This page contains information about the Centre for Law and Society's publications, including recent books and articles published by Centre members, as well as the Centre's Ashgate Book Series.

A list of each member's publications can be viewed in the Law School staff webpages.
 
The most recent books, chapters and articles of Centre members are most easily accessible here.

Recent books include:

• Sharon Cowan, with Rosemary Hunter, Choice and Consent: Feminist Engagements with Law and Subjectivity (Routledge Cavendish, 2007)
• Neil Walker, with Ian Loader, Civilizing Security (OUP, 2007)
• Neil MacCormick, Institutions of Law (OUP, 2007)
• Stephen Tierney (ed), Accomodating Cultural Diversity (Ashgate, 2006)
• Alistair Henry and David J Smith (ed), Transformations of Policing (Ashgate, 2007)
• Zenon Bankowski and James MacLean (eds), The Universal and the Particular in Legal Reasoning (Ashgate, 2006)
• Claudio Michelon, Being Apart From Reasons (Kluwer, 2006)
• Anne Griffiths, Family Law, 2nd edition (Thomson, 2006)
• Lesley McAra and Sarah Armstrong, Perspectives on Punishment: The Contours of Control (OUP, 2006)
• Anne Griffiths, with F and K von Bend-Beckmann (as editors), Mobile People, Mobile Law: EXpanding Legal Relations in a Contracting World (Ashgate, 2005) 

Recent chapters and articles include:

• Andy Aitchison (2010) 'Global meets Local: International Participation in Prison Reform
  and Restructuring in Bosnia and Herzegovina' in Criminology and Criminal Justice 10(1),
  pp. 77-94
• Andy Aitchison (2010) 'Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing' in Fiona Brookman, Mike Maguire, Harriet Pierpoint and Trevor Bennett (eds) Handbook of Crime. (Willan) pp. 762-784
• Claudio Michelon, 'Politics, Practical Reason and the Authority of Legislation' (2007) Legisprudence vol. 1, pp. 263-289
• Sharon Cowan, 'Choosing Freely: theoretically reframing the concept of consent' in Sharon Cowan and Rosemary Hunter (eds) Choice and Consent: Feminist engagements with law and subjectivity (Routledge Cavendish, 2007) 91-105
• Lesley McAra, Susan McVie, 'Youth Justice? The Impact of System Contact on Patterns of Desistance from Offending' (2007) European Journal of Criminology 4 (3) 315-345
• Sharon Cowan, Jackie Hodgson, 'Violence in a Family Context: The Criminal Law’s Response' in Rebecca Probert (eds) Family Life and the Law: Under One Roof (Ashgate, 2007) pp43-60
• Lesley McAra, 'Welfarism in Crisis: Crime Control and Penal Practice in Post-devolution Scotland' in Michael Keating (eds) Scottish Social Democracy: Progressive Ideas for Politics (P.I.E. - Peter Lang, 2007) pp.115-158
• Richard Jones, 'Cybercrime and Internet Security' in C. Waelde and L. Edwards (eds) Law and the Internet (Hart, 2009) pp.601-621.
• Richard Jones, 'Surveillance' in C. Hale et al. (eds) Criminology (2e) (OUP, 2009), pp.523-545.
• Richard Jones, 'Checkpoint Security', in K. Franko Aas et al. (eds) Technologies of Insecurity (Routledge-Cavendish, 2008).
  
• Alistair Henry, 'Policing and Ethnic Minorities' in Alistair Henry, David J. Smith Transformations of Policing (Ashgate, 2007) pp79-112
• Alistair Henry, 'Looking Back on Police and People in London' in Alistair Henry, David J. Smith Transformations of Policing (Ashgate, 2007) pp1-23
• Sharon Cowan, 'Freedom and Capacity to make a choice: A feminist analysis of consent in the criminal law of rape' in Vanessa Munro and Carl Stychin (eds) Sexuality and the Law: Feminist Engagements (Glasshouse Press (Routledge-Cavendish), 2007) pp51-71
• Zenon Bankowski, 'The Risk of Reconciliation' in Scott Veitch (eds) Law and the Politics of Reconciliation (Ashgate, 2007) pp. 49-68
• Stephen Tierney, 'Spectre at the Feast: Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Union Settlement of 1998' in Isabelle Bour and Antoine Mioche (eds) Bonds of Union: Practices and Representations of Political Union in the United Kingdom (18th-20th centuries) (Presses Universitaires Francois Rabelais, 2007) 191-206
• Anne Griffiths, 'Networking Resources: a Gendered Perspective on Kewna Women's Property Rights, in A Bottomley and H Lim (eds), Feminist Perspectives on Land (Routledge-Cavendish, 2007), 217-238

Some recent publications by the Centre's doctoral students include:

• Maksymilian Del Mar, "System Values and Understanding Legal Language" (2008) 21(1) Leiden Journal of International Law 29-61
• Conrado Hubner Mendes, "Review: Will Waluchow, A Common Law Theory of Judicial Review: The Living Tree"  (2007) 66(2) Cambridge Law Journal 471
• Maksymilian Del Mar, “Review: Brian Tamanaha, Law as a Means to an End: Threat to the Rule of Law” (2007) 66(2) Cambridge Law Journal 468
• Randy Gordon, “Crimes That Count Twice:  A Reexamination of RICO’s Nexus Requirements Under 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c) and 1964(c),” 32 VT. L. Rev. (2007
• Maksymilian Del Mar, "Legal Norms and Normativity" (2007) 27(2) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 355-372

Book Series

The Centre for Law and Society, University of Edinburgh, in conjunction with the University of Glasgow School of Law, edits a book series, published by Ashgate Publishing as 'The Edinburgh/Glasgow Law and Society' Series. Please see below for further details.

