Social law and Medical law

Recognizing Transsexuals draws on interviews with transsexuals at various stages of transition to offer an original account of transsexual embodiment and bodily aesthetics.

From the 1930s to the early 1960s civil rights law was made primarily through constitutional litigation.

This book provides a leading point of reference in the field of partial defences to murder and with respect to the mental condition defences of loss of control and diminished responsibility in general.

Sports Law has quickly developed into an accepted area of academic study and practice in the legal profession globally.

Aktuelle GesetzeslageDas seit 1.

This title was first published in 2000.

Wie die immer wieder geführte Diskussion über die Einführung einer Masernimpfpflicht zeigt, besteht in infektionsschutzrechtlichen Fragen nahezu immer ein Konflikt zwischen den Rechten und Interessen des Einzelnen und denjenigen der Gesamtbevölkerung.

Charitable organisations occupy a central place in society across much of the world, accounting for billions of pounds in revenue.

A thorough examination of Pashukanis' writings, this book is a significant contribution to a proper assessment of Pashukanis' work, the value of his theoretical legacy and the contemporary relevance of Marxist legal theory.

This book explores the recent trend of enhancing the role of the people in constitutional change.

'Inquisitorial processes' refers to the inquiry powers of administrative governance and this book examines the use of these powers in administrative law across seven jurisdictions.

Drawing on empirical work and secondary analysis from the UK and Finnish construction industries, this book contributes a deep-rooted analysis of construction industry harms that originate from corporate-industrialstate processes.

Presents critical and forcefully argued debate between two moral philosophers, setting out strong cases on both sides of the argument.

This book explores, through a children's rights-based perspective, the emergence of a safeguarding dystopia in child online protection that has emerged from a tension between an over-reliance in technical solutions and a lack of understanding around code and algorithm capabilities.

Rehabilitation is dedicated to helping people not only survive, but also thrive.

There has been a widespread resurgence of rights talk in social and legal discourses pertaining to the regulation of family life, as well as an increase in the use of rights in family law cases, in the UK, the US, Canada and Australia.

Cultural and religious identity and family law are inter-related in a number of ways and raise various complex issues.

Clinical research ethics consultation has emerged in the last 15 years as a service to those involved in the conduct of clinical research who face challenging issues for which more than one course of action may be justified.

In this book, first published in 2007, bioethics scholars examine the ethical, legal and social questions raised by human genetic databases.

The first work of its kind to present a comprehensive survey of landmark court decisions on educational adequacy and equity claims and their impact on public school reform.

Die praktische Bedeutung täglich hunderttausendfacher Fälle medizinischer Aufklärung steht im Widerspruch zur Unsicherheit ihrer rechtlichen Voraussetzungen.

Cultural Difference on Trial: The Nature and Limits of Judicial Understanding comprises a sustained philosophical exploration of the capacity of the modern liberal democratic legal system to understand the thought and practice of those culturally different minorities who come before it as claimants, defendants or witnesses.

The exclusive, first-hand, behind-the-scenes story of how Pfizer raced to create the first Covid-19 vaccine, told by Pfizer's CEO Dr.

This book covers a range of issues and phenomena around gender-related violence in specific cultural and regional conditions.

Examining the restitution of cultural property to Indigenous Peoples in human rights law, this book offers a detailed analysis of the opportunities and constraints of international law as a tool of resistance and social transformation for marginalized groups.

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Is justice possible for a woman raped in contemporary patriarchal culture?

This book examines the phenomenon of 'grand corruption' in Kuwait and the pattern in the wider region.

This book addresses the issue of Indigenous peoples' participation in genetic resource access and benefit-sharing and associated traditional knowledge for self-determination.

What is the 'rule of law'?

An examination of how the concept of humanity is mobilized to make legal arguments in different areas of law.

Decisional privacy gives individuals the freedom to act and make decisions about how they live their lives, without unjustifiable interference from other individuals or the state.

This book examines what value, if any, the state has for the pursuit of progressive politics; and how it might need to be reimagined and remade to deliver transformative change.

There is a tension in English law between the idea that the courts might provide a remedy by creating new property rights and the understanding that the judiciary's role is limited to the protection of existing proprietary interests with the power to redistribute property residing in the legislature alone.

A thoroughly researched, empirically-based explanation of the failures of end-of-life communication & decision-making in the United States.

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

Fortschritte in der Medizin, in der Genomforschung und in der Informationstechnik stellen den Datenschutz vor ein Dilemma: Forschung und die Anwendung neuer Methoden setzen häufig voraus, dass personenbezogene Daten in großem Umfang zentral verfügbar, verteilbar und verknüpfbar sind.

With contributions from experts in the field of sociology of law, this book provides an overview of current perspectives on socio-legal studies.

This book discusses the opportunities and challenges facing legal education in the era of globalization.

Aktuell, systematisch und problemfallbezogen erläutert dieses Nachschlagewerk die gesetzlichen Regelungen zur Entgeltfortzahlung im Krankheitsfall, an Feiertagen und sonstigen persönlichen Verhinderungsfällen.

Street trade is a critical and highly visible component of the informal economy, linked to global systems of exchange.

Reflecting the work of an international panel of experts, the International Handbook on Psychopathic Disorders and the Law offers an in-depth and multidisciplinary look at key aspects of the development and etiology of psychopathic disorders, current methods of intervention, treatment and management, and how these disorders impact decision making in civil and criminal law.

Winner of the 2016 Book Award from the American Society of Criminology, Division of Critical Criminology.

The Literary and Legal Genealogy of Native American Dispossession offers a unique interpretation of how literary and public discourses influenced three U.

The Political Economy of Government Auditing addresses the elusive quest for greater transparency and accountability in the management of public finances in emerging economies; and, more specifically, it examines the contribution of autonomous audit agencies (AAAs) to the fight against corruption and waste.

In Working towards Equity, Dustin Galer argues that paid work significantly shaped the experience of disability during the late twentieth century.

Policing the Global South provides scholarship which further transnationalises and democratises ideas about policing practices and philosophies, highlighting renovations in approaches to policing studies, and injecting innovative perspectives into the study of policing from scholars positioned on the 'periphery'.