Featured Faculty Books

	The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities Simon Stern, Maksymilian Del Mar, and Bernadette Meyler, editors Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780190695620 Collecting 45 new essays by leading international scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities showcases the work of law and humanities across disciplines, addressing methods, concepts and themes, genres, and areas of the law. Publisher's web page
	Security Sector Reform in Constitutional Transitions Richard Stacey, Zoltan Barany, Sumit Bisarya, and Sujit Choudhry, editors Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780198848943 Security sector reform (SSR) is central to the democratic transitions currently unfolding across the globe, as a diverse range of countries grapple with how to transform militias, tribal forces, and dominant military, police, and intelligence agencies into democratically controlled and accountable security services. Publisher's web page
	al-Muwaṭṭaʾ, the Royal Moroccan Edition: The Recension of Yaḥyā Ibn Yaḥyā al-Laythī Mālik b. Anas, Edited by Mohammad Fadel and Connell Monette Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674241350 The Muwaṭṭaʾ, written in the eighth century CE by Mālik b. Anas, is the first written treatise of Islamic law. This translation is intended to make this important early legal text widely accessible to a broad spectrum of readers, including those interested in both legal history and Islamic Studies. Publisher's web page
	The Double-Facing Constitution David Dyzenhaus, Jacco Bomhoff, and Thomas Poole, editors Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781108751483 This collection explores some of the many ways in which constitutional orders engage with, and are shaped by, their exteriors. In The Double-Facing Constitution, instances of boundary crossing lie at the heart of an alternative understanding of constitutions as permeable membranes, through which norms can and sometimes must travel. Publisher's web page
	Public Interest Litigation in Canada Cheryl Milne and Kent Roach, editors LexisNexis Canada ISBN: 9780433499008 This text presents an overview of theories and strategies for public interest litigation and the various avenues and methodologies that have been used in Canadian history. It also examines its development since the introduction of the Charter, challenges and successes, procedural issues, the role of intervenors and its social impact. Publisher's web page
	The Capability Approach to Labour Law Brian Langille, editor Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780198836087 Forty years ago Amartya Sen introduced to the world a novel approach to the idea of equality: the notion of 'basic capability' as 'a morally relevant dimension' and the claim that we should focus upon equality of basic capabilities. This book explores whether and how the capability approach can help us understand, justify, and reform labour law. Publisher's web page
	Sanctity of Contracts in a Secular Age: Equity, Fairness and Enrichment Stephen Waddams Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781108348683 The phrase 'sanctity of contracts' implies that contracts should always be strictly enforced. In this book, Stephen Waddams advances arguments in favour of recognition of a general judicial power to relieve against highly unreasonable contracts, not only for the benefit of the disadvantaged party, but for the avoidance of unjust enrichment, and for the avoidance of anomalous gaps in the law. Publisher's web page
	Sovereignty: A Contribution to the Theory of Public and International Law Hermann Heller, ed. David Dyzenhaus Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780198810544 Hermann Heller was one of the leading public lawyers and legal and political theorists of the Weimar era. In this 1927 work, Hermann Heller addresses the paradox of sovereignty. Editor David Dyzenhaus provides a substantial introductory essay , 'The Politics of Sovereignty', which sets Heller's work in its context and explores its relevance to the present. Publisher's web page
	Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case Kent Roach McGill-Queen’s University Press ISBN: 9780773556386 Putting Gerald Stanley's acquittal for killing Colten Boushie in the context of Canada's colonial and systemic discrimination against Indigenous peoples, in Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice Kent Roach critically reconstructs the Gerald Stanley/Colten Boushie case to examine how it may be a miscarriage of justice. Publisher's web page
	Pierson v. Post, The Hunt for the Fox Angela Fernandez Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781139600163 The 1805 New York foxhunting case Pierson v. Post has long been used in American property law classrooms to introduce law students to the concept of first possession by asking how one establishes possession of a wild animal. In this book, Professor Angela Fernandez retells the history of the famous fox case. Publisher's web page
	A History of Law in Canada Volume 1: Beginnings to 1866 Philip Girard, Jim Phillips, and Blake Brown University of Toronto Press ISBN: 9781487504632 This book, the first of 2 volumes, presents the history of law in what is now Canada, from the first European contacts with northern North America in the very early sixteenth century to immediately before Confederation. Series web page (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History) Publisher's web page
