Law and society, sociology of law

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Presenting readers with all the need-to-know information on complex construction projects within a single publication, this book expertly focuses on practical issues whilst also providing insights on the law applying to construction projects.

This book presents an up-to-date analysis of women as victims of crime, as individuals under justice system supervision, and as professionals in the field.

Social Identity and the Law: Race, Sexuality and Intersectionality is an important resource for inquiry into the relationship between law and social identity in the contexts of race, sexuality and intersectionality in the United States.

Feminist approaches to international law have been mischaracterised by the mainstream of the discipline as being a niche field that pertains only to women's lived experiences and their participation in decision-making processes.

What role does linguistic diversity play in European democratic and legal processes?

In this book, a judge at the Shari''a Court of Jerusalem explains the religious law of Muslim minorities.

The Handbook of European Security Law and Policy offers a holistic discussion of the contemporary challenges to the security of the European Union and emphasizes the complexity of dealing with these through legislation and policy.

Law''s Wars is the first comprehensive account of efforts to resist and correct rule of law violations in the US ''war on terror''.

Each year, thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) asylum seekers apply for asylum in EU Member States.

In identifying a number of 'fuzzy border' cases (notably where pensionable age, pregnancy, residence, and marriage, are proxies for unlawful discrimination), Equality, Discrimination and the Law argues that the traditional notions of discrimination and victimisation are inadequate to implement equality policy and cannot represent fully the reality of discriminatory practices.

The veiling and unveiling of women have been controversial issues in Turkey since the late-Ottoman period.

Business Negotiations and the Law: The Protection of Weak Professional Parties in Standard Form Contracting aims to explore the issues surrounding contract negotiations between entrepreneurs and other professionals when one of the parties does not have the same level of bargaining power as the other.

In three parts, this volume in the AP-LS series explores the phenomena of captivity and risk management, guided and informed by the theory, method, and policy of psychological jurisprudence.

This edited collection is a cultural analysis of how law is shaped into procedure and principle by the conditions of everyday life.

As a linguistically-grounded, critical examination of consent, this volume views consent not as an individual mental state or act but as a process that is interactionally-and discursively-situated.

This volume responds to a growing interest in the language of legal settings by situating the study of language and law within contemporary theoretical debates in discourse studies, linguistic anthropology, and sociolinguistics.

Religious freedom is now widely accepted as fundamental to any liberal democracy.

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.

The extensively updated seventh edition of Unlocking Equity and Trusts will help you grasp the main concepts of Equity and Trusts with ease.

This book argues that ignorance of law should usually be a complete excuse from criminal liability.

First comparative study of women judges in the Asia-Pacific based on empirical socio-legal research.

This book focuses on Islamic constitutionalism, and in particular on the relation between religion and the protection of individual liberties potentially clashing with shari?

Recent decades have brought international and municipal courts much closer together and induced meaningful cooperation.

This key collection brings together a selection of papers commissioned and published by the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law & Society.

Explaining in clear terms some of the main methodological approaches to legal research, Research Methods in Law is written by specialists in their fields, researching in a variety of jurisdictions.

Also Serving Time informs readers about the realities of provincial and territorial prison work in Canada.

The growth of data-collecting goods and services, such as ehealth and mhealth apps, smart watches, mobile fitness and dieting apps, electronic skin and ingestible tech, combined with recent technological developments such as increased capacity of data storage, artificial intelligence and smart algorithms, has spawned a big data revolution that has reshaped how we understand and approach health data.

This book offers a critical appreciation of the nature and impact of coercive control in interpersonal relationships.

Criminal Law: The Basics is an insightful introduction to the legal aspects of criminal acts, ranging from battery to burglary and harassment to homicide.

Domestic Violence as State Crime presents a provocative challenge to the way that domestic violence is understood and addressed.

Few treatments of Catholic Social Teaching are as comprehensive as this, and none is nearly so devoted to a critical scholarly presentation and analysis of the whole corpus.

This book provides an original and critical analysis of the most contentious subjects being negotiated in the China-EU Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI).

This is the first book to thematically investigate lying in the American legal system.

Attorney and legal scholar Daxton Stewart examines the intersection of media law and science fiction, exploring the past, present, and future of communication technology and policy debates.

The law is a well-known tool in fighting gender inequality, but which laws actually advance women's rights?

Contrary to predictions that it would become increasingly redundant in a globalizing world, citizenship is back with a vengeance.

This book illuminates how law and politics interact in the judicial doctrines and explores how democracy sustains and is sustained by the exercise of judicial power.

American police departments have presided over the business of motion pictures since the end of the nineteenth century.

It is apparent that file sharing on the Internet has become an emerging norm of media consumption-especially among young people.

Despite being one of the world's most vibrant democracies, police estimate between five and ten percent of the murders in South Africa result from vigilante violence.

This book explores the discrepancies among what protections Title IX provides to pregnant and parenting students, what colleges communicate, and what pregnant and parenting students actually experience.

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 an exam situation.

Since the Second World War, the international community has sought to prevent the repetition of destructive far-right forces by establishing institutions such as the United Nations and by adopting documents such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Exploring obstacles to effective compensation of victims of competition infringements, this book categorises the types of victims harmed and the types of losses arisen from these infringements to identify to what extent there is a need for enhanced private competition law enforcement in the European Union (EU) and the best way to address this need.

Leading experts in EU constitutional law examine the foundational importance of citizenship rights in delimiting the scope of EU law.

This innovative book looks at the topic of migration through the prism of law and literature.

This book, first published in 1990, takes a challenging look at the images constructed by the Press of women's political protest.

Whenever the topic of large jails and public hospitals in urban America is raised, a single idea comes to mind.

The volume examines how diversity in Member States'' legal cultures is being addressed in the development of EU criminal justice.