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Nikos Koumoutzis

National Restrictions on Gay, Lesbian and Same-Sex Parentage under Review by the European Court of Human Rights

**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2026** 'I've been waiting for a book like this.' FLORENCH WELCH 'Hopeful and inspiring, Finding Albion is a vital quest for more authentic stories of Britain.' CAROLINE LUCAS 'Finding Albion is the book we all need in 2026.' WEIRD WALK 'A profoundly inspiring meditation upon the lost soul of Britain... I loved every word.' MATTHEW GREEN Zakia Sewell is on a quest for another Britain. Traversing the length and breadth of our island from Somerset to Scotland, she's seeking out a different story - one that lies beyond divisive national myths and symbols. In Finding Albion, Zakia uncovers an alternative spirit of Britain that is vividly alive today. It is found in otherworldly folk songs, ancient legends, Celtic seasonal rites and mystic stone circles that punctuate our landscape. Her journey begins as the sun rises on the spring equinox over Glastonbury Tor, where she meets neopagans reclaiming traditions from our pre-Christian past. At summer's peak at Notting Hill Carnival she hears cultural echoes that passed along the slave trade routes from the Caribbean. On All Hallow's Eve she encounters the ghosts of Empire that are still haunting the nation, and in the depths of a Cornish winter she asks if today's new folk revival could unite our increasingly divided country? Finding Albion brings a hopeful story of Britain out from the shadows, giving us a deeper sense of who we are, and heralding the promise of a brighter future.

Myth, Folklore and the Quest for a Hidden Britain - LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2026

Finding Albion

Schriften zur Europäischen Integration und Internationalen Wirtschaftsordnung -Veröffentlichungen des Wilhelm-Merton-Zentrums für Europäische Integration und Internationale Wirtschaftsordnung

Stefan Kadelbach

Rainer Hofmann

European Democracy and Public Sphere

Eckardt Buchholz-Schuster

Daniel Herbe

Thoughts and Concepts

Applied Philosophy of Law - Orientation in a Nervous World?

European Union and its Neighbours in a Globalized World

The book explores the links between fundamental rights and cultural identity in the European legal order especially in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. The book analyses the issues surrounding the relationship between cultural diversity and fundamental rights with special emphasis on cultural rights and their protection in the European legal order. The book addresses general fundamental rights questions such as universality and cultural relativism and the principles of equality and non-discrimination. Secondly, several cases are discussed in which human rights were invoked to protect cultural interests of minorities in the European Court of Human Rights. Individual and collective dimensions of fundamental rights are also taken into consideration. Also, the book explores the cases were human rights are invoked in order to protect individual from cultural practices which are considered harmful or against public order, public morals, public healthor the rights of others.
The book provides a comprehensive overview of the case law of the ECHR on issues related to cultural identity and proposes a human rights framework for the management of cultural diversity in multi-cultural societies based on the case law of the European Court of Human Rights.

In Search of a Fair Balance between Multiple Diversities, European Values and State Interests

The Rights of Cultural Identity in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights

Hart Studies in European Criminal Law

This book analyses the theorisation and application of proportionality of criminal offences and penalties in EU law, shedding light on its hybrid nature. In the EU legal order, proportionality amounts to a general principle playing a crucial role in limiting the exercise of EU powers, assessing domestic measures' compatibility with internal market freedoms, and adjudicating fundamental rights. The EU concept of proportionality has a precise theorisation, but the principle assumes a distinct physiognomy in EU criminal law. Indeed, proportionality has a different meaning in criminal law, linked to theories of punishment. Not only do the two understandings of proportionality coexist in EU criminal law, but they are also intertwined, thus giving rise to a hybrid principle. However, their uneasy relationship remains unexplored. To understand this unique interaction, the book deepens theorisation and applications of the hybrid principle of proportionality of criminal offences and penalties in the EU legislative practice on the harmonisation of substantive criminal law and ECJ case law on the review of domestic criminal measures. This analysis gives fresh insights into the relationship between the EU and criminal law concepts of proportionality within the EU legal order.

