New ebooks purchased in March and April

A selection of law ebooks were purchased in March - April in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available to access through iDiscover, and include:

Algorithmic Governance and Governance of Algorithms: Legal and Ethical Challenges, edited by Martin Ebers and Marta Cantero Gamito (Springer, 2021). 

Algorithms are now widely employed to make decisions that have increasingly far-reaching impacts on individuals and society as a whole (“algorithmic governance”), which could potentially lead to manipulation, biases, censorship, social discrimination, violations of privacy, property rights, and more. This has sparked a global debate on how to regulate AI and robotics (“governance of algorithms”). This book discusses both of these key aspects: the impact of algorithms, and the possibilities for future regulation.

Atiyah and Adams' Sale of Goods (14th edition), by Rick Canavan and Christian Twigg-Flesner (Pearson, 2021).

Atiyah and Adams' Sale of Goods (14th edition) is a highly readable and comprehensive account of the law governing the sale of goods. It is a valuable reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and practitioners of commercial law. This book addresses the increasing split of the law on the sale of goods between commercial and consumer contracts, which is reflected in the separate treatment of consumer law aspects.

European Tax Integration: Law, Policy and Politics, edited by Pasquale Pistone (IBFD, 2018)

This book focuses on the status quo of European tax integration, combining law, policy and politics. Good policy should identify and address problems when they arise, achieving suitable solutions that law implements. Within the European Union, this relation is malfunctioning or entirely missing in direct tax matters. This peer-reviewed publication aims to stimulate debate among scholars, decision-makers, practitioners, politicians and interpreters of European international tax law, with a view to bringing European tax integration back on the right track. 

Judicial Dis-Appointments: Judicial Appointments Reform and the Rise of European Judicial Independence, by Mitchel de S.-O.-l'E. Lasser (Oxford University Press, 2020)

In 2009 and 2010, the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights underwent significant reforms to their respective judicial appointments processes, with the result that many of the candidates proposed by Member State governments were rejected. This book examines the rationale behind these reforms from the point of view of the Member States. 

Plunder: When the Rule of Law is Illegal, by Ugo Mattei and Laura Nader (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008)

Plunder examines the dark side of the Rule of Law and explores how it has been used as a powerful political weapon by Western countries in order to legitimize plunder - the practice of violent extraction by stronger political actors victimizing weaker ones. 

The External Dimension of the European Union's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, edited by Marise Cremona, Jorg Monar and Sara Poli (Peter Lang, 2011) 

During the last decade the rapid growth of justice and home affairs as an internal policy making domain of the European Union has led to the Union emerging as an increasingly important international actor in this field. This book covers the institutional and legal framework of the external dimension of EU justice and home affairs; issues of policy interaction as well as specific challenges; policy responses and results in the field of migration policy; judicial co-operation; counter-terrorism; amd co-operation with major international partners. 

The People in Question: Citizens and Constitutions in Uncertain Times, by Jo Shaw (Bristol University Press, 2020)

Questions of citizenship and the role of constitutions in determining its boundaries are under scrutiny in this judicious and accessible analysis from Jo Shaw. With populism on the rise and debates about immigration intensifying, it draws on examples from around the world to set out the shifting boundaries of state inclusion and exclusion. 

All of these e-books are available to current University of Cambridge staff and students with a Raven password.  A full list of e-book platforms can be viewed via the ebooks@cambridge LibGuide.