Law & Human Rights Fall 2020 Catalogue

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Law & Human Rights Fall 2020

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Law

A Better Justice?

Copy This Book!

Community Programs for Criminalized Women Amanda Nelund

What Data Tells Us about Copyright and the Public Good Paul Heald

Law and Society September 2020 198pp 9780774863629 £60.00 / $89.95 HB UBC PRESS

November 2020 200pp 9781503614307 £18.99 / $24.00 PB 9781503613959 £66.00 / $80.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

In Copy This Book!, Paul J. Heald draws on a vast knowledge of copyright scholarship and a deep sense of irony to explain what’s gone wrong with copyright in the twenty-first century. Heald gathers extensive empirical data and clearly distills the implications of copyright laws and doctrine for public welfare.

Women are the fastest growing group of incarcerated people in Canada. A Better Justice? offers a carefully reasoned analysis of alternative, community-based justice programs. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ

Crisis Lawyering

Divorce in China

Effective Legal Advocacy in Emergency Situations Edited by Ray Brescia & Eric K. Stern

Institutional Constraints and Gendered Outcomes Xin He

January 2021 304pp 15 b&w illus. 9781479805532 £54.00 / $65.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

February 2021 384pp 9781479801701 £37.00 / $45.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

The only study of Chinese divorce cases based on fieldwork and interviews conducted inside Chinese courtrooms over the course of a decade. With an unusual vantage point, Xin He offers a rare and unfiltered view of the operation of Chinese courts in the authoritarian regime. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ

Shines a light on the emerging field of law dedicated to responding to and resolving the crises of the twenty-first century. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ

Evading International Norms

Faith or Fraud

Fortune-Telling, Spirituality, and the Law Jeremy Patrick

Race and Rights in the Shadow of Legality Zoltan Buzas

Law and Society September 2020 280pp 4 b&w photos 9780774863339 £20.99 / $35.95 PB UBC PRESS

Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights December 2020 352pp 13 tables 9780812252699 £68.00 / $85.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

The growing presence in Western society of nonmainstream faiths and spiritual practices poses a dilemma for the law. Should the law’s understanding of religion include the “spiritual but not religious”? Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ

Presenting case studies of the French expulsion of Roma immigrants and the Czech segregation of Roma children in schools, this title argues that the violation of human rights norms often continues after legalization under the cover of technical legality.

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Good Governance in Economic Development

Hamilton and the Law

Reading Today’s Most Contentious Legal Issues through the Hit Musical Edited by Lisa A. Tucker

International Norms and Chinese Perspectives Edited by Sarah Biddulph & Ljiljana Biuković

October 2020 336pp 4 b&w halftones 9781501753381 £15.99 / $19.95 PB 9781501752216 £32.00 / $39.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Asia Pacific Legal Culture and Globalization August 2020 394pp 4 tables 9780774861939 £22.99 / $37.95 NIP UBC PRESS

Offers a revealing look into the legal community’s response to Hamilton: An American Musical, which continues to resonate in a country still deeply divided about the reach of the law.

Examines the intersection of international and Chinese conceptions of transparency, accountability, and public participation. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ

Identity Capitalists

Lawmaking under Pressure

The Powerful Insiders Who Exploit Diversity to Maintain Inequality Nancy Leong

International Humanitarian Law and Internal Armed Conflict Giovanni Mantilla

February 2021 256pp 9781503610132 £22.99 / $28.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

December 2020 264pp 9781501752582 £36.00 / $42.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

In Identity Capitalists, legal scholar Nancy Leong reveals how powerful people and institutions use Giovanni Mantilla analyzes the origins and diversity to their own advantage and how the rest development of the international humanitarian treaty rules that now exist to regulate internal of us can respond—and do better. armed conflict.

Living Apart Together

Multiracials and Civil Rights

Legal Protections for a New Form of Family Cynthia Grant Bowman

Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination Tanya Katerí Hernández

December 2020 224pp 13 b&w illus. 9781479891047 £33.00 / $40.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

An in-depth look at a new way of being a couple and “doing family”—living apart together (LAT)—in which committed couples maintain separate residences and finances. Makes an important case for formal recognition of this growing but largely overlooked family structure. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ

January 2021 224pp 9781479806065 £20.99 / $26.00 PB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Narratives of mixed-race people bringing claims of racial discrimination in court, illuminating traditional understandings of civil rights law. The legal and political analysis is enriched with Hernández’s own personal narrative as a mixedrace Afro-Latina. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ

