PUBLICATIONS

Technology can be used as a new method of perpetrating existing international crimes, but it can also inflict novel harms that may only be adequately addressed by the creation of a new offence. This book analyses how…

This collection considers how corporate governance and other aspects of business law have responded to pressing issues in society, such as changing political ideology. It races the origins and current status of ‘woke captialism’, clarifies the connection…

AI and algorithms now drive modern warfare, shaping surveillance and targeting. While promising precision, these systems often mask significant, hidden civilian harm. Algorithms of War moves past the binary debate of prohibition versus promotion, focusing instead on…

Outlawed takes readers deep inside a world of courtroom confrontations, YouTube gurus, viral traffic stops, online radicalisation and anti-government extremism. It traces the movement from its 19th-century origins to deadly shootings, attempted coups and bizarre court cases…

Series co-editors, Guido Noto La Diega and Tania Phipps-Rufus-Anthony, are inviting book proposals for monographs and edited collections from scholars working at the intersection of law, creativity and innovation. The series welcomes interdisciplinary scholarship examining how law…

The editors invite chapter proposals for a forthcoming handbook on the history of freedom of expression in modern Western societies (c. 1800-1960), currently accepted and under contract with Routledge. This handbook aims to bring together scholars across the humanities and the social sciences;…

People with different backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints benefit from engaging with each other. That’s why it’s important for people who are insiders to expand their circles to include outsiders, and vice versa. The experience of being an…

This volume explores the futures of transitional justice by presenting its multiple pasts and presents across nearly half a century. It canvasses the legacies of achievements and failures, of high hopes and expectations, and equally of disappointment…

Published by Routledge, this collection offers the first sustained, multidisciplinary legal analysis of deepfakes and their far‑reaching consequences. Deepfake technology has moved with disorienting speed from fringe curiosity to a global social, political, and legal problem. Once…

This book examines the legal protection of domestic workers, who carry out essential and undervalued labour such as cooking, cleaning, and care for children and the elderly in private households, drawing on case studies of Chile, the…

Toward Border Abolition is an interdisciplinary exploration of border abolition that brings together scholars of international migration, border studies, and law who historicize the current border regime, critique the violence of border policing, and consider alternatives. The contributors…

In Legal Weapons of the Wealthy, Nikhil Kalyanpur examines a striking feature of today's global legal order: the use of foreign courts by elites to settle domestic disputes.  On the surface, the 'outsourcing' of disputes by elites…

Legal Moves engages in a project of epistemological disobedience, boldly suturing concepts of dance studies – kinesthetic awareness, fleshly memory, and techniques of the body – to the legal humanities. What opens when we expand our disciplinary methods…

The essays collected in Law and Media present German media theorist Cornelia Vismann investigating how law functions through the media technologies used to produce, disseminate, and preserve it – from papyrus and the codex to courtroom stenography and…

Family detention garnered much public attention when it expanded dramatically in 2014 as significantly increased numbers of migrant groups began arriving and requesting asylum at the Mexico–US border. During this period, the Obama administration designated three detention…

Published by Hart, this book offers a fresh feminist perspective on prostitution. It challenges the ‘sex work’ perspective, drawing on experience from rape law and #MeToo campaigns in Ireland and elsewhere to develop a new legal concept…

Published by Hart, this edited collection explores the question of how those with limited capacity are enabled to take their part as members of society within the context of both a legal framework and the expectations of…

Rape trials are inherently complex, often operating differently from other criminal trials. These trials are also complicated by the impact of societal attitudes about sexual offences, often referred to as rape myths, which can influence jurors’ deliberations…

Published by Bristol University Press, this book offers a fresh and critical take on the relationship between disability, work, and capitalism in the UK. Challenging the idea that disabled people are ‘non-workers’, it shows how society is…