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Published by Routledge, this collection offers the first sustained, multidisciplinary legal analysis of deepfakes and their far‑reaching consequences. Deepfake technology has moved with disorienting speed from fringe curiosity to a global social, political, and legal problem. Once the preserve of Hollywood studios, the ability to fabricate hyper‑realistic images, audio, and video is now available to anyone with a smartphone. Its most prevalent and devastating use remains the creation of non‑consensual sexually explicit content targeting women. Yet deepfakes also fuel political disinformation, destabilise democratic processes, enable fraud and identity theft, and contribute to a broader post‑truth climate in which the authenticity of all digital evidence becomes contestable. In this landscape, one of the most urgent tasks is simply to begin the right conversations about how law and society should respond. Across three sections, various international scholars examine how synthetic media challenges foundational assumptions about privacy, image rights, evidential truth, and democratic integrity.

This book examines the legal protection of domestic workers, who carry out essential and undervalued labour such as cooking, cleaning, and care for children and the elderly in private households, drawing on case studies of Chile, the UK, South Africa, and India. It analyses how deficits in protection arise from gaps in formal coverage of labour law standards, a lack of enforcement of labour law standards, and vulnerabilities constructed by migration law regimes. The book makes a distinctive and positive case for the role of human rights in extending protection to domestic workers, criticizing gaps in their protection based on the right to private and family life, the right to work, and the prohibition on forced labour. Use code AUFLY30 for 30% discount.

Toward Border Abolition is an interdisciplinary exploration of border abolition that brings together scholars of international migration, border studies, and law who historicize the current border regime, critique the violence of border policing, and consider alternatives. The contributors explore the ways that migrants practise objective border abolitionism by circumventing the sociopolitical order imposed by nation-states. They illustrate how various methods of migrating, from seeking asylum to 'unauthorized' border crossing, all enact a fundamentally human freedom of movement that precedes state border control as it exists today. Use code SLSAUP for 25% discount until 30 April 2027.

In Legal Weapons of the Wealthy, Nikhil Kalyanpur examines a striking feature of today's global legal order: the use of foreign courts by elites to settle domestic disputes.  On the surface, the 'outsourcing' of disputes by elites from countries with fragile judiciaries looks like a search for fair treatment unavailable at home. Yet extraterritorial dispute resolution varies across such countries. Russian plutocrats, for instance, frequently litigate abroad, whereas Chinese and South African ones rarely do. Kalyanpur argues that the pursuit of extraterritorial litigation depends on the balance of power between a state and its plutocracy. Use code SLSAUP for 25% discount until 30 April 2027.

Legal Moves engages in a project of epistemological disobedience, boldly suturing concepts of dance studies – kinesthetic awareness, fleshly memory, and techniques of the body – to the legal humanities. What opens when we expand our disciplinary methods of law – from the lettered to the embodied? Might we locate a more complete portrait of law, its logic, and impact for construction of the human? Anna Jayne Kimmel combs the laws and law-making logics of French imperial order and its postcolonial legacy to surface the already-embedded corporeal attentions and choreographic features of legal studies. Use code SLSAUP for 25% discount until 30 April 2027.

The essays collected in Law and Media present German media theorist Cornelia Vismann investigating how law functions through the media technologies used to produce, disseminate, and preserve it – from papyrus and the codex to courtroom stenography and Stasi files. Expanding on the understanding of the cultural techniques of law advanced in her landmark first book, Files, Vismann explores topics including the history of Roman law, the development of law books and archives, the transcription and translation of laws and legal proceedings, and the techniques and technologies of bureaucratic administration. Use code SLSAUP for 25% discount until 30 April 2027.

Family detention garnered much public attention when it expanded dramatically in 2014 as significantly increased numbers of migrant groups began arriving and requesting asylum at the Mexico–US border. During this period, the Obama administration designated three detention facilities, two in South Texas, to hold such families while they underwent part of the asylum legal process. One became the largest immigrant detention facility in the country. In Legal Care anthropologist Erin Routon explores the operations of these facilities through the unique perspectives of volunteer legal advocates. Use code SLSAUP for 25% discount until 30 April 2027.

Published by Hart, this book offers a fresh feminist perspective on prostitution. It challenges the ‘sex work’ perspective, drawing on experience from rape law and #MeToo campaigns in Ireland and elsewhere to develop a new legal concept of ‘compromised consent’. This concept justifies the introduction of Nordic Model laws banning the purchase of sex. It recognises that an individual consent to sell sex is necessarily compromised by structural exploitation within the vastly profitable global sex industry. Use the code GLR BD8 to get 20% off!

