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Lawyers, Gatekeeping and Access to Justice (A Critical Analysis)

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:24:40 +0000

This volume presents a systematic exploration of the gatekeeping debate. It discusses the key dimensions of gatekeeping, the risk of abuse of identifying lawyers with their clients in authoritarian regimes, the limits of partisan lawyering and the legal boundaries to representation.

Price: $57.99

Passive Patient Culture in India (Disrespect in Law and Medicine)

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:23:55 +0000

This book critiques the archetype of the “passive patient” entrenched in both medicine and law in India–an image that undermines agency, diminishes self-respect, and sustains a culture of disrespect.

Price: $61.99

Organising White-Collar and Corporate Crimes

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:22:43 +0000

This book explores how we can re-constitute our approach to analysing and empirically investigating the organisation of white-collar and corporate crimes, with a view to building fuller theoretical and empirical accounts. It investigates mechanisms, relationships, processes and conditions neces..

Price: $61.99

Ethics and Biomedical Engineering (Facing Global Health Emergencies)

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:46:20 +0000

This book is about the interaction between biomedical engineering and ethics during emergencies, such as Low Resource Settings and Covid-19 pandemic. It addresses the issues between the universalism of human rights, ethical principles, regulatory standards of biomedical devices and the particul..

Price: $70.99

Beyond Innocence (Children in Performance)

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:28:31 +0000

This book focuses on works with children who occupy various roles in performance practice that have been shown in UK contexts and festivals over the last two decades. It draws on case studies from theatre, performance, live art and dance that have been developed by a wide range of international..

Price: $61.99

Legal Resistance under Authoritarianism (The Struggle for the Rule of Law in Hong Kong)

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:21:57 +0000

This book examines the decline of Hong Kong’s rule of law under China’s expanding authoritarian influence.

Price: $61.99

Artificial Intelligence and the Law (Global Perspectives, Regulatory Challenges, and Emerging Jurisprudence)

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:14:33 +0000

This comprehensive volume examines the complex intersection of artificial intelligence, legal frameworks, ethics, and human rights in contemporary society.

Price: $51.99

Informality and Courts (Comparative Perspectives)

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 01:47:51 +0000

This volume explores an understudied aspect of courts: The extent to which informal institutions and relational networks (e.g., professional, clientelist, family etc.) relations affect how courts are organised and operate. For instance, to what extent can ‘good personal relations’ outweigh profess..

Price: $39.95

Digital Accessibility Ethics (Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech)

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 16:45:44 +0000

Digital Accessibility Ethics is a practical guide with an urgent goal: to help end tech exclusion of 1.3 billion people across the world with disabilities. The book introduces the first Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework – an action-oriented, three-part tool designed to influence, ch..

Price: $39.99

Machiavellis Gesetzgebungslehre (German Edition)

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 05:02:53 +0000

Im unüberschaubaren Schrifttum zu Machiavelli fehlt es erstaunlicherweise an einer Darstellung seiner Gesetzgebungslehre, die nicht nur seinen berühmten ‚Fürsten‘, sondern vor allem sein Hauptwerk, die Discorsi, aber auch seine Geschichte von Florenz und die kleineren Schriften berücksichtigt. ..

Price: $91.99