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L A W - H A R T – Hart Studies in Commercial & Financial Law

Hart Studies in Commercial and Financial Law John Linarelli, University of Pittsburgh, USA & Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain

Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation

Transnational Mortgage Law

Edited by Matthias Haentjens, Leiden University, the Netherlands, Louise Gullifer, University of Cambridge, UK & Ilya Kokorin, Leiden University, the Netherlands

Guido Comparato, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK & Irina Domurath, University Adolfo Ibañez, Chile

Law and Technology

This book provides a commentary on the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR), a game-changing EU regulation for crypto-assets and crypto-asset services.

Leading experts in the fields of financial law, regulation, and technology examine the goals, rules and operation of MiCAR. UK November 2025 • US January 2026 • 416 pages HB 9781509970407 • £100.00 / $135.00 ePub 9781509970414 • £90.00 / $122.84 ePdf 9781509970421 • £90.00 / $90.00 Series: Hart Studies in Commercial and Financial Law • Hart Publishing

UNCITRAL Model Laws on Digital Trade

Electronic Transferable Records, Digital Identity and Trust Services Luca G Castellani, UNCITRAL Secretariat, Austria This book provides an analysis of two UNCITRAL texts: the Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (MLETR) and the Model Law on the Use and Cross-border Recognition of Identity Management and Trust Services (MLIT).

The book discusses core MLETR provisions such as those on scope of application, functional equivalence, and reliability standards. It illustrates variations in enactment techniques and substantive content in laws enacting MLETR, including in France, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 240 pages HB 9781509937417 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781509937431 • £81.00 / $110.69 ePdf 9781509937424 • £81.00 / $81.00 Series: Hart Studies in Commercial and Financial Law • Hart Publishing

The Governance of Macroprudential Policy

How to Build Regulatory Legitimacy Through a Social Justice Approach Tracy C Maguze, Pew Charitable Trusts, USA This book critically examines the theoretical foundations and legal framework for macroprudential policy, its tools and governance in the UK, the US, and the EU. It goes deeper into a normative discussion of the legitimacy of macroprudential policy in these jurisdictions, where the mandate for maintaining financial stability has been delegated to independent authorities.

By proposing that macroprudential policymakers should have a social justice mandate alongside their financial stability mandate, as well as legal mechanisms for operationalising the added authority, the book contributes to the growing discourse on the role of social justice in public policy.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 272 pages PB 9781509968435 • £42.99 / $58.95 Previously published in HB 9781509968398 ePub 9781509968404 • £76.50 / $103.94 ePdf 9781509968411 • £76.50 / $76.50 Series: Hart Studies in Commercial and Financial Law • Hart Publishing

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Reconstructing the Global Framework for Housing Finance

This book uncovers the legal principles and rules around mortgages devised by various institutions beyond the national dimension.

Mortgages have become a transferable commodity with the potential to affect international financial stability and consumer welfare, and are now being subject to a process of transnationalisation.

The book reconstructs the development of mortgage law and considers its interaction with transnational law. It highlights the emergence of new policy objectives and rationales for regulation that have led to changes in the structure and functions of mortgage laws, identifying tensions between the goals of risk mitigation, financial stability, consumer protection, and housing justice.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 272 pages HB 9781509983063 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781509983056 • £81.00 / $110.69 ePdf 9781509983049 • £81.00 / $81.00 Series: Hart Studies in Commercial and Financial Law • Hart Publishing

A Socio-Legal Theory of Money for the Digital Commercial Society A New Analytical Framework to Understand Cryptoassets

Israel Cedillo Lazcano, Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP), Mexico This book poses the question: do we need a new body of regulations and the constitution of new regulatory agents to face the evolution of money in the Fourth Industrial Revolution?

After the Global Financial Crisis and the subsequent introduction of Distributed Ledger Technologies in monetary matters, multiple opinions claim that we are in the middle of a financial revolution that will eliminate the need for central banks and other financial institutions to form bonds of trust on our behalf. In contrast to these arguments, this book argues that we are not witnessing a revolutionary expression, but an evolutionary one that we can trace back to the very origin of money.

Accordingly, the book provides academics, regulators, and policy makers with a multidisciplinary analysis that includes elements, such as the relevance of intellectual property rights, which are disregarded in the legal analysis of money. Furthermore, the book proposes the idea that traditional analyses on the exercise of the lex monetae ignore the role of inside monies and technological infrastructures developed and supported by the private sector, as exemplified in the evolution of the cryptoassets market and in cases such as Banco de Portugal v Waterlow & Sons.

The book puts forward a proposal for the design and regulation of new payment systems and invites the reader to look beyond the dissemination of individual Distributed Ledger Technologies like Bitcoin.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 288 pages PB 9781509969678 • £42.99 / $58.95 Previously published in HB 9781509969685 ePub 9781509969692 • £76.50 / $103.94 ePdf 9781509969708 • £76.50 / $76.50 Series: Hart Studies in Commercial and Financial Law • Hart Publishing

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Ruth Redmond-Cooper, Institute of Art and Law, UK

Beyond Restitution

Exploring the Stories of Cultural Objects After their Return Kristin Hausler, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, UK & Elke Selter, ALIPH, Switzerland This open access book offers a unique perspective on the repatriation of cultural objects by focusing on the aftermath of the return processes.

It tells the story of 7 cultural objects that were housed in European institutions and returned to countries in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Leverhulme Trust.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 272 pages HB 9781509982523 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781509982530 • £00.00 / $00.00 ePdf 9781509982547 • £00.00 / $00.00 Series: The Art Law Library • Hart Publishing

Corporate Finance Law Principles and Policy

Louise Gullifer, University of Cambridge, UK & Jennifer Payne, University of Oxford, UK This acclaimed book provides a discussion of key issues in corporate finance law. One of the book’s distinctive features is its equal coverage of the equity and debt sides of corporate finance law. The book covers a broad range of topics regarding the debt and equityraising choices of companies of all sizes, and the mechanisms by which those providing capital are protected. Each chapter provides a critical analysis of the present law to enable the reader to understand the tensions in this area, and the attempts by the legislature, regulators, the courts, and the parties involved, to deal with them.

UK June 2025 • US August 2025 • 976 pages PB 9781509979745 • £59.99 / $79.95 • HB 9781509979752 • £180.00 / $245.00 ePub 9781509979738 • £53.99 / $72.89 ePdf 9781509979721 • £53.99 / $53.99 Hart Publishing

Digitising Cultural Heritage Clashes with Copyright Law

Pinar Oruç, University of Manchester, UK This book investigates the role played by copyright on the digitisation of cultural heritage from 3 angles: the theoretical differences between cultural property law and copyright; a comparative analysis of the EU, the UK, and the USA; and the analysis of current practices, based on empirical research.

As heritage digitisation projects are becoming increasingly common, the impact of copyright is also becoming more problematic. The book introduces the reader to the debates on cultural heritage and copyright implications of 2D and 3D scanning; virtual and augmented reality; text and data mining; and artificial intelligence.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 320 pages HB 9781509959280 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781509959297 • £81.00 / $110.69 ePdf 9781509959303 • £81.00 / $81.00 Series: The Art Law Library • Hart Publishing

Corporate Restructuring Law in Flux

Edited by Jennifer Payne & Kristin van Zwieten, University of Oxford, UK This book analyses recent developments in English corporate restructuring law, exploring questions around the design of domestic restructuring laws and their application in cross-border cases.

It focuses on an important granular question in the design of domestic restructuring rules; it considers the changes to English law at a more ‘macro’ level, drawing on comparative and theoretical insights; and considers thorny questions raised more generally by restructuring law reform efforts over the past decade, both in England and abroad.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 368 pages HB 9781509978380 • £120.00 / $160.00 ePub 9781509978397 • £108.00 / $147.14 ePdf 9781509978403 • £108.00 / $108.00 Hart Publishing

Buyers’ Remedies in International Sales Law

Digital Platforms, Competition Law, and Regulation

Reza Beheshti, University of Nottingham, UK

Edited by Kalpana Tyagi, Anselm Kamperman Sanders & Caroline Cauffman, Maastricht University, the Netherlands

A Comparative Study

An authoritative, in-depth examination of remedies in international sales of manufactured goods, this book provides a detailed analysis of the remedies available to a commercial buyer.

