Austin Sarat 
Rhetorical Processes and Legal Judgments [PDF ebook] 
How Language and Arguments Shape Struggles for Rights and Power

This monograph addresses the phenomenon of mass harm and how it may be resolved through collective redress. It examines particularly how such redress may be achieved through mechanisms such as multi- …

Lex Petrolea and International Investment Law: Law and Practice in the Persian Gulf offers readers a detailed analysis of jurisprudence on the settlement of upstream petroleum disputes between host s …

At the beginning of the twenty-first century the term ”privacy” gained new prominence around the world, but in the legal arena it is still a concept in ”disarray”. Enclosing it within legal frame …

Chinese Insurance Contracts: Law and Practice is the first systematic text written in English on the law of insurance in China. This book offers a critical analysis of the major principles, doctrines …

Permanent States of Emergency and the Rule of Law explores the impact that oxymoronic ”permanent” states of emergency have on the validity and effectiveness of constitutional norms and, ultimately, …

This exploration of penal censure is inspired by the 40th anniversary of the publication of Andreas von Hirsch”s Doing Justice, which opened up a fresh set of issues in theorisation about punishment …

From the Colonial to the Contemporary explores the representation of law, images and justice in the first three colonial high courts of India at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras. It is based upon ethnogra …

This essential handbook on international arbitration has been updated to include a new chapter on investment treaty arbitration, detailing the kind of investments which are covered by investment trea …

Taking its cue from theoretical and ideological calls to challenge globalisation as a dynamic of homogenisation – and resistance – as led from, and directed against, the Global North, this volume ask …

This book analyses the legal regimes governing bank crisis management in the EU, UK, and US, discussing the different procedures and tools available as well as the regulatory architecture and the aut …