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Across Oceans of Law
The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire RENISA MAWANI
Shortlisted for the 2020 SLSA Theory and History Prize Charts the story of the Komagata Maru—a steamship that left Hong Kong for Vancouver in 1914 carrying 376 Punjabi immigrants who were denied entry into Canada—to illustrate imperialism's racial, legal, spatial, and temporal dynamics and how oceans operate as sites of jurisdictional and colonial contest. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Global and Insurgent Legalities August 2018 23 illus. 352pp 9781478006541 £22.99 PB now £16.09
Circulating the Code
Print Media and Legal Knowledge in Qing China TING ZHANG
Comparing different official and commercial editions of the Qing Code, popular handbooks for amateur legal practitioners, and manuals for community legal lectures, Ting Zhang demonstrates how the dissemination of legal information transformed Chinese law, judicial authority, and popular legal consciousness. Demonstrates that in the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) most legal books were commercially published and available to anyone who could afford to buy them. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS April 2020 8 tables, 7 b&w illus. 256pp 9780295747156 £22.99 PB now £16.09
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Blue Legalities
The Life and Laws of the Sea EDITED BY IRUS BRAVERMAN & ELIZABETH R. JOHNSON
The ocean and its inhabitants sketch and stretch our understandings of law in unexpected ways. Inspired by the blue turn in the social sciences and humanities, explores how regulatory frameworks and governmental infrastructures are made, reworked, and contested in the oceans. Contributors analyze topics that range from militarization and Maori cosmologies to island building and underwater robotics. Asks what we think we know—and what we don’t know—about oceans, our earthly planet, and ourselves. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS January 2020 34 illus. 352pp 9781478006541 £22.99 PB now £16.09
Cops, Cameras, and Crisis
The Potential and the Perils of Police Body-Worn Cameras MICHAEL D. WHITE & AILI MALM
The first expert and comprehensive analysis of the surprising impact of body-worn cameras. Drawing on the latest research and insights from experts with field experience with police-worn body cameras, White and Malm show the benefits and drawbacks of this technology for police departments, police officers, and members of the public. Cops, Cameras, and Crisis is a must-read for policymakers, police leaders, and activists interested in twenty-firstcentury policing. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS March 2020 200pp 9781479850150 £19.99 PB now £13.99
Dispute System Design Enforcing Exclusion Preventing, Managing, and Resolving Conflict LISA BLOMGREN AMSLER, JANET MARTINEZ & STEPHANIE E. SMITH
Dispute System Design walks readers through the art of successfully designing a system for preventing, managing, and resolving conflicts and legally-framed disputes. The authors draw on their decades of expertise as instructors, experts, and consultants to show how dispute systems design can be used within all types of organizations, including business firms, nonprofit organizations, and international and transnational bodies. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS May 2020 592pp 9780804771764 £58.00 HB now £40.60
Ending Gender-Based Violence Justice and Community in South Africa HANNAH E. BRITTON
South Africa remains plagued by sexual assault, rape, and intimate partner violence. Examines the reasons gendered violence persists in relationship to social inequalities even after women assume political power. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS April 2020 232pp 9780252084966 £18.99 PB now £13.29
Governance Feminism
Precarious Migrants and the Law in An Introduction JANET HALLEY, PRABHA KOTISWARAN, Canada RACHEL REBOUCHÉ & HILA SHAMIR SARAH GRAYCE MARSDEN
Recasts what migration status means to the state and non-citizens, questions the adequacy of human-rights-based responses in addressing its effects. UBC PRESS Series: Law and Society March 2019 248pp 9780774837743 £21.99 PB now £15.39
Offers a pathway to critical engagement with assessing successes and failures. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS March 2018 304pp 9780816698479 £21.99 PB now £15.39
Explores the contribution a legal drama of withdrawal—conservative Christians and LGBTQ— lead to conceptualizing a more socially just, participative state. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Global and Insurgent Legalities September 2019 272pp 9781478004745 £20.99 PB now £14.69
to map developments in feminist governance around the world. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS April 2019 608pp 9780816698509 £27.99 PB now £19.59
How Nordic Adaptability Leads to Excess DARIUS ORNSTON
EDITED BY DANIEL DRACHE & LESLEY A. JACOBS
Governance Feminism
Notes from the Field EDITED BY JANET HALLEY, Feeling Like a State PRABHA KOTISWARAN, Desire, Denial, and the Recasting of RACHEL REBOUCHÉ & HILA SHAMIR Authority Providing a critical lens through which
Grey Zones in International Economic Good Governance Gone Law and Global Bad Governance
Examines the rise and decline of heavy industry in postwar Sweden, the emergence and disruption of the Finnish ICT industry, and Iceland’s impressive but short-lived reign as a financial powerhouse and more. CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Cornell Studies in Political Economy October 2018 276pp 9781501730177 £24.99 PB now £17.49
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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. UBC PRESS Series: Asia Pacific Legal Culture and Globalization April 2019 10 charts, 14 tables 320pp 9780774838542 £22.99 PB now £16.09
Human Rights and Global Governance
Immigrant Rights in the Nuevo South
