Law & Crime
Spring| Summer 2019
Crime & Human Rights
The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet Jeff Kosseff
April 2019 328pp 9781501714412 £20.99 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
What we can and cannot write, say, and do online is based on just one law—a law that protects online services from lawsuits based on user content. Jeff Kosseff exposes the workings of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which has lived mostly in the shadows since its enshrinement in 1996. Because many segments of American society now exist largely online, Kosseff argues that we need to understand and pay attention to what Section 230 really means and how it affects what we like, share, and comment upon every day. Tells the story of the institutions that flourished as a result of this powerful statute. It introduces us to those who created the law, those who advocated for it, and those involved in some of the most prominent cases decided under the law. Kosseff assesses the law that has facilitated freedom of online speech, trolling, and much more. His keen eye for the law, combined with his background as an award-winning journalist, demystifies a statute that affects all our lives –for good and for ill. While Section 230 may be imperfect and in need of refinement, Kosseff maintains that it is necessary to foster free speech and innovation.
High Time
The Legalization and Regulation of Cannabis in Canada Edited by Andrew Potter & Daniel Weinstock
March 2019 280pp 9780773556416 £17.99 PB 9780773556362 £91.00 HB
MCGILL-QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY PRESS
While the legalization of marijuana in Canada begins with a straightforward change of the criminal code, its ramifications go far beyond this. Legalization will have a serious impact on the country's international treaty commitments, interprovincial relations, taxation and regulatory regimes, and social and health policies The essays in this book address these outcomes from three main perspectives: the decades-long political path to legalization; the assumptions that underwrite the new policy, in particular the desire to stamp out the black market; and how legalization in Canada looks in an international context. Bringing together analysis by policy makers and scholars, including architects of marijuana legislation in Uruguay and Portugal – two trailblazing jurisdictions – High Time provides an urgent and necessary overview of Canada's Cannabis Act.
Governance Feminism
Notes from the Field Edited by Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché & Hila Shamir March 2019 608pp 9780816698509 £27.99 PB 9780816698493 £116.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
An interdisciplinary, multifaceted look at feminist engagements with governance across the global North and global South, Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field brings together nineteen chapters from leading feminist scholars and activists to critically describe and assess contemporary feminist engagements with state and state-like power. Gathering examples from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, it complements and expands on the companion volume Governance Feminism: An Introduction. Its chapters argue that governance feminism (GF) is institutionally diverse and globally distributed—emerging from traditional sites of state power as well as from various forms of governance and operating at the grassroots level, in the private sector, in civil society, and in international relations.Providing a clear, cross-cutting, critical lens through which to map developments in feminist governance around the world, Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field makes sense of the costs and benefits of current feminist realities to reimagine feminist futures.
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Grey Zones in International Economic Law and Global Governance
Edited by Daniel Drache & Lesley A. Jacobs
Asia Pacific Legal Culture and Globalization April 2019 320pp 10 charts, 14 tables 9780774838542 £31.00 NIP UBC PRESS
Since the 2008 economic meltdown, market-driven globalization has posed new challenges for governments. This volume introduces the concept of “grey zones” of global governance, where state policy and market behaviour interact with respect to trade, the environment, food security, and investment. Grey zones allow for the bending of international rules, which both promotes uniformity in many areas of public life and facilitates diverse forms of capitalism in market societies, enabling governments to balance national and global economic benefits. This exploration of local engagement with international economic law offers an innovative way to interpret public concerns about trade, investment, food security, green energy, subsidies, and anti-dumping actions.
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Law A Scrap of Paper
Breaking and Making International Law during the Great War Isabel V. Hull May 2019 384pp 9781501735837 £21.99 NIP CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Hull compares wartime decisionmaking in Germany, Great Britain, and France, weighing the impact of legal considerations in each. Focusing on seven cases, she emphasizes the profound tension between international law and military necessity in time of war.
Administering Interpretation Derrida, Agamben, and the Political Theology of Law Edited by Peter Goodrich & Michel Rosenfeld
Just Ideas May 2019 352pp 9780823283781 £27.99 PB 9780823283798 £103.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Administering Interpretation brings together philosophers, humanists, and jurists to reassess the status and trajectory of interpretative theory as applied in the art of law. The book brings contemporary critique to bear upon the interpretative apparatuses of exclusion, the law of spectacular sovereignty, and the bodies that lie in its wake.
