Social law and Medical law

The expanding remit of policing as a fundamental part of the public health continuum is increasingly acknowledged on the international scene.

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Health Law addresses some of the most critical issues facing scholars, legislators, and judges today: how to protect against threats to public health that can quickly cross national borders, how to ensure access to affordable health care, and how to regulate the pharmaceutical industry, among many others.

Conflict over the extraction of coal and gas resources has rapidly escalated in communities throughout the world.

This book addresses the interrelationship between economic and financial crises, the responses thereto, and economic and social rights.

Legal decisions continue to mystify: why was this person sentenced to 20 years in prison, but that person to just 10 years for the same crime?

Traditionally, consumer law has played an instrumental role in the EU as a tool for market integration.

This book examines the roles played by narrative and culture in the construction of legal cases and their resolution.

This book interrogates the ideology and practices of liberal constitutionalism in the Zambian postcolony.

There has been a rapid increase in the pace and scope of international collaborative research in developing countries in recent years.

This book proposes a framework for regulating sex robots - human-like machines designed to engage emotionally and sexually with users through customisable, often AI-powered features.

A collection of first-person case studies that detail serious ethical problems in medical practice and research.

Leading Works in Law and Religion brings together leading and emerging scholars in the field from the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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This edited collection provides a forum for rigorous analysis of the necessity for both legal and social change with regard to regulation of same-sex relationships and rainbow families, the status of civil partnership as a concept and the lived reality of equality for LGBTQ+ persons.

Democracy, Law and Governance details the transformation of the modes of governance of contemporary developed democracies and aims to define the conditions required for promoting public interest in their public policy.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical tools, real-world applications, policy implications and corner solutions of microeconomics.

Understanding legal rules not as determinants of behavior but as points of reference for conduct, this volume considers the ways in which rules are invoked, referred to, interpreted, put forward or blurred.

This book considers how largely accepted 'legal truths' about drugs and addiction are made and sustained through practices of lawyering.

This volume presents a leading contribution to the substantive arena relating to consent in the criminal law.

This book offers a new perspective on advance directives through a combined legal, ethical and philosophical inquiry.

It is becoming increasingly common for human rights norms to be transferred between legal and political systems and this book is a fresh approach to the intersection of transnational law and the protection of cultural difference beyond the single state border.

Peace-building in a number of contemporary contexts involves fragile states, influential customary systems and histories of land conflict arising from mass population displacement.

Although restorative justice is probably one of the most talked about topics in contemporary criminology, little has been written about how community involvement in restorative justice translates into practice.

Addresses an Emerging Shift in Developing CountriesThe authors and contributors of Ambient Assisted Living have recognized that the demographic profile is changing in many developing countries and have factored in an inversion of the demographic pyramid.

First published in 1998, reissued here with a new preface, this volume is the first full-length discussion of women's experiences in the solicitors' profession in the UK.

Punishment in contemporary China has experienced dramatic shifts over the last seven decades or so.

This collection discusses appropriate methodologies for comparative research and applies this to the issue of trial transformation in the context of achieving justice in post-conflict societies.

This concise volume guides public health advocates on how to successfully advocate for their cause, strengthen their messaging and communication strategies, build coalitions, and gather political allies.

El ombudsman de la vivienda en México: Institución en pro de la igualdad y la dignidad humana propone la instauración de la figura del Ombudsman de la vivienda en México, cuya contribución permitiría, desde la institucionalidad, facilitar el acceso en el actual contexto sociopolítico y jurídico de la realización de este Derecho Humano, así como de los derechos sociales que dan acceso a la igualdad y la dignidad humana de ls personas.

This is the first comprehensive socio-legal study of the interrelation between gender and the law of refugee status.

This vital resource offers higher education administrators and anyone responsible for education records and the management of student information a timely guide that will aid in the establishment of policies, procedures, and practices compliant with the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).

This book discusses the multifaceted concept of disability in the context of India.

Each year, too many law enforcement officers die in the line of duty and too many people are killed by the police.

That America's natural environment has been degraded and despoiled over the past 25 years is beyond dispute.

This book investigates and critically evaluates the concept of public benefit within charity law in the common law world.

William Leiss and Christina Chociolko explain that controversies arise in part because many participants try to avoid assuming full responsibility for the consequences of the risk-taking they advocate.

Arguing that law must be looked at holistically, this book investigates the 'hidden gender' of the so-called neutral or objective legal principles that structure the law addressing violence against women.

Die dritte Auflage bringt zunächst die Kommentierung der vom Ärztetag 2000 beschlossenen neuen Vorschriften über das Werberecht.

This book provides practical, business-orientated and accessible guidance on key aspects of German employment and labour law as well as adjoining fields.

Over the course of an African American's lifetime, mental health care needs change according to an individual's unique interactions with his or her environment.

This book results from a decade of in-depth research on the complexities of Zama Zama mining in South Africa, which has become a pressing issue of late.

This collection of essays covers a broad spectrum of Canadian problems in public law.

Bringing together an international range of academics, Gender, Sexualities and Law provides a comprehensive interrogation of the range of contemporary issues - both topical and controversial - raised by the gendered character of law, legal discourse and institutions.

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This volume provides a reference textbook and comprehensive compilation of multifaceted perspectives on the legal issues arising from the conservation and exploitation of non-human biological resources.

This book provides a definitive account of the creation and rise of the international Indigenous Peoples' movement.

This book adopts Durkheim's legal perspective to treat law as a symbol of social solidarities to examine Chinese society.