The no-nonsense guide to legal issues in web 2.0 and cloud computing

Offers an advice on getting the most out of web 2.0 and cloud computing. This book features practical working tool that makes the relevant legal principles simple to understand for those with little or no experience and common problems quick to solve when you're struggling with daily deadlines.

Constraining development

This book explores the ways that trade and investment treaties constrain domestic policy making. It draws a common thread through trade- and investment-related areas to show how the promises of the current international legal regime have not come to fruition and to offer new options for countries...

The anthem companion to niklas luhmann

The Companion contains twelve chapters written by proven experts on Luhmann’s social systems theory. Among the contributions are overviews of the development of Luhmann’s thinking, introductions to key areas of Luhmann’s theory of society and critical assessments of core concepts of his social sy...

Cyber-espionage in international law

Longlisted for The Inner Temple Book Prize 2025While espionage between states is a practice dating back centuries, the emergence of the internet revolutionised the types and scale of intelligence activities, creating drastic new challenges for the traditional legal frameworks governing them.This ...

Child soldiers in international law

Can the use of children as soldiers be effectively regulated at an international level? Child soldiers in international law examines how international law has developed to deal with this problematic and emotive issue.

The status of religion and the public benefit in charity law

‘The Status of Religion and the Public Benefit in Charity Law’ is an apologetic for maintaining the presumption of public benefit for the charitable category ‘advancement of religion’ in democratic countries within the English common law tradition.

The inherence of human dignity

The first of two volumes, Foundations of Human Dignity focuses on foundational, conceptual issues, oriented around the central question, “What are the various meanings of ‘human dignity,’ and how are they grounded or justified?”

Exploring animal crossing

An exploration of the Animal Crossing virtual world, bringing together insights about law, commerce, psychology, sociology and creativity for scholars and non-specialist readers.

Religion in schools

Questions of how religion operates within schools are controversial and divisive. This book explores radical changes that are being made in Wales and the lessons that can be learnt. 

Regulating cross-border data flows

Governing cross-border data flows is inherently difficult given the ubiquity and value of data, and the impact government policies can have on business, innovation and societal interests. This book engages with the unexplored topic of why and how governments should develop a coherent and consiste...

Reforming international extradition

This book uses several case studies to demonstrate current problems with international extradition. These include political issues, time delays, jurisdictional problems, and conflict between surrender and the human rights of extraditees. The normative assumptions underpinning extradition ensure t...

Graphic law and drawn justice

The book explores how comics, manga, animated series and pop music influenced by comic books represent law, reflecting and shaping public perception. It uses a comparative international law approach, including diverse scholars, and extends beyond Anglo-American culture to enrich the legal debate....

Medicine, patients and the law

This fully revised and update edition provides an incisive survey of the legal situation in areas as diverse as fertility treatment, patient consent, assisted dying, malpractice and medical privacy.

Passionate politics

In May 2019, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi won the world’s largest election. This book brings together a stellar team of economists, political scientists, sociologists, historians and geographers to explain why Indians voted the way they did.

Statelessness, governance, and the problem of citizenship

A person who is not recognised as a citizen anywhere is typically referred to as ‘stateless’. Statelessness, governance, and the problem of citizenship redirects focus away from legal analyses of statelessness to uncover a more fundamental ‘problem of citizenship’, and interrogates how citizenshi...

The law of international organisations

Substantially updated for its third edition, this book provides a concise account of the principles and norms of international law applicable to inter-governmental organisations, with a focus on the UN and its associated bodies.

Empirical assessment in ihl education and training

The book charts the use of empirical assessment over the last 20 years to make IHL training more effective and links it with recent research that emphasizes the role of military leaders in building a values-oriented culture of IHL compliance with their soldiers. 

Perfecting the u.s. constitution

This book discusses the importance of each Constitutional Amendment and the role that the Amendments have played in shaping the American experience. Based on solid research, it is written in an engaging style that is easy to comprehend and enjoyable to read.

Ethics, law and the business of being human

Trends in comparative law and economics

The book is a short introduction to comparative law and economics, a growing field in the interaction between law, economics and comparative political science. It is a guide to economists, lawyers and political scientists looking for a brief overview. It includes both strands of the traditional l...

