OUP Law | Titles for Review (March 2023)
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Titles available for review:
A Legacy of Discrimination: The Essential Constitutionality of Affirmative Action - (9780197685747)
Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone
In A Legacy of Discrimination, Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone trace the history of affirmative action and the legal challenges it has faced over the decades. A timely and robust overview of affirmative action, this book will serve as a powerful defense of a policy that has accomplished more than most people realize in making America a fairer and more inclusive country.
Blackstone's Civil Practice 2023 - (9780192899439)
Edited by Stuart Sime and Derek French
Blackstone's Civil Practice 2023 provides expertly written, detailed commentary of unrivalled quality on the process of civil litigation. It is the only major civil work to adopt a narrative approach based on the chronology of a claim and is essential reading for practitioners and academics alike.
Blackstone's Crime Investigators' Handbook (3rd ed.) - (9780192867896)
Steve Hibbitt and Gary Shaw
The Crime Investigators Handbook provides straightforward, practical information and advice for crime investigators, and complements the learning outcomes from the Initial Crime Investigators Development Programme Phases 2 and 3, as well as all Professionalising Investigations Programme Level 2 investigations.
Blackstone's Senior Investigating Officers' Handbook (6th ed.) - (9780192855985)
Tony Cook
Blackstone's Senior Investigators' Handbook is aimed at meeting the reference needs of officers who investigate serious, major, and organised crime. It provides step-by-step, easy to understand guidance of all the necessary considerations, procedures, and processes for a Senior Investigating Officer.
European Private International Family Law: The Brussels IIb Regulation - (9780192843920)
Michael Wilderspin
A comprehensive examination of the new Brussels IIb Regulation (2019/1111) which covers jurisdiction, decisions in matrimonial matters, matters of parental responsibility, and international child abduction. This book analyses every provision of the new Regulation, relevant case law, and the differences between this Regulation and its predecessor.
Investment Protection Standards and the Rule of Law - (9780192864581)
Edited by August Reinisch and Stephan W. Schill
This edited volume explores the connection between the rule of law and substantive standards of treatment in international investment agreements. It also analyses to what extent these standards of treatment can be understood as positive expressions of the rule of law.
Law's Rule: The Nature, Value, and Viability of the Rule of Law - (9780190645342)
Gerald J. Postema
The rule of law, once widely embraced and emulated, now faces serious threats to its viability. To answer these fundamental threats, we first must return to its foundational principles. This book articulates a coherent framework and foundation for thinking about the rule of law and planning strategies for building and defending it against serious challenges to its intelligibility, relevance, and normative force.
Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (2nd ed.) - (9780192844477)
Edited by Neil Wilkof, Shamnad Basheer, and Irene Calboli
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of overlapping intellectual property rights under UK, EU, and US law. Individual chapters examine discrete pairs of IP rights, with a series of comparison tables setting out the law regarding IP rights across the world.
Policing Gun Violence: Strategic Reforms for Controlling Our Most Pressing Crime Problem - (9780199929283)
Anthony A. Braga and Philip J. Cook
Drawing on fifty years of research and practical experience, Policing Gun Violence argues that it is possible for the police to create greater public safety while respecting the rights of individuals and communities.
Reasonableness and Risk: Right and Responsibility in the Law of Torts - (9780190867942)
Gregory C. Keating
The law of torts is concerned with what we owe to one another in the way of obligations not to interfere with, or impair, each other's urgent interests as we go about our lives in civil society. This book argues that tort law addresses a domain of basic justice and that its rhetoric of reasonableness implies a distinctive morality of mutual right and responsibility.
Responsive Judicial Review: Democracy and Dysfunction in the Modern Age - (9780192865779)
Rosalind Dixon
Democratic dysfunction can arise in both 'at risk' and well-functioning constitutional systems. It can threaten a system's responsiveness to both minority rights claims and majoritarian constitutional understandings. Responsive Judicial Review aims to counter this dysfunction.
Singapore Private International Law: Commercial Issues and Practice - (9780198837596)
Adeline Chong and Yip Man
Following years of significant reform in the area, Singapore Private International Law: Commercial Issues and Practice provides a roadmap to assist readers in navigating the changing landscape of Singapore private international law in commercial matters.
