Chantal Hamill

Location: LINLITHGOW

Membership Grade: Advanced Professional Member

Contact Info

Phone: 01506 845763
Mobile: 07784 492566
Email: [email protected]

General Experience

I have been indexing since 1990. I am a former law librarian and welfare adviser, and have considerable experience of legal indexing and legal tabling. I also index most non-scientific subjects. I am a native French speaker and bilingual: I was brought up and educated in France, and graduated in Paris (Anglo-American Studies). I occasionally wrote on local history in Scotland, and worked as a volunteer in my local museum.

I have indexed around 1000 books in my career. A few of them are mentioned below.

Subjects

Law (All Areas)

Very experienced legal indexer, both English, Scottish, foreign and international law. Parker and Majundar: Merger Control (Hart Publishing); Teubner: Networks as Connected Contracts (Hart); Fordham: Judicial Review (Hart); McManus: Environmental Law in Scotland (EUP); Selejan-Gujan: The Constitution of Romania (Hart); Ashton: Taxation in Guernsey (Key Haven); Bant & Paterson: Misleading Silence (Hart); Zhou: Access to Justice for the Chinese Consumer (Hart); Saunders: Responsible Government and the Australian Constitution (Hart Publishing).

English Literature

Degree in English; Poplawski: English Literature in Context (CUP); Brown: The Literature of Ireland (CUP); Graham and Ward: Cambridge History of African American History (CUP); Raffield: Shakespeare’s Imaginary Constitution (Hart); Edlich-Muth: Malory and his Contemporaries (Boydell & Brewer); Ward: Sex, Crime and & Literature in Victorian England (Hart)

Literature and Poetry In Foreign Languages

I can index all aspects of French literature; born and brought up in France to degree level; Elsner: Mourning and Creativity in Proust (Palgrave Macmillan). Burgwinkle: Cambridge History of French Literature (CUP)

Politics

British and international politics. Bryson: Redefining Social Justice: New Labour, Rhetoric and Reality (MUP); Levgold: Return to Cold War (Polity); Qureshi: I refuse to Condemn (MUP); Cullenward and Victor: Making Climate Policy Work (Polity); Timothy: Remaking One Nation (Polity); Bauman: History and Politics (POlity).

European History

All countries and period, but particularly Germany and France as I understand the language

European Union

I have indexed well over a hundred books on the subject. Cremona et al: The EU and International Dispute Settlement (Hart Publishing); Wierczek: The Legitimacy of EU Criminal Law (Hart)

French (Indexing In)

Bilingual French speaker. Tremblay (ed): Les Lumieres Catholiques et le Roman Francais (Liverpool University Press); Chapron: Livres d’Ecole et Litterature de Jeunesse en France au 18eme Siecle (Liverpool University Press); Spector & Lenne-Cornuez: Rousseau et Locke (Liverpool University Press).

History (All Areas)

I am a passionate reader of history books and feel equal to any subjects and places. Yuan: History of Chinese Civilisation (CUP, 4 vols)

Local History

I have researched and written on 17th century Livingston and West Lothian and was involved with the Scottish Local History Forum for a long time. Long: Looking at Linlithgow: Art: The Royal Burgh in Art through the Centuries (Linlithgow Civic Trust).

Current Affairs

I have indexed SIPRI Yearbooks for years; Anne Stenersen: Al Qaida in Afghanistan (CUP); Selwyn: Workers, State and Development in Brazil (MUP); Primoratz: Terrorism: A Philosophical Investigation (Polity); Smith: North Korea: Markets and Military Rule (CUP); Whyte: Ecocide (MUP)

International Law

I have indexed well over a hundred books on the subject. Dupuy and Vinuales: International Environmental Law (CUP); Schabas: Introduction to the International Criminal Court (CUP); Irish Yearbook of International Law‘ (Hart); D’Ascoli: Sentencing in International Criminal Law (Hart; Subedi: International Investment Law (Hart); Dawar: Legality of Bailouts and Buy Nationals (Hart); Jakobson & Melvin: The New Arctic Governance (SIPRI)

Social History

Lilt: The Invention of Celebrity (Polity)

European History

Kicharov: Republican Europe (Hart Publishing)

Legal Tabling

Experience of tabling both British and international material

Philosophy (All Areas)

Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals (CUP); Melamed and Rosenthal: Spinoza’s Theological Political Treatise (CUP); Fritzman: Hegel (Polity); Thoma: Troublemakers: A Philosophy of Puer Robustus (Polity); Gabriel: The Meaning of Thought (Polity)

Social Sciences (All Areas)

Hodge: Social Semiotics (Polity); McDermott: Whiteness in America (Polity)

International Relations

Eeckhout and Lopez-Escudero: The EU’s External Action in Time of Crisis (Hart); Picker, Wang and Zhou: The China-Australia Free Trade Agreement: a 21st Century Model (Hart)

France

All aspects of the country, history, language, politics, travel and literature; Clarke: France in the Age of Organisation (Berghan); Boyron: French Constitution(Hart); Burgwinkle: Cambridge History of French Literature (CUP); Paulin-Booth: Time and Radical Politics in France from the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War (MUP)

French (Works About)

Bilingual French speaker. Elsner: Mourning and Creativity in Proust (Palgrave Macmillan). Burgwinkle: Cambridge History of French Literature (CUP)

Sociology

Shaw: Shopping (Polity); Hibou: The Force of Obedience (Polity); Kaufman: Love Online (Polity); Turner: The Religious and the Political: A Comparative Sociology of Religion (CUP); Howson: The Body in Society (Polity)

Religious History

Madden: Paddington Prophet (Manchester University Press)

Employment Law

I used to represent claimants at employment tribunals in Scotland. Fenwick and Novitz: Human Rights at Work (Hart Publishing); Bruun et al: European Social Charter and the Employment Relation (Hart Publishing); McColgan: Discrimination Law (Hart Publishing).

Finance

Davies: The Financial Crisis (Polity); Gulliver & Payne: Corporate Finance Law (Hart); McNeil: Law of Financial Instruments (Hart)

Criminal Law

Cunneen and Hoyle: Debating Restorative Justice (Hart); Brown: Criminal Evidence and Procedure (Avizandum)

Eu Law

Extensive experience in the subject; Oliver: Free Movement of Goods in the European Union (Hart); Ortiz Blanco: Market Power in EU Antitrust Law (Hart); Silva Morais: Joint Ventures and EU Competition Law (Hart)

Cultural Studies

Bourdieu: Manet: A symbolic Revolution (Polity); Zamora and Behrens: Foucault and Neoliberalism (Polity); Shaw: The Three Amigos (MUP); Floyd & Wilson: Occult Knowledge, Science and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage (CUP); Goddard: Popular TV in Authoritarian Europe (MUP); Wessler: Habermas and the Media (Polity)

Warfare/Defence

Schmitt: Writing on War (Polity); SIPRI Yearbooks; Hall & Malesovic: Nationalism and War (CUP)

Property Law

Bright: Modern Studies in Property Law (Hart)

Medieval History

Lees: Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature (CUP)

Modern History

Van Gastek: WTO History (WTO)

Related qualifications

Maitresse-es-Lettres; DipLIb


Other skills

Recent indexes include

Paulin-Booth, Time and Radical Politics in France from the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War, Manchester University Press, 2023
Andrejevic & Selwyn, Facial Recognition, Polity, 2022
Spector & Lenne-Cornuez, Rousseau et Locke, Liverpool University Press, 2022
Wuthnow & Saunders, China’s Quest for Military Supremacy, Polity, 2024
Long, Putting Linlithgow on the Map, Linlithgow Civic Trust, 2024
Bauman, History and Politics, Polity, 2022
Wicks, Suicide and the Law, Hart Publishing, 2022
SIPRI Yearbook 2024, SIPRI, 2024
Schaefer et al, Ownership of Knowledge, MIT, 2022
Cockelbergh, Why AI Undermines Democracy & What to Do About It?, Polity, 2023

Clients Include

Hart Publishing
Edinburgh University Press
Polity
SIPRI
Manchester University Press
Jersey and Guernsey Law Review
Yale University Press
Max Planck Institute (Berlin)
Liverpool University Press
MIT Press

Special Publication Type

Biographies/ Autobiographies

Samoyault: Roland Barthes: A Biography (Polity); Muller-Doohm: Habermas (Polity)

Diaries And Letters

Adorno-Scholem Correspondence (Polity)

Directories And Yearbooks

SIPRI Yearbooks; CYELS Yearbooks

Textbooks

Sullivan: Course Notes: Contract Law (Hodder); Welfare State Reader (Polity)

Tools

PC
CINDEX