Social law and Medical law

Japan and the United States are under global and domestic pressures to simultaneously expand and to restrict immigration.

This book brings together a diverse range of critical interventions in sexuality and gender studies, and seeks to encourage new ways of thinking about the connections and tensions between sexual politics, citizenship and belonging.

This book investigates the history, development, and current state of anti-corruption agencies in Latin America.

Die Arbeit im Schulsekretariat verlangt neben sachkundiger Büroorganisation ebenso soziale Kompetenzen und (verwaltungs-)rechtliche Hintergründe.

This book examines how legal institutions reify the value of death in the twenty-first century.

Focusing on the moment when social unrest takes hold of a populace, Law and Disorder offers a new account of sovereignty with an affective theory of public order and protest.

Whether newly-freed slaves could be trusted to own firearms was in great dispute in 1866, and the ramifications of this issue reverberate in today's gun-control debate.

This book provides a concise guide to international disability law.

The Data Protection and Medical Research in Europe: PRIVIREAL series represents the results of this EC-funded project examining the implementation of Directive 95/46/EC on data protection in relation to medical research and the role of ethics committees in European countries.

This book contributes towards EU studies and the growing discourse on law and public health.

In Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference, Chloe Deambrogio explores how developments in the field of forensic psychiatry shaped American courts' assessments of defendants' mental health and criminal responsibility over the course of the twentieth century.

The idea of human dominion over nature has become entrenched by the dominant rights-based interpretation of private property.

Der Band enthält die Beiträge zur INTERGU-Tagung 2006.

In the wake of the Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans cases, a wide-ranging international conversation was started regarding alternative thresholds for intervention and the different balances that can be made in weighing up the rights and interests of the child, the parent's rights and responsibilities and the role of medical professionals and the courts.

The increasing trend and prevalence of incivilities-targeting punitive regulatory measures across Europe raises important issues regarding the legitimacy, effectiveness and impact of such formal social control.

Conflicts caused by competing concepts of property are the subject of this book that reshapes study of the relationship between law and society in Australasia and North America.

Dieses Buch dient als Einstieg in das Arbeitsrecht.

This book provides insights into the complex labour and social security framework of EU employment and its enforcement.

Maternity Discrimination is an ever increasingly important area of the law around the world, affecting both women and men as they juggle parenthood and the workplace.

Criminology and Democratic Politics brings together a range of international leading experts to consider the relationship between criminology and democratic politics.

Beginning with a focus on the ethical foundations of caregiving in health and expanding towards problems of ethics and justice implicated in a range of issues, this book develops and expands the notion of care itself and its connection to practice.

This book explores the conceptual spaces and socio-legal context which mental capacity laws inhabit.

Principles of Medical Law is the leading practitioner text in its field.

Child Protection and Parents with a Learning Disability provides the practical knowledge that professionals need in order to understand common intellectual disabilities and how they might affect parenting capability.

Global Health Disputes and Disparities explores inequalities in health around the world, looking particularly at the opportunity for, and limitations of, international law to promote population health by examining its intersection with human rights, trade, and epidemiology, and the controversial issues of legal process, religion, access to care, and the social context of illness.

This ground-breaking collection reflects the growing momentum of interest in the international legal community in meshing the insights of queer legal theory with those critical theories that have a much longer genealogy - notably postcolonial and feminist analyses.

Using real cases and examples, this book provides an understanding of the science of DNA typing and challenges common misconceptions.

In The Handbook of Canadian Higher Education Law, experts examine key legal issues in postsecondary education.

Ethics in Mental Health-Substance Use aims to explore the comprehensive concerns and dilemmas occurring from mental health and substance use problems, and to inform, develop, and educate by sharing and pooling knowledge, and enhancing expertise, in this fast developing region of ethics and ethical care and practice.

The chapters in this book explore the impact of recent shifts in global and regional power and the subsequent development and enforcement of international refugee protection standards in the Asia Pacific region.

It has long been thought that fairness in European Consumer Law would be achieved by relying on information as a remedy and expecting the average consumer to keep businesses in check by voting with their feet.

This book was originally published in 1999.

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Friendship is a superb compilation of chapters that explore the history, major topics, and controversies in philosophical work on friendship.

This book contributes to the literature on the change of governance in the context of its European multilevel organization.

The Politics of Juridification offers a timely contribution to debates about how politics is being affected by the increasing relevance of judicial bodies to the daily administration of Western political communities.

America's fragmented, decentralized, politicized, and bureaucratic system of education governance is a major impediment to school reform.

This highly topical book demonstrates the theoretical and practical importance of the study of migration law.

This book charts the transformative shifts in techniques that seek to deliver collective redress, especially for mass consumer claims in Europe.

This book demonstrates the utility of healthcare law, policy and professional standards in analysing the ethical issues that arise in the provision of health services.

The sole available comprehensive history of social law and the model of social welfare in Germany.

Over recent decades, the decline of trust, mounting of fears, and increasing denial of science appear as a marked shift of societal attitudes towards many institutions and professionals.

This book maps the problems and possibilities of the policies and practices designed to tackle violence against women in the domestic sphere over the last 40 years.

Legal education is undergoing rapid change throughout Asia.

This volume provides a timely assessment on the progress made towards the achievement of a constitutional democracy in South Africa.

The Routledge Handbook of Law and Death provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary scholarship on the intersections of law and death in the 21st century.

Adopting a multidisciplinary perspective, this volume explores contemporary knowledge regarding the online sexual exploitation of children and adolescents, and challenges prevailing myths perpetuated by society and the media concerning this form of violence, the offenders, and their victims.