Law and society, sociology of law

Explores the shaping of China and India''s energy and climate policies by two-level pressures characterized as wealth, status and asymmetrical interdependence.

This book provides a timely analysis of the use of cultural narratives and narratives of credibility in rape trials in England and Wales, drawing on court observation methods.

This book explores the ways language is used by the professional legal community for the communication of its main business - the negotiation of justice - in today's globalized world.

La obra que el lector tiene entre manos recoge las aportaciones más relevantes del Congreso Unijes 2013, convocado por las Facultades de Derecho de las universidades de Deusto, Pontificia Comillas de Madrid y ESADE-URL, y que bajo el título ?

These original essays focus on fundamental issues and practical implications of the relationship between disability and the good human life.

Explores the role of NGOs as mediators in crucial litigation cases on women''s rights in South Africa.

Disorder and instability are matters of continuing public concern.

Offender-focused prosecution concentrates attention to the actions, decisions, choices, and motivations of the offender.

This book amplifies the different voices and experiences of those facing gender-based violence (GBV) in the Global South.

La estrecha relación existente entre el crecimiento económico y la eficacia del sistema judicial es continuamente destacada por las más relevantes organizaciones económicas internacionales, como son el Fondo Monetario Internacional, el Foro Económico Mundial, el Banco Mundial, la Organización para la Cooperación y Desarrollo Económicos o el Banco Central Europeo.

This sweeping sociological analysis traces the emergence of intellectual property as a new type of legal property.

This book critically examines models of domestic, regional and international judicial protection of economic, cultural and social rights in Africa.

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.

Modern Tort Law is a comprehensive, accessible and up-to-date introduction to the law of torts.

The central problem in the study of addiction is to explain why people repeatedly behave in ways they know are bad for them.

Since the end of the Second World War, increasing numbers of women have decided to become mothers without intending the biological father or a partner to participate in parenting.

This book identifies, analyses and discusses the nexus of legal issues that have emerged in recent years around sexuality and gender.

In the first part of the 20th century, a group of law scholars offered engaging, and occasionally disconcerting, views on the role of judges and the relationship between law and politics in the United States.

This book brings the insights of theatre theory to law, legal interpretation and the jurisprudential to reshape law as a practice of response and responsibility.

This book uncovers the influence of racial and prejudicial stereotyping during police investigation of suspects from stigmatised communities.

By definition, international law, once agreed upon and consented to, applies to all parties equally.

This textbook covers the Tort Law option of the A-level law syllabus, and provides at the same time an ideal introduction for anybody coming to the subject for the first time.

This book establishes legisprudence, in contrast to jurisprudence, as a legal theory of rational law-making.

Los humanos creamos y recreamos constantemente la diversidad, y esa es precisamente la característica que nos humaniza y al mismo tiempo nos distingue culturalmente, por lo que sus manifestaciones bien podrían pasar inadvertidas si no fuera porque en ocasiones se utilizan para justificar exclusiones sociales de todo tipo, o como instrumentos de poder para establecer jerarquías y relaciones sociales que propician la desigualdad, explotación, subordinación, sujeción y discriminación.

This book explores the complex relationship between colonial law and the reform of legal systems in postcolonial states.

This book contributes to the international debate on Indigenous Peoples Law, containing both in-depth research of Scandinavian historical and legal contexts with respect to the Sami and demonstrating current stances in Sami Law research.

This latest edition of AS Law has been fully updated to meet the requirements of the most recent changes to the specifications of both AQA and OCR examination boards.

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.

Interrogates the role of power and emotions in the responses of Western States and churches to their historical abuses.

Verstößt die Anforderung "sehr gute Deutschkenntnisse" gegen das Diskriminierungsverbot wegen der "ethnischen Herkunft"?

The transatlantic dispute over genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has brought into conflict the United States and the European Union, two long-time allies and economically interdependent democracies with a long record of successful cooperation.

The three Abrahamic faiths have dominated religious conversations for millennia but the relations between state and religion are in a constant state of flux.

This book brings together a group of innovative scholars examining the contemporary issue of effecting gender and sexuality justice in the context of Asia, consonant with engendering a just, equitable and sustainable development for all.

This title was first published in 2000: European Intellectual Property is a survey and discussion of the impact of the economic principles of the European Community, upon the legal regime for the protection of intellectual property rights within the Community and the laws of its Member States.

This volume explores the changing legal ideas and practices that accompany, cause, and are a consequence of the judicialization of politics in Latin America.

This book investigates the relationship between sex and gender under international human rights law, and how this influences the formation of individual subjects.

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

A review and analysis of existing scholarship on the different national traditions and on the various modes and subjects of law and humanities.

Acknowledging the challenges and opportunities raised by Brexit for the agrifood supply chain and agricultural policies across the UK, this book provides the first in-depth analysis of agricultural policy developments across the UK's four nations rooted in strong theoretical and practical underpinnings.

The Poverty of Privacy Rights makes a simple, controversial argument: Poor mothers in America have been deprived of the right to privacy.

This book presents the case law of Polish courts, namely the Supreme Court, administrative courts and the Constitutional Tribunal, in which the principles of EU law have been successfully applied.

An original and innovative recasting of constitutionalism, written by acknowledged experts in the field, this empirically grounded and theoretically informed volume addresses the strategies and philosophies that judges and lawyers bring to bear when creating European constitutional jurisprudence; investigating and promoting promotes the sustainability of a theory or praxis of 'procedural' constitutionalism.

Utilising Lon Fuller's conception of legality, this book argues that current legal provisions often used to control online abuse aided by social media do not conform to the basic principles of legality in the criminal law, in turn, threatening freedom of expression.

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Using evidence and arguments from neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Morris B.

This edited collection utilises recent advances in theories on masculinities to explore and analyse the ways in which prisons shape performances of gender, both within prison settings and following release from prison.

Shari''a, Inshallah shows how people have used shari''a to struggle for peace, justice, and human rights in Somalia and Somaliland.