After Marriage Equality
The Future of LGBT Rights Edited by Carlos A. Ball
May 2019 368pp 9781479800377 £23.99 NIP NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
After Marriage Equality explores crucial and wide-ranging social, political, and legal issues confronting the LGBT movement, including the impact of marriage equality on political activism and mobilization, antidiscrimination laws, transgender rights, LGBT elders, parenting laws and policies, religious liberty, sexual autonomy, and gender and race differences.
Authors and Apparatus
A Media History of Copyright Monika Dommann Translated by Sarah Pybus
March 2019 282pp 33 b&w halftones 9781501709920 £35.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Dommann provides a critical transatlantic perspective on developments in copyright law and mechanical reproduction of words and music, charting how artists, media companies, and lawmakers in the United States and western Europe approached the complex tangle of technological innovation, intellectual property, and consumer interests.
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Blaming Mothers
American Law and the Risks to Children’s Health Linda C. Fentiman
Families, Law, and Society May 2019 416pp 9781479867189 £23.99 NIP NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
This is a powerful call to reexamine who - and what - we consider risky to children’s health. Fentiman offers an important framework for evaluating childhood risk that, rather than scapegoating mothers, provides concrete solutions that promote the health of all of America’s children.
Braiding Legal Orders
Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Edited by John Borrows, Larry Chartrand, Oonagh E. Fitzgerald & Risa Schwartz
April 2019 356pp 9781928096801 £37.00 PB 9781928096818 £91.00 HB
MCGILL-QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY PRESS
Written by Indigenous legal scholars and policy leaders, this book engages with with the legal, historical, political, and practical aspects of UNDRIP implementation, making visible the possibilities for genuine nation-tonation relationships and reconciliation.
Capital Defense
Inside the Lives of America’s Death Penalty Lawyers Jon B. Gould & Maya Pagni Barak June 2019 304pp 9781479873753 £27.99 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
What motivates someone to make a career out of defending some of the worst suspected killers of our time? The authors in Capital Defense give us a glimpse into the lives of lawyers who choose to work in the darkest corner of our criminal justice system: death penalty cases.
Citizenship Beyond Nationality
Immigrants’ Right to Vote Across the World Luicy Pedroza
Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism May 2019 384pp 10 illus. 9780812250978 £66.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Pedroza considers immigrants who have settled in democracies and who live indistinguishably from citizens— paying taxes, attending schools and churches, receiving social benefits, and even serving in the military—yet lack the status, gained either through birthright or naturalization, that would give them electoral rights.
Class Actions in Canada
The Promise and Reality of Access to Justice Jasminka Kalajdzic
Law and Society January 2019 260pp 8 charts, 1 table 9780774837897 £28.99 NIP UBC PRESS
Atimely exploration of the evolution of collective litigation in Canada. Kalajdzic first proposes a conceptualization of access to justice that moves beyond access to court procedure. She then methodically assesses data and case studies to determine how class action practice fulfills or fails in its objectives.
Connecting the Dots
The Life of an Academic Lawyer Harry W. Arthurs
June 2019 192pp 9780773557093 £33.00 HB
MCGILL-QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY PRESS
Framed with commentary on the historical context that shaped each decade of Arthurs’ career and punctuated by moments of personal reflection, this memoir is a humorous, frank, and fearless account of the rise and fall of Canadian labour law from the man who was at the centre of it all.
Copyright’s Highway
Courting the Community
From the Printing Press to the Cloud, Second Edition Paul Goldstein
Legitimacy and Punishment in a Community Court Christine Zozula
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
May 2019 256pp 9781503609228 £19.99 PB 9781503605374 £70.00 HB
Copyright’s Highway offers an engaging, readable, and intelligent analysis of the effect of copyright on American politics, economy, and culture. Author Paul Goldstein–one of the nation’s leading authorities on intellectual property law–presents a thorough examination of the challenges facing copyright owners and users.
June 2019 216pp 9781439917404 £23.99 PB 9781439917398 £76.00 HB
A fascinating ethnography that goes behind the scenes to explore how quality-of-life discourses are translated into community court practices. Zozula’s nuanced investigation of community courts can lead us to a deeper understanding of punishment and rehabilitation and, by extension, the current state of the American court system.
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Defending the Public’s Enemy
The Life and Legacy of Ramsey Clark Lonnie T. Brown
July 2019 320pp 9781503601390 £27.99 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
How did a former chief lawyer for the United States transform into one of America’s most notorious defenders of the despised? Defending the Public’s Enemy is the first book to explore the enigmatic and perplexing life and legal career of U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark.