A Hybrid Principle

Proportionality of Criminal Offences and Penalties in EU Law

Equality law is audist. Deaf communities around the world continue to encounter Deaf Legal Exclusion through legal frameworks that define them narrowly and restrict their rights. This book examines why these frameworks have not delivered equality in practice. It argues that the core issue is structural misrecognition: law protects deaf people only when they accept a definition based on impairment. Sign language, culture and community are treated as secondary. What appears to be inclusion is often a Deaf Legal Illusion: equality claimed in principle but absent in practice. The book analyses five models used to categorise deaf people in law and policy: disability, language minority, culturo-linguistic community, ethnic group and Indigenous group. Some appear in legislation; others are found in scholarship and advocacy. Each reflects only part of deaf people's lives. Drawing on doctrinal and socio-legal analysis of the Equality Act 2010, case law of the ECtHR, and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the book critiques how equality law relies on narrow definitions of fairness. It explores formal, substantive and transformative precepts of equality, assessing their ability to reflect deaf people's experiences. It identifies the audist assumptions built into legal systems that expect deaf people to adapt to hearing norms, while withholding full recognition of sign language and community belonging. In response, the book proposes the Deaf Rights Model, which brings the five models together as complementary rather than competing. Alongside Deaf Equality Concepts, it offers a framework in which sign language, culture and community become central to legal thinking about equality. The Deaf Legal Dilemma establishes Deaf Legal Studies as a field grounded in the priorities and expertise of deaf communities. It invites lawmakers, practitioners and scholars to rethink the purpose of the law and the structures through which deaf people are recognised.

Challenging Equality Law

The Deaf Legal Dilemma

Criminal Practice Series

Criminal Appeals Handbook provides practical assistance to legal representatives of clients who are seeking to challenge convictions or sentences in the Court of Appeal and beyond. It takes each topic in the order in which it arises in the appeal process, from obtaining advice, including funding for advice and assistance under legal aid, and potential grounds of appeal, through to the conclusion of the case in the Court of Appeal. The Third Edition includes a number of important updates, including: - Coverage of the Sentencing Act 2020 - Criminal Procedure Rules 2025 - Fresh evidence and referrals from the Criminal Cases Review Commission - Updated Appendices covering the March 2026 Guide to Proceedings in the Court of Appeal, Criminal Division - Significant decisions in modern slavery and protest cases - A new section on women, caring responsibilties and pregnancy - Developments linked to children and young people Available in an accessible single volume, this handbook offers practical guidance and insight on the preparation and presentation of cases, with a summary of key points at the end of each section.

Criminal Appeals Handbook

Every summer, Yasmine visits her family in Lebanon, and every Sunday, the whole family comes over for lunch. This summer Sunday, Yasmine is making the hummus! 
But hummus is harder to make than she expects, and Yasmine has all sorts of questions: How much garlic should she add? Is it lemon juice or vinegar? And where does the sesame flavor come from? With a little help from Baba, Yasmine mixes in a bit of this, and a bit of that ... and hummus à la Yasmine is ready! But when grumpy Ammo Farouk arrives with the rest of the family, Yasmine worries - will he hate it? What if her hummus doesn't taste like the real thing?
Sundays Are for Feasts is a celebration of how meals can bring family together, and the importance of making your own traditions. Includes an author's note, glossary of Arabic terms used in the story and a recipe for hummus!
 

Key Text Features
illustrations
author's note
recipe
glossary
definitions
 

Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.1
With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.3
With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.4
Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.6
With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.7
With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.3
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7
Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

Sundays Are for Feasts

This book analyses the role of actors that critically aid adjudicators at different stages of the dispute resolution process across 20 international dispute resolution bodies. Collectively referred to as 'dispute assistants' in the book, these actors are known by different names such as legal officers, référendaires, secretariat staff, registry staff, etc. The book uses doctrinal research, supplemented through interviews with relevant actors in each dispute resolution body, and delivers a holistic view of their everyday practice. The book provides a comparative study on the functions of dispute assistants at every stage of the dispute resolution process, revealing the widespread and critical nature of their work. It addresses the legitimacy concerns raised about the alleged influence dispute assistants may exercise over adjudicators as well as in the decision-making process. These concerns are traced across sources such as judicial/quasi-judicial decisions; statements or criticisms raised by States parties, academics, or practitioners; and concerns that arose in conversations with judges, dispute assistants, and other relevant actors. By employing a comparative lens, the book moves from concerns that are specific to individual dispute resolution bodies towards general concerns. By tapping into the wealth of comparative practices across dispute resolution bodies to navigate these legitimacy concerns, this essential book reframes the narrative that dispute assistants threaten the legitimacy of international dispute resolution, and proposes solutions to show how their expertise can be leveraged to strengthen the legitimacy of outcomes.

