The link between health and human rights has been recognised for many years, but the increasing visibility of the right to health in international law has been a distinct feature of the last decade.
The fourth edition of this respected textbook examines the regulation and conduct of lawyers in England and Wales and addresses new developments in the field, including those in international practice, sexual misconduct, and the environment.
The United States leads the world in incarceration, and the United Kingdom is persistently one of the European countries with the highest per capita rates of imprisonment.
The growth in prominence of the law of restitution and European Community law has resulted in the creation of a body of case law, which is contained within this work.
Bringing key Shakespeare texts into dialogue with feminist socio-legal research, this book investigates the notion of a 'crime of passion' - indicatively, wife-killing.
Advances in modern biotechnology have produced profound and far-reaching implications for the relationship between humans, animals and the environment.
Islam, Europe and Emerging Legal Issues brings together vital analysis of the challenges that Europe poses for an expanding Islam and that Islam poses for Europe, within their ever-evolving religious, legal, and social environments.
Both risk and uncertainty are neo-liberal concepts, which can be viewed as complementary techniques for governing diverse aspects of life, rather than natural states of things.
Tens of thousands of readers have relied on this leading text and practitioner reference--now revised and updated--to understand the issues the legal system most commonly asks mental health professionals to address.
The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify.
In this book Kerry O'Halloran analyses a subject of international interest - religion - and examines related contemporary issues from a human rights perspective.
Criminal Law and Criminal Justice: Morals and Policy goes beyond the traditional criminal law textbook and invites students to question why we criminalise certain behaviour and whether the decisions made by the courts can be justified according to legal principle, morals and policy.
The law relating to town and country planning has a major impact upon the physical environment and affects private citizens, landowners and developers alike.
Moving beyond the question of whether an area of scholarly investigation can truly be characterized as 'legal', Exploiting the Limits of Law combats the often unhelpful constraints of law's subject-matter and formal processes.
The Crown and Constitutional Reform is an innovative, interdisciplinary exchange between experts in law, anthropology and politics about the Crown, constitutional monarchy and the potential for constitutional reform in Commonwealth common law countries.
La Reforma Fiscal de 2015 implica una transformación del sistema tributario cuya magnitud la equipara a la Reforma Fernández Ordóñez de 1978 o a la introducción del IVA en 1986.
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.
How evangelical activism in England contributes to the secularizing forces it seeks to challengeOver the past two decades, a growing number of Christians in England have gone to court to enforce their right to religious liberty.
In this linguistic study of law school education, Mertz shows how law professors employ the Socratic method between teacher and student, forcing the student to shift away from moral and emotional terms in thinking about conflict, toward frameworks of legal authority instead.
Language skills, study skills, argument skills and the skills associated with dispute resolution are vital to every law student, professional lawyer and academic.
This book considers a burgeoning social phenomenon, compensated dating in Hong Kong, that facilitates direct commercial sex exchange between consenting females from their mid-teens through the late 20s and males from their early 20s to mid-adulthood.
Vertrauensverluste und Glaubwürdigkeitskrisen von gesellschaftlichen Institutionen sind Ausdruck der Pluralisierung von Werten und Normen und der zunehmenden Verhandelbarkeit, Labilität und Ungewissheit für allgemein und beständig genommener Verbindlichkeiten.
Regulating the International Movement of Women interrogates the complex relationship between the state and the normative regulation of women who cross national borders.
Recent historians have pinpointed the ways in which legal systems in early modern Europe were improvisational, flexible, and contingent rather than immovable, hierarchical, and gendered.
Investigating the unique EU-CARICOM legal relationship, this book exploresthe major theme of globalisation, which shapes inter-regional organisationsindividually and determines their relationship to one another.
El Departamento de Derecho Minero-Energético de la Universidad Externado de Colombia y su grupo de investigación –Instituto de Estudios en Regulación Minera, Petrolera y Energética– presentan a la comunidad académica, profesionales, autoridades, comunidades y gremios la edición número 16 de su ya consolidada Colección de Regulación Minera, Petrolera y Energética, denominada en esta oportunidad Temas de Derecho Minero y Energético.
Exploring potential scenarios of artificial intelligence regulation which prevent automated reality harming individual human rights or social values, this book reviews current debates surrounding AI regulation in the context of the emerging risks and accountabilities.
