coherent and research-based account of contemporary Australian statutory interpretation. It provides a comprehensive coverage of statutory interpretation law, legislative drafting, the parliamentary process, the modern history of interpretation, sources of doubt, and interpretation techniques.
600pp Mar. 2023 9781108816021 Paperback GBP 100 / USD 128 eISBN 9781108895637
Network Responsibility
european Tort Law and the Society of Networks Rónán Condon | Dublin City University This book offers an ambitious and novel approach to understanding tort law in a post-national context spanning the context of products’ liability and value chain liability. It offers a persuasive and striking new approach to tort liability which argues for a greater liability and accountability of these actors.
248pp Jul. 2022 9781316512005 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781009051972
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Statutory Interpretation
Pragmatics and argumentation Douglas Walton | University of Windsor, Ontario Drawing on linguistics, legal theory, computing, and dialectics, this book analyzes statutory interpretation in terms of arguments used in everyday reasoning. The authors illustrate complex, crucial legal cases with diagrams and summarize them in schemes, making the methodology accessible to scholars, professionals, and students across disciplines.
345pp Aug. 2022 9781108454070 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 35.99 Jan. 2021 9781108429344 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108554572
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Stereoscopic Law
Oliver wendell Holmes and Legal education Alexander Lian Stereoscopic Law contends that the most famous article in American jurisprudence - Oliver Wendell Holmes’s ‘The Path of the Law’ - is an essay on legal education. This book meticulously and uniquely develops this thesis through the lenses of history and philosophy and restates Holmes’s main message to fit contemporary pedagogical challenges.
535pp Jul. 2022 9781108465441 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Dec. 2020 9781108474740 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108640589
The Cambridge Companion to Gender and the Law
Stéphanie Hennette Vauchez Using illustrative examples from a range of jurisdictions, this book demonstrates the various ways in which law and gender interact to shape the legal subject. Organised in thematic chapters that address the legal subject’s corporeal, functional, and communal dimensions, it offers an accessible but theoretically ambitious analysis.
Cambridge Companions to Law
500pp Nov. 2022 9781108713306 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 Nov. 2022 9781108499248 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108634069
Tom Angier | University of Cape Town This Handbook provides an intellectually rigorous and accessible overview of the relationship between natural law and Human rights. It fills a crucial gap in the literature with leading scholarship on the importance of natural law as a philosophical foundation for Human rights and its significance for contemporary debates.
Cambridge Law Handbooks
704pp Nov. 2022 9781108837514 Hardback GBP 155 / USD 210 eISBN 9781108939225
The Eclipse of Classical Thought in China and The West
James Gordley | Tulane University, Louisiana Tracing the common elements of the Chinese and Western classical traditions, this book examines their strengths, their role in shaping constitutions and the consequences of their eclipse. Presupposing no prior knowledge of philosophy, it offers an interpretation of these traditions and of the origins of modern ethical and political thought.
450pp Jun. 2022 9781108845151 Hardback GBP 95 / USD 125 eISBN 9781108954709
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The Immortal Commonwealth
covenant, community, and Political resistance in early reformed Thought David P. Henreckson How would we understand early modern political context differently if we accounted for the theological commitments of early modern resistance theorists? The Immortal Commonwealth argues that by taking these theological sources seriously, we have a richer, truer perspective on early modern radical political thought.
Law and Christianity
218pp Jun. 2022 9781108455497 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 32.99 Jul. 2019 9781108470216 Hardback GBP 88.99 / USD 116 eISBN 9781108556378
New iN PaPerback The Legal Mind
a New introduction to Legal epistemology Bartosz Brożek | Jagiellonian University, Krakow Drawing from philosophy and the cognitive sciences, this book depicts a new picture of legal thinking as an interplay between intuition, imagination, and language. This fresh approach prompts key questions of rationality in law, how lawyers think, and the limits of legal interpretation that will interest scholars, students, and practitioners.
190pp Jun. 2022 9781108717526 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 29.99 Nov. 2019 9781108493253 Hardback GBP 88.99 / USD 116 eISBN 9781108695084
