Law and society, sociology of law

Explores how disability activists in the UK and Canada have transformed aspirations into legal claims in their quest for equality.

The Fear of Erring, a combination of thick ethnography and an ethnopoetic storyline, illustrates how mistrust, ignorance, and imagination govern the everyday work of personnel in Argentina's criminal justice system.

Uses archival sources to examine censorship in British Hong Kong and challenge congratulatory histories of the British legal regime.

El gobierno corporativo se convierte en el lugar idóneo para fomentar la solidaridad en el trabajo de la empresa.

L'aparició d'aquests dos volums consolida el gran èxit de la col•lecció de dret civil català, que té com a objectiu l'estudi del dret civil vigent a Catalunya d'una forma completa, didàctica i actualitzada, fet que la converteix en la col•lecció de referència del panorama jurídic català, tant des d'un vessant dogmàtic com pràctic.

Das Buch wendet sich nicht allein an Studenten mit ausgeprägten historischen Interessen, sondern an die Rechtsstudentinnen und Rechtsstudenten überhaupt.

This book provides invaluable practical guidance to the grant, renewal, assignment and surrender of business leases.

Turkey's accession to the European Union is undoubtedly one of the Union's most contested potential enlargements.

Shaping the Normative Landscape is an investigation of the value of obligations and of rights, of forgiveness, of consent and refusal, of promise and request.

Discusses natural law as a traditional but highly contested source of canon law.

Democracy in the Courts examines lay participation in the administration of justice and how it reflects certain democratic principles.

This book highlights and examines the level, reach and consequences of corruption in international criminal justice systems.

This book explores the emerging engagement of EU law with care and carers.

Rethinking Rape Law provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of contemporary rape laws, across a range of jurisdictions.

This title was first published in 2001.

This book examines the potential role of European Union law in combating poverty and social exclusion in the European Union.

The Sovereignty of Human Rights advances a legal theory of international human rights that defines their nature and purpose in relation to the structure and operation of international law.

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

In light of ongoing concerns about the treatment of survivors, Rape Trials in England and Wales critically examines court responses to rape and sexual assault.

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.

This book details how, in poor communities, access to healthcare and social support is linked to punishment systems.

This book provides a legal historical insight into colonial laws on enslavement and the plantation system in the British West Indies.

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

Since the implementation of the European Directive on Takeover Bids, a European common legal framework governs regulation of takeovers in EU Members States.

This book examines diverse literary writings in Bangla related to crime in late nineteenth and early twentieth century colonial Bengal, with a timely focus on gender.

The Fourth Parliamentary Reform Act of 1918 gave the vote to nearly thirteen million men and over eight million women and determined the structure of electoral politics in twentieth-century Britain.

Hetcher applies his theory of norms to tort law and Internet privacy laws.

Sexual harassment in Japanese politics examines a problem that violates women's human rights and prevents a flourishing democracy.

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

This book collects the latest research by leading Bentham scholars and challenges the dominant understandings of Bentham in legal and political philosophy.

This book explores the recent trend of enhancing the role of the people in constitutional change.

This book explores, through a children's rights-based perspective, the emergence of a safeguarding dystopia in child online protection that has emerged from a tension between an over-reliance in technical solutions and a lack of understanding around code and algorithm capabilities.

There has been a widespread resurgence of rights talk in social and legal discourses pertaining to the regulation of family life, as well as an increase in the use of rights in family law cases, in the UK, the US, Canada and Australia.

Cultural and religious identity and family law are inter-related in a number of ways and raise various complex issues.

Shakespearean Genealogies of Power proposes a new view on Shakespeare's involvement with the legal sphere: as a visible space between the spheres of politics and law and well able to negotiate legal and political, even constitutional concerns, Shakespeare's theatre opened up a new perspective on normativity.

This book makes the legal and political case for Indigenous constitutional recognition through a constitutionally guaranteed First Nations voice, as advocated by the historic Uluru Statement from the Heart.

This multi-disciplinary study considers the intersection between law and family life in Ireland from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

This volume assembles leading scholars to examine how their respective theoretical positions relate to the artifactual nature of law.

Is justice possible for a woman raped in contemporary patriarchal culture?

This book is the second in a series of essay collections on defences in private law.

Getting Out offers the first systematic account of the evolution of early release as a public policy concern in England and Wales between 1960 and 1995.

Whether you're new to higher education, coming to legal study for the first time or just wondering what Contract Law is all about, Beginning Contract Law is the ideal introduction to help you hit the ground running.

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.

An innovative study of the establishment of ''age'' as a political category in late colonial India.

With its blend of accessible writing and actual excerpts from Court opinions, this book serves to explain the legal and cultural underpinnings of landmark U.

Providing short, clear and accessible explanations of the main areas of EU law, Understanding European Union Law is both an ideal introduction for students new to EU law and an essential addition to revision for the more accomplished.

The European Union is in a state of transformation with its constitutional future the subject of much heated debate.