Books from Ashgate/Dartmouth
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State Responsibility in International Law
By René ProvostIn the wake of the adoption by the International Law Commission of a complete set of articles on state responsibility in international law in 2001, this collection assembles a number...
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The International Dimensions of Cyberspace Law
By UnescoThis volume, on the international aspects of cyberspace law, has been written by experts from different regions of the world. It contains six main articles: the possibilities for a legal...
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Administrative Law
By Peter CaneDesigned to complement the first volume on administrative law which was published as part of the original series of The International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory, the...
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Law and Language
By Thomas MorawetzThe essays in this volume reflect several important and widely-discussed issues in legal theory. One set of issues may be characterized as legal hermeneutics, a consideration of the practices governing...
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Living Donor Organ Transplantation: Key Legal and Ethical Issues
By Austen Garwood-GowersAdvances in techniques like transplantation have meant that when a person suffers a failure of one or more essential organs it is often feasible to keep them alive for years....
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The Bradford Studies of Strategic Decision Making
By David John Hickson, Richard J. Butler, David Charles WilsonThis volume brings together the 25-year output of the longest running programme of research into the making of decisions by top management. It describes and explains the processes of arriving...
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Anti-discrimination Law
By Christopher McCruddenSince the early 1990s, there has been an enormous growth in scholarship addressing the theoretical aspects of anti-discrimination law. Touching upon a number of jurisdictions, this volume collects many of...
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Europe's Other: European Law Between Modernity and Postmodernity
By Peter Fitzpatrick, James Henry BergeronEuropean law is usually taken to embody an unstoppable dynamic of integration and progress. Such assumptions, claim the authors, are rooted firmly in modernist assumptions which avoid the impact of...
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Gender, Choice and Commitment: Women Solicitors in England and Wales and the Struggle for Equal Status
By Peter Sanderson, Hilary SommerladThis book is the first full-length discussion of women's experiences in the solicitors' profession in the UK. It provides an account which is grounded in historical research and a contemporary...
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Legitimacy Deficit in Custom: A Deconstructionist Critique
By Ben ChigaraThe word custom is part of everyday vocabulary in all languages, meaning the habitual behaviour of people in a particular community. Once adopted by lawyers it becomes necessary to distinguish...
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International Dispute Settlement
By Mary Ellen O'ConnellThe very purpose of international law is the peaceful settlement of international disputes. Over centuries, states and more recently, organizations have created substantive rules and principles, as well as affiliated...
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Chinese Law and Legal Theory
By Perry KellerChina's Confucian-based imperial legal system developed and flourished for more than 3000 years. Its disintegration, following the collapse of the last dynasty in 1911, ushered in a new century of...
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Aristotle and Modern Law
By James Bernard Murphy, Richard Oliver BrooksAristotle's philosophy has had a profound impact on the development of modern law. This volume collects recent important essays demonstrating the continuing relevance of Aristotle's work to contemporary legal issues....
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Organizational Psychology
By Philip Stone, Mark CannonThese three volumes aim to provide a broad selection of organizational psychology journal articles, some from the late 1980s, but most from the early 1990s. Forming part of a library...
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Legal Theory in the Crucible of Constitutional Justice: A Study of Judges and Political Morality in Canada, Ireland, and Italy
By Rory O'ConnellConstitutional adjudication straddles law and politics, legal and political theory. Referring to legal controversies in Canada (free expression), Ireland (sexual morality) and Italy (religion), this book demonstrates how constitutional judgements...
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Law, Culture, Tradition, and Children's Rights in Eastern and Southern Africa
By Welshman NcubeThe fact that the Convention on the Rights of The Child is the most widely ratified international treaty on human rights suggests not only a large degree of international normative...
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Sociological Perspectives on Law: Contemporary debates
By Roger B. M. CotterrellSociological Perspectives on Law: Contemporary debates
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Living Without Law: An Ethnography of Quaker Decision-making, Dispute Avoidance, and Dispute Resolution
By Anthony Bradney, Fiona CownieA study of Quaker decision-taking, seen as a form of dispute avoidance, and Quaker dispute resolution. At its core is an ethnography of one Quaker meeting, a faith group which...
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Freedom of Speech in Australian Law: A Delicate Plant
By Michael ChestermanIn 1992, the High Court of Australia declared that the Australian Constitution contained an implied principle of freedom of political communication. Since then, the concept of free speech and the...