Books in the Critical Studies in Jurisprudence series

Deals with the study of a police force and its relations with the public. This book talks about the 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, and more.

Exposes the possibility for critical engagement with the function of public law and with constitutionalism in its political dimensions. This book addresses the multiple ways in which public law is implicated in the logic of rule. It reproduces the insights into the limitations and the potentialities of public law within its political setting.

This book addresses the present EU foundational dilemma by looking at the problematic relationship between the ideal model of integration and the reality of the 21st century.

This collection of essays examines the promise and limits of social rights in Europe in a time of austerity. Presenting five national case studies, representing the biggest European economies (UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain), it offers an account of recent reforms to social welfare and the attempts to resist them through litigation.

This book re-opens the question of obligation from not only legal but also ethical, sociological and political perspectives. It examines the sense in which we are multiply `bound beings¿: to law and legal institutions, as much as we are to place, community, memory and the various social institutions that give shape to collective life.

The contributions in this volume pay homage to Zenon Ba?kowski, with a focus on problems concerning law's normalization and the revitalizing force of anxiety. Ranging from political critique to methodological issues and from the role of human rights in development to the role of parables and analogy in legal reasoning.