LAW & CRIMINOLOGY Spring 2020
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A Secular Need
By the Court
Jeffrey A. Redding
Peter McCormick & Marc D. Zanoni
Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India
Anonymous Judgments at the Supreme Court of Canada
Series edited by K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang, Padma Kaimal
Global South Asia April 2020 248pp 9780295747088 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780295747071 £79.00/$95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
UBC PRESS
Law and Society March 2020 268pp 14 tables, 5 charts 9780774861724 $35.95/£21.99 NIP
By the Court is the first major study of unanimous and anonymous legal decisions: the unique “By the Court” format used by the Supreme Court of Canada. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Explores India’s non-state system of Muslim dispute resolution commonly referred to as “Muslim courts” or “shariat courts.”.
Circulating the Code
Court of Injustice
Print Media and Legal Knowledge in Qing China
Law Without Recognition in U.S. Immigration
April 2020 256pp 8 tables, 7 b&w illus. 9780295747156 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780295747163 £79.00/$95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
June 2020 224pp 9781503612488 £21.99/$26.00 PB 9781503611405 £73.00/$85.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ting Zhang
J.C. Salyer
Asserts that in the Qing dynasty legal books were commercially published and available to anyone who could afford to buy them. Compares different official and commercial editions of the Qing Code, popular handbooks for amateur legal practitioners, and manuals for community legal lectures.
Reveals how immigration lawyers work to achieve just results for their clients in a system that has long denigrated the rights of those they serve. Salyer specifically investigates immigration enforcement in NYC, following individual migrants, their lawyers, and the NGOs that serve them in the immigration courtrooms.
Crimmigrant Nations
Crossing Law’s Border
Resurgent Nationalism and the Closing of Borders
Canada’s Refugee Resettlement Program
Edited by Robert Koulish & Maartje van der Woude
Shauna Labman
Law and Society May 2020 264pp 6 tables 9780774862189 $35.95/£21.99 NIP UBC PRESS
March 2020 416pp 9780823287499 £27.99/$34.95 PB 9780823287482 £103.00/$125.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Crossing Law’s Border offers a comprehensive account of Canada’s refugee resettlement Examines the parallel rise of anti-immigrant sentiment and right-wing populism in both the US program, from the Indochinese crisis of the 1970s to the current era of controversy and flux in and Europe to offer an unprecedented look at refugee and asylum policy. this issue on an international level. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
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Dead Voice
Democratic Law in Classical Athens
Law, Philosophy, and Fiction in the Iberian Middle Ages
Michael Gagarin
March 2020 256pp 9781477320372 £39.00/$45.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Jesus R. Velasco
The Middle Ages Series January 2020 256pp 9780812251869 £60.00/$69.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
The democratic legal system created by the Athenians was completely controlled by ordinary citizens, with no judges, lawyers, or jurists involved. It placed great importance on the litigants’ rhetorical performances. Gagarin offers a new perspective for viewing a legal system that was democratic in a way only the Athenians could achieve.
Explores how the 13th century law code known as Siete Partidas introduced canon and ecclesiastical law in the vernacular for explicitly secular purposes and embraced intellectual disciplines and fictional techniques that normally lie outside legal science.
Digital Pirates
Faith or Fraud
Policing Intellectual Property in Brazil
Fortune-Telling, Spirituality, and the Law
July 2020 208pp 9781503612976 £21.99/$26.00 PB 9781503611443 £73.00/$85.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Law and Society March 2020 233pp 9780774863322 $89.95/£60.00 HB UBC PRESS
Alexander Sebastian Dent
Jeremy Patrick
Digital Pirates examines the unauthorized creation, distribution, and consumption of movies and music in Brazil. Alexander Sebastian Dent offers a new definition of piracy as indispensable to current capitalism alongside increasing global enforcement of intellectual property (IP).
Faith or Fraud? Fortune-Telling, Individual Spirituality, and the Law answers an emerging controversy: Should the law’s understanding of religion include the “spiritual but not religious”? Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Justice for Some
Landscapes of Law
Law and the Question of Palestine
Practicing Sovereignty in Transnational Terrain
Noura Erakat
April 2020 352pp 9781503613577 £17.99/$22.00 NIP STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Justice for Some 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 present-day wars in Gaza—Noura Erakat shows how the strategic deployment of law has shaped current conditions.
Edited by Carol J. Greenhouse & Christina L. Davis
June 2019 352pp 9780812252224 £56.00 /$65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
The recent surge of right-wing populism in Europe and the US is widely perceived as evidence of ongoing challenges to the policies and institutions of globalization.