The book concentrates on four prominent legal regimes, namely the UK sales law, the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods 1980 (CISG), the American Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), and the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts 2016 (UPICC).

Providing access to, and analysis of, cases and arbitral decisions from all over the world, the book scrutinises the strengths and weaknesses of buyers’ remedies through comparative and normative examination.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 248 pages PB 9781509972319 • £41.99 / $57.95 Previously published in HB 9781509940462 ePub 9781509940479 • £76.50 / $103.94 ePdf 9781509940486 • £76.50 / $76.50 Hart Publishing

Comparative Perspectives

This open access book offers a comparative perspective on competition law challenges presented by the converged digital markets. It provides a rigorous discussion of reasons why regulatory responses may fall short.

L A W - H A R T – Art & Cultural Heritage Law / Company, Corporate & Commercial Law / Competition Law

The Art Law Library

Part 1 offers an inter-disciplinary perspective on the most recent legislative solutions in the European Union, namely, the Digital Services Act, the Digital Markets Act, and the Data Act. Part 2 offers competition and regulatory responses to these ever-emerging digital challenges by the UK, Latin American, Indian and Chinese regulators.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 296 pages PB 9781509969371 • £42.99 / $58.95 Previously published in HB 9781509969388 ePub 9781509969395 • £00.00 / $00.00 ePdf 9781509969401 • £00.00 / $00.00 Hart Publishing

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L A W - H A R T – Constitutional & Administrative Law

Constitutionalism in Asia Kevin YL Tan, National University of Singapore & Li-ann Thio, National University of Singapore & Jaclyn L Neo, National University of Singapore

The Basic Structure Doctrine in Malaysia Themes and Perspectives

Edited by Kevin YL Tan, National University of Singapore & HP Lee, Monash University, Australia This book presents an in-depth interrogation of the theory and application of the Basic Structure Doctrine in the Federation of Malaysia.

This collection of essays responds to this extremely important debate on the limits of constitutional amendments as a form of constitutionmaking in Malaysia by considering the theory behind the Basic Structure Doctrine and critically examining how it has been harnessed by the Federal Court and by other political actors – most notably Islamists and secularists; and royalists and republicans – on the ground.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 368 pages HB 9781509985524 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781509985517 • £85.50 / $116.09 ePdf 9781509985500 • £85.50 / $85.50 Series: Constitutionalism in Asia • Hart Publishing

On the Law of Speaking Freely Adam Tomkins, University of Glasgow, UK

This book tackles the most pressing problems of contemporary free speech law by examining where the idea of free expression came from in the first place, applying the lessons of the past to address the challenges of the present.

It offers not just insights but answers to these and other such vital questions by roaming widely over the law of free speech, from English common law to the European Convention on Human Rights via the US First Amendment.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 320 pages PB 9781509972104 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781509972098 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781509972111 • £22.49 / $31.04 ePdf 9781509972128 • £22.49 / $22.49 Hart Publishing

Emerging Constitutionalism in South Sudan Challenges and Opportunities

Mark A W Deng, University of Melbourne, Australia This book offers the first in-depth analysis of the emerging constitutionalism in South Sudan and the challenges it faces.

It critically analyses the constitution-making processes that occurred in South Sudan between 2005 and 2011, finding that there was a failure of constitutional discourse. It goes on to analyse how the constitution is being implemented. It finds that, despite the clear division of powers and functions between the national government and the sub-national governments, what has emerged in South Sudan in the post-constitution-making period is a form of coercive centralism where the national government controls much of the political decision-making process.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 240 pages HB 9781509981274 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781509981267 • £81.00 / $110.69 ePdf 9781509981250 • £81.00 / $81.00 Hart Publishing

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Territorial Governance in Southeast Asia

Andrew Harding, National University of Singapore This book assesses territorial governance (that is, all forms of subnational governance) as a constitutional artefact in five Southeast Asian countries Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand.

The books aregues that these states have used various forms of subsidiarity for dealing with ethnic and religious pluralism and the social diversity for which Southeast Asia is especially noted. A silent revolution has occurred in which our view of these states as highly centralised ‘developmental states’ is in need of serious modification.

Southeast Asia, the book argues, presents a high degree of originality in the framing of territorial governance.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 256 pages PB 9781509961887 • £44.99 / $60.95 Previously published in HB 9781509961849 ePub 9781509961856 • £81.00 / $110.69 ePdf 9781509961863 • £81.00 / $81.00 Series: Constitutionalism in Asia • Hart Publishing

Regency, Counsellors of State, and the Future of the Modern Monarchy Craig Prescott, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK This book provides a complete history of the Regency Acts and Counsellors of State.

It outlines why the position was created in the early 20th century, how the question of a regency and Counsellors of State became entangled with the abdication of Edward VIII, and how the position became a crucial feature of the reign of Elizabeth II. Charles III is known to favour a “slimmed down”, more flexible, modern monarchy. Reforming the positions of Counsellors of State and regent could be part of this whilst ensuring that the modern monarchy continues to fulfil its constitutional duties.

UK February 2026 • US February 2026 • 224 pages HB 9781509976904 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781509976911 • £76.50 / $103.94 ePdf 9781509976928 • £76.50 / $76.50 Series: Hart Studies in Constitutional Law • Hart Publishing

Rethinking Legitimacy

Courts, Constitutions and Politics Allan C Hutchinson, Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada This book presents a new perspective on the debate around legitimacy, politics and constitutional law in Supreme Courts.

Moving away from the troubling perception that Supreme Courts are trampling on the wrong side of the law/politics divide, it accepts and defends the critical claim that constitutional law is intrinsically and inescapably politics: in style, substance and outcomes.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 256 pages HB 9781509985326 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781509985333 • £81.00 / $110.69 ePdf 9781509985340 • £81.00 / $81.00 Hart Publishing

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Edited by Maartje De Visser, Singapore Management University, Rosalind Dixon, University of New South Wales, Australia & Elisabeth Perham, University of New South Wales, Australia

This volume addresses the important, but undernoticed, question of the impact of state size and scale for constitutional law and governance, and brings together leading global scholars to focus on the lessons from a range of small states and jurisdictions in this context.

The collection features contributions by scholars living and working across the Global South and North, and includes attention to the constitutional experiences of small states and jurisdictions in Europe, Africa, Asia, South America, the Caribbean and Oceania that have not received much coverage in the literature.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 400 pages HB 9781509979769 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781509979776 • £85.50 / $116.09 ePdf 9781509979783 • £85.50 / $85.50 Hart Publishing

The Language of Comparative Constitutional Law Questioning Hegemonies

Edited by Erika Arban, University of Melbourne, Australia, Maartje De Visser, Singapore Management University & Jeong-In Yun, Korea University, South Korea This volume examines the impact and salience of language in the field of comparative constitutional law. It addresses the epistemological and conceptual implications of English as the lingua franca and the related global influence of Anglophone jurisdictions in orienting the discourse. It does this through the identification of concepts, designs and ideas that warrant engagement and exploration also outside of those origin jurisdictions. In doing so, the volume underscores that language is not a neutral device but can produce hegemonic pressures and expectations.

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 464 pages HB 9781509983933 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781509983940 • £81.00 / $110.69 ePdf 9781509983957 • £81.00 / $81.00 Hart Publishing

Judicial Review and Electoral Law in a Global Perspective

Edited by Cristina Fasone, LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy, Edmondo Mostacci, University of Genoa, Italy & Graziella Romeo, Bocconi University, Italy This book fills a gap in constitutional law by investigating the global trend towards substantive constitutional adjudication of electoral legislation. On what premises is this judicial scrutiny grounded, what can explain the trend, and with what consequences for representative democracy?

The Irish Court of Appeal

The First Decade of an Intermediate Appellate Court Edited by Mark Coen, University College Dublin, Ireland & Noel McGrath, University College Dublin, Ireland This book examines intermediate appellate courts by using the Irish Court of Appeal as a case study.

