Social law and Medical law

Even today, class discrimination remains an important global legal issue.

This book critically examines domestic violence law in India.

Extensively updated and expanded to incorporate legislative and practical changes enacted since the publication of the previous edition, Law for the Expert Witness, Fourth Edition is designed for professionals and students requiring edification on the current processes and techniques of legal procedure.

This book delves into the core of representative democracy in order to explain its main features - institutional and imaginary - and to show the reasons for its increasing dysfunctionality.

'Why do we vote in schools?

Justice for All identifies ten central flaws in the criminal justice system and offers an array of solutions - from status quo to evolution to revolution - to address the inequities and injustices that far too often result in courtrooms across the United States.

Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade: Remedying the 'Past'?

As the distributed architecture underpinning the initial Bitcoin anarcho-capitalist, libertarian project, 'blockchain' entered wider public imagination and vocabulary only very recently.

This book is a critical analysis of several of the most disaster-prone regions in Asia.

Human trafficking is a crime that undermines fundamental human rights and a broader sense of global order.

This book is one of the first studies in the new field of the sociology of human rights,and it centres its analysis on labour rights.

Nowhere is the injustice of the global distribution of income and wealth more palpable than in health.

How human rights principles, like the right to gender identity, freedom, integrity and equality, respond to the concerns of different groups of adults and children who experience gender harm due to the binary conception of sexuality and gender identity is the overall theme of this book.

This book examines how regulators and policymakers from nine different countries have dealt with Uber, and initiates a legal dialogue between different jurisdictions that could potentially pave the way to a harmonized approach in regulating Uber.

This book deals with the research and use of embryonic stem cells to combat a number of diseases and the legal limitations, arising mostly from bioethical concerns regarding human life.

This book asks what is European consumer access to justice, and how we can improve it by means of procedural and substantive laws?

In this exciting and topical collection, leading scholars discuss the implications of globalisation for the fields of comparative criminology and criminal justice.

Demonstrating the crucial role that private international law and legality has played and continues to play in shaping globalization, this book argues that the rules, institutions, and actors that make up the practice of private international law have been critical in translating political and economic power into legal regimes that have facilitated the processes of globalization.

Mental health has always been a low priority worldwide.

The goal of every safety professional and safety program is to be proactive and to identify problems while complying within safety guidelines.

This book examines accountability issues and the problems of regulating non-governmental organisations (NGOs) through self-regulation.

This historical interdisciplinary book contextualises the Rorschach ink blot test and embeds it within feminist action and queer liberation.

This book provides an important critique of mental health law and practice in China, with a focus on involuntary detention and treatment.

This is the first book to explore fully the connections between sport studies and criminology, opening up critical new frontiers in the study of sport and crime.

A hands-on guide to the most pertinent and critical legal issues facing those who lead and manage tax-exempt colleges and universities Nonprofit Law for Colleges and Universities is a practical, accessible guide to nonprofit law as it is specifically applicable to exempt colleges and universities, and their related entities, such as fundraising foundations, endowment funds, supporting organizations, for-profit subsidiaries, and limited liability companies.

This book makes a strong argument against the widely proclaimed notion that the United States is destined to decline.

How cities are planned and designed has a major impact on individuals' mobility and safety.

This book tells the dramatic story of Crispr and the potential impact of this gene-editing technology.

That 'poor law was law' is a fact that has slipped from the consciousness of historians of welfare in England and Wales, and in North America.

In July 1939, at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, fifty-nine-year-old Beatrice Alexander was found incapable of managing her own property and affairs.

This collection brings together essays from leading figures in the field of medical law and ethics which address the key issues currently challenging scholars in the field.

The Routledge Handbook on Victims' Issues in Criminal Justice is a comprehensive and authoritative handbook on current issues, with a distinctive emphasis on the delivery of suitable and effective services.

This book explores the complicated relationship between constitutions and transitional justice.

This book describes clearly how legislation can be used to advance the rights and entitlements of people with mental health problems.

This book critically engages the emerging field of global animal law from the perspective of an intersectional ethical framework.

Necrophilia: Forensic and Medico-legal Aspects is the first text that deals with the scientific aspects of necrophilia from a multidisciplinary point of view.

This book consists of updated and refreshed papers written by international law scholars and practitioners from the ASEAN region and published by the Journal of East Asia and International Law, comprehensively covering almost all contemporary international legal issues related to ASEAN.

Drawing on a wide range of primary historical and sociological sources and employing sharp philosophical analysis, this book investigates medical ethics from a Chinese-Western comparative perspective.

This book explains why we should stop thinking of freedom as limited to a right to be left alone.

Whether or not wrongdoers show remorse and how they show remorse are matters that attract great interest both in law and in popular culture.

The Communicative Architecture of Policing is a ground-breaking study of police communications and police-media relations in the social media era.

This book explores the ethical and governance concerns of stem cell technology, taking a comparative approach between countries of differing socio-economic status.

Navigating Ethical Dilemmas in Creative Arts Therapies uses a case-based approach to provide practical guidance for practitioners on the skillful application of ethical decision-making in art therapy.

If catastrophes are, by definition, exceptional events of such magnitude that worlds and lives are dramatically overturned, the question of timing would pose a seemingly straightforward, if not redundant question.

The Oxford Handbook of Children and the Law presents cutting-edge scholarship on a broad range of topics covering the life course of humans from before birth to adulthood, by leading scholars in law, medicine, social work, sociology, education, and philosophy, and by practitioners in law and medicine.

Investigating the extent to which the European Union can be defined as a "e;highly competitive social market economy"e;, this edited collection illustrates and tests the constitutional reverberations of Art.