Deported Americans
Life after Deportation to Mexico Beth C. Caldwell
April 2019 248pp 9781478003908 £19.99 PB 9781478003601 £79.00 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Legal scholar and former public defender Beth C. Caldwell tells the story of dozens of immigrants who were deported from the United States—the only country they have ever known—to Mexico, tracking the harmful consequences of deportation for those on both sides of the border.
Divorcing Traditions
Dying to Work
March 2019 228pp 9781501734779 £20.99 PB 9781501734762 £79.00 HB
March 2019 264pp 9781501735844 £19.99 NIP
Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism Katherine Lemons
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
An ethnography of Islamic legal expertise and practices in India, a secular state in which Muslims are a significant minority and where Islamic judgments are not legally binding. Katherine Lemons argues that an analysis of divorce in accordance with Islamic strictures is critical to the understand of Indian secularism.
Death and Injury in the American Workplace Jonathan D. Karmel CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Raises our awareness of unsafe working conditions with accounts of workers who were needlessly injured or killed on the job. Based on interviews conducted across the USA, the stories are introduced in a way that helps place them in a historical and political context and represent a wide survey of the American workplace.
Essential Legal English in Context
Understanding the Vocabulary of US Law and Government Karen M. Ross
Equality on Trial
Everyday Transgressions
In the Weeds
April 2019 288pp 9781501715754 £18.99 PB 9781501736315 £79.00 HB
February 2019 336pp 9781439913314 £33.00 PB 9781439913307 £86.00 HB
Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace Katherine Turk
Domestic Workers’ Transnational Challenge to International Labor Law Adelle Blackett
June 2019 272pp 9781479831678 £22.99 PB
Politics and Culture in Modern America April 2019 296pp 11 illus. 9780812224405 £20.99 NIP
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
In 1964, Congress aimed to outlaw workplace discrimination on the basis of such personal attributes as sex, race, and religion. Turk examines how this law inspired a generation of Americans to dispatch expansive notions of sex equality, forging the contemporary meanings of feminism, fairness, and labor rights in the process.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Judicial Merit Selection
Justice for Some
Law Without Future
Focusing on vocabulary and featuring illustrations and hands-on exercises, this is a valuable self-study resource for those who want to improve their legal English terminology before entering a US law school, studying US law or government, or working as a seconded attorney to a US law firm.
Institutional Design and Performance for State Courts Greg Goelzhauser
February 2019 222pp 9781439918081 £25.99 PB 9781439918074 £74.00 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Goelzhauser amasses a wealth of data to examine merit selection’s institutional performance from an internal perspective. Here he delves into what makes merit selection unique—its use of nominating commissions to winnow applicants prior to gubernatorial appointment. The results have critical public policy implications.
Law and the Question of Palestine Noura Erakat
April 2019 384pp 9780804798259 £23.99 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offers a new approach to understanding the Palestinian struggle for freedom, told through the power and control of international law. Focusing on key junctures—from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to presentday wars in Gaza—Erakat shows how the strategic deployment of law has shaped current conditions.
Blackett tells the story behind the International Labour Organization’s Decent Work for Domestic Workers Convention No. 189, and its accompanying Recommendation No. 201 which in 2011 created the first comprehensive international standards to extend fundamental protections and rights to the millions of domestic workers laboring in other peoples’ homes throughout the world.
Anti-Constitutional Politics and the American Right Jack Jackson June 2019 200pp 9780812251333 £37.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Drawing upon legal scholarship and critical theory, Law Without Future offers a provocative and sobering analysis of how events in the 2000s have contoured U.S. political life in the twenty-first century in profound ways— and seeks to think beyond the impasse they have created.
Demonization, Legalization, and the Evolution of U.S. Marijuana Policy Clayton J. Mosher & Scott Atkins
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mosher & Akins take a deep dive into marijuana policy reform, looking at the incremental developments and the historical, legal, social, and political implications of these changes. This insightful book traces the distinct paths to the legalization of recreational marijuana in many countries and the future of marijuana law.
Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places
Justice Beyond and Between Edited by Marianne Constable, Leti Volpp & Bryan Wagner Berkeley Forum in the Humanities March 2019 272pp 9780823283705 £21.99 PB 9780823283712 £79.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
For many, the right place to look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions. This book looks for law in the “wrong places”—sites and spaces where no formal law appears. These essays show what legal understanding can gain when law is denied its ostensibly proper domain.
