Jurisprudence and general issues

Child Development for Child Care and Protection Workers is a classic text for students and practitioners in the child care and protection field which summarises important current thinking on child development and applies it directly to practice.

Endorsed by the Chartered Banker Institute as core reading for its professional qualifications, Culture, Conduct and Ethics in Banking emphasizes the importance of professionalism for banks, and explores how all staff play a key role in putting customers at the heart of their business.

Tort reform is a favorite cause for many business leaders and right-leaning politicians, who contend that out-of-control lawsuits throttle growth and inflate costs, particularly in healthcare.

Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights documents an important shift in state level policy to make clear that civil rights in Michigan embraced all people.

There have been many heroes and victims in the battle to abolish the death penalty, and Marie Deans fits into both of those categories.

Law calls communities into being and constitutes the "e;we"e; it governs.

Starting Over traces the remarkable political career of former Virginia Governor and U.

We are now engaged in a movement that de-emphasizes the reliance on institutional forms of long-term care for disabled persons needing ongoing daily living assistance and converges on the use of non-institutional service providers abnd residential settings.

"e;A woman was sitting on the witness stand, and the lawyer asked her, 'Did you, or did you not, on the night of June 23rd have sex with a hippie on the back of a motorcycle in a peach orchard?

Americans have long been obsessed with their images-their looks, public personas, and the impressions they make.

The protests following Iran's fraudulent 2009 Presidential election took the world by storm.

A compendium of prescribing information for more than 450 diagnoses!

Though many legal theorists are familiar with Jurgen Habermas's work addressing core legal concerns, they are not necessarily familiar with his earlier writings in philosophy and social theory.

This book addresses the impact of globalization on the lives of youth, focusing on the role of legal institutions and discourses.

Ce livre vise à mettre à la disposition du citoyen ordinaire, justiciable potentiel, un instrument, une torche susceptible d'éclairer sa lanterne et de se frayer un chemin dans le labyrinthe du droit et de la pratique des juridictions.

Issues of the environment and its sustainability are linked to those of global warming, climate change and loss of biodiversity.

Law Librarianship in the 21st Century, a text for library and information science courses on law librarianship, introduces students to the rapidly evolving world of law librarianship.

For fifty years, the first edition of The Italian Legal System has been the gold standard among English-language works on the Italian legal system.

L'ouvrage comporte une introduction consacrée aux sources du droit du travail.

Familiar modes of problem solving may be efficient, but they often prevent us from discovering innovative solutions to more complex problems.

Imagining New Legalities reminds us that examining the right to privacy and the public/private distinction is an important way of mapping the forms and limits of power that can legitimately be exercised by collective bodies over individuals and by governments over their citizens.

Living with a chronic illness can have a significant psychological impact on a child and his or her family, and it is essential that this aspect of their care is not overlooked.

Sur le fondement de l'article 544 du Code civil, une longue tradition dogmatique conçoit principalement le droit de propriété comme un droit absolu.

Each year, a number of youth who migrate alone and clandestinely from China to the United States are apprehended, placed in removal proceedings, and designated as unaccompanied minors.

Law is often perceived as an instrument that can effect social change.

Virginia men of law constituted one of the first learned professions in colonial America, and Virginia legal culture had an important and lasting impact on American political institutions and jurisprudence.

African Asylum at a Crossroads: Activism, Expert Testimony, and Refugee Rights examines the emerging trend of requests for expert opinions in asylum hearings or refugee status determinations.

Independent mental health advocacy is a crucial means of ensuring rights and entitlements for people sectioned under the Mental Health Act.

Forty years after the declaration of the "e;war on drugs"e; by President Nixon, the debate on the effectiveness and costs of the ban is red-hot.

In 1910, al-Mahdi al-Wazzani, a prominent Moroccan Islamic scholar completed his massive compilation of Maliki fatwas.

It is absolutely essential that today's law librarians are digitally literate in addition to possessing an understanding and awareness of recent advancements and trends in information technology as they pertain to the library field.

This is the first full biography of Justice Leah Ward Sears.

The world's governing structures are higgledy-piggledy: disorderly, heads and tails in any or every direction.

What is said can be understood only when seen in the context of what is not said.

What constitutes historical truth is often subject to change.

Originalism is an enormously popular-and equally criticized-theory of constitutional interpretation.

Crime at El Escorial presents a comparative social and judicial analysis of an 1892 child murder, drawing from newspaper archives among other historical documents.

The Expanding Spaces of Law presents readers with cutting-edge scholarship in legal geography.

Law and the Utopian Imagination seeks to explore and resuscitate the notion of utopianism within current legal discourse.

Between 1632 and 1748, Virginia's General Assembly revised the colony's statutes seven times.

Solution focused approaches offer proven ways of helping children overcome a whole range of difficulties, from academic problems to mental health issues, by helping them to identify their strengths and achievements.

Over the course of the twentieth century, most Middle East states adopted a shari'a-based system for recognizing marriages.

The decisive victories in the fight for racial equality in America were not easily won, much less inevitable; they were achieved through carefully conceived strategy and the work of tireless individuals dedicated to this most urgent struggle.

The second edition of Crime Policy in America describes the process of policy-making and the substantive nature of policy directions in crime and justice in America, particularly from the beginning of the 1970s.

Cet ouvrage présente un exposé complet, systématique et précis des règles et thèmes du programme officiel en matière de droit des entreprises en difficulté dans l'espace OHADA.

In 1876, a recently dethroned sultan, Abdulaziz, was found dead in his cham- bers, the veins in his arm slashed.

Forensic psychiatrist Emanuel Tanay has testified in thousands of court cases as an expert witness, including such notorious cases as those of Jack Ruby, Sam Sheppard, and Theodore 'Ted' Bundy.

Unruly women are not often represented in a good light.

The Cairo Geniza is the largest and richest store of documentary evidence for the medieval Islamic world.

In the 1970's, sociologists found that mentally disordered patients were routinely committed to state hospitals.