Intermediate appellate courts are often overlooked in legal scholarship, which tends to focus on apex courts, most frequently national supreme courts. However, intermediate appellate courts perform a series of vital functions, including error prevention and the development of doctrine, and ensuring that apex courts are free to concentrate on issues of exceptional public importance. The significance of intermediate appellate courts has increased in recent decades in tandem with an increase in the volume and complexity of litigation in many countries.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 464 pages HB 9781509978908 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781509978892 • £85.50 / $116.09 ePdf 9781509978885 • £85.50 / $85.50 Hart Publishing

Constitutionally Conforming Interpretation – Comparative Perspectives

L A W - H A R T – Constitutional & Administrative Law

Small State Constitutionalism

Volume 2: Connections and Analysis

Edited by Matthias Klatt, University of Graz, Austria This book is part of a 2-volume set that provides an in-depth investigation into the canon of constitutionally conforming interpretation. The 2 volumes analyse the canon’s employ in the national, supranational and international context and theoretically reflects on the issues raised.

The book considers overarching issues, such as the canon’s relation to constitutional amendments or global constitutionalism and is rounded off by a comparative analysis. Together with volume 1, which gathers national reports, this book sets the stage for cross-national discourse.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 368 pages HB 9781509953806 • £140.00 / $190.00 ePub 9781509953813 • £126.00 / $171.44 ePdf 9781509953820 • £126.00 / $126.00 Series: Hart Studies in Constitutional Theory • Hart Publishing

Demoicratic Authority

On the Nature and Grounds of the EU’s Right to Rule Josef Weinzierl, Bavarian Judiciary, Germany What is the nature of EU’s authority? This book explores this question, and is much needed given the increased scrutiny of the EU's actions in the face of growing nationalism and various other internal and external challenges.

Given the global reach, the combination of theoretical and practical approaches, and the comparative assessment provided, this work is of interest for academics in the field of law, political science and philosophy, and for policy-makers and judges in constitutional democracies across the continents.

By setting out an original account of the preferred moral standard to evaluate such authority, ie demoicratic authority, it illustrates how that standard affects the practical reasoning of those subject to the EU’s authority. Theoretically significant, the book has important practical value as legitimacy challenges in the EU increase. Constitutional lawyers and theorists, as well as political scientists will welcome this innovative work.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 392 pages PB 9781509957927 • £44.99 / $60.95 Previously published in HB 9781509957880 ePub 9781509957897 • £85.50 / $116.09 ePdf 9781509957903 • £85.50 / $85.50 Series: Hart Studies in Comparative Public Law • Hart Publishing

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 200 pages PB 9781509965137 • £41.99 / $57.95 Previously published in HB 9781509965045 ePub 9781509965052 • £76.50 / $103.94 ePdf 9781509965069 • £76.50 / $76.50 Series: Studies of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law • Hart Publishing

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L A W - H A R T – Constitutional & Administrative Law / Construction Law / Consumer Law

AI and the Rule of Law

The Necessary Evolution of a Concept Paul Burgess, Monash University, Australia This book considers the ways in which the concept of the rule of law will need to evolve in order to ensure that the exercise of power by Artificial Intelligence (AI) does not become arbitrary and does not proceed unchecked. It presents the rule of law and its impact on the past and the present; considers what AI is, what it does, and what it might become in future; and looks at how AI will need to be harnessed to allow power to be exercised more effectively in the future.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 200 pages PB 9781509963218 • £42.99 / $58.95 Previously published in HB 9781509963171 ePub 9781509963188 • £76.50 / $103.94 ePdf 9781509963195 • £76.50 / $76.50 Hart Publishing

Regulation-Making in the United Kingdom and Australia Democratic Legitimacy, Safeguards and Executive Aggrandisement Andrew Edgar, University of Sydney, Australia This book shines a spotlight on the way in which parliamentary scrutiny of regulations provides the primary support for democratic legitimacy for regulations in the UK and Australia.

This book has two aims. The first is to explain the systems of parliamentary scrutiny in the UK and Australia and their historical development. The second aim is to examine recent developments in regulation-making that avoid or minimise this safeguard.

The book contributes to public law in the UK and Australia by analysing recent developments that involve executive over-reach, by reference to the historical development of parliamentary checks on regulation-making.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 232 pages PB 9781509972289 • £44.99 / $60.95 Previously published in HB 9781509972241 ePub 9781509972258 • £81.00 / $110.69 ePdf 9781509972265 • £81.00 / $81.00 Hart Publishing

EU Consumer Protection in Cloud Computing Contracts Consumers in the Cloud

Tomasz Dolny, European Commission, Belgium This book assesses whether EU consumer law effectively protects consumers in cloud computing contracts.

From music subscriptions and streaming services to online gaming and social networks, cloud-based services are an integral part of our daily lives. Understanding the legal landscape of cloud computing is therefore crucial.

The book looks at the entire lifecycle of a cloud computing contract, highlighting critical consumer problems, such as unclear information, service availability, data integrity, and unbalanced contract terms.

Written for legal scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and market participants, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of EU law provisions on cloud computing contracts.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 304 pages HB 9781509985098 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781509985081 • £81.00 / $110.69 ePdf 9781509985074 • £81.00 / $81.00 Hart Publishing

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Pandemocracy in Latin America

Revisiting the Political and Constitutional Dimension of the Pandemic Edited by Pablo Riberi, National University of Cordoba, Argentina Adopting a global-south perspective, this book explores the constitutional, political, and institutional measures that have paved the way for several aggressive state policies in various Latin American countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. The contributions provide a detailed review of the democratic decay and the ‘rule of law’ impairment in many countries of the region. The book goes beyond mere observation and explores all the main theoretical elements that can enhance a more comprehensive understanding of the political and normative impact of the pandemic.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 280 pages PB 9781509965311 • £42.99 / $58.95 Previously published in HB 9781509965274 ePub 9781509965281 • £76.50 / $103.94 ePdf 9781509965298 • £76.50 / $76.50 Hart Publishing

Residential Construction Law The UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand

Philip Britton, formerly King's College London, UK, Matthew Bell, University of Melbourne, Australia, Deirdre Ní Fhloinn, Bar of Ireland & Kim Vernau, Women’s Pioneer Housing, UK This acclaimed book is the first of its kind to offer a systematic and analytical overview of the legal framework for residential construction.

The updated edition addresses two fundamental questions: what assurances can the law give buyers (and later owners and occupiers, including renters) of homes that construction work will comply with applicable standards of design, safety and build quality? And what forms of redress can residents expect, when, often long after completion of construction, they discover defects?

The book addresses these central issues in a comparative context across the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 864 pages HB 9781509975884 • £190.00 / $260.00 ePub 9781509975891 • £171.00 / $232.19 ePdf 9781509975907 • £171.00 / $171.00 Hart Publishing

Landmark Cases in Consumer Law

Edited by Jodi Gardner, University of Auckland, New Zealand & Iain Ramsay, University of Kent, UK (Emeritus) This book analyses the history of the common law foundations of consumer law, and encourages readers to rethink the role that consumer law plays in our society. The collection also includes a unique socio-legal perspective, considering the role that consumer law has played in addressing racial discrimination, LGBTQ challenges and the rights of women.

The book demonstrates the theoretical and practical significance of consumer law through a wide range of contributions by distinguished authors from the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States and Australia.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 448 pages PB 9781509952632 • £54.99 / $74.95 Previously published in HB 9781509952298 ePub 9781509952304 • £99.00 / $134.99 ePdf 9781509952311 • £99.00 / $99.00 Series: Landmark Cases • Hart Publishing

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Implementing the Trade and Cooperation Agreement Edited by Gemma Davies, Durham University, UK & Helena Carrapico, Northumbria University, UK This unique collection offers an in-depth understanding of UK-EU police and judicial cooperation post-Brexit, an under-explored field.

It considers the legal and political operation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) and its implications for a wide number of policy areas. As well as critiquing its operation, contributors suggest reforms that would improve police and judicial cooperation between the UK and the EU. This discussion is balanced against practical considerations, with short chapters setting out practitioners’ perspectives on the TCA. UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 400 pages HB 9781509966448 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781509966455 • £85.50 / $116.09 ePdf 9781509966462 • £85.50 / $85.50 Series: Hart Studies in European Criminal Law • Hart Publishing

The Inquest Book

The Law of Coroners and Inquests Caroline Cross, 1 Crown Office Row, UK & Sir Neil Garnham, Queen’s Bench Division, High Court, UK Edited by Rajkiran Arhestey, 1 Crown Office Row, UK & Matthew Hill, 1 Crown Office Row, UK This is the 2nd edition of the only practical guide to inquests which combines a general overview, relevant legislation, and case law summaries in one book. It is structured according to the elements of an inquest or the subject matter of a coroner’s investigation.