Editor

Scott Veitch (Reader in Law at the University of Glasgow, UK).

Synopsis

This collection of essays by an international group of authors, explores the ways in which law and legal institutions are used in countries coming to terms with traumatic pasts, and, in some cases, traumatic presents. In putting to question what is often taken for granted in uncritical calls for reconciliation it critically analyses and frequently challenges the political and legal assumptions underlying discourses of reconciliation. Drawing on a broad spectrum of disciplinary and interdisciplinary insights the authors examine how competing conceptions of law, time, and politics are deployed in social transformations and how pressing demands for reconstruction, reconciliation, and justice inform and respond to legal categories and their use of time.

The book is genuinely interdisciplinary, drawing on work in politics, philosophy, theology, sociology and law. It will appeal to a wide audience of researchers and academics working in these areas.

Contents

Introduction, Emilios Christodoulidis and Scott Veitch; The time of reconciliation and the space of politics, Andrew Schaap; Reconciliation and reconstitution, Fernando Atria; The risk of reconciliation, Zenon Bankowski; Reconciliation as domination, Stewart Motha; 'Spatializing history' and opening time: resisting the reproduction of the proper subject, Brenna Bhanda; Reconciliation: where is the law? Lorna McGregor; Nation building, the rule of law and societal reconciliation: the challenges of transitional justice, Peer Zumbansen; Sacrum, profanum and social time: quasi-theological reflections on time and reconciliation, Adam Czarnota; Reconciliation as theology and therapy: a critical analysis, Claire Moon; Time, reconciliation and the 'feminine': some unresolved issues in the TRC process in South Africa, Louise du Toit; Constitution as archive, Karin van Marle; The time of address, Carrol Clarkson; Index.

Book information

Publication date: January 2007

ISBN: 9780754649243

Editors

Alistair Henry (Lecturer, University of Edinburgh) and David J. Smith (Honorary Professor, University of Edinburgh; Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Sciences).

Synopsis

'People and Police in London' is still the largest and most detailed study of a police force and its relations with the public that has yet been undertaken in Britain. The twenty years since the publication of 'People and Police in London' has seen a constantly-accelerating rate of change in the legal framework of policing, in the arrangements for democratic accountability of the police, in the technologies involved in crime and policing, in management structures and methods in the police service, in financial control systems imposed by central government and in methods of assessing police performance. Over the same period, crime control has moved from the bottom to the top of the political agenda, leading to increasing pressure on the police to be seen to be effective. Transformations of Policing returns to the central issues discussed in 1983 and considers whether the main conclusions need to be revised in the light of what has happened since. It also reviews areas of debate and research that have emerged more recently and highlights areas of turbulence that are creating fundamentally different patterns from before and raising genuinely new questions.

Contents

Preface to the series; Preface and acknowledgements; Looking back on Police and People in London, Alistair Henry; The trajectory of 'private policing', Les Johnston; Police ethnography in the house of serious and organized crime, James Sheptycki; Policing ethnic minorities, Alistair Henry; Public order: then and now, P.A.J. Waddington; 'Reassurance policing: feeling is believing', Adam Crawford; The architecture of policing: towards a new theoretical model of the role of constraint-based compliance in policing, Richard Jones; Policing London: twenty years on, Mike Hough; Managing the police through a time of change, Peter Neyroud; The future of policing in Britain, Tim Newburn; Policing our future, Clifford Shearing; New challenges to police legitimacy, David J. Smith; Index.

Book information

Publication date: February 2007

ISBN: 9780754625346

Editors

Zenon Bankowski (Professor, University of Edinburgh) and James MacLean (Research Student, University of Edinburgh).

Synopsis

It is twenty-five years since the publication of Neil MacCormick's book Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory, a book that has been in print continuously since its first publication. The book was not only a work of Legal Reasoning, but also one on Legal Theory, developing the former through an engagement with the latter, while it also had a strong influence on ethical issues. The focus of the present book is on how looking at legal reasoning can bring up important theoretical and ethical issues, as MacCormick looks at the issues anew in his current work. In this book his views on the Particular and Universal are presented, and subjected to rigourous examination by leading figures in the field.

Contents

Preface; Introduction, Zenon Bankowski and James MacLean. Part1 Prologue: Particulars and universals, Neil MacCormick. Part 2 The Ethical and Institutional Setting for Legal Decision Making: In the judgement space: the judge and the anxiety of the encounter, Zenon Bankowski; The institutional constraints on particularism, John Bell; The burden of universalism, Neil Walker; Adjudication and the particular, Fernando Atria; The end of morality: radical and descriptive particularity, Michael Detmold. Part 3 Moral Perception and Moral Reasoning: Eliding the particular: a comment on Neil MacCormick's 'Particulars and universals', Emilios Christodoulidis; Practical reason and character traits: remarks on MacCormick's sentimentalist theory of moral perception, Claudio Michelon; Diachronic universalization and the law, Emmanuel Melissaris; 'A very unique case': reflections on Neil MacCormick's theory of universalization in practical reasoning, Scott Veitch. Part 4 Legal Theory in a Philosophical Context: Two conceptions of universalization, George Pavlakos; Two particular truths: a response to Neil MacCormick's 'Particulars and universals', Victor Tadros; Particulars and universals in legal justification, Aleksander Peczenik. Part 5 The Judgement of Solomon: The courtroom as laboratory: universalism and evidentiary reasoning, Burkhard Schafer; Universalizability and intuition: Solomon and secularization, Bernard Jackson; Particularity and medial law, J. Kenyon Mason; Thoughts on MacCormick's 'Particulars and Universals', Nicola Lacey. Part 6 Epilogue: An attempted response, Neil MacCormick; Index of names; Subject index.

Book information

Publication date: December 2006

ISBN: 9780754625469