Book reviews
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OpinionA guide that offers confidence when advising cohabiting couples
Jo O’Sullivan reviews Resolution's 'Cohabitation Law and Practice Handbook 2025'.
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OpinionA release from prison but not from pain
Lara Bazelon’s Rectify is not a book about victory — it’s about aftermath.
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OpinionPeter Cameron: Artistic Convictions
Nicholas Goodman reviews David Wootton's 'Peter Cameron: Artistic Convictions'.
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OpinionThe best law books to read this Christmas
From the classics to the recently released, David Pickup shares his annual reading round-up.
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OpinionChristmas communiques
David Pickup reviews 'A Perfect Year? Three families. Three stories. Three Decades.'
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OpinionBattling built-in biases
Rosemary Auchmuty reviews 'Beyond Bias: Unleashing the Potential of Women in Law (second edition)'.
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OpinionAddressing the elephant in the room
Dr Carlo Corcione reviews 'Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law'.
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OpinionWhat kings and queens can do
David Pickup reviews 'Royal Law: Prerogative Foundations' by Robert Craig.
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Opinion'Brexit' US-style
James E Hurford reviews 'American Law in a Global Context: The Basics (2nd edition)'.
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OpinionOn the fence: autonomy versus the highest good
James E Hurford reviews 'Embodiment and the Law: A New Approach to Analysis, Discourse and Reasoning'.
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OpinionNormative legal order for the common good
Simone Mamini reviews 'A Theory of Global Energy Governance'.
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OpinionCapital punishment on celluloid
Kevin McVeigh reviews 'Imagining the American Death Penalty: The Cultural Work of Popular Visual Representations'.
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OpinionGenie out of the bottle
David Pickup reviews 'AI on Trial (second edition)' by Mark Deem and Peter Warren.
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OpinionA hard reset
James Wilson reviews 'AI and the Legal Profession: Transforming the Future of Law (second edition)'.
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OpinionPopulism and the plebiscite
James E Hurford reviews 'Understanding Referendums: The Comparative Politics of Direct Democracy'.