Law and society, sociology of law

This book surveys the growing field of Queer Criminology.

The Queer/Sexual minority which interalia includes lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (hereinafter LGBT) people is not a new phenomenon in today's scenario.

Good Judgment, based upon the author's experience as a lawyer, law professor, and judge, explores the role of the judge and the art of judging.

Im Zeitraum 2017 bis 2021 wurde dem hundertjährigen Bestehen des Frauenwahlrechts in mehr oder weniger breit gefächerter Form gedacht.

This volume identifies and elaborates on the significance and functions of the various actors involved in the development of family law in the Middle East.

Employing feminist, queer, and postcolonial perspectives, Global Justice and Desire addresses economy as a key ingredient in the dynamic interplay between modes of subjectivity, signification and governance.

During the past few decades, industrialized countries have witnessed a progressive crisis of the regulatory framework sustaining the binary model of the employment relationship based on the subordinate employment/autonomous self-employment dichotomy.

Law''s Trials analyzes the performance of US courts in upholding the rule of law during the ''war on terror''.

Phil Clark explores the impact of the Gacaca community courts, the centrepiece of Rwanda''s justice and reconciliation programme.

Building on comparative research in the U.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution has the potential to raise global income levels and improve the quality of life for populations around the world.

This book contributes to current debates about "e;queer outsides"e; and "e;queer outsiders"e; that emerge from tensions in legal reforms aimed at improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer people in the United Kingdom.

For more than a decade, American lawyers have bewailed the ethical crisis in their profession, wringing their hands about its bad image.

This book places the intimate experience of fertility control at the heart of political and social approaches toward women's bodies.

By means of a historical, legal and scientific approach, this book identifies the issues, progress and setbacks in the right for women to access abortion in various countries of the Global North.

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This book questions the theoretical premises and practical applications of transparency, showing both the promises and perils of transparency in a methodologically innovative way and in a cross-section of policy instruments.

This thoughtful examination of incarceration in the United States from the 1980s to the current time offers for consideration a transparent and humane correctional model for the future.

En la presente obra un grupo de especialistas de Derecho Tributario (profesores de Universidad y magistrados del TS y de TSJ) estudian las disposiciones de la Ley 29/1998, de 13 de julio, reguladora de la Jurisdicción Contencioso-administrativa, y reflexionan sobre sus efectos en el ámbito de los litigios tributarios.

What is the criminal law for?

This book addresses the criminalisation of sexually explicit material depicting or describing fictitious characters who appear to be children.

Rights and rights talk have a long and storied history and have occupied a crucial place in the ideology of liberal legalism.

It is perhaps worth explaining why there is a special importance in the present development of the theory of the State.

Routledge Lawcards are your complete, pocket-sized guides to key examinable areas of the undergraduate law curriculum and the CPE/GDL.

La muerte es un tabú.

This book is a guide to the law and practice of victims' roles before the International Criminal Court, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.

This collection of self-reflective essays explores the relations between international legal professions and their respective understandings of international law.

At the intersection of law, feminism and philosophy, this book analyses the ways in which certain bodies and 'selves' continue to be treated as monstrous aberrations from the 'ideal' figure or norm.

More than half the population will experience menopause; it is time for the law to acknowledge it.

This book discusses the manner in which Britain's wars, which took place between 2000 and 2015, have interacted with the relevant principles of international law and English law for the purpose, primarily, of considering legal accountability.

This book addresses a growing area of concern for scholars and development practitioners: discriminatory gender norms in legally plural settings.

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

Linking traditional and local products to a specific area is increasingly felt as a necessity in a globalised market, and Geographical Indications (GIs) are emerging as a multifunctional tool capable of performing this and many other functions.

This book discusses Stuart Hall's unique contribution to criminology.

This book presents a feminist historical materialist analysis of the ways in which the law, policing and penal regimes have overlapped with social policies to coercively discipline the poor and marginalized sectors of the population throughout the history of capitalism.

In Constitutional Orphan, Professor Paula Monopoli explores the significant role of former suffragists in the constitutional development of the Nineteenth Amendment -- the woman suffrage amendment ratified in 1920.

Is about enlarging the boundary of racial justice by recognizing and addressing private racism.

Exploring the main developments and challenges for the right to family life in the context of European integration, this book examines the right to family life in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the interplay between family life, citizenship, and free movement; it analyzes the combined impact of the EU and the European Convention on Human Rights on the concept of the family protected by the law in light of recent case law.

This collection discusses how official legal systems do and should respond to the reality of a plurality of family types and origins within their jurisdictions.

While the 21st century bears witness to several conflicts leading to mass displacement, the conflict in Syria has crystallised the need for a solid legal framework and legal certainty.

This book shows that attempts to repress religion produce the very violent religious extremism that states seek to avoid.

Commonwealth Caribbean Law and Procedure: The Referral Procedure under Article 214 RTC in the Light of EU and International Law is about the referral procedure set out in Article 214 of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas (RTC), which Treaty established the Caribbean Community Single Market and Economy (CSME).

Taking a cross-cultural perspective, this book explores how privatization and globalization impact contemporary feminist and social justice approaches to public responsibility.

Questions about the nature of law, its relationship with custom, and the form of legal rules, categories and claims, are placed at the centre of this challenging, yet accessible, introduction.

Regulating the International Movement of Women interrogates the complex relationship between the state and the normative regulation of women who cross national borders.

This book covers the essential aspects of prevention of childhood statelessness focusing on norms governing the subject through the rights to acquire a nationality and to birth registration, two vital safeguards to prevent statelessness among children.

Supriya Singh tells the stories of 12 Anglo-Celtic and Indian women in Australia who survived economic abuse.

This book examines the social and legal regulation of domestic violence (DV) within the Kesarwani business community following the enactment of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005.