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New Books by Month Added (January, 2012)

Acceding to the WTO from a least-developed country perspective: the case of Ethiopia.

This volume documents the project implemented in Ethiopia aimed at long-tem institutional capacity building by strengthening teaching and research in key trade-related subjects linked to Ethiopia's participation in the multilaterial trading system.

Affect and legal education: emotion in learning and teaching the law.

This collection of papers is a full-length book study that seeks to make emotion a central topic of research for legal educators, and to restore the power of emotion in our teaching and learning.

Are human rights for migrants?: critical reflections on the status of irregular migrants in Europe and the United States.

Written with a range of socio-legal and doctrinal approaches, this book offers critical reflections on the limitations and possibilities of human rights protections for irregular migrants.

Church and state in Western society: established church, cooperation and separation.

The role of religion as a contentious and motivating force in society is examined here by Edward Eberle through the lens of the church-state dynamic in countries with three very different approaches to this crucial relationship.

Combating economic crimes: balancing competing rights and interests in prosecuting the crime of illicit enrichment.

This book by Kofele-Kale explores the doctrinal foundations of the right to a presumption of innocence and proposes a framework for balancing and 'situationalizing' competing human rights and public interests in situations involving possible official corruption.

Comparative income taxation: a structural analysis.

This new edition by Hugh Ault brings a fresh perspective to understanding income tax design as it examines the income tax structure of nine industrialized countries.

Constitution 3.0: freedom and technological change.

This volume explores the challenges to constitutional values posed by sweeping technological changes such as social networks, brain scans, and genetic selection, and suggests ways of preserving rights, including privacy, free speech, and dignity in the age of Facebook and Google.

Creativity, law and entrepreneurship.

In this book, a varied group of scholars examine the building blocks of entrepreneurship by not only addressing the legal institutions that might regulate and promote enterprise, but by also exploring the very idea of creativity.

Dangerous people: policy, prediction, and practice.

In this collection, experienced legal academics and mental health professionals explore the current approaches to 'dangerousness' and preventive detention as they analyze the policies and practices related to current out-groups such as sex offenders, suspected terrorists, and young offenders in the United States, Scotland, England, and Australia.

Data protection in EU and US criminal cooperation: a substantive law approach to the EU internal and transatlantic cooperation in criminal matters between judicial and law enforcement authorities.

The research in this doctoral thesis by Els de Busser examines the protection of personal data in two relationships: between judicial and law enforcement authorities of the EU Member States on the one hand and the US on the other hand.

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