Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/34z4sk/the_public_in_law) has announced the addition of the "The Public in Law: Representations of the Political in Legal Discourse" book to their offering.

Bringing together established academics and new researchers, the chapters in this collection interrogate the operation of 'the public' in a range of different legal, illegal and alegal spaces. The key question which frames the contributions is whether and in what manner 'the public' operates as an interface between law and society, allowing the interests and opinions of the population at large to be represented and reflected in legal discourse, such that collectively generated imperatives may be imposed upon political and economic actors. Multi-disciplinary in its approach, the volume reflects an understanding that there is more to the role of 'the public' in relation to law than the conventional demarcation of the field of 'public law' and that this relationship is open to comment from a wide range of actors.

Key Topics Covered:

1 On the Necessarily Public Character of Law

Part I Constituted Publics

2 Rediscovering The Public': The Curious Case of Benjamin Constant

3 Democracy, Political Parties and the Will of the People

4 Between Contract and Constitution: International Organizations and the Protection of Global Public Interests

Part II Unconstituted Publics

5 Unconstituted Publics'?

6 A Dilemma for the Civil Disobedient: Pleading Guilty' or Not Guilty' in the Court Room?

7 Justifying Civil Disobedience With Reference to EU Public Consensus

PART III Excluded Publics

8 Excluded Publics - Included Privates: The Janus Headed Nature of the Liberal Public-Private Divide

9 The Prisoner's Right to Vote: The Creation of an Abnormal and Excluded Public

10 Subjects to Citizens: Native' Enfranchisement in Reconstituting the Imperial Public of the British Empire, c. 1887-1914

Part IV Public/Private

11 The Public/Private Dichotomy and the Unity of Capitalist (Re-)production

12 The Public Nature of Private Law?

13 Between the Public and the Private: Banking Law in 1830s England

14 The Public-ness of Development in the World Trade Organization

Part V Emerging Publics: The Role of the Victim in International Criminal Justice

15 The Impact of the Distinction Between Situations and Cases on the Participation of Victims in the International Criminal Court

16 Addressing the Interests of Victims: Perspectives from the Office of the Prosecutor

17 Victim's Access to the International Criminal Court: Much Remains to be Done

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