Publications
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Childhood in Liberal Theory
(2024)
Children are systematically treated differently as political and legal subjects due to their assumed weaknesses, incapacities, and particular needs. How does this differential status fit in with the principles of justice ...
Love in the Time of Scholarship
(2024)
Where is the ""life"" in scholarly life? Is it possible to find in academic writing, so often abstracted from the everyday? How might religion bridge that gap? In Love in the Time of Scholarship, author Anand Venkatkrishnan ...
Digital Flows
(2024)
Digital Flows provides a radical study of the most recent chapter in the life of hip hop, one closely intertwined with the networked cultural flows of the internet. Some fifty years after its birth in the Bronx, hip hop ...
Rules to Infinity
(2024)
One central aim of science is to provide explanations of natural phenomena. What role(s) does mathematics play in achieving this aim? How does mathematics contribute to the explanatory power of science? Rules to Infinity ...
Reading the Margins of the Early Modern Bible
(2024)
The margins of early modern bibles are filled with explanatory notes that have long been denounced as seditious, traitorous, and dangerous. Little attention has been paid to the actual use of these margins by their ...
Explaining Criminal Careers: Implications for Justice Policy
(2012)
Explaining Criminal Careers presents a simple quantitative theory of crime, conviction and reconviction, the assumptions of the theory are derived directly from a detailed analysis of cohort samples drawn from the “UK Home ...
The Principle of Loyalty in EU Law
(2014)
The book offers the first treatment in English to provide a thorough examination of the legal duties falling under the principle of loyalty in EU public law. Despite its seemingly innocuous wording, in what is now Article ...
The Challenges of Technology and Economic Catch-up in Emerging Economies
(2021)
This book synthesizes and interprets existing knowledge on technology upgrading failures as well as lessons from successes and failures in order to better understand the challenges of technology upgrading in emerging ...
Blame It On the WTO: A Human Rights Critique
(2013)
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is often accused of, at best, not paying enough attention to human rights or, at worst, facilitating and perpetuating human rights abuses. This book weighs these criticisms and examines ...
Polarization and Deep Contestations
(2024)
This book explores the deep contestations of the liberal script in the contemporary United States from a variety of perspectives. The US is today confronted with a crisis of democracy because of a profound ideological and ...
Agriculture, Diversification, and Gender in Rural Africa
(2018)
This book contributes to the understanding of smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa through addressing the dynamics of intensification and diversification within and outside agriculture, in contexts where women ...
The Little Republic: Masculinity and Domestic Authority in Eighteenth-Century Britain
(2012)
The relationship between men and the domestic in eighteenth-century Britain has, until now, been obscure. The Little Republic rescues the engagement of men with the house from this obscurity, better equipping historians ...
Business Freedoms and Fundamental Rights in European Union Law
(2024)
The recognition of the freedom to conduct a business as a fundamental right within European Union law has reignited debate as to the proper place of competing economic freedoms and fundamental social rights within the ...
Aristotle on the Essence of Human Thought
(2024)
This book is concerned with Aristotle’s definition of the human capacity for rational thinking (nous) offered in De anima. For Aristotle, nous is the principle, and ultimate explanans, of all the phenomena of human thinking. ...
Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves
(2022)
In 2020, COVID-19, the Australia bushfires, and other global threats served as vivid reminders that human and nonhuman fates are increasingly linked. Human use of nonhuman animals is contributing to pandemics, climate ...
Tort Liability in Warfare
(2024)
Tort Liability in Warfare: States’ Wrongs and Civilians’ Rights develops a novel account of the tortious liability of states for wrongs they inflict on civilians during combat. Tort Liability in Warfare challenges orthodoxy ...
Warriors' Wives
(2023)
Warriors’ Wives: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experiences compares the representations of soldiers’ wives in ancient Greek epic poetry and tragic drama with the experiences of modern-day military spouses. In examining the ...
The Survival of International Organizations
(2025)
While international organizations (IOs) have played a central role in global governance in the post-Cold War period, during the last decade many have struggled. Due to the rise of populism, the Trump presidency, and the ...
Minor Majesties
(2024)
This book is a study of the ancient small kingdom of Paluvūr, a town located about 30 km north of Tanjavur—today divided in two distinct villages and bearing the modern names of Kīlappaluvūr and Mēlappaluvūr. It was the ...
War
(2021)
How relevant is the concept of war today? This book examines how notions about war continue to influence how we conceive legal rights and obligations. It considers situations that recognize the significance of a Declaration ...