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Climate Change Litigation in Europe
  • Regional, Comparative and Sectoral Perspectives
  • Edited by Ivano Alogna, Carole Billet, Matteo Fermeglia, Alina Holzhausen
  • Published by:
    Intersentia
    Published online:
    05 September 2025
    Print publication:
    16 January 2024
  • This book addresses the most topical issues related to climate change litigation in Europe. It unpacks the substantive and procedural dimensions of ongoing climate change litigation before domestic and supranational courts and the prospective avenues for future climate change litigation.

Forcible Protection of Civilians
  • The International Legal Framework for Peace Operations
  • Hanna Bourgeois
  • Published by:
    Intersentia
    Published online:
    05 September 2025
    Print publication:
    17 December 2024
  • Discover essential insights into the international legal framework for protecting civilians in peace operations with Forcible Protection of Civilians. This analysis explores legal bases, UN mandates, and the interplay between mandates and human rights/international humanitarian law. Ideal for scholars and practitioners, this resource tackles complex legal nuances surrounding the use of force to ensure civilian safety in peace operations.

Occidentalism, Conspiracy and Taboo
  • Collected Essays on Islam and Politics
  • Sadik J. Al-Azm
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    05 September 2025
    Print publication:
    15 January 2019
  • Sadik J. Al-Azm was one of the foremost Arab public intellectuals, who offered innovative, often controversial challenges to conventional narratives on Islam and the West, Secularism, Orientalism, and the Israel-Palestine issue.

    This fourth collection of his essays includes: (i) Syria in Revolt (2014); (ii) Experience or 'Regime of Truth'? About Translation, Arabic and the Postmodern (2014); (iii) Orientalism of the Worst Kind (2015); (iv) The Shari'a from a Secular Perspective (2015); (iv) Crossing Borders: Orientalism, lslamism and Postmodernism (2016); (v) What's in a Name: Middle East or West Asia? (2016).

Kuwait's Politics before Independence
  • The Role of the Balancing Powers
  • Abdulrahman Alebrahim
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    05 September 2025
    Print publication:
    15 September 2019
  • This book re-examines the historiography of constitutional development in Kuwait. It argues that existing scholarship on the subject has several shortcomings due to the lack of consideration given to the role played by some important social forces in the Kuwaiti political scene.

    Most historians working on Kuwait's modern politics have focussed on two forces: the ruling family and the merchants. Although these two actors have undeniably been the most influential, other segments of society, such as the labour force, the villagers, the intelligentsia and the religious scholars, should not be overlooked. These forces have had a decisive impact, with varying levels of influence across time, on the balance of power in Kuwait.

    This book generates new insights by considering the role of these balancing forces in influencing the struggle between the sheikhs and the merchants over the nature of the political system in Kuwait between 1921 and 1962.

The Arab Spring
  • Ten Years On
  • Edited by Sujata Ashwarya, Mujib Alam
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    05 September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 June 2022
  • It has been more a decade since people across the Arab world rose up in revolt against their governments, demanding political empowerment, social reform and economic improvement. Pro-democracy protests, as they were called in common parlance, which spread rapidly through the mobilisation of social media calls, ended up overthrowing long-standing authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya.

    That gave rise to hope for a more representative future, as well as economic reforms, after decades of mismanagement and stagnation. However, such hopes were quickly dispelled, as the political vacuum created by the elimination of regional dictatorships deepened fractures in many of these societies along ethnic, religious and tribal fault lines.

    As Islamists and secularists jockeyed for power, Egypt's brief alliance with democracy was halted by a neo-militarist, counter-revolutionary takeover. Tunisia is a notable exception, where both factions in political society have resolved to settle their differences through dialogue and set the tone for democratic politics, while the country is struggling with economic growth and transformation.

    Very little, if anything, has changed in Yemen, Libya and Syria, where long-drawn and bloody civil wars are raging. The monarchies of the Gulf have not been untouched, but remain markedly unchanged.

Grand Strategy in the Contemporary Middle East
  • The Concepts and Debates
  • Edited by Tore T. Petersen, Clive Jones
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    05 September 2025
    Print publication:
    31 December 2021
  • This unique volume explores the role that Grand Strategy has played in the shaping of the Middle East and why, conceptually, its core principles still have traction in explaining the shifting alliances and dispensation of power across the region.

