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New and Published Books

  1. Legal Writing

    3rd Edition

    By Lisa Webley

    Legal Writing guides students comprehensively through this vital legal skill and addresses a range of assessment methods, from exam questions to final essays and problem answers. It considers how to deconstruct essay and problem questions and how to conduct and apply legal research to answer set...

    Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge

  2. The Politics of the Common Law

    Perspectives, Rights, Processes, Institutions, 2nd Edition

    By Adam Gearey, Wayne Morrison, Robert Jago

    The Politics of the Common Law offers a critical introduction to the legal system of England and Wales. Unlike other conventional accounts, this revised and updated second edition presents a coherent argument, organised around the central claim that contemporary postcolonial common law must be...

    Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge-Cavendish

  3. European Union Law

    3rd Edition

    By Alina Kaczorowska

    Fully revised and updated, the third edition of EU Law provides an exhaustive, yet easily readable, account of the complex and ever changing subject of EU law. The author gives thorough, authoritative, and up-to-the-minute treatment to the institutional, constitutional and substantive elements of...

    Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge

  4. The English Legal System

    2013-2014, 14th Edition

    By Gary Slapper, David Kelly

    Slapper and Kelly’s The English Legal System explains and critically assesses how our law is made and applied. Annually updated, this authoritative textbook clearly describes the legal rules of England and Wales and their collective influence as a sociocultural institution. This latest edition of...

    Published March 13th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Rhetoric and Discourse in Supreme Court Oral Arguments

    Sensemaking in Judicial Decisions

    By Ryan Malphurs

    Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

    While legal scholars, psychologists, and political scientists commonly voice their skepticism over the influence oral arguments have on the Court’s voting pattern, this book offers a contrarian position focused on close scrutiny of the justices’ communication within oral arguments. Malphurs...

    Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge

  6. Privatising the Public University

    The Case of Law

    By Margaret Thornton

    Privatising the Public University: The Case of Law is the first full-length critical study examining the impact of the dramatic reforms that have swept through universities over the last two decades. Drawing on extensive research and interviews in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Canada, Margaret...

    Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge

  7. Lawyers and the Construction of Transnational Justice

    Edited by Yves Dezalay, Bryant Garth

    Series: Law, Development and Globalization

    Lawyers and the Construction of Transnational Justice will show students and scholars what it means in practice to talk about building transnational justice – both on the side of economic regulation and on the side of human rights and humanitarian law. It links national and transnational processes,...

    Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge

  8. The Ethics Project in Legal Education

    Edited by Michael Robertson, Lillian Corbin, Kieran Tranter, Francesca Bartlett

    Series: Routledge Research in Legal Ethics

    The contributions in this volume suggest that "the ethics project in legal education" is increasingly an international one. Even though the strength of commitment by both the profession and the legal academy to "ethics learning" within law schools varies, two fundamental questions confront all who...

    Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge

  9. Alternative Perspectives on Lawyers and Legal Ethics

    Reimagining the Profession

    Edited by Reid Mortensen, Francesca Bartlett, Kieran Tranter

    Series: Routledge Research in Legal Ethics

    The study of legal ethics and the legal profession has emerged as a distinct and important field of scholarship over the last 30 years. However, as in other disciplines, academic recognition can in turn entrench static and powerful meta-theories and narratives about professional ethos and practise,...

    Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge

  10. Women, Judging and the Judiciary

    From Difference to Diversity

    By Erika Rackley

    Women, Judging and the Judiciary examines debates about gender representation in the judiciary and the importance of judicial diversity. It offers a fresh look at the role of the (woman) judge and the process of judging and provides a new analysis of the assumptions which underpin and constrain...

    Published September 3rd 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish

Forthcoming Books

  1. Research Methods in Law
    Edited by Dawn Watkins, Mandy Burton
    To Be Published June 27th 2013
  2. Mastering the National Admissions Test for Law, 2nd Edition
    By Mark Shepherd
    To Be Published July 2nd 2013
  3. Teaching Legal Research
    Edited by Barbara Bintliff, Duncan Alford
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  4. Essential GCSE Law
    By Kenny Chin
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  5. Contract Law
    By Chris Turner
    To Be Published October 6th 2013

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