New Publications at Oxford University Press

New Publications at Oxford University Press

Dear all,

Please find below a list of recent and upcoming titles from Oxford University Press which are available for review in journals, blogs, and websites. Also included are links to their pages on the OUP website, where you can learn more about what they contain.

Please respond to this email if you would like to receive any of these titles for review, detailing to whom and where you would like them delivered.

New Law titles available for review:

Commercial Law

Cryptoassets
Legal, Regulatory, and Monetary Perspectives
First Edition
Edited by Chris Brummer

A Guide to the IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration
Roman Khodykin and Carol Mulcahy
Consultant Editor Nicholas Fletcher QC

International Copyright
Principles, Law, and Practice
Paul Goldstein and P. Bernt Hugenholtz

Constitutional and Comparative Law/ National Legal Systems

Unable
The Law, Politics, and Limits of Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment
Brian C. Kalt

The Wisconsin State Constitution
Second Edition
Steve Miller and Jack Stark

EU Law

The EU Citizenship Directive: A Commentary
Second Edition
Elspeth Guild, Steve Peers, and Jonathan Tomkin

Law and Society/ Legal History/ Jurisprudence

Between Truth and Power
The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism
Julie E. Cohen

A History of American Law
Fourth Edition
Lawrence M. Friedman


International Law

The Battle for International Law
South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era
Edited by Jochen von Bernstorff and Philipp Dann

The Rise of China and International Law
Taking Chinese Exceptionalism Seriously
Congyan Cai

How International Law Works in Times of Crisis
Edited by George Ulrich and Ineta Ziemele

Please reply to this email (LawReviewRequests@oup.com) to request your review copy.

If you are not the best person to contact about book reviews for your journal or blog, or would like to receive information about another area of law please do let us know.
Best wishes,
The Law Review Request team

Our Privacy Policy sets out how Oxford University Press handles your personal information, and your rights to object to your personal information being used for marketing to you or being processed as part of our business activities.

If you do not wish to be contacted about titles for review, please respond to this email.

CALL FOR GRANTS AND WORKSHOPS: the International Institute for Sociology of Law

Hall of Residence Grants – for carrying out research work at the Oñati International Institute for Sociology of Law 2014 - 2015

The Board of the International Institute for Sociology of Law has created residence grants for scholars who would like to conduct research at the Institute’s Library and Documentation Centre. These grants cover lodging in a shared room for a maximum of 3 months at the Institute’s Hall of Residence between the months of October and March. Those interested in applying for such a grant should fill out the application form and submit it before the 17th of February 2014. For more details, check here. 

Call for workshops. The Oñati Institutes also welcomes applications to organize workshops on topics within the broad field of law in society. It provides a very congenial location for discussions and interactions among a relatively small group of researchers. For more details, check here.

CONFERENCE: LSA Annual Meeting

13 days to submit your application for our Graduate Student and Early Career Workshops at LSA Annual Meeting in May. http://t.co/BYyj7OyKrn
— Law and Society (@law_soc) January 2, 2014

MEETING AND CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Annual Law and Society Association Meeting and Call for Proposals

MEETING AND CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Annual Law and Society Association Meeting and Call for Proposals

The Law and Society Association has announced an annual meeting and a call for proposals.

Law and Inequalities: Global and Local

Recent decades have seen the persistence and growth of powerful inequalities within and between groups and within and among nations. The 2014 program theme returns to a question central to the Association’s founding: the role of law and legal institutions in sustaining, creating, interrogating, and ameliorating inequalities. The 2014 Program invites participants to explore and consider three questions:

·     How can Law and Society scholarship contribute to unearthing and understanding inequalities?
·     How can Law and Society scholarship contribute to the critical interrogation of discourses of equality and inequality and help to reveal what is at stake in these concepts?
·     What impact can we expect these scholarly contributions to have on the persistence of these inequalities and on public discourse about them?

Call for Proposals

The Program Committee invites proposals that engage with the program theme and other topics in law and society research. Proposals for individual papers or fully formed panels will be considered. As with every Annual Meeting, panels need not be centered on the conference theme. Submissions on any law and society topic are welcome.

For more information about the Annual Meeting and Proposal Submission Instructions, please visit http ://www . lawandsociety . org/minneapolis2014/Minneapolis2014 . html

SYMPOSIUM: The 23rd Oxford Offshore Symposium 2013 (Oxford Offshore Symposium)

SYMPOSIUM: The 23rd Oxford Offshore Symposium 2013 (Oxford Offshore Symposium)

Official page: http://www.offshoreinvestment.com/pages/index.asp?title=Programme_23rd_Oxford_Symposium&catID=10090vestment

 1^st – 7^th September, 2013, in Jesus College, Oxford University

The Oxford Offshore Symposium is an exclusive event that draws together many of the separate threads of the global financial management industry into one coherent platform. The quality of speakers and facilitators is unparalleled, their combined knowledge and experience is vast. The programme balances a superior educational experience for those who will be stimulated by interaction with key industry players who all share a traditional spirit of community and camaraderie for which this Symposium has become globally renowned. The course is open to all professionals engaged in offshore or international financial planning activities and holding relevant degrees or experience.

CALL FOR ESSAYS/CHAPTERS: Maintaining Law and Order: Essays on Law and Society in History

'Maintaining Law and Order: Essays on Law and Society in History’

Edited by Alan Sked and Tony Murphy.

This volume looks at different ways in which society has been regulated historically. It covers public law, codes of honour and social mores, examining the challenges offered to legal order by social elites, social misfits and social outlaws. It looks, in short, at the mechanisms employed in the past to retain social discipline or to create order out of disorder or social breakdown. Essays on a range of topics, covering different centuries and different countries are all welcome for consideration.

Essays should offer original individual interpretation and research on a given topic and be in excess of 8,000 words. If you are interested in contributing, please do get in touch as soon as possible. You will then need to submit a 500 word abstract and a 200 word biography before Monday July 15^th. If commissioned, you would then be given 12 months to write the essay.

We look forward to receiving abstracts.

Kind regards

Alan Sked, Professor of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science

Tony Murphy, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Sheffield Hallam University

BOOK: Du Plessis on Law and Society in the Roman World

Edinburgh University Press has published Paul J du Plessis (ed),  New frontiers: law and society in the Roman World (2013). 

The book is the successor to Beyond dogmatics: law and society in the Roman World (2007), an attempt to further the debate concerning ‘law and society’ in the Roman world. The contributions focus on three emerging themes, namely ‘Roman legal thought’, ‘legal theory and legal practice’ and ‘law and economics’:

An interdisciplinary, edited collection on social science methodologies for approaching Roman legal sources. Roman law as a field of study is rapidly evolving to reflect new perspectives and approaches in research. Scholars who work on the subject are increasingly being asked to conduct research in an interdisciplinary manner whereby Roman law is not merely seen as a set of abstract concepts devoid of any background, but as a body of law which operated in a specific social, economic and cultural context. This “context-based” approach to the study of Roman law is an exciting new field which legal historians must address. Since the mid-1960s, a new academic movement has advocated a “law and society” approach to the study of Roman law instead of the prevailing dogmatic methodology employed in many Faculties of law.

Key Features: *This book aims to further the current debate on the interface between legal history and ancient history. *It brings together a distinguished group of scholars who will provide different perspectives on this debate. *It addresses particular themes within this debate such as law and legal practice, law and gender as well as law and economics.