The new edition includes 'mini' indices within the book and covers recent key legal developments including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; the narrowing in scope of Article 2 ECHR; changes in the standard of proof for suicide and unlawful killing; and learnings from high-profile inquests, including the Hillsborough disaster and the Manchester bombing.

L A W - H A R T – Criminal Law

UK-EU Police and Judicial Cooperation Post-Brexit

UK May 2025 • US July 2025 • 896 pages HB 9781509962273 • £180.00 / $245.00 ePub 9781509962280 • £162.00 / $220.04 ePdf 9781509962297 • £162.00 / $162.00 Hart Publishing

Disabling Criminal Justice

The Governance of Autistic Adult Defendants in the English Criminal Justice System Marie Tidball, University of Oxford, UK This book considers the governance of defendants and offenders with autism in the UK courts.

Drawing on a rigorously-researched case study of adult defendants with autism, the book brings together legal and policy literature, criminological and criminal justice theory with disability studies to provide insight into the ‘dividing practices’ that affect the governance of disabled defendants' conduct.

Using interviews with elites and practitioners, and court observation of 8 adult defendants with autism, the book investigates why the status of defendants with autism as disabled under the Equality Act 2010 has been overlooked in criminal justice policy and criminal court decision-making.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 296 pages PB 9781509956982 • £42.99 / $58.95 Previously published in HB 9781509956944 ePub 9781509956951 • £76.50 / $103.94 ePdf 9781509956968 • £76.50 / $76.50 Hart Publishing

Indiscriminate and Disproportionate Attacks in International Law Bridging the Accountability Gap

Luigi Daniele, Nottingham Law School, UK The book identifies the unresolved legal problems surrounding the prevention and control of indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks as international war crimes, critically unpacking the macroscopic implications of these problems for international adjudications. The author demonstrates that the Rome Statute of the ICC, legibus sic stantibus, does not allow to prosecute and punish the most recurring forms of indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks, crucially impairing the ability of this institution to pursue the objectives declared by its founding treaty.

It concludes by offering two amendment proposals for the Rome Statute to bridge the gaps and overcome the antinomies identified.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 320 pages HB 9781509976072 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781509976089 • £81.00 / $110.69 ePdf 9781509976096 • £81.00 / $81.00 Series: Studies in International and Comparative Criminal Law • Hart Publishing

Contemporary Challenges to Criminal Justice Liber Amicorum for Ralph Henham

Edited by Paul Behrens, University of Edinburgh, UK This study provides a critical examination of seminal issues within the main areas of criminal justice: its theoretical framework, transnational, and international criminal law. It examines the impact of 'public morality' on sentencing policy, murder and the mandatory life sentence, genocide, and the notion of magnitude and incitement to terrorism.

Taking an approach that is fully integrated in contemporary criminal justice scholarship, it offers a diverse and expert perspective. With a comprehensive introduction and conclusion drawing the various strands together, it provides a rigorous, coherent overview of the key issues in play in contemporary international criminal justice.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 464 pages PB 9781509948666 • £49.99 / $67.95 Previously published in HB 9781509948628 ePub 9781509948635 • £90.00 / $122.84 ePdf 9781509948642 • £90.00 / $90.00 Series: Studies in International and Comparative Criminal Law • Hart Publishing

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L A W - H A R T – Energy, Environmental & Natural Resources Law / European Law

The Aarhus Convention Coming of Age?

Edited by Gregory Jones KC, Francis Taylor Building, UK & Aine Ryall, University College Cork, Ireland 21 years since its adoption, this edited collection reflects on the Convention’s impact across a number of key themes. It explores the Convention’s role in the legal and political order; its jurisdictional impact; the role of the Compliance Committee; Aarhus and the European Union; Aarhus and Brexit. It also looks at the Convention’s national impact, charting its application in practice in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland. It addresses procedural issues such as standing, costs and remedies. Addressing questions of origins and scope to policy and practice, all environmental lawyers will find this collection invaluable.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 448 pages HB 9781509946518 • £110.00 / $150.00 ePub 9781509946525 • £99.00 / $134.99 ePdf 9781509946532 • £99.00 / $99.00 Hart Publishing

Landmark Cases in EU Law, Volume 2 The Substantive Cases

Edited by Paul Craig, University of Oxford, UK & Robert Schütze, Durham University, UK This two-volume set on EU landmark cases discusses the most iconic judgments developed by the European Court of Justice since 1957.

Volume 2 introduces the ‘substantive cases’ that have shaped the Union’s internal market and internal or external policies. Each case is placed in its historical and doctrinal context, and each chapter presents the history of its reception by the Court and academia.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 448 pages HB 9781509954179 • £100.00 / $135.00 ePub 9781509954186 • £90.00 / $122.84 ePdf 9781509954193 • £90.00 / $90.00 Series: Landmark Cases • Hart Publishing

The Constitutional Cases

Edited by Paul Craig, University of Oxford, UK & Robert Schütze, Durham University, UK This 2-volume work on EU landmark cases discusses the most iconic judgments developed by the European Court of Justice since 1957.

Volume 1 explores the ‘constitutional cases’ that have come to define the legal nature and competences of the Union.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 432 pages HB 9781509954124 • £100.00 / $135.00 ePub 9781509954131 • £90.00 / $122.84 ePdf 9781509954148 • £90.00 / $90.00 Series: Landmark Cases • Hart Publishing

Actors and Roles in EU Disability Law Edited by Delia Ferri, Maynooth University, Ireland & Eva S Krolla, Maynooth University, Ireland

This open access book looks at the development and consolidation of EU disability law as a distinct field of enquiry. It provides novel approaches to studying EU disability law. The book takes a contextual approach, both engaging with current debates and policies and providing rigorous legal analysis. In addition to looking at the ‘how’ of the field’s development, it addresses the ‘who’ by charting the key stakeholders in the field.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Research Council.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 416 pages HB 9781509984275 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781509984282 • £00.00 / $00.00 ePdf 9781509984299 • £00.00 / $00.00 Series: Modern Studies in European Law • Hart Publishing

The Evolving Governance of EU Competition Law in a Time of Disruptions The European Judiciary

A Community of Law and a Community of Judges Edited by Alejandro Saiz Arnaiz, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain & Joan Solanes Mullor, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain In this open access book, leading Spanish scholars explore the role and function of the judicial levels of interaction of the European integration process. It firstly looks at institutional dimension and the role of the European Court of Human Rights. It then goes on to examine the institutional challenges for the Court of Justice of the European Union. Finally it looks at the evolution and reaction of constitutional courts in the aftermath of the European integration process.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 304 pages HB 9781509975709 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781509975716 • £00.00 / $00.00 ePdf 9781509975723 • £00.00 / $00.00 Series: Modern Studies in European Law • Hart Publishing

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Landmark Cases in EU Law, Volume 1

A Constitutional Perspective

Edited by Carlo Maria Colombo, Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Kathryn Wright, University of York, UK & Mariolina Eliantonio, Maastricht University, the Netherlands This book analyses the complex trends and transformations emerging in EU competition law in the current turbulent times.

Economic crises, the climate emergency, digitalisation, and geopolitical and democratic threats all have societal and economic effects on the EU. This brings about significant governance and constitutional challenges by questioning how the governance of EU competition law is being transformed to respond and adapt.

The essays in this collection focus on the substantive and procedural developments across the three main policy areas of EU competition law: antitrust, merger control and State aid. It will be invaluable for EU constitutional and competition lawyers.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 368 pages PB 9781509951833 • £44.99 / $60.95 Previously published in HB 9781509951796 ePub 9781509951802 • £85.50 / $116.09 ePdf 9781509951819 • £85.50 / $85.50 Series: Modern Studies in European Law • Hart Publishing

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Edited by Koen Lenaerts, European Court of Justice, Luxembourg, Eugene Regan, Court of Justice, Luxembourg, Ulla Neergaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark & Karsten Engsig Sørensen, Aarhus University, Denmark In recent years the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ) has occupied a prominent place in the working of the European Union and by extension the Court of Justice (CJEU). This book looks at the framework of the AFSJ, its workings, and finally the impact of EU law upon it, providing remarkable insights into the importance of the AFSJ and how EU law has evolved.