	Comparing Law: Comparative Law as Reconstruction of Collective Commitments Catherine Valcke Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781108555852 This book reconstructs comparative law scholarship into a systematic account of comparative law as an autonomous academic discipline. The point of that discipline is neither to harmonize world law, nor to emphasize its cultural diversity, but rather to understand each legal system on its own terms. Publisher's web page
	The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law Anver M. Emon and Rumee Ahmed, editors Oxford University Press, 2018 ISBN: 9780199679010 This volume provides a comprehensive survey of the contemporary study of Islamic law and a critical analysis of its deficiencies. Written by outstanding senior and emerging scholars in their fields, it offers an innovative historiographical examination of the field of Islamic law and an ideal introduction to key personalities and concepts. Publisher's web page
	The Dual Penal State Markus D. Dubber Oxford University Press, 2018 ISBN: 9780198744290 The Dual Penal State addresses one of today's most pressing social and political issues: the rampant, at best haphazard, and ever-expanding use of penal power by states ostensibly committed to the enlightenment-based legal-political project of Western liberal democracy. Publisher's web page
	Oxford Handbook of European Legal History Heikki Pihlajamaki, Markus D. Dubber, and Mark Godfrey, editors Oxford University Press, 2018 ISBN: 9780198785521 The Handbook of European Legal History supplies its readers with an overview of the different phases of European legal history in the light of today's state-of-the-art research, by offering cutting-edge views on research questions currently emerging in international discussions. Publisher's web page
	The Oxford Handbook of Legal History Markus D. Dubber and Christopher Tomlins, editors Oxford University Press, 2018 ISBN: 9780198794356 Drawing on scholarship from around the world, and representing a variety of methodological approaches, areas of expertise, and research agendas, this timely compendium takes stock of legal history and methodology and reflects on the various modes of the historical analysis of law, past, present, and future. Publisher's web page
	Commitment and Cooperation on High Courts Benjamin Alarie and Andrew J. Green Oxford University Press, 2017 ISBN: 9780199397594 The ultimate purpose of this book is to promote a deeper understanding of how institutional differences affect judicial decision-making, using empirical studies of supreme courts in countries with similar basic structures but with sufficient differences to enable meaningful comparison. Publisher's web page
	The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship Ayelet Shachar, Rainer Bauboeck, Irene Bloemraad, and Maarten Vink, editors Oxford University Press, 2017 ISBN: 9780198805854 The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship brings together leading experts in law, philosophy, political science, economics, sociology, and geography to provide a multidisciplinary, comparative discussion of different dimensions of citizenship. Publisher's web page
	The Owl and the Rooster: Hegel's Transformative Political Science Alan Brudner Cambridge University Press, 2017 ISBN: 9781107197541 This book presents a faithful, non-deflationary reading of Hegel's political thought that is nevertheless clear and free of his forbidding language. Publisher's web page
	The Routledge Research Companion to Law and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century America Simon Stern and Nan Goodman, editors Routledge, 2017 ISBN: 9781472441003 Nineteenth-century America witnessed some of the most important and fruitful areas of intersection between the law and humanities, as people began to realize that the law, formerly confined to courts and lawyers, might also find expression in a variety of ostensibly non-legal areas such as painting, poetry, fiction, and sculpture. Publisher's web page
	The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution Patrick Macklem, Peter Oliver, Nathalie Des Rosiers, editors Oxford University Press, 2017 ISBN: 9780190664817 The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution provides an ideal first stop for Canadians and non-Canadians seeking a clear, concise, and authoritative account of Canadian constitutional law. Publisher's web page
	The Criterion for Distinguishing Legal Opinions from Judicial Rulings and the Administrative Acts of Judges and Rulers Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Idris al-Qarafi; Translated by Mohammad H. Fadel Yale University Press, 2017 ISBN: 9780300191158 The first and much-needed English translation of a thirteenth-century text that shaped the development of Islamic law in the late middle ages. Publisher's web page
	International Climate Change Law Daniel Bodansky, Jutta Brunnée, and Lavanya Rajamani Oxford University Press, 2017 ISBN: 9780199664306 This textbook, by three experts in the field, provides a comprehensive overview of international climate change law. Climate change is one of the fundamental challenges facing the world today, and is the cause of significant international concern. In response, states have created an international climate regime. Publisher's web page