Loving Justice
Legal Emotions in William Blackstone’s England Kathryn D. Temple June 2019 280pp 9781479895274 £37.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Most legal historians regard William Blackstone’s masterpiece Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769) as a brilliant application of Enlightenment reasoning to English legal history. Loving Justice contends that Blackstone’s work extends beyond making sense of English law to invoke emotions such as desire, disgust, sadness, embarrassment, terror, tenderness, and happiness.
Ruling Out Art
Media Art Meets Law in Ontario’s Censor Wars Taryn Sirove
Law and Society April 2019 224pp 33 b&w photos 9780774837088 £74.00 HB UBC PRESS
In the 1980s, the Ontario Board of Censors began to subject media artists’ work to the same cuts, bans, and warning labels as commercial film. This innovative exploration of how art and law intersected turns a spotlight on the powerful role that artists can play in the administration of culture.
Our Non-Christian Nation
How Atheists, Satanists, Pagans, and Others Are Demanding Their Rightful Place in Public Life Jay Wexler
June 2019 216pp 9780804798990 £18.99 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Less and less Christian demographically, American is now home to an ever larger number of people who say they identify with no religion at all. Wexler travels the country to engage the non-Christians who have called on us to maintain our ideals of inclusivity and diversity.
Seeking the Court’s Advice
The Politics of the Canadian Reference Power Kate Puddister
Law and Society May 2019 248pp 3 charts, 8 tables 9780774861106 £74.00 HB UBC PRESS
The first study of its kind, this work draws on over two hundred reference cases from 1875 to 2017 to show that the actual outcome of a reference case is often secondary to the political benefits that can be attained from relying on courts through the reference power.
Religion, Law, USA
Isaac Weiner Edited by Joshua Dubler
North American Religions July 2019 336pp 9781479891399 £27.99 PB 9781479893362 £82.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Why religion? Why law? Why now? In recent years, the US has witnessed a number of high-profile court cases involving religion, forcing Americans to grapple with questions regarding the relationship between religion and law. This volume maps the contemporary interplay of religion and law within the study of American religions.
The Cult of the Constitution Mary Anne Franks
May 2019 280pp 9781503603226 £20.99 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this controversial and provocative book, Mary Anne Franks examines the thin line between constitutional fidelity and constitutional fundamentalism. Her book reveals how deep fundamentalist strains in both conservative and liberal American thought keeps the Constitution in the service of white male supremacy.
Reorganizing Government
A Functional and Dimensional Framework Alejandro Camacho & Robert Glicksman August 2019 356pp 9781479829675 £50.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Regulation is frequently less successful than it could be, largely because the allocation of authority to regulatory institutions, and the relationships between them, are misunderstood. This book explains how past approaches have failed to appreciate the full diversity of alternative approaches to organizing governmental authority.
The Cultural Production of Intellectual Property Rights Law, Labor, and the Persistence of Primitive Accumulation Sean Johnson Andrews February 2019 288pp 9781439914298 £62.00 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Johnson Andrews shows that the meaning, power, and value of intellectual properties are the consequence of an extended process of cultural production. He explains that if we want to rebalance the protection of copyrights and trademarks, we should focus on undermining the reified culture of property that underpins capitalism as a whole.
The Politics of Annihilation A Genealogy of Genocide Benjamin Meiches
March 2019 328pp 9781517905828 £21.99 PB 9781517905811 £93.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
By mapping the multiplicity of forces that entangle the concept of genocide in larger assemblages of power, Meiches provides a new understanding of how the language of genocide impacts contemporary political life, especially as a means of protesting the social conditions that produce mass violence.
The Psychology of Family Law
Eve M. Brank & Linda J. Demaine
A Grip of Time
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
May 2019 192pp 9781684350780 £19.99 HB
Psychology and the Law April 2019 240pp 9781479824755 £26.99 PB
Encourages our use of psychological research and methods to inform understandings of family law. It considers issues including child custody, intimate partner violence, marriage and divorce, and child and elder maltreatment. The volume identifies areas where psychology practice and research already have been or could be useful in molding legal doctrine and policy, and by providing psychology researchers with new ideas for legally relevant research.