UK October 2024 • US October 2024 • 392 pages HB 9781509975112 • £120.00 / $160.00 ePub 9781509975129 • £108.00 / $147.14 ePdf 9781509975136 • £108.00 / $108.00 Hart Publishing

The Evolution of the EU Treaties From the Treaties of Rome to the Conference on the Future of Europe Klemens H Fischer, University of Cologne, Germany This book explores how the EU Treaties evolved, placing them within the context of their time. It illustrates how they reacted to the social, political and economic realities of their age, but also how they addressed future and foreseeable challenges. This helps to fully demonstrate the current constitutional landscape and to suggest how it might develop going forward. The book provides a comprehensive explanation of the development of EU policy from the Treaty of Rome in the 1950s to the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009, which led to a tighter union and ultimately to Brexit.

UK September 2024 • US December 2024 • 432 pages HB 9781509980147 • £120.00 / $160.00 Nomos/Hart World English (excluding Austria/Czech Republic/Germany/Japan/Poland/Switzerland)

Parliamentarism and Encyclopaedism

Parliamentary Democracy in an Age of Fragmentation Giovanni Rizzoni, LUISS University of Rome, Italy This book explores a specific aspect of modern parliamentarism: its ability to produce and organise political knowledge.

The book argues that the very meaning of modern parliamentarism cannot properly be understood without considering the cognitive value which is inherent in the representative function discharged by parliaments, vis-a-vis the political community. It does so by studying the ‘encyclopaedic patterns’ underlying modern parliamentarism.

Exploring the concept from ancient times to modernity, it addresses the fundamental question of the relationship between knowledge and democratic decision-making.

This is a truly innovative book; challenging, provocative and asking crucial questions of how parliaments work and legislate.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 192 pages PB 9781509964000 • £44.99 / $60.95 Previously published in HB 9781509963911 ePub 9781509963928 • £81.00 / $110.69 ePdf 9781509963935 • £81.00 / $81.00 Series: Parliamentary Democracy in Europe • Hart Publishing

L A W - H A R T – European Law / Family Law

Shaping a Genuine Area of Freedom, Security and Justice

The European Roots of the Lex Sportiva How Europe Rules Global Sport

Edited by Antoine Duval, TMC Asser Instituut, the Netherlands, Alexander Krüger, Umeå University, Sweden & Johan Lindholm, Umeå University, Sweden This open access book explores the complexity of the lex sportiva, the transnational legal regime governing international sports.

Contributors trace the embeddedness of the lex sportiva within national law, European Union law and the European Convention on Human Rights, pointing out the fact that European legal processes are central when challenging the status quo as illustrated recently in the Semenya and Superleague cases.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Swedish Studies Network.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 400 pages PB 9781509971480 • £41.99 / $57.95 Previously published in HB 9781509971442 ePub 9781509971459 • £00.00 / $00.00 ePdf 9781509971466 • £00.00 / $00.00 Series: Swedish Studies in European Law • Hart Publishing

Building Bridges in European and Human Rights Law

Essays in Honour and Memory of Paul Heim CMG

Autonomy, Care and Family Law

Edited by Michael-James Clifton, EFTA Court, Luxembourg, Suzanne Rab, Serle Court Chambers, UK & David Scorey KC, Essex Court, UK

This book combines doctrinal, theoretical and original empirical data to consider different approaches to balancing paid work and caretaking.

This unique book, formed as a series of essays, focusses on the building of bridges between individuals and institutions in European and human rights law. Drawing on the contributions of international judges, leading practitioners, and officials, the collection provides personal reflections and expertise on selected aspects of European and human rights law. In so doing, it provides multi-level perspectives on the Court of Justice of the European Union, the EFTA Court, the European Court of Human Rights, and the International Criminal Court, and the interaction of their jurisprudence with domestic law.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 312 pages PB 9781509952625 • £41.99 / $57.95 Previously published in HB 9781509952588 ePub 9781509952595 • £76.50 / $103.94 ePdf 9781509952601 • £76.50 / $76.50 Hart Publishing

Anna Heenan, University of Cambridge, UK

The book considers how, given changing social trends, family law and policy should take account of caretaking responsibilities on parental separation.

Crucially, it suggests that we need to rethink family law and policy by reference to a principle of care.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 192 pages PB 9781509959372 • £42.99 / $58.95 Previously published in HB 9781509959334 ePub 9781509959341 • £76.50 / $103.94 ePdf 9781509959358 • £76.50 / $76.50 Hart Publishing

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L A W - H A R T – Human Rights / Art & Cultural Heritage Law / Intellectual Property Law

Privatizing Human Rights

Citizenship and Human Rights

Philip Alston, New York University School of Law, USA, Bassam Khawaja, Human Rights Watch, USA, Rebecca Riddell, Oxfam America, USA & Jackson Gandour, NYU School of Law, USA

Christian H Kälin, Henley & Partners, UK

Destroying the Social Contract and Empowering Corporate Actors

Governments around the world are privatizing everything, with dramatic but largely ignored negative consequences for human rights. This open access book outlines the response that is urgently needed.

Building on the latest evidence and on specially commissioned case studies, the book develops a new approach to enable courts, UN treaty monitoring bodies, and NGOs to respond to the ever-growing threat that privatization poses to human rights.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 304 pages PB 9781509982578 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781509982585 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781509982592 • £00.00 / $00.00 ePdf 9781509982608 • £00.00 / $00.00 Hart Publishing

A Practitioner's Guide to European Patent Law

Paul England, Taylor Wessing, London, UK This new edition offers a comprehensive and practical guide to European patent law.

This book uniquely addresses European patent law. Each chapter enables the common ground, and differences, between approaches to be assessed. In addition to featuring completely revised content on the fast-moving subject areas of FRAND and plausibility, and updates in all other areas of patent law, the 3rd edition includes for the first time fully integrated coverage of every substantive decision of the Unified Patent Court. A must-read for anyone working in the field of European patent law.

UK July 2025 • US August 2025 • 768 pages HB 9781509981144 • £190.00 / $260.00 ePub 9781509981151 • £171.00 / $232.19 ePdf 9781509981168 • £171.00 / $171.00 Hart Publishing

From Exclusive and Universal to Global Rights: A New Framework Can universal human rights and different national citizenship regimes be compatible? This book argues that they can’t. It explores whether the emergence of postnational models of citizenship that aim at decoupling human rights and citizenship succeed in overcoming tensions between the universal (multiculturalism; universal human rights; postnational values) and the particular (citizenship; borders; national values and diverse local narratives).

The author argues that it is illegitimate to speak of universal human rights, universal human dignity, or universal social justice. It is only by recognising this reality that transformation of human rights and citizenship can be meaningfully undertaken.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 320 pages PB 9781509950331 • £44.99 / $60.95 Previously published in HB 9781509950249 ePub 9781509950256 • £81.00 / $110.69 ePdf 9781509950263 • £81.00 / $81.00 Hart Publishing

Unified Patent Court Procedure A Commentary

Christof Augenstein, Preu Bohlig & Partner, Sabine Agé, Véron VA & Associés & Alex Wilson, Powell Gilbert This commentary is focused on the procedure of the Unified Patent Court, and covers infringement and defences; proceedings and the UPC; the statutes of the UPCC; financial provisions and general provisions.

It also explores languages of proceedings; proceedings before the Court; powers of the Court; appeals; decisions, implementation and operation of agreement. All patent lawyers will welcome this magisterial commentary.

UK September 2025 • US October 2025 • 1000 pages HB 9781849464932 • £300.00 / $410.00 Beck/Hart World English (excluding Austria/Czech Republic/Germany/Japan/Poland/Switzerland)

EU Copyright Law Harmonisation

An Empirical Analysis of National Courts Case Law Estelle Derclaye, University of Nottingham, UK & Gilles Stupfler, University of Angers, France This book provides the first comparative and empirical analysis of the state of harmonisation in EU copyright law in the 27 Member States, and the UK, at the level of national courts.

The book provides detailed legal analyses and descriptive statistics per topic, per type of work, per country, across countries and over time supported by statistical analysis, making inferences for the future development of the law. Its findings are of crucial relevance for policymakers and the judiciary at EU and national level and will interest scholarly audiences in the UK, EU, EEA and beyond.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 448 pages HB 9781509974849 • £120.00 / $160.00 ePub 9781509974856 • £108.00 / $147.14 ePdf 9781509974863 • £108.00 / $108.00 Hart Publishing

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Financial Market Infrastructure and Economic Integration

Josephine Norris, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

George A Papaconstantinou, European Commission, Belgium

A Practical Guide

This practical guide enables practitioners, compliance professionals, and anyone with an interest in the international dimension of supply chains to navigate the EU’s approach to regulating global value chains.