	Regulating Creation: The Law, Ethics, and Policy of Assisted Human Reproduction Trudo Lemmens, Andrew Flavelle Martin, Cheryl Milne, and Ian B. Lee, editors University of Toronto Press, 2017 ISBN: 9781442646698 In 2004, the Assisted Human Reproduction Act was passed by the Parliament of Canada. However, a 2010 Supreme Court of Canada decision ruled that key parts of the act were invalid. Regulating Creation is a collection of essays built around the 2010 ruling. Publisher's web page
	Systemic Risk, Institutional Design, and the Regulation of Financial Markets Anita Anand, editor Oxford University Press, 2016 ISBN: 9780198777625 Bringing together leading figures in the field of financial regulation, this collection of essays explores the related concepts of systemic risk and institutional design of financial markets, responding to a number of questions. Publisher's web page
	The Oxford Edition of Blackstone. Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book II: Of the Rights of Things Simon Stern, editor Oxford University Press, 2016 ISBN: 9780199601004 This definitive version of this classic text of Anglo-American law traces the evolution of Blackstone's thought through the first nine editions. The editorial introduction by Simon Stern details the historical and political context of Blackstone's views on the laws of property. Publisher's web page
	Islamic and Jewish Legal Reasoning: Encountering Our Legal Other Anver Emon, editor Oneworld, 2016 ISBN: 9781780748801 By pairing a scholar of Islamic law with a scholar of Jewish law, a unique dynamic is created. This new perspective not only provides a deeper understanding of the other’s legal tradition, but it also reveals new insights into the one’s own legal tradition, shedding light on what we had previously been too close to observe. Publisher's web page
	Private Wrongs Arthur Ripstein Harvard University Press, 2016 ISBN 9780674659803 Tort law can seem puzzling: sometimes people are made to pay damages when they are barely or not at fault, while at other times serious losses go uncompensated. In this pioneering book, Arthur Ripstein brings coherence and unity to the baffling diversity of tort law in an original theory that is philosophically grounded and analytically powerful. Publisher's web page
	From Recognition to Reconciliation Patrick Macklem and Douglas Sanderson, editors University of Toronto Press, 2016 ISBN: 9781442628854 More than thirty years ago, section 35 of the Constitution Act recognized and affirmed “the existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada.” In From Recognition to Reconciliation, twenty leading scholars reflect on the continuing transformation of the constitutional relationship between Indigenous peoples and the Canadian state. Publisher's web page
	Philosophical Foundations of Constitutional Law David Dyzenhaus and Malcolm Thorburn, editors Oxford University Press, 2016 ISBN: 9780198754527 In a collection of essays bringing together scholars from several constitutional systems and disciplines, Philosophical Foundations of Constitutional Law unites the debate in a study of the philosophical issues at the very foundations of the idea of a constitution. Publisher's web page
	Exporting Freedom: Religious Liberty and American Power Anna Su Harvard University Press, 2016 ISBN 9780674286023 Religious freedom is widely recognized today as a basic human right, guaranteed by nearly all national constitutions. Exporting Freedom charts the rise of religious freedom as an ideal firmly enshrined in international law and shows how America’s promotion of the cause of individuals worldwide to freely practice their faith advanced its ascent as a global power. Publisher's web page
	Red, White, and Kind of Blue?: The Conservatives and the Americanization of Canadian Constitutional Culture David Schneiderman University of Toronto Press, 2015 ISBN: 9781442629479 In recent years it seems that Canadian constitutional culture has been moving increasingly in an American direction. Red, White, and Kind of Blue? is a comparative legal analysis of this creeping Americanization, as well as a probing examination of the costs and benefits that come with it. Publisher's web page
	False Security: The Radicalization of Canadian Anti-Terrorism Kent Roach and Craig Forcese Irwin Law, 2015 ISBN: 978-1-55221-410-7 In this book, Kent Roach and Craig Forcese show that our terror laws now make a false promise of security even as they present a radical challenge to rights and liberties. They trace how our laws repeat past mistakes of institutionalized illegality while failing to address problems that weaken the accountability of security agencies and impair Canada’s ability to defend against terrorism. Publisher's web page Read the book's Preface on SSRN
	The Dignity of Law: The Legacy of Justice Louis LeBel Malcolm Thorburn and Dwight Newman, editors LexisNexis Canada, 2015 ISBN: 9780433487098 This volume of essays examines Justice LeBel's legacy both as a man and as a civilian judge operating in a bijural country. With contributions from some of Canada's most eminent legal scholars, this book provides valuable insight into the considerable impact Justice LeBel's judicial approach and decisions have had on the Canadian legal landscape. Publisher's web page