    When so much of the spatial as well as the geo-political boundaries of the Middle East are in flux, it is now time to revisit the very ideas that inform Grand Strategy that once again, are enjoying a wider intellectual renaissance in world affairs.

    Through a longitudinal method that embraces international history, regional security, and international relations, leading scholars from Europe, North America and the Middle East offer original and timely insights into how Grand Strategy has shaped not only Great Power involvement, but the designs of regional actors in their perennial search for security.

Smart Court
  • The Court of the Future
  • Zheng Sophia Tang
  • Published online:
    05 September 2025
    Print publication:
    25 September 2025
  • Smart Court delves into the digital transformation of courts, examining key aspects such as e-filing, e-service, e-evidence, e-judgment, and AI judges. It provides a comprehensive analysis of global practices and emerging technologies, offering valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities presented by this shift. With a focus on practical applications and future trends, this book equips readers with the knowledge to navigate and shape the evolving legal landscape. Spanning both technical details and the broader implications for justice, Smart Court is an essential guide is for legal professionals, scholars, and policymakers eager to understand how technology is transforming justice systems worldwide.

Killing the Messenger
  • The War on Social Media
  • Ashutosh Bhagwat
  • Published online:
    05 September 2025
    Print publication:
    25 September 2025
  • Killing the Messenger is a highly readable survey of the current political and legal wars over social media platforms. The book carefully parses attacks against social media coming from both the political left and right to demonstrate how most of these critiques are overblown or without empirical support. The work analyzes regulations directed at social media in the United States and European Union, including efforts to amend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. It argues that many of these proposals not only raise serious free-speech concerns, but also likely have unintended and perverse public policy consequences. Killing the Messenger concludes by identifying specific regulations of social media that are justified by serious, demonstrated harms, and that can be implemented without jeopardizing the profoundly democratizing impact social media platforms have had on public discourse. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Iranian/Persianate Subalterns in the Safavid Period
  • Their Role and Depiction: Recovering 'Lost Voices'
  • Edited by Andrew J. Newman
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    05 September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 June 2022
  • Subaltern studies' refers to the importance of 'subordinate' groups in the making of history. The latter are usually defined as encompassing the urban and rural underclasses, the majority in any society, although generally the term is said to refer to all non-elites, including women. Most often the discourse concentrates on instances of social protest as points whereat the 'subalterns' make their 'voices' heard in response to, or even independent of, manipulations by the elite.

    The book draws on wide-ranging sources to be explored for direct and indirect access to these voices, and include elite Persian diplomatic and political-economic (court-level) materials but also those drawn from such a broad range of 'cultural' spheres as, for example, art and architecture (including cinema, for the modern period), prose, poetry and other media and religious materials (Sunni, Shi`i and Sufi) of all genres in all relevant languages.

    The overall project seeks also to explore attitudes toward the subaltern by the authors of these sources. Finally, the project aims also to identify problems in accessing/using the sources and questions/avenues for further research across Persianate history and, in the process, to establish an on-going network to chart pathways for further associated research projects and support for these.

Contractual Rights and Liabilities in Circular Business Models
  • A Study of Consumer Protection in Product-as-a-Service Contracts
  • Harry Slachmuylders
  • Published by:
    Intersentia
    Published online:
    05 September 2025
    Print publication:
    27 July 2025
  • The 'servitisation' of the economy - a shift from buying products to using 'products-as-service' - is a potential enabler of the shift from the linear to the circular economy. Although such 'product-service systems' (PSS) have huge potential, including in economic terms, consumers often feel uncertain and hesitant to engage in new circular business models and product-as-a-service contracts given the lack of a clear regulatory framework.

    This book first sets out a conceptual framework of three main types of product-as-a-service contracts (product-oriented, use-oriented, result-oriented PSS) based on real-life examples. Second, it identifies and analyses the relevant EU regulations as well as the national (BE, NL) contract laws applicable to these contracts. Third, it evaluates the current regulatory framework of product-as-a-service contracts in order to identify its strengths and weaknesses. Fourth, legal solutions are proposed to tackle the identified weaknesses and to promote balanced, truly sustainable product-as-a-service contracts. These include, amongst others, (i) detailed proposals for the modernisation of Belgian contract law, (ii) broader policy recommendations, such as to adopt an EU directive on the quality and conformity of (bundles of) services, and (iii) a detailed proposal of a set of balanced model clauses for product-as-a-service contracts that can serve as a source of inspiration for legal professionals and businesses.