Written by a legal practitioner working for the European Commission, the book situates the EU’s approach to global value chain regulation in the framework of broader discussions on the complex interface between international trade law, international environmental law, and the UN sustainable development goals.

Structured as a contextualised, accessible guide, the book decodes the emerging EU regulatory landscape and offers a perspective on future developments in this legal field.

UK July 2025 • US September 2025 • 544 pages HB 9781509977550 • £180.00 / $245.00 ePub 9781509977567 • £162.00 / $220.04 ePdf 9781509977574 • £162.00 / $162.00 Hart Publishing

Reforming Public Procurement Law Liber Amicorum in Honour of Sue Arrowsmith

Edited by Annamaria La Chimia, University of Nottingham, UK & Martin Trybus, University of Birmingham, UK This book honours the contribution of Sue Arrowsmith as the leading scholar in the field of public procurement law. Divided into 3 main parts – the UK, the EU, and the world – it focuses on central reform themes that have characterised the evolution of public procurement law and policy in the past decades. The chapters are written by experts from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe with backgrounds in academia, legal practice, and international organisations. The reader is provided with a diverse set of insights into the objectives, approaches, priorities, and future direction of public procurement reform.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 368 pages PB 9781509968015 • £44.99 / $60.95 Previously published in HB 9781509967971 ePub 9781509967988 • £85.50 / $116.09 ePdf 9781509968008 • £85.50 / $85.50 Hart Publishing

Conceptions of Data Protection and Privacy Legal and Philosophical Perspectives

Edited by Elisa Orrù, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Germany & Ralf Poscher, Max Planck Institute, Germany This open access book provides a conceptual clarification of what data protection and privacy are about, compares the German, European, and US legal perspectives, and examines the social value of privacy amid political struggles and the AI revolution.

Reseachers and legal practitioners will find insights into landmark EU and US constitutional decisions. Additionally, it is valuable for anyone seeking to understand the legal and philosophical foundations of globally influential regulations like the GDPR and the AI Act.

A WTO, FTAs, and Competition Law Analysis

This book provides a comprehensive study of the cutting-edge regulation of financial infrastructure and international economic integration.

It discusses how the liberalisation of financial market infrastructure is achieved within the WTO, Economic Integration Agreements, and EU competition law, exploring whether a more harmonious relationship between financial regulation and economic integration is feasible.

The book demonstrates the existence of both structural barriers to trade and trade-facilitating tools that can impede and foster the integration of financial market infrastructure.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 320 pages PB 9781509966790 • £42.99 / $58.95 Previously published in HB 9781509966752 ePub 9781509966769 • £76.50 / $103.94 ePdf 9781509966776 • £76.50 / $76.50 Series: Studies in International Trade and Investment Law • Hart Publishing

Data Protection, Privacy and Artificial Intelligence, Volume 17 To Govern or To Be Governed, That Is the Question Edited by Eleni Kosta & Suzanne Nusselder, Tilburg University, the Netherlands, Dara Hallinan, FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany & Paul De Hert, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium This book examines the discourse and developments surrounding privacy and data protection in the digital realm, featuring papers and discussions from the 2024 CPDP.ai international conference.

The book features comprehensive discussions on the adequacy and effectiveness of the governance mechanisms established by the EU AI Act. It pays special attention to the risks to fundamental rights associated with AI usage by law enforcement agencies, examining whether the current legal framework sufficiently safeguards against these risks. Finally, the book provides an in-depth exploration of deepfake technology that generates nude images, and the role of AI in the EU’s migration management systems.

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 368 pages HB 9781509984015 • £55.00 / $75.00 ePub 9781509984008 • £49.50 / $67.49 ePdf 9781509983995 • £49.50 / $49.50 Series: Computers, Privacy and Data Protection • Hart Publishing

Digital Sovereignty and the Green Transition

L A W - H A R T – Intellectual Property Law / International Economic Law / IT & Technology Law

EU Global Value Chain Regulation

EU Challenges in Times of War and Energy Crisis Edited by Edoardo Celeste, Dublin City University, Ireland, Tamara Alvarez Robles, Universidad de León, Spain, Gaël Depoorter, Avignon Université, France & Tamara Favaro, University of Pisa, Italy This book is the first investigation of the environmental impact of EU digital sovereignty strategies.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC

BY NC ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

It maps the ambitions and limitations of EU digital strategic autonomy and explores the structural challenges underlying its relationship with sustainability objectives in the context of the ongoing war in Ukraine and the consequent tensions in the EU energy sector.

UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 512 pages HB 9781509983728 • £100.00 / $135.00 ePub 9781509983735 • £00.00 / $00.00 ePdf 9781509983742 • £00.00 / $00.00 Series: Hart Studies in Information Law and Regulation • Hart Publishing

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 320 pages HB 9781509983629 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781509983636 • £81.00 / $110.69 ePdf 9781509983643 • £81.00 / $81.00 Hart Publishing

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L A W - H A R T – IT & Technology Law / Labour & Discrimination Law

Mediterranean Digital Societies Law and Technology

Edited by Alessandro Mantelero, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy This open access book provides a Mediterranean perspective on digital societies, focusing on cultural heritage, tourism, smart city development, migration, humanitarian action management, maritime security, health data sharing, and the Mediterranean data space.

The book is a key resource for scholars who want to understand these topics from a Mediterranean, rather than an EU-centric perspective.

It supports policy makers designing their digital strategies in the Mediterranean region, and considering the impact of data-driven technologies on society and their geo-political dimension.

Edited by Alan Bogg, University of Bristol, UK & Paul S Davies, University College London, UK This book brings together leading scholars from private law and employment law to reflect upon private law doctrines as they relate to the employment contract.

The essays in this book examine specific doctrinal issues against this dynamic backdrop of changing social, economic, and constitutional conditions. Developing an interdisciplinary dialogue, these contributions explore the regulatory functions of private law doctrines at the cutting-edge of modern employment law.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com

As private law becomes the default regulation for most employment contracts in 21st-century labour markets across the world, this book is an essential resource for practitioners, judges, academics and students.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 208 pages HB 9781509983674 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781509983681 • £00.00 / $00.00 ePdf 9781509983698 • £00.00 / $00.00 Hart Publishing

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 304 pages HB 9781509981588 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781509981595 • £81.00 / $110.69 ePdf 9781509981601 • £81.00 / $81.00 Hart Publishing

The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Employment Relation

Edited by Klaus Lörcher, Formerly of the European Trade Union Confederation, Belgium, Niklas Bruun, Hanken School of Economics, Finland & Ana Teresa Ribeiro, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and employment rights.

Part 1 analyses the main transversal questions, including substantive issues and all procedural elements. Part 2 deals with the specific provisions which are directly linked to the employment relation.

Together, the chapters in this book empower the user to find answers to relevant and practical problems.

The book is an essential resource for academics and practitioners in labour law who are using international law instruments to enforce and improve workers’ rights.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 608 pages HB 9781509984596 • £130.00 / $175.00 ePub 9781509984602 • £117.00 / $159.29 ePdf 9781509984619 • £117.00 / $117.00 Hart Publishing

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Private Law and the Employment Contract

Labour Law and Economic Policy How Employment Rights Improve the Economy

Adrián Todolí-Signes, University of Valencia, Spain This book changes the narrative of why we need labour standards. It studies labour institutions from an economic perspective to justify their existence and the advantages that they bring to innovation, efficiency, and economic growth.

Using case studies from across the EU, the UK, and the US, the book shows how the deregulation of labour markets harms innovation and the economy. It demonstrates that labour standards such as the minimum wage, sectoral collective bargaining and collective rights, protection against dismissal and discrimination, occupational risk prevention, and social security are necessary for the economy to function properly.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 208 pages PB 9781509973927 • £41.99 / $57.95 Previously published in HB 9781509973880 ePub 9781509973897 • £76.50 / $103.94 ePdf 9781509973903 • £76.50 / $76.50 Hart Publishing World English

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Edited by Mark Hill KC, University of Notre Dame London, UK & Lina Papadopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece This edited collection examines the challenges, both apparent and real, faced by Muslim practice and Islamic belief within the legal and political framework of Europe.