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Refugee Law after 9/11

Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers

Sanctuary and Security in Canada and the United States Obiora Chinedu Okafor

Lives in the Law Jill Norgren

September 2020 362pp 9780774861472 £22.99 / $37.95 NIP UBC PRESS

November 2020 304pp 9781479805990 £17.99 / $22.00 PB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

The first major study to compare changes made to Canadian and US refugee law after and because of 9/11, Refugee Law after 9/11 uncovers crucial connections among refugee law, security relativism, and national self-image. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ

Award-winning legal historian Jill Norgren curates the oral histories of one hundred extraordinary American women lawyers, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg who changed the profession of law. Many of the stories are being told for the first time. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ

The Defender

The Justice Crisis

The Cost and Value of Accessing Law Edited by Trevor Farrow & Lesley Jacobs

The Battle to Protect the Rights of the Accused in Philadelphia Edward W. Madeira & Michael D. Schaffer

Law and Society November 2020 340pp 25 charts, 30 tables 9780774863575 £60.00 / $89.95 HB UBC PRESS

November 2020 240pp 9781439918524 £26.99 / $35.00 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Edward Madeira, past president of the Defender’s Board of Directors, and former Philadelphia Inquirer journalist Michael Schaffer chart the 80plus-year history of the organization as it grew from two lawyers in 1934 to a staff of nearly 500 in 2015. Excludes Asia Pacific

Assesses what is and isn’t working in the Canadian justice system, in an effort to improve a fundamental right of democratic citizenship: access to civil and family justice. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ

The Neoliberal Republic

The Psychology of Environmental Law

Corporate Lawyers, Statecraft, and the Making of PublicPrivate France Antoine Vauchez & Pierre France, Translated by Meg Morley, Foreword by Samuel Moyn

Arden Rowell & Kenworthey Bilz, Foreword by Linda J. Demaine

Psychology and the Law February 2021 336pp 1 b&w illus. 9781479891863 £31.00 / $38.00 PB 9781479812301 £82.00 / $99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Corpus Juris: The Humanities in Politics and Law January 2021 204pp 3 graphs 9781501752551 £16.99 / $21.95 PB 9781501752544 £95.00 / $115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Psychological insights into how people perceive, respond to, value, and make decisions about the environment. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ

Traces the corrosive effects that the revolving door between public service and private enrichment has on the French state.

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Trustees at Work

Tyranny of Greed

Financial Pressures, Emotional Labour, and Canadian Bankruptcy Law Anna Jane Samis Lund

UBC PRESS

Trump, Corruption, and the Revolution to Come Timothy K. Kuhner

July 2020 144pp 9781503608504 £10.99 / $14.00 PB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Law and Society August 2020 238pp 10 tables, 3 charts 9780774861427 £20.99 / $35.95 NIP

Democracy is being destroyed by an ancient evil, and modernity is in denial. In the Tyranny of Greed, Timothy K. Kuhner reveals the United States to be a government by and for the wealthy, with Trump—the spirit of infinite greed—at its helm.

Trustees at Work explores what is means to be considered a deserving debtor in under contemporary Canadian personal bankruptcy law. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ

Why Noncompliance

Workers against the City

The Politics of Law in the European Union Tanja A. Börzel

The Fight for Free Speech in Hague v. CIO Donald W. Rogers

February 2021 306pp 2 b&w line drawings, 22 charts 9781501753398 £15.99 / $19.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Working Class in American History September 2020 280pp 9780252085369 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780252043468 £88.00 / $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

Human Rights

Traces the history of noncompliance within the European Union (EU), focusing on which states continuously do or do not follow EU Law, why, and how that affects the governance in the EU and beyond.

Draws on a wide range of archives and evidence to re-evaluate Hague v. CIO from the ground up. Illuminates the trial proceedings and provides perspectives from both sides. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ

A is for Asylum Seeker: Words for People on the Move / A de asilo: palabras para personas en movimiento

Dignity Rights

Courts, Constitutions, and the Worth of the Human Person Erin Daly Foreword by Aharon Barak

Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism October 2020 248pp 9780812224757 £22.99 / $29.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS

Rachel Ida Buff, Translated by Alejandra Oliva

May 2020 272pp 9780823289158 £14.99 / $18.95 PB 9780823289141 £56.00 / $70.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

With cases on a range of subjects including prison conditions, employment, sexuality, reputation, and death, this ground-breaking book examines how judicial interpretations of dignity redefine what it means to be human in the modern world.