The Making of Religious Texts in Islam
  • The Fragment and the Whole
  • Edited by Asma Hilali, S. R. Burge
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    05 September 2025
    Print publication:
    31 July 2019
  • This book offers an interdisciplinary study of the modalities, actors, technicalities and consequences of the evolving of religious texts within the perspective of the fragment versus the whole.

    The focus is on fragmentary texts from Islamic religious sources, and includes contributions on Qur'anic manuscripts, early graffiti, the formation of the Qur'anic canon, the Hadith literature, and Old Babylonian extispicy texts.

    Three main topics are addressed: (i) the text and its materiality; (ii) the structure of the text and the dynamic relationship between the fragment and the whole; (iii) and methods of shaping and reshaping traditions.

    The hermeneutical experience of the fragment versus the whole is explored in depth throughout, and the consequences addressed for the history of the religious text, its composition, its reception and its interpretation.

Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare
  • Elena Semino, Paul Baker, Gavin Brookes, Luke Collins, Tony McEnery
  • Published online:
    05 September 2025
    Print publication:
    25 September 2025
  • Communication is central to the experience of illness and the provision of healthcare. This book showcases the insights that can be gained into health communication by means of corpus linguistics – the computer-aided linguistic analysis of large datasets of naturally occurring language use known as 'corpora'. The book takes readers through the stages that they must go through to carry out corpus linguistic research on health communication, from formulating research questions to disseminating findings to interested stakeholders. It helps readers anticipate and deal with different kinds of challenges they may encounter, and shows the variety of applications of the methods discussed, from interactions in Accident and Emergency departments, to online discussions of mental illness, and press representations of obesity. Providing the reader with a wide range of clear case studies, it makes the relevant methods and findings accessible, engaging and inspiring. This title is also available open access on Cambridge Core.

Islamic Legal Principles and Intellectual Property Rights in the Gulf States
  • Nadia Naim
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    05 September 2025
    Print publication:
    31 January 2023
  • The book focuses on the relationship between Islamic law and intellectual property law and proposes groundbreaking alternatives to better support the growth of intellectual property in line with the Islamic moral economy.

    The author provides an overview of the development of intellectual property under Shariah principles in the Gulf States. She focuses on how the US and the EU have shaped the intellectual property regimes in the Gulf States, the WTO and WIPO in the pre-TRIPS era, and compliance with the minimum standards of the TRIPS Agreement.

    In addition, the impact of the TRIPS Plus standards and investorstate dispute settlement, as well as the implications for Gulf states of committing to further international investor agreements are examined.

    Innovative recommendations for an integrated approach to intellectual property law that incorporates the principles of Islamic commercial and financial law will be of interest to both academics and practitioners within and outside the region.

European Contract Law in a Changed Banking and Financial Architecture
  • Stability Design, the Common Good and Private Party Participation
  • Edited by Stefan Grundmann, Pietro Sirena
  • Published by:
    Intersentia
    Published online:
    05 September 2025
    Print publication:
    23 October 2024
  • The European Banking Union forms the answer of the EU to the global financial crisis, strongly increasing own funds basis for more robust credit institutions, installing a recovery and resolution regime with strong planning and preventive measures and opting for the supervisory with the broadest reach, the European Central Bank. The first part of the book - after the design of the overall architecture and a clarification of the main policy lines and theoretical underpinnings - describes the main features of this regime. It does so in particular for recovery tools and their conceptual novelty, focusing on private claims within the regime, namely within deposit guarantee schemes and for liability of supervisory authorities.
Pamphleteering

Pamphleteering
  • Polemic, Print, and the Infrastructure of Political Agency
  • Pierre-Héli Monot
  • Published online:
    05 September 2025
    Print publication:
    02 October 2025
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  • The 'Pamphlet Wars' of the seventeenth century, the activist texts of the Labour Movement, and the recent campaigns for climate justice have all drawn on the affordances of pamphleteering to advance their cause: pamphlets circulate across geographical boundaries and social divides, they attract a readership that is usually excluded from the classical public sphere, they can be produced at low cost, and they often provide anonymity to their authors. This Element provides a brief history of short-form polemical literature from the Reformation to the present. It argues that popular dissent and popular political agency must be understood in light of the material and, more recently, digital history of polemical literature. It makes the case that current online polemic is best understood as a late infrastructural transformation of classical and modern pamphleteering. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Pouring Water on Time
  • A Bilingual Topical Anthology of Classical Arabic Poetry
  • Mansour Ajami
  • Published by:
    Gerlach Press
    Published online:
    04 September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 July 2016
  • This bilingual anthology presents the best of Arabic classical poetry's musings over the many faceted states of the human condition, among them love, generosity, life, time, youth, beauty, ecstasy, longing, wine, death and plenty more. Mansour Ajami's selection of topical verses and poems is guided by what was deemed best in its genre by the consensus of the great classical Arab literary critics and theoreticians.

