Routledge Handbooks in Law
About the Book Series
Routledge Handbooks in Law present state-of-the-art surveys of important and emerging topics in Law and Legal Studies, providing accessible yet thorough assessments of key fields, themes and recent developments in research.
All chapters for each volume are specially commissioned, and written by leading and emerging scholars in the field. Carefully edited and organized, Routledge Handbooks in Law provide indispensable reference tools for students and researchers seeking a comprehensive overview of new and exciting topics in the relevant subject areas. They are also valuable teaching resources as accompaniments to textbooks, anthologies, and research-orientated publications.
Routledge Handbook of NFT Law
1st Edition
Edited
By Pınar Çağlayan Aksoy, Larry Dimatteo, Saskia Hufnagel
November 04, 2025
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are types of crypto assets that function on the blockchain. Anything that one can digitize has the potential of becoming an NFT. While NFTs raise similar issues as other crypto assets, there are many use cases and characteristics that are unique and call for special ...
Routledge Handbook of Social Media, Law and Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Kim Barker, Olga Jurasz
September 30, 2025
The Routledge Handbook of Social Media, Law and Society provides an international survey of social media and the law in society, blending academic, non-academic, and non-governmental expertise to provide a thematic overview of social media and the law across a number of jurisdictions. Offering an ...
Routledge Handbook on International Economic Law
1st Edition
Edited
By Valentina Vadi, David Collins
September 17, 2025
This book presents a broad, clear, and accessible overview of international economic law. It consists of contributions from leading scholars and rising stars in the field from across the globe. The Handbook comprises five main parts. Part One deals with the history and theory of the discipline. ...
Routledge Handbook of Commercial Space Law
1st Edition
Edited
By Lesley Jane Smith, Ingo Baumann, Susan-Gale Wintermuth
July 31, 2025
The Routledge Handbook of Commercial Space Law provides a definitive survey of the transitions and adjustments across the stakeholder community contributing to outer space activities. The interaction between NewSpace, traditional aerospace industrials, and non-traditional space-related technologies...
The Routledge Handbook of Polar Law
1st Edition
Edited
By Yoshifumi Tanaka, Rachael Johnstone, Vibe Ulfbeck
May 06, 2025
Polar law describes the normative frameworks that govern the relationships between humans, States, Peoples, institutions, land and resources in the Arctic and the Antarctic. These two regions are superficially similar in terms of natural environmental conditions but the overarching frameworks that ...
Routledge Handbook of the Rule of Law
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Sevel
October 24, 2024
This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of the study of the rule of law across law, the humanities, and social sciences, as well as insights into the practice of building the rule of law within and among states. Its 28 chapters are by many of the world’s leading scholars of the rule of law...
Routledge Handbook of Consumer Protection and Behaviour in Energy Markets
1st Edition
Edited
By Tina Soliman Hunter, Marcin Kraśniewski, Jurgita Malinauskaite, Marzena Czarnecka
September 27, 2024
The Routledge Handbook of Consumer Protection and Behaviour in Energy Markets provides a comprehensive study of consumer protection and consumer behaviour in selected jurisdictions worldwide. Each chapter is written by experts and provides a contemporary overview of national consumer protection and...
Routledge Handbook of Risk Management and the Law
1st Edition
Edited
By Virginia A. Suveiu
August 26, 2024
In today’s highly globalized and regulated economy, private and public organizations face myriad complex laws and regulations. A process designed to detect and prevent regulatory compliance failures is vital. However, such an effective process cannot succeed without development and maintenance of a...
Routledge Handbook of Law and the COVID-19 Pandemic
1st Edition
Edited
By Joelle Grogan, Alice Donald
January 29, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic not only ravaged human bodies but also had profound and possibly enduring effects on the health of political and legal systems, economies and societies. Almost overnight, governments imposed the severest restrictions in modern times on rights and freedoms, elections, ...
Routledge Handbook of Seabed Mining and the Law of the Sea
1st Edition
Edited
By Virginie Tassin Campanella
December 29, 2023
For years, exploration of seabed natural resources has been ongoing while exploitation in deep marine areas remained unrealistic due to land-based mineral availability and costs. However, mounting pressures from the green transition, climate change, and long-lasting fears of terrestrial minerals ...
Routledge Handbook of Mental Health Law
1st Edition
Edited
By Brendan D. Kelly, Mary Donnelly
October 12, 2023
Mental health law is a rapidly evolving area of practice and research, with growing global dimensions. This work reflects the increasing importance of this field, critically discussing key issues of controversy and debate, and providing up-to-date analysis of cutting-edge developments in Africa, ...
Routledge Handbook of Financial Technology and Law
1st Edition
Edited
By Iris Chiu, Gudula Deipenbrock
January 09, 2023
Financial technology is rapidly changing and shaping financial services and markets. These changes are considered making the future of finance a digital one.This Handbook analyses developments in the financial services, products and markets that are being reshaped by technologically driven changes ...