Power Politics Meets International Justice WILLIAM H. MEYER
Organizing While Undocumented
A series of case studies at the intersection of power politics and international justice. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights January 2020 5 illus. 280pp 9780812251760 £56.00 HB now £39.20
Enforcement and Resistance at the Borderlands of Illegality MEGHAN CONLEY
Seeks to expose and challenge dehumanizing ideas and practices by examining the connections between repression and resistance of immigrant communities in the US Southeast. TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS November 2019 236pp 9781439916452 £22.99 PB now £16.09
Immigrant Youth’s Political Activism under the Law KEVIN ESCUDERO
Human Rights Education
Legalizing Sex
Perchance to DREAM
The field of human rights should be treated as an academic discipline in higher education contexts, possessing as it does a canon of literature, a community of scholars, and a methodology. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights December 2019 1 illus. 224pp 9780812251791 £56.00 HB now £39.20
Brings together the struggles of sex workers, transgender people, and gay groups previously studied separately. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS January 2020 208pp 9781479826360 £23.99 PB now £16.79
Olivas relates the first comprehensive history of the DREAM Act and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS June 2020 3 tables 368pp 9781479878284 £27.99 HB now £19.59
Natural Law and Human Rights
Ruling Out Art
Forging an Academic Discipline SARITA CARGAS
Illegal Encounters
The Effect of Detention and Deportation on Young People EDITED BY DEBORAH A. BOEHM & SUSAN J. TERRIO
Sexual Minorities, AIDS, and Citizenship in India CHAITANYA LAKKIMSETTI
Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason PIERRE MANENT TRANSLATED BY RALPH C. HANCOCK FOREWORD BY DANIEL J. MAHONEY
The first English translation of Pierre Manent, one of France's leading political philosophers, La loi naturelle Combines perspectives from advocates, et les droits de l’homme. service providers, attorneys, UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS researchers, and young immigrants. Series: Catholic Ideas for a Secular World NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS February 2020 132pp February 2019 256pp 9780268107215 £21.99 HB now £15.39 9781479861071 £23.99 PB now £16.79
A look inside immigrant youth in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City; inspiring triumphs, as well as the inevitable perils, of political activism. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Latina/o Sociology March 2020 208pp 9781479834150 £20.99 PB now £14.69
A Legal and Political History of the DREAM Act and DACA MICHAEL A. OLIVAS
Media Art Meets Law in Ontario’s Censor Wars TARYN SIROVE
How art and law intersected turn a spotlight on the role that artists can play in the administration of culture. UBC PRESS Series: Law and Society November 2019 31 b&w photos 264pp 9780774837095 £21.99 PB now £15.39
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Seeking the Court’s Advice The Politics of the Canadian Reference Power KATE PUDDISTER
The first study of its kind, draws on over 200 reference cases from 1875 to 2017, shows the actual outcome of reference cases is secondary to the political benefits from relying on courts through the reference power. UBC PRESS Series: Law and Society October 2019 3 charts, 8 tables 290pp 9780774861113 £21.99 PB now £15.39
The Cultural Production of Intellectual Property Rights
Law, Labor, and the Persistence of Primitive Accumulation SEAN JOHNSON ANDREWS
Shows that the meaning, power, and value of intellectual properties are the consequence of an extended process of cultural production that underpins capitalism as a whole. TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS February 2019 288pp 9781439914298 £59.00 HB now £41.30
The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict Feminist Interventions in International Law KAREN ENGLE
Engle examines how feminist commitments were not merely deprioritized, but undermined, by efforts to address the issue of sexual violence in conflict. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Stanford Studies in Human Rights April 2020 304pp 9781503611245 £21.99 PB now £15.39
The Psychology of Family Law
EVE M. BRANK & LINDA J. DEMAINE
Bridges family law and psychological research to shape understanding of legal doctrine and policy. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Psychology and the Law April 2019 240pp 9781479824755 £27.99 PB now £19.59
The Psychology of Property Law
STEPHANIE M. STERN & DAPHNA LEWINSOHN-ZAMIR PREFACE BY LINDA J. DEMAINE
Considers how research in psychology offers new perspectives on property law, and suggests avenues of reform. Property law governs the acquisition, use and transfer of resources. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Psychology and the Law February 2020 312pp 9781479878895 £33.00 PB now £23.10
The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet
JEFF KOSSEFF 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. CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS April 2019 328pp 9781501714412 £20.99 HB now £14.69
When Misfortune Becomes Injustice
Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality ALICIA ELY YAMIN
Surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent decades. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Stanford Studies in Human Rights February 2020 312pp 9781503611306 £21.99 PB now £15.39
Wildlife Crime: From Theory to Practice From Theory to Practice WILLIAM D. MORETO
Examines topical issues from extinction to trafficking in order to understand the ecological, economic, political, and social consequences of wildlife crime. TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS July 2018 330pp 9781439914724 £29.99 PB now £20.99
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