Routledge Studies in Law, Rights and Justice
About the Book Series
Routledge Studies in Law, Rights and Justice seeks to publish leading monographs and edited collections that explore the interplay between rights and justice across different areas of law and legal practice. The series serves as a home for scholars working in areas such as human rights, social justice, constitutional justice, business and human rights, equality rights and civil justice. It encourages authors to address the theoretical and practical aspects of the application of rights, the achievability of justice in these uncertain times, and the methods available to individuals, organisations, and states to achieve justice. Routledge Studies in Law, Rights and Justice embraces both scholarship from a national and international viewpoint and encourages authors to explore rights and justice from a global perspective. It strives to break down existing disciplinary silos and encourage collaboration, which offers the opportunity to publish thought provoking, original and cutting-edge work. The aim is to foster debates, build bridges between different areas of scholarship, and encourage a wider perspective on the underlying issues that might limit the applicability of rights, or render justice difficult to achieve.
Routledge Studies in Law, Rights and Justice primarily consider rights and justice from a legal perspective, but does however, welcome submissions that take a broader view and engage with the wider socio-economic, political, and social context. The series editor is very keen to consider works by established and early-career academics, and submissions are encouraged from scholars based all around the world.
Advisory Board
Dr Masood Ahmed, University of Leicester, UK
Professor Merris Amos, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Professor Carina Barbosa Gouvea, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Professor Charles Fombad, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Dr Steve Foster, Coventry University, UK
Dr Tan Hsien-Li, National University of Singapore
Dr Imelda Ideinla, Ateneo De Manila University, The Philippines
Dr Olga Jurasz, Open University, UK
Dr Richard Kirkham, University of Sheffield, UK
Professor Andrew Le Sueur, University of Essex, UK
Professor Obiora Chinedu Okafor, York University, Canada
Professor David Ormerod KC, University College London, UK
Professor Lucy Vickers, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Dr Josie Welsh, University of Worcester, UK
Professor Eric Heinze, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Professor Aziz Huq, University of Chicago, USA
Constitutional Values, Identities and Rights: Realisation and Protection in Codified and Uncodified Constitutions
1st Edition
Edited
By John McGarry
December 08, 2025
This book discusses the way in which the constitutions are shaped by, and shape, the values and identities inherent in them and how those values and identities may be realised as fundamental rights and, consequently, protected. It examines the values, identities and rights of the UK constitution – ...
Rights and Justice in Theory and Practice: Process and Application in Law
1st Edition
Edited
By Josie Welsh, Louise Hewitt
December 08, 2025
This collection explores questions of rights and justice from theoretical and practical perspectives, by examining examples of the process and application of the law. The book brings together leading experts and early career academics to consider the application of rights, the achievability of ...
Responsibilities: A Critical Legal Defence of Human Rights
1st Edition
By Ian Turner
November 11, 2025
For many, human rights have become a panacea for the injustices of society: globalisation, poverty, discrimination, climate change etc. But has this rights’ ‘inflation’ been a prima facie good? Has the rise in human rights merely propounded a self-centred individualism, exacerbating the ...
Gender, Freedom of Religion and Progressive Constitutionalism: The Impact of the Sabarimala Decision in India
1st Edition
By Sumit Sonkar
November 07, 2025
This book examines the role of courts in settling religious disputes in the context of wider debates around religion and gender. By declaring the long-standing tradition of prohibiting entry of menstruating women in the Sabarimala temple unconstitutional, in the Indian Young Lawyers Association v. ...
Dishonesty, Liability and the Law: Exploring the Moral Importance of Context
1st Edition
Edited
By Sotirios Santatzoglou, Martin Wasik, Anthony Wrigley
July 31, 2025
In 2017, in Ivey v. Genting Casinos, the Supreme Court judged that the dishonesty test is objective and should be the single one in use for any area of law. The judgment sparked some criticism regarding the inflexibility of an objective test. The subsequent 2020 Court of Appeal judgment in R. v. ...
Climate Litigation and Vulnerabilities: Global South Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Antonia Tigre, Melanie Jean Murcott, Susan Ann Samuel
June 19, 2025
This volume explores climate litigation as a means to tackle the rights and socio-ecological, intergenerational, gender, racial, and other justice implications of the ever-growing vulnerability to climate change, whilst critically engaging with the notions of vulnerability and intersectional ...
Teaching of Rights and Justice in the Law School: Challenges and Opportunities for Research Led Teaching
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Hurley, Chris Monaghan
March 04, 2025
This book examines the challenges of bringing cutting-edge research in often controversial areas into the law syllabus and explores how academics can effectively adopt a holistic approach to research and pedagogy when teaching rights and justice. The collection brings together experts from all ...
Human Rights and Standard of Living in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Prospects
1st Edition
By Augustine Edobor Arimoro
February 19, 2025
This book offers a comprehensive and nuanced examination of the right to an adequate standard of living in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), shedding light on the multifaceted challenges, opportunities, and imperatives for action. The right to an adequate standard of living is a fundamental human right, ...
Modern Slavery Survivor Pathways: Policy, Legislation and Practice in the UK
1st Edition
By Anne-Marie Greenslade
November 18, 2024
This book presents a critical chronology of the modern slavery survivor journey in the UK, from intervention by the authorities to long-term recovery. The work examines the modern slavery survivor pathway and assesses the support systems available to survivors throughout this process. It also ...
The Evolution of International Criminal Procedure: From Nuremberg and Tokyo to the International Criminal Court
1st Edition
By Giovanni Chiarini
July 23, 2024
This book examines the evolution of international criminal procedure from the 1945–1946 Nuremberg and Tokyo trials to the present period. It is largely based on a normative-jurisprudential approach to the procedural rules, comparing both norms and case law of the relevant courts and tribunals...