	The Sovereignty of Human Rights Patrick Macklem Oxford University Press, 2015 ISBN: 978-0-19-026731-5 The Sovereignty of Human Rights advances a legal theory of international human rights that defines their nature and purpose in relation to the structure and operation of international law. Publisher's web page
	After the Paris Attacks: Responses in Canada, Europe, and Around the Globe Edward Iacobucci and Stephen J. Toope, editors University of Toronto Press, 2015 ISBN: 9781442630000 The violent attacks on journalists at Charlie Hebdo and shoppers in a Jewish supermarket in Paris in January 2015 left seventeen dead and shocked the world. After the Paris Attacks brings together leading scholars and journalists to respond to this tragedy and to debate how we can reach a safer and saner future. Publisher's web page
	Advanced Introduction To International Trade Law Michael Trebilcock Edward Elgar, 2015 ISBN: 978 1 78347 159 1 This book presents an accessible yet nuanced introduction to the basic structure and principles of international trade law. It explores the development of the international trade law regime, principally GATT and WTO law, and through clear and concise discussion of the many developments that have arisen, gives a streamlined overview of this notoriously complex area of legal study. Publisher's web page
	What's Wrong with Copying? Abraham Drassinower Harvard University Press, 2015 ISBN: 9780674743977 Challenging this widely accepted view, What’s Wrong with Copying? disentangles copyright theory from its focus on the economic value of an authored work as a commodity or piece of property. In his analysis of copyright doctrine, Abraham Drassinower frames an author’s work as a communicative act and asserts that copyright infringement is best understood as an unauthorized appropriation of another person’s speech. Publisher's web page
	The Politics of Citizenship in Immigrant Democracies: The Experience of the United States, Canada and Australia Ayelet Shachar and Geoffrey Brahm Levey, editors Routledge, 2015 ISBN: 9781138886247 This book brings together scholars from various disciplines to explore current issues and trends in the rethinking of migration and citizenship from the perspective of three major immigrant democracies – Australia, Canada, and the United States. Publisher's web page
	Advanced Introduction To Law And Development Michael Trebilcock and Mariana Mota Prado Edward Elgar, 2014 ISBN: 978-1-78347-338-0 This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to the main themes and debates in the field of law and development. It unpacks the role of legal systems and institutions, and investigates what kinds of law and legal arrangements are perceived (correctly or not) to encourage and facilitate development. Publisher's book page
	The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law Markus D Dubber and Tatjana Hörnle, editors Oxford University Press, 2014 ISBN: 978-0-19-967359-9 The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law reflects the continued transformation of criminal law into a global discipline, providing scholars with a comprehensive international resource, a common point of entry into cutting edge contemporary research and a snapshot of the state and scope of the field. Publisher's web page
	Private Law and the Rule of Law Lisa Austin and Dennis Klimchuk, editors Oxford University Press, 2014 ISBN: 978-0-19-872932-7 The rule of law is widely perceived to be a public law doctrine, concerned with the way in which governmental authority conforms to the dictates of law. The goal of this book is to challenge this presumption. The chapters in this volume all consider the idea that the rule of law concerns the nature of law generally and the conditions under which any relationship - that among citizens as well as that between citizens and the state - becomes subject to law. Publisher's web page
	Comparative Matters: The Renaissance of Comparative Constitutional Law Ran Hirschl Oxford University Press, 2014 ISBN: 978-0-19-871451-4 This book charts the intellectual history and analytical underpinnings of comparative constitutional inquiry, probing the various types, aims, and methodologies of engagement with the constitutive laws of others through the ages, and explores how and why comparative constitutional inquiry has been and ought to be pursued by academics and jurists worldwide. Publisher's web page
	Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law Edited by Markus D Dubber Oxford University Press, 2014 ISBN: 978-0-19-967361-2 Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law presents essays in which scholars from various countries and legal systems engage critically with formative texts in criminal legal thought since Hobbes. Publisher's web page
	Abortion Law in Transnational Perspective: Cases and Controversies Edited by Rebecca J. Cook, Joanna N. Erdman, and Bernard M. Dickens University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014 ISBN 978-0-8122-4627-8 This book offers a fresh look at significant transnational legal developments in recent years, examining key judicial decisions, constitutional texts, and regulatory reforms of abortion law in order to envision ways ahead. Publisher's web page