Britain and its mandate over palestine

When Britain took control of Palestine from the Turkish Ottoman Empire in World War 1, it tried to find a way to gain a legal right both to govern Palestine and to facilitate a Jewish national home there. It never found one. As a result, the changes it brought about in Palestine lack a legal basis.

The inherence of human dignity

The second of two volumes on dignity, Law and Religious Liberty focuses on the connection between human dignity and positive law, oriented around the central question, “What role should dignity play in the development of legislation and the adjudication of disputes involving religious freedom?”

The power of constitutional rights in resource conflicts

This book considers the value of constitutional environmental rights in protecting water resources through an examination of the legal strategies utilized by communities engaged in protracted mining conflicts, including oil sands development in the Canadian boreal forest and gold mining in ecolog...

Trading women's rights in transitions

Trading Women's Rights in Transitions is about how women’s rights are traded away by diplomatic actors directly in exchange for immediate political or other settlements, and indirectly in terms of being left off the international agenda with long-term consequences.

Law and healing

A critical and colourful commentary on the history of the fractious relationship between law and medicine over several centuries reveals compelling stories how law regulated healers and healing . Any view that the law consistently deferred to medical practitioners is shown to be wrong. From th...

African perspectives in international investment law

This book discusses trends in foreign direct investment in the African continent, the benefits and challenges that it presents for African States, and Africa’s participation in the international investment law regime more generally.

Medicine, patients and the law

The seventh edition of this much respected accessible book provides an enlightening and comprehensive account of the intersections between medicine, patients and the law.

The basics of international law

The basics of international law: The UK context presents a comprehensive and accessible entry level text which provides the most essential and basic rules and facts of international law. This is an essential study guide for students and an invaluable reference for practitioners.

Investment arbitration’s tightrope

This book examines the role of arbitrators vis-à-vis the systemic inequities of investment law, advocating for the reform of its treaty framework, which currently binds arbitrators to apply rules that disproportionately safeguard foreign investors and overlook the impact of arbitral decisions on ...

Judicial dispute resolution

This book describes the ways in which judges, using judicial dispute resolution (JDR), have been facilitating problem-solving among litigants, and in the process ensuring more just outcomes. JDR is similar to mediation, alternative dispute resolution (ADR),as it is sometimes called, but it is pro...

Democracy, social justice and the role of trade unions

Trade unions worldwide face a powerful paradox at this critical juncture: collective organisations for workers are urgently needed and yet there are serious pressures undercutting the legitimate role of trade unions. The aim of this book is to examine how trade unions can effectively navigate thi...

Judge knot

‘Judge Knot’ explores the biggest and the most controversial success story in international law: investor-state dispute settlement, or ISDS, and asks what makes the system tick and what it means for the future of democracy and development.

Women before the court

This book is a ground-breaking study of women in Britain and British America through two centuries of pivotal changes in the law, economy and empire. It shows how the expansion of women’s legal status gave them increased financial independence and undermined patriarchal relationships within the h...

Queer and religious alliances in family law politics and beyond

Family law is a site of social conflict and the erasure of non-traditional families. This book explores how conservative religious and progressive queer groups can cooperatively work together to expand family law’s recognition beyond the traditional state-sponsored family. This book also looks to...

Balancing work and new parenthood

This book examines Australian parental leave provisions and compares them with their counterpart provisions in Canada, Germany, and Switzerland. Following comparison and analysis, recommended amendments to the Paid Parental Leave Act 2010 (Cth) are provided.

The constitution

The Constitution: Major Cases and Conflicts provides students with a road map through the evolution of the Supreme Court and its decisions involving criminal justice, civil liberties, social justice and federalism, and the balance of powers between the three branches of government placed in a his...

Forever

The idea of transferring humans into humanoid bodies has been the theme for many eminent titles. This book’s unique contribution is its exploration of the legal questions and embedded philosophical issues that flow from being able to transfer a copy of a person’s mind into a synthetic body that l...