Sovereignty Across Generations: Constituent Power and Political Liberalism - (9780192871077)
Alessandro Ferrara
By taking new steps in updating and revisiting political liberalism, this book reconstructs Rawls's implicit view of constituent power beyond the pages dedicated to it in Political Liberalism and brings that view into conversation with major constitutional theories of the twentieth century.
State Responsibility for ,Modern Slavery' in Human Rights Law: A Right Not to Be Trafficked - (9780192867087)
Marija Jovanovic
Do humans have a right not to be trafficked? This book examines the legal nature of human trafficking and its relationship with human rights law. Drawing on the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, it shows that human trafficking is indeed a human rights violation requiring legislative and institutional responses from states.
Tax Crimes and Enforcement in the European Union: Solutions for law, policy and practice - (9780192862341)
Edited by Umut Turksen, Donato Vozza, Reinhard Kreissl, and Fanou Rasmouki
This book addresses the preventative and prosecution challenges of tax crimes, money laundering, and corruption. The book combines legal and social science methods while analysing law in practice, suggesting future solutions for tax law and policies on enforcement in the EU.
The Austrian Codification of Administrative Procedure: Diffusion and Oblivion (1920-1970) - (9780198867623)
Edited by Giacinto della Cananea, Angela Ferrari Zumbini, and Otto Pfersmann
This book explores the development of the Austrian codification of administrative procedure and the subsequent spread of Austrian ideas and institutions across Europe. The book thus provides an unprecedented outlook on the emergence of an increasing common core regarding administrative procedure, and the consequences it had for other legal systems.
The Jury: A Very Short Introduction - (9780190923914)
Renée Lettow Lerner
This book shows how and why societies around the world have used juries, from ancient Athens to today. It considers the present decline of jury trials in English speaking countries, the alternatives that have been used throughout history, and analyses how innovations from these non-English-speaking countries may hold the key to jurors' survival.
The Laws of Restitution - (9780192885029)
Prof Robert Stevens
In The Laws of Restitution, Robert Stevens seeks to show that there is no unified law of restitution or unjust enrichment. He also explains how the law of restitution relates to, and is bound up with, areas of contract, torts, equity, and property law.
The Puerto Rico Constitution - (9780190461263)
Rafael Cox Alomar
This volume examines the constitutional history of Puerto Rico, from the days of Spanish colonization through to the modern era. The book also offers an in-depth analysis of the articles of the constitution, considering their context in the complex relationship between Puerto Rico and the political branches in Washington.
Tomorrow's Lawyers: An Introduction to your Future (3rd ed.) - (9780192864727)
Richard Susskind
Tomorrow's Lawyers predicts fundamental and irreversible changes in the legal world and offers essential practical advice for those who intend to build careers and businesses in law. A definitive guide to the future for aspiring lawyers, and all who want to modernize today's legal and justice systems.
Related Titles that may also be of interest
The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Law - (9780197649138)
David DeMatteo and Kyle C. Scherr
Offers an up-to-date, scholarly overview of psychology-law topics from highly esteemed applied and experimental researchers combining both national and international perspectives.
Patterns of Exploitation: Understanding Migrant Worker Rights in Advanced Democracies - (9780197599112)
Anna K. Boucher
In Patterns of Exploitation, Anna K. Boucher looks at workplace violations across four major immigration countries: the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Incorporating interviews, the Migrant Worker Rights Database, and in-depth analysis of court cases, Boucher uses legal storytelling to document individual migrant experiences and assess the patterns of exploitation that emerge in case narratives.
Human Dignity and Social Justice - (9780192871152)
Pablo Gilabert
Human dignity: social movements invoke it, several national constitutions enshrine it, and it features prominently in international human rights documents. But what is it and why is it important? Pablo Gilabert offers a systematic defense of the view that human dignity is the moral heart of justice.
The Myth of the Community Fix: Inequality and the Politics of Youth Punishment - (9780197674284)
Sarah D. Cate
In The Myth of the Community Fix, Sarah D. Cate explores the consequences of the widespread bipartisan embrace of the "community-based reform movement" in the juvenile justice system. Using a qualitative comparative case study focused on Texas, California, and Pennsylvania, she traces the historical development of juvenile justice policy and the limitations of the community-based reform movement.
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