Law Publications

The Department of Law is committed to the study of law in a comparative and contextual manner, with a special focus on European and international law.

Research focuses on the challenges facing European law, public international law, and private law, looking within cultural, political and economic topics.

Recently published books by LAW professors

Kritika: essays on intellectual property, Volume 3

The fields of intellectual property have broadened and deepened in so many ways that commentators struggle to keep up with the ceaseless rush of developments and hot topics. Kritika: Essays on Intellectual Property is a series that is designed to help authors escape this rush. It creates a forum for authors who wish to more deeply question, investigate and reflect upon the evolving themes and principles of the discipline.

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The Law of the European Union: fifth edition

This book provides the most comprehensive and systematic account available of the law of the EC and the EU, including detailed description and commentary on the economic and monetary union. The Law of the European Union is a complete reference work on all aspects of the law of the European Union, including the institutional framework, the Internal Market, Economic and Monetary Union and external policy and action.

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Handbook of legal reasoning and argumentation

This handbook addresses legal reasoning and argumentation from a logical, philosophical and legal perspective. The main forms of legal reasoning and argumentation are covered in an exhaustive and critical fashion, and are analysed in connection with more general types (and problems) of reasoning. Accordingly, the subject matter of the handbook divides in three parts. 

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