Publishing work from leading international authors, and new and upcoming legal scholars, our portfolio covers areas such as international law, banking & finance law, contract & tort law, human rights, and European law, with an increasing number of titles considering socio-legal practices and crossovers between disciplines. The scope of law application is broad, and our collection of Law books and journals reflects this, from books such as Modern Land LawandConstitutional & Administrative Law, to the Journal of Legal History.
Ocean Development and International Law is devoted to all aspects of international and comparative law and policy concerning the management of ocean use and activities. It focuses on the international aspects of ocean regulation, ocean affairs, and all forms of ocean utilization. The journal publishes high quality works of scholarship in such related disciplines as international law of the sea, comparative domestic ocean law, political science, marine economics, geography, shipping, the marine sciences, and ocean engineering and other sea-oriented technologies.
First published in 1992, the internationally refereed Asia Pacific Law Review (APLR) is the pre-eminent publication of the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong. It is based in Asia focusing on law in the Asia Pacific region, and providing scholarly writing of interest to both academics and practitioners in a variety of law-related disciplines. Another focus of the journal is the development of professional legal practice in the region.
The Environmental Claims Journal is a quarterly journal that focuses on the many types of claims and liabilities that result from environmental exposures. The ECJ considers environmental claims under older business insurance policies, coverage and claims under more recent environmental insurance policies, as well as toxic tort claims. Exposures and claims from all environmental media are considered: air, drinking water, groundwater, soil, chemicals in commerce and naturally occurring chemicals.
Modern Land Law is one of the most current and reliable textbooks available on land law today, offering a lively and thought-provoking account of a subject that remains at the heart of our legal system. Dispelling any apprehension about the subject’s formidability from the outset, this compact textbook provides an absorbing and exact analysis of all the key legal principles relating to land.
Hilaire Barnett’s Constitutional and Administrative Law has consistently provided students with reliable, accessible and comprehensive coverage of the Public Law syllabus. Mapped to the common course outline, the Fourteenth edition equips students with a thorough understanding of the UK constitution’s past, present and future by analysing and illustrating the political and socio-historical contexts that have shaped the major rules and principles of constitutional and administrative law, as well as ongoing constitutional reform.