Global Environmental Politics
  • Problems, Policy, and Practice
  • 2nd edition
  • Hayley Stevenson
  • Published online:
    04 September 2025
    Print publication:
    18 September 2025
  • Humanity's impact on the planet is undeniable. Fairly and effectively addressing environmental problems begins with understanding their causes and impacts. Is overpopulation the main driver of environmental degradation? Poverty? Capitalism? Poor governance? Imperialism? Patriarchy? Clearly these are not technical questions, but political ones. Updated to cover new debates, data, and policy, and expanded to include chapters on colonialism, race and gender, and the impacts of energy and resource extraction, this book introduces students to diverse perspectives and helps them develop an informed understanding of why environmental problems occur. How the international community should act is deeply contested. Guiding students through the potential responses, including multilateral diplomacy, transnational voluntary action, innovative financial mechanisms, problem displacement, consumer-focused campaigns, and resistance, this book explains the different forms of political action, their limitations and injustices. Online resources include lecture slides, a test bank for instructors and updated weblinks to videos and suggested readings for students.

The Revival in Irish Literature and Culture
  • Edited by Gregory Castle
  • Published online:
    04 September 2025
    Print publication:
    18 September 2025
  • The Revival in Irish Literature and Culture offers a wide variety of new work on the Revival and the ideals, attitudes and perspectives that animate it, from the late-nineteenth century to the present day. The contributors to the volume, each in their own fashion, explore the social, political and cultural expressions of revivalism in literature but also in film, music, dance, commemorations, museum exhibits, social movements, and political activism. The volume offers new perspectives on established figures and ideas as well as new research on forgotten or under-represented revivalists, particularly women, whose cultural and political activities were instrumental in forming the foundations of the Revival and whose ongoing involvement shapes revivalism in new social and cultural contexts. One of the most important thematic strands linking the chapters is the function of time-our understanding of the historical “sense of the past” but also the efficacy of new temporal frameworks.

Rethinking the Lawyers' Monopoly
  • Access to Justice and the Future of Legal Services
  • Edited by David Freeman Engstrom, Nora Freeman Engstrom
  • Published online:
    04 September 2025
    Print publication:
    18 September 2025
  • For decades, American lawyers have enjoyed a monopoly over legal services, built upon strict unauthorized practice of law rules and prohibitions on nonlawyer ownership of law firms. Now, though, this monopoly is under threat-challenged by the one-two punch of new AI-driven technologies and a staggering access-to-justice crisis, which sees most Americans priced out of the market for legal services. At this pivotal moment, this volume brings together leading legal scholars and practitioners to propose new conceptual frameworks for reform, drawing lessons from other professions, industries, and places, both within the United States and across the world. With critical insights and thoughtful assessments, Rethinking the Lawyers' Monopoly seeks to help shape and steer the coming revolution in the legal services marketplace. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Practise Psychiatry
  • A Guide Through Vignettes and MCQs
  • Howard CH Khoe, Cheryl WL Chang, Cyrus SH Ho
  • Published online:
    04 September 2025
    Print publication:
    18 September 2025
  • This revision guide is an invaluable resource for psychiatric trainees preparing for exams. With 55 case vignettes and over 200 topical multiple-choice questions (MCQs), the content covers a broad spectrum of relevant psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, anorexia nervosa, addiction, and gender dysphoria. Case vignettes provide a focused discussion of each disorder, while strategically placed topical MCQs consolidate learning and highlight concepts across disorders. Recurring features are included at the end of each chapter, including 'Exam Essentials,' which highlight the most crucial information students should remember, 'Clinical Pearls', which provide tips for practical application, and the 'Diving Deep' section allows interested students to explore specific concepts further. An engaging and comprehensive revision resource, this will be a go-to resource for MRCPsych candidates and those taking specialist examinations.

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