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To commemorate International Women鈥檚 Day 2018, a day where we celebrate women鈥檚 achievements through history around the world, we at 糖心TV Law School wanted to shine a special spotlight on some of the achievements and activities the 鈥榳onder women鈥� of 糖心TV Law have achieved over the current academic year.

Assistant Professor Dr Henrique Carvalho has been shortlisted for a prestigious 鈥楬art Socio-Legal Theory and History Prize鈥� for his book 'The Preventive Turn in Criminal Law'.

The book prize, presented by the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA), will be awarded for a book that makes a contribution to socio-legal theory or to the socio-legal history published in the 12 months up to 30 September 2017.

With the effects of the 2007 credit crunch still being felt around the world, a new book by Dr Andreas Kokkinis, Assistant Professor in the University of 糖心TV鈥檚 School of Law, explores whether traditional models of corporate governance fail to promote financial stability.

Corporate Law and Financial Instability explores the tension between corporate governance systems focused around shareholders who want to maximise their returns, and prudential regulation where risk-taking must be controlled in order to safeguard financial stability.

We are pleased to announce that Dr Sharifah Sekalala鈥檚 new book will be released on the 24^th November 2017.

Millions of people in developing countries struggle to gain access to essential life-saving medicines for global epidemics such as AIDS and malaria. 鈥楽oft Law and Global Health Problems鈥� examines the different legal approaches that have been taken internationally to improve global access to essential medicines.

Professor Andrew Williams has been shortlisted for a prestigious 鈥楥rime Writing Daggers鈥� award in the non-fiction category for his book 鈥�A Passing Fury鈥�. The book goes up against .

The book was described by the shortlisting judges as 鈥渁 compelling examination of how the war crimes trials at Nuremberg and elsewhere were imposed across the chaos and ruins of the Third Reich, interwoven with the author鈥檚 own travels, investigations and reflections.鈥�

Through an examination of five plays by Shakespeare, analyses the contiguous development of common law and poetic drama during the first decade of Jacobean rule.

The broad premise of is that the ‘artificial reason’ of law was a complex art form that shared the same rhetorical strategy as the plays of Shakespeare.

The book is available now from .

‘’, a new book by Dr Henrique Carvalho, offers the latest addition to the Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice published by OUP (Oxford University Press).

This new book seeks to understand where the impulse for prevention in criminal law comes from, and why this preventive dimension seems to be expanding in recent times.

The series aims to cover all aspects of criminal law and procedure including criminal evidence and encompassing both practical and theoretical works.

The general idea of a ‘preventive turn’ in criminal law is a modern spate of new criminal offences that criminalise conduct that happens much earlier than the actual harm which they are trying to prevent.

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Newly published in 2017, Associate Professor co-edited book ‘’, with Maria O'Sullivan (Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, Monash University), investigates two current, critical challenges for asylum seekers hoping to find refuge within international systems of protection: first, the initial obstacles encountered by refugees in gaining entry to foreign territories; and second, the barriers to accessing quality asylum.