An intellectual history of migration law and policy c.1535-2020

A history of immigration law as a legal discipline: how it has been constrained and unconstrained by developments in migration policy, international law, constitutional law and legal theory.

Law on the battlefield

Written by a former military lawyer, the book will be of interest to military commanders, their staff and legal advisers but also to officials in Foreign and Defence Ministries and non governmental agencies working in conflict situations, as well as staff of international courts and tribunals dea...

Behind tax policy controversies

This book provides a short, critical introduction to controversies in tax policy. It emphasizes the many diverse underlying factors that drive tax policy debates and sheds light on traditional and newly emerging issues of tax policy.

The values of international organizations

This book’s statistical and legal analyses of international organizations’ constitutions reveal new interpretations of international organizations law. It provides a map of international organizations’ values, and a healthy start towards fully understanding that map, thereby helping global govern...

Law in popular belief

This book looks at the relationship between statute law and legal practice. It examines how law is applied in reality and more precisely how law is perceived by the general public in contrast to the legal profession. It explores how myths are created about the law and how myths are created by the...

The lived experiences of african international students in the uk

This study presents the findings from an investigation of the lived experiences of international students from sub-Saharan Africa in the United Kingdom. It demonstrates their reactions to immigration rules, the restrictive approaches to employment status, and how their legal consciousness is impa...

Practical copyright for library and information professionals

The UK’s copyright legislation has been referred to as the longest, most confusing and hardest to navigate in the world. This new handbook brings clarity to what would otherwise be a complex topic. The author provides sensible and realistic guidance for all library and information practitioners

International organisations, non-state actors, and the formation of customary international law

This collection of essays provides the most comprehensive study of the theory and practice of the contribution of international organisations and non-state actors to the formation of customary international law. The book offers new practical and theoretical perspectives on one of the most complex...

The boundaries of international law

This book argues that the absence of women in the development of international law has produced a narrow and inadequate jurisprudence that has legitimated the unequal position of women worldwide rather than confronted it.

Latin america and international investment law

This book analyses the complex relationships between governments and foreign investors, and the influence of international organisations, corporations, civil society, and indigenous peoples, to examine the contribution that Latin America has made to the theory and practice of international invest...

More meditations of a militant moderate

The book collects thirty-two opinion pieces, essays, and two poems published by the author in leading media on a wide variety of public policy topics as recently as 2022. The articles and poems range over six broad areas: the moderation ideal, as illustrated by the abortion issue; American except...

Natural law jurisprudence in u.s. supreme court cases since roe v. wade

A critical examination of U.S. Supreme Court cases since the Roe v. Wade decision in light of natural law reasoning and principles.  The text incisively reviews textual opinions of the various justices and attempts to discern the influence of natural law jurisprudence on modern day decisions.

World trade and investment law reimagined

In a time of turmoil in international economic law, experts from 10 countries suggest ideas for a new and progressive trade and investment regime in ‘World Trade and Investment Law Reimagined’ that would help sustain growth, facilitate development and ensure that gains are shared and losses compe...

A city divided: race, fear and the law in police confrontations

When a high school honors student emerges from a police confrontation outside his home bruised and beaten, and facing serious criminal charges, an American city erupts in protests. A long quest for justice begins. "A City Divided" uncovers what happened and examines if race, fear and police condu...

The history of marriage equality in ireland

Tracing the campaign for marriage equality, this book highlights how this movement and the related referendum result have propelled Ireland from a country perceived as one repressed and controlled by the Catholic church to a country that is now admired as a leader in equality of human rights.

The ideal river

This book examines the geographical imaginaries that underpinned international efforts to create the first international organizations along the Rhine, Danube, and Congo Rivers. In doing so, these imaginaries helped constitute the early international order in the nineteenth century and continues ...

Drafting the irish free state constitution

This book provides an account of the drafting of the Irish Free Constitution of 1922, analysing the document in its historical context and exploring the reasons for its lack of success

Network neutrality

This book explains net neutrality battles in Europe, the United States and in developing countries such as India. He explains its history, engineering, policy challenge, legislation and regulation, dividing it into its negative/'lite' and positive/'heavy' elements: Specialized Services for video ...

