Book Series in Law
Birkbeck Law Press
New & Published Titles:
The Other's War
Recognition and the Violence of Ethics
The Other's War is an intervention into a set of contemporary moral, political and legal debates over the legitimacy of war and terrorism within the…
read moreJanuary 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-57143-2 (Birkbeck Law Press)
The Four Lacanian Discourses
or Turning Law Inside Out
This book proposes a taxonomy of jurisprudence and legal practice, based on the discourse theory of Jacques Lacan. In the anglophone academy, the positivist jurisprudence…
read moreJanuary 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-57448-8 (Routledge)
The Legality of Boxing
A Punch Drunk Love?
The first book of its kind dedicated to an assessment of the legality of boxing, The Legality of Boxing: A Punch Drunk Love? assesses the…
read moreJanuary 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-57436-5 (Routledge)
The Eye of the Law
Two Essays on Legal History
Written by the eminent German legal historian, Michael Stolleis, these two ‘Essays on Legal History’ offer an original and compelling history of the symbolism through…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47274-6 (Birkbeck Law Press)
Being Against the World
Rebellion and Constitution
How can we save politics from the politician? How can we save ourselves? This book looks at the example of those who leave the city… read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45946-4 (Birkbeck Law Press)
Constitutions
Writing Nations, Reading Difference
Bringing a postcolonial perspective to UK constitutional debates and including a detailed and comparative engagement with the constitutions of Britain’s ex-colonies, this book is an…
read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43193-4 (Birkbeck Law Press)
Law and Sacrifice
Towards a Post Apartheid Theory of Law
In the wake of apartheid, Law and Sacrifice draws on the uniquely expansive protection of fundamental rights now entrenched in the South African Constitution to…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-1-85941-987-8 (Birkbeck Law Press)
Beyond Transcendence in Law and Philosophy
What is the law of the law? What produces our craven subservience to linguistic norms, and our shocking indifference to the phenomenon of universal suffering?…
read more2005 | Paperback: 978-1-85941-985-4 (Birkbeck Law Press)
more information about Beyond Transcendence in Law and Philosophy
Sovereignty and its Discontents
On the Primacy of Conflict and the Structure of the Political
This book argues for the centrality of conflict in any notion of the political. In contrast to many of the attempts to re-think the political…
read more2004 | Paperback: 978-1-85941-984-7 (Birkbeck Law Press)
Series Details:
Birkbeck Law School has been recognised as an international centre of research excellence, specialising in legal theory and theoretically informed socio-legal research and pioneering critical approaches to scholarship.
Birkbeck Law Press aims to develop a distinct publishing profile by addressing the legal challenges of late modernity. Globalisation and the move towards universal legal values, which should respect cultural specificities and local conditions, has created the urgent need for greater dialogue and understanding between the major schools of thought and legal systems in the world. Most legal publishing, driven by the needs of specialisation and the state-based nature of positive law, has not systematically addressed these concerns.
Forthcoming Titles:
Revenge versus Legality: Wild Justice from Balzac to Clint Eastwood and Abu Ghraib
By Katherine Maynard, Jarod Kearney, James Guimond
To be published April 9th 2010