New Books: August 2025 New Books

This book describes the history of cannabis criminalization in the United States and details the legalization movement that has evolved over the past decade. It forcefully argues that the historically racist enforcement of cannabis prohibitions means that racial justice and social equity goals should be part of future legalization efforts.

This discerning book considers how the global IP system fared in response to the unprecedented global crisis accompanying the Covid-19 pandemic and what lessons can be learned and applied to other crises. The book investigates varying experiences from the pandemic, providing a unique prism for assessing how IP balances competing requirements of innovation and access in times of crisis. The chapters, from an impressive array of contributors, examine the role and function of the rules on patents, copyright and trade secrets both in securing vaccines and in delivering much-needed access to cultural and educational material in a locked-down world, so doing through social, legal and political lenses.

Many jurisdictions introduce a special form of intellectual property protection, namely, sui generis regime, i.e., intellectual property legal regime 'of its own kind,' designed to serve the specific needs of a particular subject matter. This book analyzes the intellectual property protection regimes in the EU and the U.S. available for three categories of subject matter that are often considered as requiring sui generis protection, namely, databases, designs, and plant varieties. One of the main objectives is to evaluate whether the chosen subject matter in fact requires sui generis intellectual property protection and whether the introduced sui generis regimes have proved to be successful over time.

This book analyzes the evolution of AI and machine learning technologies and their application in drug discovery and health care, discusses AI patenting trends in relation to India, EU, and USA from a qualitative and quantitative standpoint, and suggests policy and regulatory frameworks regarding patenting and regulation of AI and health care in particular.

This book examines the potential for regionalization of intellectual property law and policy as a means of improving pharmaceutical access for least developed countries. The challenge of sustainable access to pharmaceuticals continues to be an issue of global significance. While much has been written on emerging economies in this context, least developed countries have been largely overlooked. This book fills this gap by taking the East African Community as a case study of developing and least developed countries to illustrate why and how a regional collective approach is preferred.

This How to Guide will provide readers with information and insights which will better equip them to support law students in a higher education setting. Featuring contributions from an array of eminent academics and student support professionals, this book includes personal reflections, example scenarios and practical tips for those seeking to improve support for student wellbeing.

Drawing on the theoretical debates, practical applications, and sectoral approaches in the field, this ground-breaking Handbook unpacks the political and regulatory developments in AI and big data governance. Covering the political implications of big data and AI on international relations, as well as emerging initiatives for legal regulation, it provides an accessible overview of ongoing data science discourses in politics, law and governance.

This book provides a discursive reflection on the current challenges facing administrative law, based on a key idea: the defense of the liberal model of society. The author describes the content of her book as a turning point on the traditional standards of the rule of law and the way it impacts on the administrative state and administrative law.

This textbook focuses on transactional lawyering skills in the context of a mock deal involving the purchase and sale of the assets of a small business. It takes a practical, simplified approach to teaching contract drafting skills.

This book focuses on mediation as opposed to other means of online dispute resolution. This title includes checklists and templates written by a mediator who has conducted over 280 digital mediations and teaches mediators, advisers, and clients the different skills and mindsets essential to success in the world of digital mediation.

Technology proficiency is now a necessity for most professionals. This very practical book presents a comprehensive foundational guide to technology and cybersecurity for lawyers and other non-technologists seeking a solid grounding in key tech topics. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, elucidating the high-level basics then going a step beyond, the author clearly explains core technical computing subjects, detailing cybersecurity essentials and flagging various security/privacy-related issues throughout.

This book presents a multidisciplinary overview of capital punishment's influences, processes and outcomes across society. A global range of philosophers, social scientists, legal experts, political theorists and historians critically analyze the trajectory of the death penalty in both retentionist and abolitionist countries, underscoring how state killing remains a crucial issue worldwide. The volume lays out the philosophical justifications for and against capital punishment, before examining the practicalities of the death penalty, including the roles of numerous legal actors before, during, and after a capital trial. Finally, expert scholars compare the current status of capital punishment in 12 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, Central America and the Middle East, presenting nuanced perspectives on the topic from different cultural and political viewpoints.

This book brings together contributions from twenty-three world-leading scholars and commentators which address a range of contemporary and pressing international themes in mental health, disability and criminal law. The authors use the work of internationally renowned academic, Emeritus Professor Bernadette McSherry, as a springboard to reflect on recent developments in these areas of law and to anticipate the future directions they may take. In doing so, they aim to inform and inspire a new generation of mental health, disability and criminal law scholars, advocates and reformers.

This book empowers people and communities in improving their understanding of and skills in domestic violence cases that involve recantation. The book illustrates the precise interpersonal dynamics of recantation in criminal cases in which felony-level abuse has occurred. It equips professionals in working more effectively with domestic violence victims, their abusers, family members and other supporters.

This book provides an introduction to the international legal framework surrounding epidemics and pandemics and the main global governance issues that have been generated by the COVID-19 outbreak. It highlights the main shortcomings of global health law, while also including practical proposals to improve the WHO's mechanism to prevent and respond to disease outbreaks. Emphasis is placed on what has not worked in the international, regional and national responses to COVID-19. By identifying legal gaps and providing legal arguments, the book contributes to the historical and conceptual foundation as well as the practical development of international law in the new age of COVID-19, with the ultimate goal of stimulating legal reform in this vital new era.

This work brings together contributions from leading and emerging scholars in the field. Each contributor has been invited to select and analyze a 'leading work', which has for them shed light on the way that Health Law and Ethics has developed.

For nearly a half century, Roe v. Wade was synonymous with women's rights and freedoms. Then, suddenly, it was gone. In this book, the authors (two New York Times journalists) chronicle the end of the Roe era. Their reporting stretches from the back rooms of abortion clinics to the halls of the White House, exposing the behind-the-scenes actors and recasting the maneuvers of those already in the spotlight. The result is a sweeping and intimate narrative of secrets, power, and jaw-dropping revelations, and a beacon to guide us forward.

This book addresses the largely neglected place of female defendants in contemporary international criminal law, beyond the construction of women as victims, and asks what the analysis of female perpetrators, defendants and suspects reveals about international criminal law, the media and feminism. The book uses the topic of female perpetrators, defendants and suspects as a way to explore the concept of legal subjectivity via a gender analysis.

This book critically examines how the market economy can be preserved without compromising the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN. Serving as a useful overview of the problems and solutions found in one of the most controversial issues in current antitrust doctrine, this topical book offers concrete policy options for EU competition law.

In December 2017, U.S. immigration authorities shackled and abused 92 African refugees for two days while attempting to deport them by plane to Somalia. When national media broke the story, government officials lied about what happened. 'Shackled' tells the story of this harrowing failed deportation, the resulting class action litigation, and two men's search for safety in the United States over the course of three long years.

To better understand the concerns surrounding nonstate interference with speech, this book offers an account of censorship, as well as an assessment of the ethical and political issues it raises across contexts.

This timely Research Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of judicial politics, both in the US and across the globe. Taking a broad view of the judiciary in all levels of the court, it examines the present state of the field and raises new questions for future scholarly exploration. Expert authors critically analyze what the current literature tells us about important phenomena related to judicial politics, while simultaneously expanding the scope of that knowledge through original empirical research. They also address extrajudicial communications, public opinion and legitimacy, before concluding with an examination of methodological issues in judicial politics research.

This highly informative Advanced Introduction explores the diverse and far-reaching legal implications of some of the key findings of behavioral economics. Cass Sunstein, a leader in this field, adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examining cutting-edge topics such as air pollution and climate change; public health and safety; pandemic response; occupational safety; road safety; and contract, property, and tort law.