Published by Hart, this edited collection explores the question of how those with limited capacity are enabled to take their part as members of society within the context of both a legal framework and the expectations of their family and community.  

It firstly looks at the current legal position on incapacity in a number of jurisdictions. Secondly, it looks at the experience of families with vulnerable members in Australia, Spain, Bulgaria, Argentina, France, Turkey, Canada, the Netherlands, Poland and Ukraine. It asks how we can provide support and control within a social network or group whose members have different aims and needs in a family or a community. Use the code GLR BD8 to get 20% off!

Rape trials are inherently complex, often operating differently from other criminal trials. These trials are also complicated by the impact of societal attitudes about sexual offences, often referred to as rape myths, which can influence jurors’ deliberations in rape trials. This book explores the variety of ways in which rape trials can be researched in order to determine how the laws in this area are applied in practice, and the extent to which attitudes and broader societal contexts can influence the trial process.

Published by Bristol University Press, this book offers a fresh and critical take on the relationship between disability, work, and capitalism in the UK. Challenging the idea that disabled people are ‘non-workers’, it shows how society is dependent upon their everyday paid and unpaid activities. Drawing on research with disabled participants, it expands what counts as work: from care, assistance, and work for the state to resistance and rest. The book centres disabled people’s own critiques of precarious work and productivism, highlighting how disability is fundamental to debates on class and exploitation.

This book examines piracy not just as a historical and contemporary criminal activity but as a complex phenomenon deeply interwoven with legal constructs and cultural perceptions. Specifically, it studies the intersection of piracy and law through a focus on three cultural images of pirates: As rulers of the seas, freedom fighters, and treasure seekers.

This fourth edition of the Blackstone's Guide to the Anti-Terrorism Legislation provides expert explanations and assessments of the UK anti-terrorism legislation. It offers comprehensive and critical guidance on interpretation, impact in practice, and justifiability. Analysis is provided in the context of the reports from review bodies, including the Independent Reviewers of Terrorism Legislation and UK Parliament, as well as official and academic commentaries. This analysis highlights important case-law, especially relating to the jurisprudence of human rights, and explores the impacts, relying upon statistical data, dialogues with professionals, and analysis of official claims.

This open access book examines the work of feminists engaging with legislative lobbying and strategic litigation in their fight for equality and self-determination.

Across the world, feminists engage in legal activism. This book showcases the ways in which feminists in India have been particularly successful in their legal interventions such as legislative lobbying and strategic litigation. Using interviews and other primary source materials, it illustrates how women’s rights activists and feminist lawyers think about the law and how they work to make the law more gender-just. The book develops a multi-faceted approach to understanding feminist legal activism and shows how activists’ strategies, constitutional rights, the responsiveness of courts and parliaments, and socio-cultural factors impact the outcome of legal activism. Use the code GLR BD8 to get 20% off!

This edited collection unravels the multiple ways in which digital intermediaries have transformed the domestic and care work sector – and what this development entails for the regulation of digital labour platforms. It looks at business models used by digital intermediaries in care and domestic work sectors, exploring how these business models are conditioned by institutional settings and shaped by the cultural practices concerning cleaning and care work. It discusses how digital technology can also lead to better working conditions, using cooperatives in South Africa and Switzerland as examples. Lastly, it reconsiders the debate about platform work to take care and domestic work platforms into account. Use the code GLR BD8 to get 20% off!

This book offers an original perspective on neurodivergence in the context of criminal justice. Neurodivergence collectively describes a range of neuro-developmental differences, and which primarily affect cognitive processes such as social communication, learning and memory, and sensory processing. The way in which criminal justice systems, processes and institutions engage with neurodivergent individuals is an emerging priority for policy makers, legal and clinical practitioners, and academics. The collection, published by Routledge, draws together a range of insights from multiple jurisdictions, spanning common and civil law traditions in various regions of the world.

Interest in neurodivergence, particularly autism, and its impact on suspects and defendants in the criminal process has grown significantly in recent years, domestically and globally. A significant gap nevertheless remains in relation to (socio)-legal perspectives on the role and effectiveness of criminal defence lawyers for the Autistic accused. Drawing from diverse literature and original empirical insights, this book, published by Routledge, provides a timely and original contribution to the growing field by examining the theoretical, ethical, and practical dimensions of the relationship between criminal defence lawyers in England and Wales and their Autistic clients.