Navigating Legitimacy

Assistants in International Dispute Settlement

Studies in Private International Law

This book examines the convergences, divergences and reciprocal lessons that the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa)share with one another in developing the principles of private international law.


The chapters provide a thematic understanding of the cornerstones of private international law in each of the BRICS countries: namely, (1) the procedure to initiate claims in civil and commercial matters, (2) the law that would govern such matters in litigation and arbitration, as well as (3) the mechanism to recognise and enforce foreign judgments and arbitral awards.


Written by leading private international law scholars and practitioners, the chapters draw on domestic legislation and its interpretation through cases decided by the courts in each of these emerging economies, and explicitly cover the rules applicable in contractual and non-contractual concerns and issues of choice of court agreements. Issues around marriage, divorce, matrimonial property, succession and surrogacy are also addressed, considering the implication of such aspects through the increased movement of persons.


The book is a useful comparative resource for the governments of the BRICS countries, legislators, traders, academics, researchers and students looking for an in-depth discussion of the reciprocal lessons that these countries may have to offer one another on these issues.

Convergence, Divergence and Reciprocal Lessons

Private International Law in BRICS

'Captivating, mind-boggling and deeply disturbing' - Maureen Freely'Humane, thoughtful and urgent - this book will make you think, make you laugh, make you cry, but also make you burn with rage' - Dr Mary WellesleyA thought-provoking deep dive into the global fertility industry and the commodification of the maternal body__________Should surrogacy be a paid service, an altruistic act - or even legal at all?Is it right that you can pay more for 'VIP' egg donors - and to view their photos?How much, if anything, should breastmilk cost - and who should be allowed to buy it?The global fertility industry is rapidly growing, hugely profitable and morally complex. This an industry where one person's biological bad luck can be another person's financial gain. From egg freezing to black-market breastmilk, the maternal body has never been more commodified, yet the ethical, emotional and economic implications are rarely considered.Through a combination of undercover reporting and detailed first-hand accounts Alev Scott exposes how the IVF, surrogacy and milk industries operate around the world and who is profiting. In doing so, she considers the blurred line between exploitation and empowerment. Who should make money from the maternal body: only the women themselves, anyone or no one?Timely, thought-provoking and compelling, Cash Cow is an unmissable investigation into how desire, desperation and commerce intersect, and the impact the fertility industry has on individuals.__________'A powerful, intimate and disturbing exploration of the hidden markets built on women's bodies' Professor Peter Frankopan'An absolute must read for anyone considering surrogacy; a compelling and thought-provoking book for everyone else' Jack Farchy, co-author of The World for Sale

How the Maternal Body Became a Global Commodity – and the Hidden Costs for Women

Cash Cow

Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society

This book examines the relationship between sport, the media, and national identities in Great Britain. It draws upon case studies of different sporting events and stories, looking at the ways in which the media (re)present different narratives of the nation(s).It focuses on the intersections between different parts of Great Britain, such as matches between two British nations within international football competitions. It also explores contested claims for national sporting glory through the achievements of individual athletes and teams. From Andy Murray's success in tennis, to the portrayal of Team GB athletes born outside of the United Kingdom, the book shines new light on ongoing debates about the perceived fragility of the United Kingdom and the place of Great Britain and its constituent parts within a post-Brexit Europe. In looking at the prestigious Sports Personality of the Year award, it considers how and where discourses of the nation intersect and what this can tell us about the significance of social issues such as gender and racial equality in sport and in wider society.This is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the sociology of sport, sport media, the politics of sport, cultural identities, nationalism, or media studies.

Battling Brits

Sport, National Identities and the Media

National Restrictions on Gay, Lesbian and Same-Sex Parentage under Review by the European Court of Human Rights

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