Law and society, sociology of law

Taking the Arab Spring as its case study, this book explores the role of law and constitutions during societal upheavals, and critically evaluates the different trajectories they could follow in a revolutionary setting.

El objetivo y la finalidad de este libro, es el análisis y la defensa a ultranza del deber de imparcialidad de los funcionarios públicos, como anverso de una moneda en la que el reverso está representado el derecho de los ciudadanos a una Administración neutral , en una especie de conmixtión o compenetración de ambos conceptos, de manera que no es posible su separación, en cuanto que los dos son cosas principales.

This book provides the first comprehensive and detailed analysis of the Infanticide Act and its impact in England and Wales and around the world.

Makes sense of truthmaking in law, media, politics, and courts of popular opinion including on transgender controversies and cancel culture.

Analyses the politics of policing in a range of regime types across East and Southeast Asia.

Exploring the main developments and challenges for the right to family life in the context of European integration, this book examines the right to family life in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the interplay between family life, citizenship, and free movement; it analyzes the combined impact of the EU and the European Convention on Human Rights on the concept of the family protected by the law in light of recent case law.

Mexico has one of the highest kidnapping rates in the world.

The principle of solidarity is particularly important now because it is in juxtaposition to some current self-centered trends in politics: the crises that have upset the world in recent years, such as migrations, hegemonic aspirations, pandemics, and wars, have made self-evident the inadequacy of such selfish politics.

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Asks and answers the hardest questions about the relationship between British Islam and English law using classical pluralist theory.

This book analyses corporate rescue laws, processes and policies prescribed incorporate insolvency or bankruptcy laws, and employment laws of the UK andthe US, with a particular focus on how extant employee rights are treated whena debtor employer initiates corporate insolvency proceedings.

This first study of the legal history of sex offences in Mandate Palestine pioneers a new socio-cultural perspective on evidence.

A collection of papers presenting critical perspectives in the development of asylum law with a focus on European and UK developments, incorporating international human rights law and comparative law perspectives.

Providing interdisciplinary and empirically grounded insights into the issues surrounding gender and migration into and within Europe, this work presents a comprehensive and critical overview of the historical, legal, policy and cultural framework underpinning different types of European migration.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of several national case studies on family violence between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, using court records as their main source.

Understanding Family Law is a clear and concise book for students of family law.

Living in pluralist India has had critical consequences for Muslim women who are expected to follow a determined and strict code of conduct.

The second edition of Critical Company Law provides a framework in which to understand how the company functions in society and a thorough grounding in modern legal doctrine.

This book analyses the gendered nature of patent law and the knowledge governance system it supports.

This book is a first-of-its-kind, five-country empirical study of the causes and consequences of social and economic rights litigation.

Codes of Jewish law may look similar, but they represent very different ways of thinking about the law.

This fourth edition of Practice Notes on Consumer Law contains much useful information for those dealing with problems in consumer law, from either the consumer or supplier perspective.

In recent years, Turkey has become an ever more important actor on the international stage.

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This book examines the lines between online joking and legal consequences and analyzes legal and educational responses to these issues.

The book explores the rise of civil divorce in Victorian England, the subsequent operation of a fault system of divorce based solely on the ground of adultery, and the eventual piecemeal repeal of the Victorian-era divorce law during the Interwar years.

Conscience and the Common Good reframes the debate about conscience by bringing its relational dimension into focus.

Human rights have become a defining feature of contemporary society, permeating public discourse on politics, law and culture.

Investigating minority and indigenous women's rights in Muslim-majority states, this book critically examines the human rights regime within international law.

Set in different national contexts (Brazil, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Laos, Norway, Thailand) and in different social science disciplines, the chapters of this volume aim at questioning anti-trafficking policies and their practical impact on sex work regulation.

Adopts an interdisciplinary approach to study ''expert ignorance'', or the power of experts who continually admit the limits of their knowledge.

In the wake of Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary renditions, and secret torture centres in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, Revenge versus Legality addresses the relationship between law and wild or vigilante justice; between the power to enforce retribution and the desire to seek revenge.

Considers whether and how constitutions have affirmed women''s equal citizenship status, from the birth of constitutionalism to the present.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg believed that the equal rights of women belonged in the Constitution.

This book aims to investigate whether, and if so, how, an institution designed to bring to justice perpetrators of the most heinous crimes can be regarded a tool of oppression in a (neo-)colonial sense.

Explains the adoption, diffusion of, and resistance to gender quotas in politics, corporate boards and public administration across Europe.

This book provides a critical overview of the policy frameworks underpinning the contemporary practices of non-conviction information disclosure during pre-employment 'screening'.

From a young age Albie Sachs played a prominent part in the struggle for justice in South Africa.

How can children grow to realize their inherent rights and respect the rights of others?

Following the rise of the zemiological movement, the concept of social harm has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention.

As the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded, stark social inequalities have increasingly been revealed and, in many cases, exacerbated by the global health crisis.

Anarchism & Sexuality aims to bring the rich and diverse traditions of anarchist thought and practice into contact with contemporary questions about the politics and lived experience of sexuality.

'The Constitution [of India] has within it the ability to produce social catharsis.

Discusses Upendra Baxi''s role as an Indian jurist and how his contributions have shaped our understanding of legal jurisprudence.

Billions of minutes a month are spent globally on social media.

Promoting cultural and scientific creativity, and knowledge and understanding, cultural rights work as atrocity prevention tools and enable people to aspire to a better future.

This edited collection provides a forum for rigorous analysis of the necessity for both legal and social change with regard to regulation of same-sex relationships and rainbow families, the status of civil partnership as a concept and the lived reality of equality for LGBTQ+ persons.

First published in 1998, this volume seeks to examine a range of policing techniques which are new, if not in their conception, then at least in their importance to the form of police enquiries in the late 20th century.