A clear and concise A-to-Z of keywords that echo our current human rights crisis.

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The Practice of Human Development and Dignity

The Subject of Human Rights Edited by Danielle Celermajer & Alexandre Lefebvre

Edited by Paolo G. Carozza & Clemens Sedmak

Stanford Studies in Human Rights September 2020 344pp 9781503613713 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781503613195 £74.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development

October 2020 340pp 9780268108694 £50.00 / $60.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS

Drawing on thinking in political theory, cultural studies, history, law, anthropology, and literary studies, this volume examines how human rights—as discourse, law, and practice—shape how we understand humanity and human beings.

Recent highlights: Law

This volume considers the meaning of human dignity inductively in light of development practice, rather than simply providing a theory or philosophy of human dignity in the abstract.

Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer

A Secular Need

Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India Jeffrey A. Redding

Charlottesville and the Politics of Hate Rodney A. Smolla May 2020 360pp 9781501749650 £22.99 / $28.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Global South Asia April 2020 240pp 9780295747088 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780295747071 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS

Smolla offers an insider’s view of the violent confrontations in Charlottesville during the “Summer of Hate.” Blending memoir, courtroom drama, and a consideration of the unresolved wound of racism in our society, he shines a light on the conflict between the value of free speech and the protection of civil rights.

Explores India’s non-state system of Muslim dispute resolution, known as the dar-ul-qaza system and commonly referred to as “Muslim courts” or “shariat courts.”

Crimmigrant Nations

Democratic Law in Classical Athens

Resurgent Nationalism and the Closing of Borders Edited by Robert Koulish & Maartje van der Woude

Michael Gagarin

April 2020 208pp 9781477320372 £36.00 / $45.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS

March 2020 416pp 9780823287499 £26.99 / $34.95 PB 9780823287482 £100.00 / $125.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

The democratic legal system created by the Athenians was completely controlled by ordinary citizens, with Crimmigrant Nations examines the parallel rise of no judges, lawyers, or jurists involved. It placed great importance on the litigants’ rhetorical anti-immigrant sentiment and right-wing populism in both the United States and Europe to performances. Gagarin offers a new perspective for viewing a legal system that was democratic in offer an unprecedented look at this issue on an a way only the Athenians could achieve. international level.

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Beyond Recidivism

Youth in a New Era of Deportation Lauren Heidbrink

New Approaches to Research on Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration Edited by Andrea Leverentz, Elsa Y. Chen & Johnna Christian, Afterword by Shadd Maruna

April 2020 240pp 9781503612075 £19.99 / $25.00 PB 9781503611542 £70.00 / $85.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Migranthood chronicles deportation from the perspectives of Indigenous youth who migrate unaccompanied from Guatemala to Mexico and the United States.

May 2020 400pp 12 Tables / 7 Figures 9781479853885 £27.99 / $35.00 PB 9781479862726 £82.00 / $99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Understanding reentry experiences after incarceration. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ

Digitize and Punish

Evaluating Police Uses of Force

Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age Brian Jefferson

Seth W. Stoughton, Jeffrey J. Noble & Geoffrey P. Alpert

May 2020 232pp 25 b&w photos 9781517909239 £19.99 / $24.95 PB 9781517909222 £83.00 / $100.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

May 2020 352pp 9781479814657 £50.00 / $60.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Provides a critical understanding and evaluation of police tactics and the use of force. Addresses how society evaluates use-of-force incidents. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ

Recent highlights: Human Rights

A study of the use of digital technology in American criminal justice, and shows how the technology has expanded the wars on crime and drugs, enabling our current state of mass incarceration and further entrenching the nation’s racialized policing and punishment. Excludes Japan & ANZ

Natural Law and Human Rights

The Death of Asylum

Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago Alison Mountz

Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason Pierre Manent, Translated by Ralph C. Hancock Foreword by Daniel J. Mahoney

August 2020 304pp 26 b&w photos 9780816697113 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9780816697106 £93.00 / $112.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

Investigating the global system of detention centers that imprison asylum seekers and conceal persistent human rights violations. Excludes Japan & ANZ

Catholic Ideas for a Secular World February 2020 176pp 9780268107215 £22.99 / $29.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS

The first English translation of Manet’s profound and strikingly original book La loi naturelle et les droits de l’homme.

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Recent highlights: Criminology

Migranthood


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