Australian Essential Series

The books in the Australian Essential series are intended as a helpful revision aid for the Australian law student, primarily at undergraduate level, but they will be helpful to any students studying law as part of their course.

Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
Series Editor: Sheila A. M. McLean

Scientific and clinical advances, social and political developments and the impact of healthcare on our lives raise profound ethical and legal questions. Medical law and ethics have become central to our understanding of these problems, and are important tools for the analysis and resolution of problems – real or imagined.

In this series, scholars at the forefront of biomedical law and ethics will contribute to the debates in this area, with accessible, thought-provoking, and sometimes controversial ideas. Each book in the series will develop an independent hypothesis and argue cogently for a particular position. One of the major contributions of this series is the extent to which both law and ethics are utilised in the content of the books, and the shape of the series itself.

Birkbeck Law Press
Birkbeck Law School has been recognised as an international centre of research excellence, specialising in legal theory and theoretically informed socio-legal research and pioneering critical approaches to scholarship.

Birkbeck Law Press aims to develop a distinct publishing profile by addressing the legal challenges of late modernity. Globalisation and the move towards universal legal values, which should respect cultural specificities and local conditions, has created the urgent need for greater dialogue and understanding between the major schools of thought and legal systems in the world. Most legal publishing, driven by the needs of specialisation and the state-based nature of positive law, has not systematically addressed these concerns.

Birkbeck Law Press publishes scholarly monographs and edited collections of essays which: • develop critical and reflexive perspectives on legal theory and research • promote dialogue between the various approaches to legal scholarship and education • encourage the principles of justice and equity • are responsive to the different legal traditions and cultures of the world.

Contemporary Issues in Public Policy
Series edited by David Downes, London School of Economics, UK and Paul Rock, London School of Economics, UK

This series of books is intended to offer accessible, informed and well-evidenced analyses of topical policy issues - from the national health through women's work to central issues of crime and criminal justice - as a counterweight to the manner in which they tend to be presented in political and public debates. The mass media can be sensationalizing and overly-simple. Many observers and commentators are too engaged politically or professionally to take a dispassionate stand. By contrast, what is offered here is considered expert commentary laid out in a literate and helpful manner. Moreover, in the wake of globalization, the revolution in information technology and new forms of regulation and audit, an immense proliferation of data has occurred which can swamp all but the most experienced and duly skeptical analyst. Providing an excellent core for teaching in social policy, criminology, politics and the sociology of contemporary Britain, the series is also intended for politicians, policy-makers, journalists and other concerned people who wish to know more about the world they live in today.

Commonwealth Caribbean Law

The Commonwealth Caribbean Law Series is the only series of law books that covers the jurisdiction of the English speaking Caribbean nations. The titles in the series were first published in 1995 to acclaim from academics, practitioners and the judiciary in the region. Several editions followed, and they have now become essential reading for those learning and practising Caribbean law.

Critical Approaches to Law

The Critical Approaches to Law series aims to secure a place for critical, inter-disciplinary, and/or theoretical work on the law curriculum. Each book provides a critical approach to a particular legal topic: whether this is an issue or theme within law or legal study, a disciplinary or sub-disciplinary area, a specific legal institution, a significant text, case or piece of legislation, an event, a person, or a specific approach to or tradition of law. The series encourages critical thought in and about law through a range of clear and accessible texts that are suitable for higher level undergraduates and postgraduates, as well as academic and practising lawyers who are seeking critical work in their area.

Foreign & Transnational Law
General Editors: Sir Basil Markesinis and Dr Jörg Fedtke

The UT Studies in Foreign and Transnational Law series aims to publish books covering various aspects of foreign, private, criminal and public law, as well as transnational law. This broad ambition of the series underlines the editors’ belief that in a shrinking world there is a growing need to expand our knowledge of other legal orders – national or supernational – and to publish books discussing comparative methodology and not merely describing foreign systems.