The volume’s contributors range from academics at leading universities to former judges and politicians. Its twenty chapters focus on constitutional challenges, human rights with a focus on religious freedom, and securitisation and Islamophobia, while adopting supranational and comparative approaches.

This book will appeal not merely to law students in the United Kingdom and the European Union, but to anyone involved in diplomacy and international relations, including political scientists, lobbyists, and members of NGOs. UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 296 pages PB 9781509966998 • £49.99 / $67.95 Previously published in HB 9781509966950 ePub 9781509966967 • £85.50 / $116.09 ePdf 9781509966974 • £85.50 / $85.50 Hart Publishing

Epidemics and the Law from Plague to the Present

Edited by Emily Gordon, St John’s College, UK, Charles Mitchell, University College London, UK & Ian Williams, University College London, UK This is the first collection of historical essays to focus on law as a particular type of response to infectious disease outbreaks, exploring it has been not simply a value-neutral tool through which official power could be used unproblematically.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 336 pages HB 9781509984442 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781509984459 • £85.50 / $116.09 ePdf 9781509984466 • £85.50 / $85.50 Hart Publishing

The Legal History of the Church of England From the Reformation to the Present

Edited by Norman Doe, Cardiff University, UK & Stephen Coleman, Cardiff University, UK This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the principal legal landmarks in the evolution of the law of the established Church of England since the Reformation to the present day.

It explores the foundations of this body of law – the ecclesiastical law - and considers its crucial role in the development of the Church of England over the centuries.

Each chapter studies a broadly 50 year period, evaluating the significance of the legal landmarks for the development of church law, and its place in wider English society.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 280 pages PB 9781509973163 • £49.99 / $67.95 Previously published in HB 9781509973194 ePub 9781509973187 • £90.00 / $122.84 ePdf 9781509973170 • £90.00 / $90.00 Hart Publishing

Informal Decision Making in the European Community under the Luxembourg Compromise The Law That Never Was

Philip Bajon, Aston University, UK This book analyses the informal decision-making process in the EU against the background of a gradually emerging European legal order.

Based on extensive multi-archival research in the UK, France, Germany, the Benelux countries and in Community institutions, the book explores the resistance against majority rule under the so-called Luxembourg Compromise of 1966.

Presenting a deeply revisionist account of European law and politics the book demonstrates how the Luxembourg arrangement served as a compromise between the Treaty text and political reality, as a counterweight to technocratic ideas, and as a bridge between irreconcilable divides over European unification.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 448 pages HB 9781509982851 • £100.00 / $135.00 ePub 9781509982844 • £90.00 / $122.84 ePdf 9781509982837 • £90.00 / $90.00 Hart Publishing

Moral Responsibility and Artificial Intelligence

Maximilian Kiener, University of Oxford, UK This book uses the 'Lorry Driver Paradox’, a novel puzzle, to explore and clarify our understanding of moral responsibility. It breaks new ground in the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI), and connects moral philosophy, legal theory, and AI ethics.

The book employs a paradox-driven methodology through a combination of legal and philosophical perspectives, and provides solutions to challenges around ‘responsibility gaps’ and trustworthy AI. It presents a novel conception of strict answerability, as opposed to strict liability, and argues that taking responsibility is a genuine normative power, like consenting or promising.

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 272 pages HB 9781509956845 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781509956852 • £76.50 / $103.94 ePdf 9781509956869 • £76.50 / $76.50 Series: Law and Practical Reason • Hart Publishing

Sustaining Access to Justice

New Avenues for Costs and Funding

L A W - H A R T – Law & Religion / Legal History / Legal Philosophy / Litigation & Civil Procedure

Islam, Religious Liberty and Constitutionalism in Europe

Edited by Xandra Kramer, Adriani Dori & María Carlota Ucín, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands & Masood Ahmed, University of Leicester, UK This book explores the complex landscape of costs and funding of civil justice by weaving together normative considerations, regulatory shifts, and market dynamics.

The book considers the regulatory frameworks governing public and private funding, the rise of new trends and challenges in contemporary legal finance, and the potential of ADR and ODR procedures to streamline civil justice processes and expand access to justice.

By addressing the intersectionality of legal, economic, political, market and social dynamics, the book helps readers gain a better understanding of the inherent complexity of costs, funding, and their implications for access to justice.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 384 pages HB 9781509981670 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781509981663 • £81.00 / $110.69 ePdf 9781509981656 • £81.00 / $81.00 Series: Civil Justice Systems • Hart Publishing

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L A W - H A R T – Media Law / Medical Law & Ethics / Private Law

Global Perspectives on Press Regulation, Volume 2

Rebecca Limb, University of Southampton, UK.

Asia, Africa, the Americas and Oceania Edited by Paul Wragg, University of Leeds, UK & András Koltay, University of Public Service, Hungary In this ground-breaking two-volume set, worldleading experts produce a rich, authoritative depiction of the world’s press, its freedom, and its limits. The contributions in Volume 1 look at key jurisdictions in Europe; whereas Volume 2 goes beyond Europe to analyse the situation in key jurisdictions in Asia, Africa, the Americas and Oceania. Each volume can be used independently or as part of the complete set.

This work will be incredibly valuable to policy makers and academics who seek to capture the global picture for the purposes of effecting change.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 368 pages PB 9781509950430 • £44.99 / $60.95 Previously published in HB 9781509950393 ePub 9781509950409 • £81.00 / $110.69 ePdf 9781509950416 • £81.00 / $81.00 Hart Publishing

This book provides a timely and much-needed critical legal review of children’s participation in healthcare that goes beyond merely documenting the extent and scope of participation, and explores the importance, definition of, and barriers to their meaningful participation.

The book explores to what extent national law and international nonbinding conventions have created a ‘right’ to participation, studies the application of national law in clinical practice asking whether the law facilitates meaningful participation, and analyses the interaction between law and quasi-legal regulations. It will be useful for academics, children’s activists, and legal and clinical practitioners.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 256 pages HB 9781509959969 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781509959976 • £76.50 / $103.94 ePdf 9781509959983 • £76.50 / $76.50 Hart Publishing

Studies in Private International Law - Asia Paul Beaumont, University of Stirling, UK & Anselmo Reyes, Doshisha University, Japan

Private Law and Building Safety Edited by Matthew Bell, University of Melbourne, Australia, Susan Bright, University of Oxford, UK, Ben McFarlane, University of Oxford, UK & Andrew Robertson, University of Melbourne, Australia

In this book, leading international building and private law experts provide a timely and unique analysis of the real-world problem of building safety, approached through the lens of private law. It explores the extent to which private law can be part of the solution to – as well as being part of the cause of – the building safety crisis which afflicts people around the world.

The book offers policymakers, practitioners and scholars consideration of this vital yet under-considered aspect of the building safety crisis, along with new insights into the nature, limits and utility of private law.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 384 pages HB 9781509976607 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781509976614 • £81.00 / $110.69 ePdf 9781509976621 • £81.00 / $81.00 Series: Hart Studies in Private Law • Hart Publishing

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Medical Decision-Making with Children and Young People

Politics, Policy and Private Law Volume II: Contract, Commercial and Company Law

Edited by Jodi Gardner, University of Auckland, New Zealand, Amy Goymour, University of Cambridge, UK, Janet O'Sullivan, University of Cambridge, UK & Sarah Worthington, University of Cambridge, UK This ambitious and expert study explores the role of policy in shaping private law, focusing on equity, tort law and property law.

This second volume explores contract, commercial and corporate law, with chapters looking at corporate law and not-for-profit and unconscionable bargains to modern day transactions. The volumes also explore traditional private law areas through a novel lens, such as the gig economy, highlighting the similarities and differences across the different aspects of private law. This is a landmark and ambitious project undertaken by a team of acknowledged experts in their fields.

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 272 pages HB 9781509961016 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781509961023 • £81.00 / $110.69 ePdf 9781509961030 • £81.00 / $81.00 Series: Hart Studies in Private Law • Hart Publishing

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Nobumichi Teramura, University of Brunei Darussalam

Private International Law in Uzbekistan

Elijah Putilin, Putilin Dispute Management, Uzbekistan

This book is the leading reference on Cambodian private international law in English. The chapters apply a combination of common and civil law analytical perspectives and cover the whole of Cambodian private international law, including commercial matters, family law, succession, electronic commerce, intellectual property, competition (antitrust), and environmental disputes.