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Law and Neurodiversity
Migranthood
Youth with Autism and the Juvenile Justice Systems in Canada and the United States
Youth in a New Era of Deportation
Lauren Heidbrink
April 2020 232pp 9781503612075 £20.99/$25.00 PB 9781503611542 £73.00/$85.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Dana Lee Baker, Laurie A. Drapela & Whitney Littlefield
Migranthood chronicles deportation from the perspectives of Indigenous youth who migrate unaccompanied from Guatemala to Mexico and the US. Heidbrink shows that Indigenous youth cast as objects of policy, not participants, are not passive recipients of securitization policies and development interventions.
July 2020 224pp 6 textboxes 9780774861366 $85.00/£57.00 HB UBC PRESS
Through a comparison of juvenile justice systems in Canada and the US, Law and Neurodiversity examines gaps of accommodation and consideration for youth with autism. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era
Shortlisted
Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court
Constructing Affirmative Immigration
Hannah Brenner Johnson & Renee Knake Jefferson
Ming Hsu Chen
May 2020 304pp 15 halftones 9781479895915 £24.99/$30.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
July 2020 280pp 9781503612754 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781503608160 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Gives nine women formally considered but ultimately passed over for a seat on the Supreme Court going back to the 1930s, the recognition they deserve. A must-read for those vying for positions of power as well as for those who select them.
Provides readers with the everyday perspectives of immigrants on what it is like to try to integrate into American society during a time when immigration policy is focused on enforcement and exclusion.
Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
The Legacy of Pluralism
Trustees at Work
The Continental Jurisprudence of Santi Romano, Carl Schmitt, and Costantino Mortati
Financial Pressures, Emotional Labour, and Canadian Bankruptcy Law
Mariano Croce & Marco Goldoni
Anna Jane Samis Lund
December 2019 238pp 9780774861410 £60.00/$70.00 HB UBC PRESS
Jurists: Profiles in Legal Theory
June 2020 256pp 9781503612112 £60.00/$70.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the role bankruptcy trustees play in determining who qualifies as a deserving debtor How should the state face the challenge of radical under Canadian personal bankruptcy law. The idea of a deserving debtor is woven throughout pluralism? Croce and Goldoni introduce and bankruptcy law, with debt relief being reserved analyze these 3 towering figures for a modern for those debtors deemed deserving. audience. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
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Criminology
Beyond Recidivism
Decarcerating Disability
New Approaches to Research on Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration
Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition
Liat Ben-Moshe
May 2020 376pp 4 b&w photos 9781517904432 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781517904425 £103.00/$120.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Edited by Andrea Leverentz, Elsa Y. Chen & Johnna Christian Afterword by Shadd Maruna
This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration. Provides a much-needed corrective, combining a genealogy of deinstitutionalization with critiques of the current prison system.
May 2020 400pp 12 tables, 7 figs. 9781479853885 £28.99/$35.00 PB 9781479862726 £85.00/$99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Focuses on the social context in the US of prisoner reentry.
Excludes Japan & ANZ
Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Digitize and Punish
Evaluating Police Uses of Force
Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age
Seth W. Stoughton, Jeffrey J. Noble & Geoffrey P. Alpert
Brian Jefferson
April 2020 232pp 25 b&w photos 9781517909239 £20.99/$24.95 PB 9781517909222 £86.00/$100.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
May 2020 352pp 9781479814657 £52.00/$60.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
A comprehensive study of the use of digital technology in US 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.
Addresses how society evaluates use-of-force incidents. Helps situate readers within broader conversations about governmental accountability, the role that police play in modern society, and how officers should go about fulfilling their duties.
Excludes Japan & ANZ
Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Gender Violence, Third Edition
Imagining the International
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Crime, Justice, and the Promise of Community
Edited by Laura L. O’Toole, Jessica R. Schiffman & Rosemary Sullivan
Nesam McMillan
The Cultural Lives of Law July 2020 224pp 9781503612815 £21.99/$26.00 PB 9781503602014 £73.00/$85.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
July 2020 608pp 5 t / 1 figure 9781479820801 £34.00/$39.00 PB 9781479843923 £85.00/$99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imagining the International interrogates mainstream understandings of international crime and international justice to tease out their ethical limits and possibilities.