Law, Science and Society
Series edited by John Paterson, University of Aberdeen, UK and Julian Webb, University of Warwick, UK

Traditionally, the role of law has been to implement political decisions concerning the relationship between science and society. Increasingly, however, as our understanding of the complex dynamic between law, science and society deepens, this instrumental characterisation is seen to be inadequate, but as yet we have only a limited conception of what might take its place. In short, there is a need for new research and scholarship, and it is to that need that this series responds.

Nomikoi
Series edited by Peter Goodrich, Cardozo School of Law, New York and David Seymour, Lancaster University, UK

Nomikoi: Critical Legal Thinkers presents analyses of key critical theorists who have written on law and contributed significantly to the development of the new interdisciplinary legal studies. Addressing those who have most influenced legal thought and thought about law, the aim of the series is to bring legal scholarship, the social sciences and the humanities into a closer dialogue.

The Economics of Legal Relationships

Routledge are proud to be the publishers of the prestigious series 'The Economics of Legal Relationships', which continues to be edited by Professors Nicholas Mercuro and Michael D. Kaplowitz of Michigan State University. This series, with a fine back catalogue of books, is dedicated to publishing original scholarly contributions that systematically analyze legal-economic issues.

Routledge-Cavendish Core Statutes

Previously published by Old Bailey Press as the Cracknell's Statutes series, Routledge-Cavendish Core Statutes provide a comprehensive series of essential statutory provisions for the core subjects and major options on the LLB or GDL. Each book in the series provides the precise wording of Acts of Parliament and is unannotated, making it ideal for both course and exam use.

• Updated annually to incorporate all of the latest legislation covered in most UK law syllabi
• Unannotated, making them ideal for both course and exam use
• Amendments are consolidated, avoiding the need to cross-refer to amending legislation
• Each title contains both alphabetical and chronological contents listings and is fully indexed

Discourses of Law series

Series edited by Peter Goodrich, Arthur Jacobson and Michel Rosenfeld, all at the Cardozo School of Law, USA.

This successful and exciting series seeks to publish the most innovative scholarship at the intersection of law, philosophy and social theory. The books published in the series are distinctive by virtue of exploring the boundaries of legal thought. The work that this series seeks to promote is marked most strongly by the drive to open up new perspectives on the relation between law and other disciplines. The series has also been unique in its commitment to international and comparative perspectives upon an increasingly global legal order. Of particular interest in a contemporary context, the series has concentrated upon the introduction and translation of continental traditions of theory and law.

Law, Development and Globalization

Series edited by Julio Faundez and University of Warwick.

During the past two decades, a substantial transformation of law and legal institutions in developing and transition countries has taken place. Whether prompted by the policy prescriptions of the so-called Washington consensus, the wave of democratization, the international human rights movement or the emergence of new social movements, no area of law has been left untouched. This massive transformation is attracting the attention of legal scholars, as well as scholars from other disciplines, such as politics, economics, sociology, anthropology and history. This diversity is valuable because it promotes cross-disciplinary dialogue and cooperation. It is also important because today the study of law cannot ignore the process of globalization, which is multifaceted and thus calls for inter-disciplinary skills and perspectives. Indeed, as globalization deepens, legal institutions at the national level are influenced and shaped by rules, practices and ideas drawn, imposed or borrowed from abroad.

This book series provides a platform for scholars and development practitioners concerned with the nature, scope and impact of the legal changes taking place in developing and transition countries.

Proposals for monographs or edited collections are invited in the following areas

• Theoretical studies that consider issues such as the relationship between law and social change, law and political institutions, the linkages between domestic and international legal regimes and the rights approach to development
• Case studies on topics such as access to justice, land law, legal pluralism, legal systems and institutions, social movements, participation and constitutionalism, corporate social responsibility, international standards and domestic laws, trade and investment and gender and equal opportunity law
• Policy studies that provide practical information and analysis about the design, implementation and evaluation of projects aimed at transforming legal institutions.

To discuss a proposed contribution to the series please contact the series editor, Professor Julio Faundez: j.faundez@warwick.ac.uk Tel. + 44 (0) 2476 523119. School of Law, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom.

Guidelines for preparing a book proposal can be found at http://www.routledge.com/proposal.asp.