Violence against women's health in international law

Taking the Hippocratic paradigm as backbone of the analysis, the book conceptualises a new notion under international law, ‘violence against women’s health’, which allows the reader to reflect on two interrelated dimensions of violence, the horizontal ‘inter-personal’ and the vertical ‘State poli...

The law of the sea

The law of the sea provides an up to date and comprehensive treatment of all aspects of the subject. Based on extensive research, it combines clarity of expression with depth of analysis.

Judges, politics and the irish constitution

A collection of essays on politics and judicial power in Ireland, featuring contributions from scholars, judges and legal practitioners.

The changing rules on the use of force in international law

A systematic study on the legal regulation of the use of military force, both by international organisations and states, at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Understanding criminal law

A detailed overview of criminal law aimed at A2 and undergraduate students

Cinematic perspectives on international law

This book seeks to detect the ways of thinking about international law present in films and TV series, placing focus on the various conceptions of law that are conveyed by the analysed material. The objective is to show how and why cinematographic representations depart from interpretations of ru...

Engaging with engagement

This short book examines the taxonomy of ‘voluntary obligations’ presented by Viscount Stair in his seminal Institutions of the Law of Scotland, arguing that – notwithstanding ongoing proposals to significantly reform ‘Scots contract law’ –  Stair’s account of ‘will’ and ‘engagement’ offers the b...

Utopia

In a room in the middle of nowhere, a man and a woman dream up spectacular worlds: a decaying city, a lush and crumbling garden, a train journey across a drowned landscape. Darkly humorous, absurd and surreal, these are plays for a theatre in which time and space, character and setting are as unc...

Literacy and the politics of writing

With the growth of modern information technology, it is time to re-examine the concept and purpose of writing, and question the long cherished idea that the alphabet stands at the apex of a hierarchy towards which all proper forms of writing must necessarily progress. This book shows that the pri...

The social use of media

This collection of essays provides an overview of research on the social uses of media. Topics include up-to-date research on activity and interactivity, media use as a social and cultural practice and participation in a cultural, political and technological sense. It also incorporates current au...

Holistic shakespeare

Shakespeare's plays are staples of the classroom. Yet too often they are taught as antiquated works of literature with little reference to their theatrical life and enduring human themes. Applying the methodologies of the holistic education model to the study of four Shakespearean plays – Othello...

The composition of herman melville

How do writers compose, and how are they in turn composed? This play, which contains biographical information relating to Herman Melville, is fundamentally an exploration of the ways in which these two things take place. The play admits the truth of Walter Benjamin's view of history as, "ti...

Land law 3rd ed

Land Law gives the reader a sound knowledge of the current law relating to land. It is suitable for students on GDL and LLB courses and is targeted at those new to studying law and coming to grips with the subject under time pressure.

The law of succession

The law of succession is a rich and vibrant subject. It covers the law on wills and intestacy, probate and the administration of estates, and estate taxation. Given that this topic is a key component in the SQE1 and SQE2 exams, the law of succession is likely to grow further in importance and pop...

European union law

European Union Law is written for students on LLB and GDL courses and aims to reflect developments in legal education. The book fully explores the core areas of European Union law, whilst setting them in a contextual and practical framework. Its writing style is accessible to all.

Business law

Business Law gives readers an insight into company law and its practice. This textbook is aimed at undergraduate and post-graduate law students or students on joint honours degrees (for example Business and Law), as well as those studying for a range of legal qualifications, such as legal executi...

Criminal law

Criminal Law is a brand new text aimed at students studying on an LLB or GDL course with new 'spotlight on SQE’ text boxes – to show which parts of the text are assessable on the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE)

Criminal procedure and punishment

This book provides a holistic overview of the English and Welsh system of criminal justice, from the earliest stages of investigation and arrest through to the punishment and release of offenders. Aimed at students, it examines not only the law and procedure of criminal justice and punishment, bu...

Equity and trusts

Equity and Trusts is written for students on LLB and law conversion courses and will also be useful for those on any SQE pathway. The book provides students with all they need to understand the complexities of the English law of equity and trusts in principle and in practice.