With 29 new contributors, and twelve original essays, the third edition now includes emerging contemporary issues such as LGBTQ violence, sex work, and toxic masculinity. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
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Trading Life
Transgender Intimate Partner Violence
Organ Trafficking, Illicit Networks, and Exploitation
A Comprehensive Introduction
Seán Columb
Edited by Adam M. Messinger & Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz
July 2020 216pp 9781503612556 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781503608078 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
August 2020 300pp 9781479890316 £28.99/$35.00 PB 9781479830428 £85.00/$99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Investigates the emergence and evolution of the organ trade across N.Africa and Europe. Columb illuminates the voices and perspectives of organ sellers and brokers to demonstrate how crime and immigration controls produce circumstances where the business of selling organs has become a feature of economic survival.
Drawing on 2 decades of research, explores transgender intimate partner violence in all of its complexities, offering an overview of this emerging body of policy, research, and practice. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Sex Offender Profiling and U.S. Security Culture
The Technologies and Politics of Justice Claims in Practice
Gillian Harkins
Ronald Niezen
April 2020 288pp 32 illus. 9781478008118 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781478006831 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Stanford Studies in Human Rights July 2020 304pp 9781503612631 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781503608894 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Harkins traces how by the end of the 20th century the pedophile as a social outcast evolved into its contemporary appearance as a virtually normal white male. The pedophile's alleged racial and gender normativity was treated as an exception to dominant racialized modes of criminal or diagnostic profiling.
Social justice and human rights movements are entering a new phase. #HumanRights examines how new technologies interact with older models of rights claiming and communication, influencing and reshaping the modern-day pursuit of justice.
A Human Rights Based Approach to Development in India
Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean
Edited by Moshe Hirsch, Ashok Kotwal & Bharat Ramaswami
The Legal Impact of the American Convention on Human Rights
Ligia De Jesús Castaldi
Asia Pacific Legal Culture and
June 2020 520pp 9780268107659 £58.00/$75.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Globalization January 2020 216pp 12 charts, 25 tables 9780774860314 £19.99 /$32.95 NIP UBC PRESS
New and original study, the first major publication to analyze the abortion laws of Latin American and Caribbean nations, parties to the American Convention on Human Rights. Questions how human rights bodies currently interpret Article (4)1.
Why economic development is synonymous with institutional development for the furthering of human development issues. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
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Human Rights
#HumanRights
Virtual Pedophilia
Natural Law and Human Rights
Refugee Law after 9/11
Sanctuary and Security in Canada and the United States
Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason
Obiora Chinedu Okafor
March 2020 300pp 9780774861465 $89.95/£60.00 HB UBC PRESS
Pierre Manent
Translated by Ralph C. Hancock Foreword by Daniel J. Mahoney
Common wisdom suggests that 9/11 changed everything about refugee law in the US and Canada. But did it? Refugee Law after 9/11 systematically examines the evidence to reveal that refugee rights were already so whittled down that there was relatively little room for negative change after the attacks.
Catholic Ideas for a Secular World February 2020 132pp 9780268107215 £21.99/$29.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
First English translation of Manet’s profound and strikingly original book La loi naturelle et les droits de l’homme.
Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Sustaining Life
The Death of Asylum
AIDS Activism in South Africa
Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago
Theodore Powers
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights March 2020 280pp 9780812252002 £56.00/$65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Alison Mountz
April 2020 304pp 26 b&w photos 9780816697113 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9780816697106 £96.00/$112.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Based on extended participant observation and in-depth interviews, Sustaining Life traces how the political principles of the antiapartheid movement were leveraged to build a broad coalition that changed national HIV/AIDS policy norms and highlights how changes in statesociety relations can be produced by local activism.
Mountz traces the global chain of remote sites used by states of the Global North to confine migrants fleeing violence and poverty, using cruel measures that, if unchecked, will lead to the death of asylum as an ethical ideal. Excludes Japan & ANZ
The Indigenous Paradox
U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women’s Human Rights
Rights, Sovereignty, and Culture in the Americas
Jonas Bens
Kelly J. Shannon
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights June 2019 280pp 9780812252309 £69.00 /$79.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights March 2020 280pp 9780812224672 £20.99/$24.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Traces how the indigenous paradox is inscribed into the law by investigating several indigenous 19th century to the early 21st, Bens illustrates how indigenous communities have managed to navigate this paradox by developing lines of legal reasoning that complicate the concepts of sovereignty and culture.
Shannon explores the integration of American concerns about women’s human rights into U.S. policy toward Islamic countries since 1979, reframing U.S.-Islamic relations and challenging assumptions about the drivers of American foreign policy.
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