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Feminism and the Power of Lawby Carol Smart
Routledge 1989; US$ 55.95Carol Smart presents a new gendered analysis of the power of law and argues for a feminist, post-structuralist approach. She comments on pornography as well as discussing recent research on rape trials and abortion legislation. more...
Education and the Lawby Witold Tulasiewicz; Gerald Stowbridge
Routledge 1994; US$ 190.00This edited collection discusses the way legislation affects education and training and shows how the law can influence the level and degree of economic activity. more...
Mythology of Modern Lawby Peter Fitzpatrick
Routledge 1992; US$ 59.95A radical reappraisal of the role of myth in modern society. Fitzpatrick uses the example of law, an integral category of modern social thought, to challenge modernity and the denial of the relevance of myth to law in modern society. more...
Drugs & Doping In Sportsby John O'Leary
Routledge-Cavendish 2001; US$ 95.00Doping is undoubtedly one of the most controversial issues within sport. This collection of essays from academics, practitioners and administrators, analyzes contemporary socio-legal and political themes related to doping in sport and provides a challenging view of doping issues. more...
Men, Law and Genderby Richard Collier
Glasshouse Press 2005; US$ 125.00This book presents the first published comprehensive overview and critical assessment of the relationship between law and masculinities. It provides a general introduction to the subject whilst, via a series of interlinked readings, engaging with the difficult question of what it means to speak of the masculinity of law in the first place. more...
The Health of Nationsby Philip Allott
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 42.00Globalisation challenges our traditional social structures, with international systems such as the European Union, taking power over the power of states and governments. We must rethink the ideas which have made our national systems work. Allott seeks to develop these ideas in new ways to meet the new global challenges. more...
Nuclear Law Bulletin: Bulgaria: Act on the Safe Use of Nuclear Energy (as last amended on 29 December 2002)by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2003; US$ 33.00Ruling of the Supreme Administrative Court on the Decision to shut units 3 and 4 of Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant (2003) more...
Nuclear Law Bulletin: Croatia: Act on Nuclear Safety (promulgated on 21October 2003)by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2004; US$ 33.00The original member countries of the OECD are Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. The following countries became members subsequently through accession at the dates indicated hereafter: Japan (28th April 1964), Finland (28th January 1969), Australia (7th June 1971), New Zealand (29th May 1973), Mexico (18th May 1994), the Czech Republic (21st December 1995), Hungary (7th May 1996), Poland (22nd November 1996), Korea (12th December 1996) and the Slovak Republic (14 December 2000). The Commission of the European Communities takes part in the work of the OECD (Article... more...
Law and Globalization from Belowby Boaventura de Sousa Santos; César A. Rodríguez-Garavito; Chris Arup; Martin Chanock; Pat O'Malley; Sally Engle Merry; Susan Silbey
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 52.00This book is an unprecedented attempt to analyze the role of the law in the global movement for social justice. Case studies in the book are by leading scholars from both the global South and the global North, and combine empirical research with innovative sociolegal theory on various topics. more...
Jurisprudence As Ideologyby Valerie Kerruish
Taylor & Francis 1992; US$ 57.95How can universally valid legal principles possibly exist in a manifestly unequal world? In Jurisprudence as Ideology Valerie Kerruish examines how a progressive law may be possible. more...