	Natural Law: A Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Trialogue Anver Emon, Matthew Levering, and David Novak Oxford University Press, 2014 ISBN: 978-0-19-870660-1 This book is an examination of natural law doctrine, rooted in the classical writings of our respective three traditions: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic. Each of the authors provides an extensive essay reflecting on natural law doctrine in his tradition. Publisher's web page
	The Governance Gap: Extractive Industries, Human Rights, and the Home State Advantage Audrey Macklin and Penelope Simons Routledge, 2014 ISBN: 978-0-415-33470-9 This book explores the persistence of the governance gap with respect to the human rights-impacting conduct of transnational extractive corporations operating in zones of weak governance. Publisher's web page
	Dealing with Losers: The Political Economy of Policy Transitions Michael Trebilcock Oxford University Press, 2014 ISBN: 9780199370658 Whenever governments change policies, there will typically be losers. Dealing with Losers: The Political Economy of Policy Transitions explores both normative and political rationales for transition cost mitigation strategies and explains which strategies might create an aggregate, overall enhancement in societal welfare beyond mere compensation. Publisher's web page
	Criminal Law: A Comparative Approach Markus Dubber and Tatjana Hörnle Oxford University Press, 2014 ISBN: 978-0-19-958960-9 Criminal Law: A Comparative Approach presents a systematic and comprehensive comparative analysis of the substantive criminal law of two major jurisdictions: the United States and Germany. Presupposing no familiarity with either U.S. or German criminal law, the book will provide criminal law scholars and students with a rich comparative understanding of criminal law's foundations and central doctrines. Publisher's web page
	Philosophical Foundations of Discrimination Law Edited by Sophia Moreau and Deborah Hellman Oxford University Press, 2014 ISBN: 9780199664313 This volume takes a fresh look at the philosophy of discrimination law, identifying points of discussion in need of further study. It addresses how we are to understand and justify laws prohibiting discrimination. Publisher's web page
	The Unity of the Common Law Second edition Alan Brudner Oxford University Press, 2013 ISBN: 9780199592807 This thoroughly revised and rewritten edition of Alan Brudner's classic contribution to the theory of private law develops an account of private law that overturns the traditional divide between functionalism and formalism in explaining and justifying the law. Publisher's web page
	Resisting Economic Globalization: Critical Theory and International Investment Law David Schneiderman Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 ISBN: 978-1-137-00405-5 Is economic globalization irresistible? One of its main effects has been to shield financiers and investors from democratic processes deemed out-of-sync with powerful economic interests. This book is an inquiry into the ways by which citizens and states may be able to undo some of these constraints imposed by transnational legality. Publisher's web page
	Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law Anver Emon Oxford University Press, 2012 ISBN: 978-0-19-966163-3 This book addresses the problem of the concept of 'tolerance' for understanding the significance of the dhimmi rules that governed and regulated non-Muslim permanent residents in Islamic lands. In doing so, it suggests that the Islamic legal treatment of non-Muslims is symptomatic of the more general challenge of governing a diverse polity. Publisher's web page Review in the Times Literary Supplement (subscribers only)
	Middle Income Access to Justice Edited by Michael Trebilcock, Anthony Duggan, and Lorne Sossin University of Toronto Press, 2012 ISBN 9781442612686 This book focuses on the problem of civil access to justice for middle income earners – those whose household income is high enough to disqualify them from legal aid but not high enough to cover the costs of litigation. Featuring contributions by leading Canadian and international scholars, practitioners, and members of the judiciary, this multidisciplinary collection draws on scholarship in the fields of law, social science, and public policy. Publisher's web page
	Fundamental Justice: Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Hamish Stewart Irwin Law, 2012 ISBN: 978-1-55221-225-7 This book outlines the place of section 7 in the constitutional order; how courts decide whether a particular legal principle is so fundamental that it merits recognition under section 7; the conditions under which section 7 will apply to a legal dispute; the legal norms that have been recognized, or rejected, as principles of fundamental justice under section 7; and the very limited circumstances in which an infringement of section 7 will be justified under section 1. Publisher's web page
	Corrective Justice Ernest J. Weinrib Oxford University Press, 2012 ISBN: 9780199660643 This work from one of the world's pre-eminent legal philosophers presents a major development of his central ideas. It develops a unifying account of the foundations of private law grounded in the major doctrines of tort, contract, property, unjust enrichment, and remedies - deepening the understanding of the law. Publisher's web page
	Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise Edited by Angela Fernandez and Markus Dubber Hart Publishing, 2012 ISBN: 9781849461412 Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise explores the history of the legal treatise in the common law world. Rather than looking at treatises as shortcuts from 'law in books' to 'law in action', the essays in this collection ask what treatises can tell us about what troubled legal professionals at a given time, what motivated them to write what they did, and what they hoped to achieve. Publisher's web page
	What Makes Poor Countries Poor? Institutional Determinants of Development Michael J. Trebilcock and Mariana Mota Prado Edward Elgar, 2011 ISBN: 9780857938862 This book focuses on the idea that institutions matter for development, asking what lessons we have learned from past reform efforts, and what role lawyers can play in this field. Publisher's web page
	The 9/11 Effect: Comparative Counter-Terrorism Kent Roach Cambridge University Press, 2011 ISBN: 9780521185059 This book critically and comparatively examines the responses of the United Nations and a range of countries to the terror attacks on September 11, 2001. It assesses the convergence between the responses of western democracies including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada with countries with more experience with terrorism including Egypt, Syria, Israel, Singapore, and Indonesia. Publisher's web page
	Legitimacy and Legality in International Law Jutta Brunnée and Stephen J. Toope Cambridge University Press, 2010 ISBN: 9780521706834 It has never been more important to understand how international law enables and constrains international politics. By drawing together the legal theory of Lon Fuller and the insights of constructivist international relations scholars, this book articulates a pragmatic view of how international obligation is created and maintained. Winner, 2011 Certificate of Merit for a Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship, American Society of International Law Publisher's web page
	Constitutional Theocracy Ran Hirschl Harvard University Press, 2010 ISBN 9780674048195 At the intersection of two sweeping global trends - the rise of popular support for principles of theocratic governance, and the spread of constitutionalism and judicial review - a new legal order has emerged: constitutional theocracy. It enshrines religion and its interlocutors as "a" or "the" source of legislation, and at the same time adheres to core ideals and practices of modern constitutionalism. Read more. Publisher's web page
	Islamic Natural Law Theories Anver M. Emon Oxford University Press, 2010 ISBN 978-0-19-957900-6 Prof. Anver Emon's book offers the first sustained jurisprudential inquiry into Islamic natural law theory. By recasting the Islamic legal tradition in terms of legal philosophy, the book sheds substantial light on an uncharted tradition of natural law theory and offers critical insights into contemporary global debates about Islamic law and reform. Read more. Publisher's web page
	Gender Stereotyping: Transnational Legal Perspectives Rebecca J. Cook and Simone Cusack University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009 ISBN 978-0-8122-4214-0 Drawing on domestic and international law, as well as on judgments given by courts and human rights treaty bodies, Gender Stereotyping offers perspectives on ways gender stereotypes might be eliminated through the transnational legal process in order to ensure women's equality and the full exercise of their human rights. Publisher's web page
	Punishment and Freedom Alan Brudner Oxford University Press, 2009 ISBN 978-0-19-920725-1 Punishment and Freedom sets out a new understanding of the penal law of a liberal legal order. It argues that the penal law is best understood by a political and constitutional theory about when it is permissible for the state to restrain and confine a free agent. Offering a major reassessment of the nature and role of the harm principle in criminal law, this book will be of interest to liberal political philosophers as well as criminal law theorists Publisher's web page
	The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality Ayelet Shachar Harvard University Press, 2009 ISBN 9780674032712 The vast majority of the global population acquires citizenship purely by accidental circumstances of birth. In The Birthright Lottery, Ayelet Shachar argues that birthright citizenship in an affluent society can be thought of as a form of property inheritance: that is, a valuable entitlement transmitted by law to a restricted group of recipients under conditions that perpetuate the transfer of this prerogative to their heirs. Read more. See the profile in Nexus magazine. Publisher's web page
	Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis Edited by Peter H. Russell and Lorne Sossin Foreword by The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson University of Toronto Press, 2009 ISBN 9781442640764 Democracy in Crisis brings together journalists, political scientists, and leading constitutional experts to analyse Canada's parliamentary crisis of November 2008 and to discuss the nature of Canada's democracy. Publisher's web page