Four Unruly Women
Hands Up, Don’t Shoot
March 2019 152pp 8 b&w photos 9780774838887 £16.99 PB 9780774838870 £74.00 HB
July 2019 288pp 9781479874415 £19.99 PB 9781479818563 £74.00 HB
Stories of Incarceration and Resistance from Canada’s Most Notorious Prison Ted McCoy
UBC PRESS
McCoy tells the stories of four women in Canada’s most notorious prison in poignant detail. These women served sentences at different times over a century, but the inhumanity they suffered was consistent. This book presents profoundly disturbing evidence of the hidden costs of isolation, punishment, and mass incarceration.
Crime
Why the Protests in Ferguson and Baltimore Matter, and How They Changed America Jennifer E. Cobbina
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this title Cobbina draws on interviews with nearly 200 residents of Ferguson and Baltimore, conducted within months of the deaths of 18year old Michael Brown and 25-year old Freddie Gray. She examines— amongst other things—how protestors understood their experiences with the police and what galvanized Black Lives Matter as a social movement.
When Prison Is Your Life Lauren Kessler INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Over the course of three years, awardwinning author Lauren Kessler helped men facing life in prison confront the reality of spending the rest of their lives behind bars through writing workshops and brings some of their most powerful stories to light in her book.
Outlaw Women
Prison, Rural Violence, and Poverty on the New American Frontier Susan Dewey, Rhett Epler, Catherine Connolly, Bonnie Zare & Rosemary Bratton August 2019 272pp 9781479887439 £23.99 PB 9781479801176 £74.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Incarceration is often depicted as an urban problem, a male problem, a problem that disproportionately affects people of color. This book, however, takes readers to the heart of the struggles of the outlaw women of the rural West, considering how poverty and gendered violence overlap to keep women literally and figuratively imprisoned.
Criminal Trajectories
A Developmental Perspective David M. Day & Margit Wiesner
Psychology and Crime July 2019 368pp 9781479864607 £33.00 PB 9781479880058 £82.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Over the past several years, notions of developmental trajectories— particularly criminal trajectories—have taken hold as important areas of investigation for researchers interested in the longitudinal study of crime. This title presents the first fulllength overview of criminal trajectories as a concept and makes the case for a developmental approach to the topic.
Prison Land
Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America Brett Story March 2019 232pp 9781517906887 £15.99 PB 9781517906870 £66.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Story investigates the production of carceral power at a range of sites to demonstrate how the organization of carceral space is ideologically and materially grounded in racial capitalism. Prison Land forces us to confront the production of new carceral forms that go well beyond the prison system.
Stop and Frisk
The Use and Abuse of a Controversial Policing Tactic Michael D. White & Henry F. Fradella July 2019 256pp 9781479857814 £17.99 NIP NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
No policing tactic has been more controversial than “stop and frisk,” whereby police officers stop, question and frisk ordinary citizens on the streets. With examples from police departments across the US, Stop and Frisk is the first in-depth history and analysis of this much-abused policing policy.
African Cinema and Human Rights Edited by Mette Hjort & Eva Jørholt
Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora March 2019 376pp 9780253039439 £31.00 PB 9780253039422 £79.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
An interdisciplinary look at the role of moving images in human rights struggles through the lens of African cinema. Bringing theory and practice together, the authors argue that moving images have a significant role to play in advancing the causes of justice and fairness.
The Evolution of the Juvenile Court Race, Politics, and the Criminalizing of Juvenile Justice Barry C. Feld
Youth, Crime, and Justice June 2019 392pp 9781479871292 £19.99 NIP NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Provides a sweeping overview of the American juvenile justice system’s development and change over the past century. Feld places special emphasis on changes over the last 25 years—the ascendance of get tough crime policies and the more recent Supreme Court recognition that “children are different.”
Beyond Virtue and Vice
Rethinking Human Rights and Criminal Law Edited by Alice M. Miller & Mindy Jane Roseman
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights January 2019 360pp 1illus. 9780812251081 £58.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Examines the ways in which recourse to the criminal law features in work by human rights advocates regarding sexuality, gender, and reproduction and presents a framework for considering if, when, and under what conditions, recourse to criminal law is compatible with human rights.
The Limits of Community Policing
Civilian Power and Police Accountability in Black and Brown Los Angeles Luis Daniel Gascón & Aaron Roussell July 2019 320pp 9781479842254 £23.99 PB 9781479871209 £74.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Addresses conflicts between police and communities. Luis Daniel Gascón and Aaron Roussell depart from traditional conceptions, arguing that community policing—popularized for decades as a racial panacea—is not the solution it seems to be.
