Law and society, sociology of law

2015 Ontario Historical Society Alison Prentice Award - Winner2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award - NominatedThe story of the Bell Canada union drive and the phone operator strike that brought sweeping reform to women's workplace rights.

Explains the current weakness of democratic polities by addressing paradoxes in constitutional democracy and its theoretical foundations.

This book traces victims' active participatory rights through different procedural stages in adversarial and non-adversarial justice systems, in an attempt to identify what role victims play during criminal proceedings in the domestic setting.

A transformative progressive politics requires the state's reimagining.

The figure of the mistress is undoubtedly controversial.

From the 1930s to the early 1960s civil rights law was made primarily through constitutional litigation.

Sex, Sexuality, Law, and (In)Justice covers a wide range of legal issues associated with sexuality, gender, reproduction, and identity.

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles within the broad parameters of interdisciplinary legal scholarship.

This work provides a rational framework for legislation.

The volume revisits memory laws as a phenomenon of global law, transitional justice, historical narratives and claims for historical truth

This book explores the nature of the music industries before and after the digital revolution from the point of view of the consumer, and explores the question of whether there is a role for competition policy intervention in the music industries.

This book presents a socio-legal examination of national and devolved-level developments in social protection in the UK, through the eyes of politicians and officials at the heart of this process.

This book tells the long-neglected story of women''s marital denaturalization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Policymaking in large bureaucracies is hardly a simple process.

In August 2016 Colten Boushie, a twenty-two-year-old Cree man from Red Pheasant First Nation, was fatally shot on a Saskatchewan farm by white farmer Gerald Stanley.

Presenting an integrated approach to information exchange among law enforcement institutions within the EU, this book addresses the dilemma surrounding the need to balance the security of individuals and the need to protect their privacy and data.

This book explores the complex issue of building a common European identity and the factors that contribute to it, with special regard to the role played by the interaction between national Constitutional Courts and European Courts.

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.

Groups seeking legal equality often take a victory as the end of the line.

This monograph, which was also designed as a short reference book for specialized undergraduate and graduate courses on EU law, intends to shed light on, and legally frame, the evolution of the doctrine of services of general economic interest (SGEIs).

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

An analysis of law and imperial rule reveals that Tsarist Russia was far more ''lawful'' than generally assumed.

The work considers the international and European obligations of the UK in the realm of challenging the far-right and assesses the extent to which it adheres to them.

AI in combination with other innovative technologies promises to bring unprecedented opportunities to all aspects of life.

This groundbreaking book delves into the lived experiences and collective wisdom of Indigenous communities impacted by colonialism.

This is the first collection to examine the legal dynamics of deinstitutionalisation.

An examination of the responses of society and law to child pornography and sexual grooming.

Each year more than 2 million Americans divorced, and most of them use a lawyer.

This book provides a critical assessment of the problem of internet child pornography and its governance through legal and non-legal means, including a comparative assessment of laws in England and Wales, the United States of America and Canada in recognition that governments have a compelling interest to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation.

It was the classical task of legal rhetoric to make law both seen and understood.

This book critically analyses fundamental principles of EU law for the control of international economic crime.

From the Colonial to the Contemporary explores the representation of law, images and justice in the first three colonial high courts of India at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras.

The testimony of an expert witness can lead to success or failure in cases that hinge on the presentation's impact on a jury.

The idea of multi-culturalism has had a significant impact across many areas of law.

This edited collection speaks to and expands on existing debates around incarceration.

Examines how the concept of equality in education law and policy has transformed from Brown v.

Exploring the connection between families and inequality, Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships argues that the legal regulation of families stands fundamentally at odds with the needs of families.

Reproductive choices are at once the most private and intimate decisions we make in our lives and undeniably also among the most public.

Modern Intellectual Property Law combines coverage of each intellectual property right granted for creations of the mind into a thoughtful, unified textbook.

This groundbreaking new study shows how the process of creating an ever closer European Union affects not only the policy-making, but also the politics and polity of the Member States.

An in-depth review of the challenges of neoliberal models and policies for realizing the right to health.

Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in assessment.

This book examines 'The Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context', which celebrates the twentieth anniversary of its adoption in 2011, and its 'Kiev Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment' which came into force in July 2010.

Pornography has long proven a polarizing and vexing subject in legal and feminist debates.

Getting By offers an integrated, critical account of the federal laws and programs that most directly affect poor and low-income people in the United States-the unemployed, the underemployed, and the low-wage employed, whether working in or outside the home.

This book addresses and reviews progress in a major innovative development within police work known as evidence-based policing.