Law and society, sociology of law

Recent social and political developments in the EU have clearly shown the profound structural changes in European society and its politics.

According to the European Commission, two recent policies: the Digital Service Act and the Digital Market Act will allow for the regulation of a significant part of the EU Digital Single Market (DSM), to an extent similar to the creation of the traditional internal market in the early 1990s.

Cybersecurity is set to be one of the dominant themes in EU governance in the coming years, and EU law has begun to adapt to the challenges presented by security with the adoption of the Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive.

The futures of reproductive justice and LGBTQIA+ liberation are intimately connected.

Invitation to the Sociology of International Law aims to cast light on the under-explored sociological dimension of international law.

Examines the causes for mass incarceration of Americans and calls for the reform of the bail system.

Investigating the extent to which the European Union can be defined as a "e;highly competitive social market economy"e;, this edited collection illustrates and tests the constitutional reverberations of Art.

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.

In this new book, Aruna Nair sets out her arguments for a re-evaluation of the law of tracing.

This book draws on contemporary legal scholarship to explain why Athens was a remarkably well-ordered society.

The judgment of the European Court of Justice concerning the Kadi case has raised substantive and procedural issues that have caught the attention of scholars from many disciplines including EU law, constitutional law, international law and jurisprudence.

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

The introduction of self-assessment for income tax collection in the late 1990s marked a striking moment of cultural convergence between the UK and the US.

This title was first published in 2001.

This book provides the busy practitioner with a fundamental, step-by-step guide to key aspects of the law regarding unfair dismissal.

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

The continuum of exploitation that has historically defined the everyday of domestic work - exclusion from employment and social security standards and precarious migration status - has frequently been neglected.

Serving as an introduction to one of the "e;hottest"e; topics in financial crime, the Value Added Tax (VAT) fraud, this new and original book aims to analyze and decrypt the fraud and explore multi-disciplinary avenues, thereby exposing nuances and shades that remain concealed by traditional taxation oriented researches.

Public mistrust of those in authority and failings of public organisations frame disputes over attribution of responsibility between individuals and systems.

Where do law and medicine converge and diverge in their responses to and understandings of harm and suffering?

Lawyers use non-trial advocacy skills in court for pre- and post-trial submissions.

This title was first published in 2003.

Duties to Care is the first empirically grounded, conceptually nuanced, socio-legal examination of caring for a person with dementia.

This collection adopts a distinctive method and structure to introduce the work of Italian constitutional law scholars into the Anglophone dialogue while also bringing a number of prominent non-Italian constitutional law scholars to study and write about constitutional justice in a global context.

Sexual Offences: Law and Context presents the substantive law governing sexual offending in England and Wales in its socio-legal and historical context.

Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities: Latin American and African Perspectives examines the relationship between legal pluralities and the prospects for greater gender justice in developing countries.

The role of the judiciary is constantly evolving and is in many ways more important than ever.

Written by an author team with over 60 years of teaching experience, the new edition of The Modern Law of Contract is the complete textbook for students of contract law, providing not only clear and authoritative commentary but also a selection of learning features to enable students to engage actively with the law.

This collection of essays interrogates how human rights law and practice acquire meaning in relation to legal pluralism, ie, the co-existence of more than one regulatory order in a same social field.

Perhaps more than any other social theorist in recent history, Niklas Luhmann's work has aroused extreme, and often antagonistic, responses.

Evidence: Law and Context explains the key concepts of evidence law in England and Wales clearly and concisely, set against the backdrop of the broader political and theoretical contexts.

This book provides a detailed examination of the complex negotiation processes surrounding intergovernmental conferences in the European Union.

This fully revised and updated second edition of Consumer Protection Law introduces the reader to the substantive law of consumer protection in the United Kingdom, the emphasis being on the place of United Kingdom law within an evolving European legal system and also on the need to draw upon comparative experience.

This study examines how institutions and social practices transform the meaning of Family and Medical Leave Act rights to recreate power and inequality systems.

The Handbook on Inequalities in Sentencing and Corrections among Marginalized Populations offers state-of-the-art volumes on seminal and topical issues that span the fields of sentencing and corrections.

First Published in 1995.

This book allows you to decide whether a living will is for you and offers a plain English living will to make your wishes known and how to grant an EPA allowing those you trust to manage your affairs.

Explores the ECtHR''s understanding of what it means to be a ''father'' and the role of doctrines of interpretation.

American Juvenile Justice is a definitive volume for courses on the criminology and policy analysis of adolescence.

Legal aid for family cases in private law, mainly divorce and separation, where the state is not directly involved as it is in public law cases where there are issues of domestic violence or neglect or abuse of children, came to an abrupt end together with help for welfare and immigration cases on April 1 2013 when the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) came into effect.

Are you concerned about promoting transparency whilst protecting the privacy of vulnerable clients?

In a society where sexualized media has become background noise, we are frequently discouraged from frank and open discussions about sex and offered few tools for understanding sexual behaviors and sexualities that are perceived as being out of the norm.

This text presents a practical analysis of the private law of banking transactions.

This book analyzes the effect of policy on the digital game complex: government, industry, corporations, distributors, players, and the like.

This book contributes to a feminist understanding of international human rights by examining restrictions on reproductive freedom through the lens of the right to be free from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

First published in 1981, this book traces the history of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) from 1897-1914.

This book analyzes the effect of policy on the digital game complex: government, industry, corporations, distributors, players, and the like.

Text, Cases and Materials on European Union Law provides students with a clear and comprehensive guide to the main constitutional, institutional and substantive features of EU law.

Bringing a timely synthesis to the field, The Handbook of Law and Society presents a comprehensive overview of key research findings, theoretical developments, and methodological controversies in the field of law and society.