Class, Race, and the Civil Rights Movement, Second Edition
Jack M. Bloom Foreword by Richard Gordon Hatcher
Blacks in the Diaspora August 2019 368pp 9780253042460 £24.99 PB 9780253042507 £66.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
A unique sociohistorical analysis of the civil rights movement in the US. In it Jack M. Bloom analyzes the interaction between the economy and political systems in the South, which led to racial stratification.
Human Rights A Human Rights Based Approach to Development in India
Edited by Moshe Hirsch, Ashok Kotwal & Bharat Ramaswami
Asia Pacific Legal Culture & Globalization June 2019 192pp 15 charts, 25 tables 9780774860307 £62.00 HB UBC PRESS
Examines a diverse range of human development issues and ultimately asks whether India’s approach to development is working and whether its right to develop is at odds with its international commitments.
Emerging Threats to Human Rights
Resources, Violence, and Deprivation of Citizenship Heather Smith-Cannoy July 2019 292pp 9781439917190 £31.00 PB 9781439917183 £86.00 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book searches among the interrelated causes of widespread environmental degradation and the contemporary migration crisis. The contributors to this anthology assess how environmental resources, state violence, and the deprivation of nationality/citizenship are linked to gain a better understanding of how human rights abuses intersect with patterns of migration.
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Enforcing Exclusion
Precarious Migrants and the Law in Canada Sarah Grayce Marsden
Law and Society March 2019 248pp 9780774837743 £28.99 NIP UBC PRESS
People with precarious migration status face barriers in law, policy, and practice, affecting their ability to address adverse working conditions and their access to public institutions. The book recasts what migration status means to the state and to noncitizens, questioning the adequacy of human-rights-based responses in addressing its exclusionary effects.
Human Rights and Participatory Politics in Southeast Asia Catherine Renshaw
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights January 2019 256pp 9780812251036 £62.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Renshaw recounts an extraordinary period of human rights institutionbuilding in her examination of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). She concludes that, in the absence of a global legalized human rights order, the most significant advancements in the promotion of human rights have emerged from regional institutions like the ASEAN.
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights April 2019 360pp 10 illus. 9780812250923 £74.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Examines three mass conversion movements in India and the challenges they faced. Jenkins illuminates the ways in which the responses of critics of the movements immobilize potential converts, reinforce damaging assumptions about women, lower castes, and religious minorities, and continue to restrict religious freedom in India today.
Joyful Human Rights
William Paul Simmons Foreword by Semere Kesete
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights January 2019 304pp 9 illus. 9780812251012 £62.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Instead of reducing individuals merely to victim status or the tragedies they have experienced, human rights workers can help them reclaim their full humanity, which includes positive emotions such as joy. This book provides a new framework for theorizing and practicing a more affirmative and robust notion of human rights.
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Technologies of Suspicion and the Ethics of Obligation in Political Asylum Edited by Bridget M. Haas & Amy Shuman Contributions by Benjamin N. Lawrance Series in Human Security March 2019 280pp 9780821423783 £66.00 HB OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
Taking everyday practices and interactions as their focus, contributors draw on various theoretical perspectives to examine how tensions between humanitarianism and security are negotiated at the local level.
The Ideals of Global Sport
From Peace to Human Rights Edited by Barbara Jean Keys
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights March 2019 248pp 9780812251500 £41.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Today, we are inundated with claims about the many ways that international sports competitions make the world a better place. This book investigates these grandiose claims, peeling away the hype to reveal the reality: that shockingly little evidence underpins these endlessly repeated assertions.
New Critical Spaces in Transitional Justice
Gender, Art, and Memory Edited by Arnaud Kurze & Christopher Lamont March 2019 288pp 9780253039903 £24.99 PB 9780253039897 £58.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Gathering work from contributors in international law, political science, sociology, and history, this book explains current trends in responses to post-conflict and post-authoritarian nations and offers original empirical research to help define the field for the future.
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The Organization of Islamic Cooperation and Human Rights Edited by Marie Juul Petersen & Turan Kayaoglu
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights March 2019 368pp 2 illus. 9780812251197 £74.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Essays by some of the world’s leading scholars examine the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s human rights activities at different levels—in the UN, the organization’s own institutions, and at the member-state level—and assess different aspects of its approach, identifying priority areas of involvement and underlying conceptions of human rights.