Best books for students to read to prepare for the LLM

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The directors of the different pathways have listed a few books to help you prepare for the LLM, most of them are general.

Podcasts

Summer of Law – Kent Law School News

Skills

Birrell Ivory S, Becoming a Critical Thinker, For Your University Studies and Beyond (Oxford University Press 2021)

Hean Read S, Academic Writing Skills for International Students (Bloomsbury Publishing 2018)

Lammasniemi L, Law Dissertations, A Step-by-Step Guide (2d edn, Routledge 2021)

Pathways

You will find here a list of books that can be read in advance of the pathway

International Criminal Justice

Arendt Eichmann in Jerusalem A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin, 1994) 

Franko, Globalisation and Crime (Sage, 2020)

Clarke et al, Africa and the ICC (CUP, 2016)

Schwöbel-Patel, Marketing global justice: the political economy of international criminal law (CUP, 2021)

Mansell and Openshaw, International Law: a critical introduction (Bloomsbury, 2nd edition 2019).   (if new to international law)

International Commercial Law

Linarelli J, Salomon ME and Sornarajah M, The Misery of International Law, Confrontations with Injustice in the Global Economy (Oxford University Press 2018)

Koram, K Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire (John Murray, 2022)

Pistor, K the Code of Capital (Princeton University Press, 2019)

Public International Law and Public International Law with International Relations

Anghie A, Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law (Cambridge University Press 2005)

Linarelli J, Salomon ME and Sornarajah M, The Misery of International Law, Confrontations with Injustice in the Global Economy (Oxford University Press 2018)

International Environmental Law

Koivura T, Introduction to International Environmental Law (Routledge 2014)

Carson R, Silent Spring (1961)

Gillespie, International Environmental Law, Policy and Ethics (Oxford 1997, 2002)

Clapp/Dauvergne, Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment 2nd ed (MIT Press 2011)

Thunberg G (ed), The Climate Book (2022 Fischer)

Kotzé L, Global Environmental Constitutionalism in the Anthropocene (Hart 2016)

O’Neill, The Environment and International Relations (CUP 2017)

Dobson, Green political thought (4th edn, Routledge 2007)

Higgins P, Eradicating ecocide: laws and governance to prevent the destruction of our planet (2011 Shepheard-Walwyn)

Tigre M, Gaps in International Environmental Law: Toward a Global Pact for the Environment (2020 Environmental Law Institute)

Law and Health

Jackson E, Medical Law : Text, Cases, and Materials (6th edn, Oxford University Press 2022)

Mezrich J, When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon (Harper 2019)