Law and society, sociology of law

This book aims to assist legal educators and law schools in integrating wellbeing within the design and delivery of the legal curriculum.

Third country nationals (TCNs) play an important part in the economy of the European Union, reflected in the rights granted to them under European Union Law.

Offering a window into the history of the modern legal profession in Western Europe, Stephen Jacobson presents a history of lawyers in the most industrialized city on the Mediterranean.

In 2004, a judgment from the highest court in the UK gave birth to a new era of privacy law.

Introducing readers to the study of law, media and popular culture, this text, using three original case studies, re-examines the assumptions underpinning existing research and suggests alternatives.

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.

This informative book provides an in-depth study of Cyprus' efforts to join the European Union.

Analyzing what is known about violence against women, this book centers on the contrast between the U.

This new edition of EU Employment Law provides a complete revision and update of the leading English language text in the field.

Drawing on data from a Europe wide project, together with existing data on equality and diversity initiatives, this book explores the work of trade unions in supporting equality and anti-discrimination policies across Europe and, in particular, the processes and collaborations involved in incorporating equality and diversity policies into trade union agendas.

This volume critically analyses Muslim Personal Law (MPL) in India and offers an alternative perspective to look at MPL and the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) debate.

This book places prostitution at the very centre of European history in the twentieth century.

This book examines Mental Health Courts (MHC) within a socio-legal framework.

Providing a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the legal approach to key areas of law within different legal systems, this book offers a blueprint for comparative legal study by evaluating the current epistemological debate on comparative law and comparative legal research methods.

This book is an interdisciplinary study that explains how just, reasonable multiculturalism is reconcilable with liberal democracy.

Explores the role of criminal intent in constituting felony in the first two centuries of the English criminal trial jury.

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

This volume addresses the pluralistic identity of the legal order.

Taking up the concept of vulnerability, this book examines the gendered impact of market-based procurement practices.

Novel Judgements is a book about nineteenth century Anglo-American law and literature.

Federal prosecutors have immense power and discretion to decide when to bring criminal charges, what plea bargains to offer, and how to implement the federal government's legal priorities in their districts.

Offering a window into the history of the modern legal profession in Western Europe, Stephen Jacobson presents a history of lawyers in the most industrialized city on the Mediterranean.

In a popular sense, 'law' connotes the rules of a society, as well as the institutions that make and enforce those rules.

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.

Containing contributions by some of the best known researchers in the field, this volume considers the intersection between the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), a relatively new mode of policy-making, and gender equality, a long-standing area of EU policy.

The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty-here for the first time in EnglishIn 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria created a sensation when he published On Crimes and Punishments.

Rethinking Legal Scholarship bridges the gap between American and European legal scholarship by looking at underlying methodological challenges.

Over the last fifteen years, the analytical field of punishment and society has witnessed an increase of research developing the connection between economic processes and the evolution of penality from different standpoints, focusing particularly on the increase of rates of incarceration in relation to the transformations of neoliberal capitalism.

Taking its cue from theoretical and ideological calls to challenge globalisation as a dynamic of homogenisation and resistance as led from, and directed against, the Global North, this volume asks: what can we see when we shift the lens beyond a North South binary?

Sex Offenders, 2nd Edition, offers the most up-to-date research involving the treatment and management of paraphilic and non-paraphilic sex offenders with and without comorbid mental illness or intellectual disability.

Das Phänomen Stalking erregt große mediale Aufmerksamkeit und stellt neue Herausforderungen an Justiz, Psychiatrie und die gesamte psychosoziale Beratungslandschaft: Wie kann den betroffenen Personen durch unsere Gesellschaft und durch professionelle Helfer Schutz geboten werden?

Drawing on two empirical studies and influential theoretical frameworks, this book provides a critical overview of the key regulatory challenges concerning cyberbullying and sexting behaviours among young people (persons under 18 years).

This volume presents a systematic collection of the various international legal sources that define the rights of religious minorities.

This second edition of Construction Law: From Beginner to Practitioner provides a thorough and comprehensive guide to construction law by blending together black letter law and socio-legal approaches.

Intimate Partner Violence is a serious social problem affecting millions in the United States and worldwide.

This book provides an in-depth guide to researchers and practitioners who are interested in analysing the evolution of EU law from a national and comparative constitutional law perspective.

Capturing a unique historical moment, this book examines the changes in urban life since the collapse of the Soviet Union from an ethnographic perspective, thus addressing significant gaps in the literature on cities, Central Asia and post-socialism.

A trenchant critique of developments in civil justice that questions modern orthodoxy and points to a downgrading of civil justice.

This comparative analysis considers the differing approaches to important areas of law in England, France and Germany.

Where, when, and how is the law practiced?

Volume III of The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales draws on archival sources and individual accounts to offer a history of penal policymaking in England and Wales between 1959 and 1997.

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 provides the reader with a comprehensive analysis of US Federal Antitrust and EC Competition Law.

This book tells the untold story of the Married Women's Association.

This book examines how the EU can be a more proactive actor in the promotion of the principles of sustainability and fairness from a legal environmental perspective.

Now in its 8th edition, Unlocking Equity and Trusts will help you grasp the main concepts of this core subject with ease.

Changes in family structures, demographics, social attitudes and economic policies over the last 60 years have had a large impact on family lives and correspondingly on family law.

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