This book is the leading reference in English on private international law in Uzbekistan. Dispelling a common misconception that the law of ex-USSR countries is largely the same, the book provides an authoritative account of private international law in Uzbekistan, as well as the role the country plays in the harmonisation of private international law in the region and beyond.

In addition to covering the traditional conflict of law areas of jurisdiction, applicable law (choice of law) and enforcement, the chapters also look into conflict of laws, questions arising in arbitration and assess Cambodia’s involvement in the harmonisation of private international law globally and regionally within ASEAN.

The chapters provide authoritative guidance on conflict-of-law rules, issues of jurisdiction in contractual and non-contractual matters, as well as the practice and procedure of enforcement of foreign judgements and arbitral awards in Uzbekistan.

UK July 2025 • US August 2025 • 336 pages HB 9781509954049 • £150.00 / $200.00 ePub 9781509954056 • £135.00 / $183.59 ePdf 9781509954063 • £135.00 / $135.00 Series: Studies in Private International Law - Asia • Hart Publishing

Private International Law in East Asia From Imitation to Innovation and Exportation

Edited by Olivier Gaillard & Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Switzerland This open access book examines the conflict of law rules in East Asian states. The book analyses in particular the shift in legal influence on, in, and within the East Asian region.

Parts 1 and 2 give a contextual overview of the legal regimes of China, Japan, and South Korea. Part 3 offers a detailed look at the conflict rules relevant to commercial law, while Part 4 examines the rules applying to family and succession law.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 216 pages PB 9781509970148 • £41.99 / $57.95 Previously published in HB 9781509970100 ePub 9781509970117 • £00.00 / $00.00 ePdf 9781509970124 • £00.00 / $00.00 Series: Studies in Private International Law - Asia • Hart Publishing

UK September 2025 • US October 2025 • 400 pages HB 9781509969531 • £160.00 / $220.00 ePub 9781509969548 • £144.00 / $195.74 ePdf 9781509969555 • £144.00 / $144.00 Series: Studies in Private International Law - Asia • Hart Publishing

L A W - H A R T – Private International Law

Cambodian Private International Law

Care Proceedings with an International Element An Empirical Study

Maria Sofia Wright, Practising English Solicitor, UK Presenting the findings of 100 care cases, this book analyses how jurisdictional issues are determined and how information sharing of child protection operates across borders. It illustrates how prospective carers are assessed and how legal permanence for children living overseas is secured. It identifies ways in which children’s welfare interests are compromised, and suggests solutions: identifying how private international law instruments should be improved to promote the best interests of children.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 288 pages HB 9781509977307 • £90.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781509977314 • £81.00 / $110.69 ePdf 9781509977321 • £81.00 / $81.00 Series: Studies in Private International Law • Hart Publishing

From Theory to Practice in Private International Law

Gedächtnisschrift for Professor Jonathan Fitchen Edited by Justin Borg-Barthet, Katarina Trimmings, Burcu Yüksel Ripley & Patricia Zivkovic, University of Aberdeen, UK This book, compiled in honour of the work and life of Professor Jonathan Fitchen, brings together preeminent scholars from across the private international law world to address the discipline.

The contributions in the book analyse a variety of conceptual and substantive problems in private international law and consider developments in the discipline, from conceptual analyses of the evolving nature and scope of private international law to substantive problems across longstanding issues on which there is insufficient scholarly analysis.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 272 pages PB 9781509956685 • £44.99 / $60.95 Previously published in HB 9781509956647 ePub 9781509956654 • £81.00 / $110.69 ePdf 9781509956661 • £81.00 / $81.00 Hart Publishing

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L A W - H A R T – Public International Law / Socio-Legal Studies / Tax Law

The Politics of Memory Laws

The Pathology of Plenty

Edited by Uladzislau Belavusau, University of Amsterdam, Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, Maria Mälksoo, University of Copenhagen, Denmark & Angelika Nußberger, University of Cologne, Germany

Lys Kulamadayil, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland

Russia, Ukraine and Beyond

This open access book explores the political utility and consequences of memory laws with a focus on how militant memory laws frame, underpin and generate international conflicts.

Proceeding from Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine, this examination plots how memory wars have preceded, partially led to and encouraged the outbreak of the war itself via Russian propaganda. It also looks at developments in neighbouring countries such as Poland and Hungary.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open Access was funded by the University of Copenhagen.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 368 pages HB 9781509975303 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781509975310 • £81.00 / $110.69 ePdf 9781509975327 • £81.00 / $81.00 Hart Publishing

Territorial Status in International Law Jure Vidmar, Maastricht University, the Netherlands

This book develops a new theory of territorialism and international legal status of territories. It (i) defines the concept of territory, explaining how territories are created; (ii) redefines the concept of statehood, illustrating that statehood (rather than the statehood criteria) is territorial legal status established in the formal sources of international law; and (iii) grounds non-state territorial entities in the sources of international law to explain their international legal status.

This fresh new theoretical perspective has both scholarly and practical importance, providing a tool helping decision-makers and judges in the practical application of international law both internationally and domestically.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 264 pages PB 9781509959525 • £41.99 / $57.95 Previously published in HB 9781509959488 ePub 9781509959495 • £76.50 / $103.94 ePdf 9781509959501 • £76.50 / $76.50 Series: Studies in International Law • Hart Publishing

Cyberbullying and Sexting

Regulatory Challenges in the Digital Age Elizabeth Agnew, Queen’s University Belfast, UK Drawing on two empirical studies and influential theoretical frameworks, this book provides a critical overview of the key regulatory challenges concerning cyberbullying and sexting behaviours among young people (persons under 18 years).

The author explores issues ranging from conceptualising the behaviours, examining the prevailing presence of sexism, myths and stereotypes surrounding gender roles and identity, and the limitations of criminal law as an effective regulatory tool. In doing so, identifying peer-based sexting behaviours as part of a continuum of sexual behaviour is promoted alongside the need to consider interventions beyond the legal landscape.

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Natural Resources in International Law

This open access book argues that international law impacts on the resource curse, but that this impact can be unexpected and unpredictable. It illustrates how the law’s role in resource-cursed countries is at once constitutive, preventive, remedial and punitive. The author draws on different fields of public international law to show how law can be both implicated in, and responsive to, the resource curse.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 208 pages HB 9781509969623 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781509969630 • £00.00 / $00.00 ePdf 9781509969647 • £00.00 / $00.00 Series: Studies in International Law • Hart Publishing

Marine Bioprospecting, Biodiversity and Novel Uses of Ocean Resources New Approaches in International Law Edited by Niels Krabbe, University of Gothenburg, Sweden & David Langlet, University of Uppsala, Sweden This open access book explores how developments in marine biodiversity and other resources challenge the foundations of the law of the sea and its domestic implementation. It does this by examining different perspectives and case studies. The contributors also examine international environmental law, intellectual property rights, and contract law. The team of experts broaden the scholarly debate on marine genetic resources and provide a timely reflection on ongoing policy developments.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Gothenburg, Department of Law. UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 256 pages PB 9781509968312 • £41.99 / $57.95 Previously published in HB 9781509968275 ePub 9781509968282 • £00.00 / $00.00 ePdf 9781509968299 • £00.00 / $00.00 Series: Studies in International Law • Hart Publishing

Studies in the History of Tax Law, Volume 12

Edited by Peter Harris, University of Cambridge, UK & Dominic de Cogan, University of Cambridge, UK This book is a continuation of the prestigious series investigating current tax policy debates in a historical context.

The authors are a mix of senior tax professionals from academia, the judiciary, and practice, with representatives from 9 countries. The chapters fall within 3 basic categories: UK tax, international taxation, and non-UK tax systems.

Collecting papers from the biennial Cambridge Tax Law History Conference, the book is a key resource for those interested in tax law and legal history.

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 496 pages HB 9781509981731 • £130.00 / $175.00 ePub 9781509981748 • £117.00 / $159.29 ePdf 9781509981755 • £117.00 / $117.00 Series: Studies in the History of Tax Law • Hart Publishing

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