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The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities

Simon Stern, Maksymilian Del Mar, and Bernadette Meyler, editors

Security Sector Reform in Constitutional Transitions

Richard Stacey, Zoltan Barany, Sumit Bisarya, and Sujit Choudhry, editors

al-Muwaṭṭaʾ, the Royal Moroccan Edition: The Recension of Yaḥyā Ibn Yaḥyā al-Laythī

Mālik b. Anas, Edited by Mohammad Fadel and Connell Monette

The Double-Facing Constitution

David Dyzenhaus, Jacco Bomhoff, and Thomas Poole, editors

Public Interest Litigation in Canada

Cheryl Milne and Kent Roach, editors

The Capability Approach to Labour Law

Brian Langille, editor

Sanctity of Contracts in a Secular Age: Equity, Fairness and Enrichment

Sovereignty: A Contribution to the Theory of Public and International Law

Hermann Heller, ed. David Dyzenhaus

Canadian Justice, Indigenous InjusticeThe Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case

Pierson v. Post, The Hunt for the Fox

A History of Law in Canada Volume 1: Beginnings to 1866

Philip Girard, Jim Phillips, and Blake Brown

Comparing Law: Comparative Law as Reconstruction of Collective Commitments

The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law

Anver M. Emon and Rumee Ahmed, editors

The Dual Penal State

Oxford Handbook of European Legal History

Heikki Pihlajamaki, Markus D. Dubber, and Mark Godfrey, editors

The Oxford Handbook of Legal History

Markus D. Dubber and Christopher Tomlins, editors

Commitment and Cooperation on High Courts

Benjamin Alarie and Andrew J. Green

The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship

Ayelet Shachar, Rainer Bauboeck, Irene Bloemraad, and Maarten Vink, editors

The Owl and the Rooster: Hegel's Transformative Political Science

The Routledge Research Companion to Law and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century America

Simon Stern and Nan Goodman, editors

The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution

Patrick Macklem, Peter Oliver, Nathalie Des Rosiers, editors

The Criterion for Distinguishing Legal Opinions from Judicial Rulings and the Administrative Acts of Judges and Rulers

Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Idris al-Qarafi; Translated by Mohammad H. Fadel

International Climate Change Law

Daniel Bodansky, Jutta Brunnée, and Lavanya Rajamani

Regulating Creation: The Law, Ethics, and Policy of Assisted Human Reproduction

Trudo Lemmens, Andrew Flavelle Martin, Cheryl Milne, and Ian B. Lee, editors

Systemic Risk, Institutional Design, and the Regulation of Financial Markets

Anita Anand, editor

The Oxford Edition of Blackstone. Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book II: Of the Rights of Things

Simon Stern, editor

Islamic and Jewish Legal Reasoning:Encountering Our Legal Other

Anver Emon, editor

Private Wrongs

From Recognition to Reconciliation

Patrick Macklem and Douglas Sanderson, editors

Philosophical Foundations of Constitutional Law

David Dyzenhaus and Malcolm Thorburn, editors

Exporting Freedom: Religious Liberty and American Power

Red, White, and Kind of Blue?: The Conservatives and the Americanization of Canadian Constitutional Culture

False Security: The Radicalization of Canadian Anti-Terrorism

Kent Roach and Craig Forcese

The Dignity of Law: The Legacy of Justice Louis LeBel

Malcolm Thorburn and Dwight Newman, editors

The Sovereignty of Human Rights

After the Paris Attacks: Responses in Canada, Europe, and Around the Globe

Edward Iacobucci and Stephen J. Toope, editors

Advanced Introduction To International Trade Law

What's Wrong with Copying?

The Politics of Citizenship in Immigrant Democracies: The Experience of the United States, Canada and Australia

Ayelet Shachar and Geoffrey Brahm Levey, editors

Advanced Introduction To Law And Development

Michael Trebilcock and Mariana Mota Prado

The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law

Markus D Dubber and Tatjana Hörnle, editors

Private Law and the Rule of Law

Lisa Austin and Dennis Klimchuk, editors

Comparative Matters: The Renaissance of Comparative Constitutional Law

Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law

Edited by Markus D Dubber

Abortion Law in Transnational Perspective: Cases and Controversies

Edited by Rebecca J. Cook, Joanna N. Erdman, and Bernard M. Dickens

Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice
The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case

Islamic and Jewish Legal Reasoning:
Encountering Our Legal Other

Edited by Peter H. Russell and Lorne Sossin
Foreword by The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson