Social power, defined as "e;the ability to set standards, create norms and values that are deemed legitimate and desirable, without resorting to coercion or payment"e;, is a central part of contemporary international politics.
Prompted by an unprecedented rise of litigation since the 1990s, this book examines how the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) system and the Strasbourg Court interact with states and non-governmental actors to influence domestic change.
Das Buch untersucht die Bestimmungsrechte am menschlichen Körper und seiner Teile in den verschiedenen Phasen der körperlichen Existenz aus grundrechtlicher, insbesondere eigentumsrechtlicher Perspektive.
Following the passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), librarians are more frequently called upon to provide assistance with navigating the Health Insurance Marketplace and understanding health insurance terminology and forms.
No-Body Homicides: The Evolution of Investigation and Prosecution examines how police and prosecutors have become more successful in obtaining convictions for homicide when the remains of the victim are unavailable as evidence.
This book is an essential guide and support to understanding of the science and policy, procedure and practice that underpins the REACH risk assessments required for the use and placing on the market of chemicals in the European Union.
Beyond Brain Death offers a provocative challenge to one of the most widely accepted conclusions of contemporary bioethics: the position that brain death marks the death of the human person.
As the use of human body parts has become increasingly commercialized, a need has arisen for new approaches to regulation that moves beyond the paradigm of altruism.
Mit allen relevanten Vorschriften, Hinweisen und Auslegungshilfen zum Sozialen EntschädigungsrechtDer SER-Ratgeber bietet einen konzentrierten und aktuellen Überblick über das gesamte Soziale Entschädigungsrecht.
1 Dementia and related disorders affect the suffer- minimal standards of care for people with dementia , ers' ability to perform activities of daily living and the improvement of access to diagnosis and treat- 2 3 to make appropriate decisions about various issues ment , ethical issues related to research in dementia , relevant to their life.
Hong Kong is widely regarded as an exemplar of authoritarian jurisdictions with a positive history of adhering to Rule of Law-shaped governance systems.
Die Leitsätze des Deutschen Lebensmittelbuches werden sowohl von der Lebensmittelüberwachung und der Lebensmittelwirtschaft als auch von weiteren Stellen tagtäglich angewendet und sind eine wesentliche Quelle für die Ermittlung einer bestehenden Verkehrsauffassung.
This fascinating book demonstrates the diversity of Connecticut's women's feminist activities in pre- and post-suffrage eras and refutes the notion that feminist activism died out with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
This book configures a consistent epistemology of biolaw that distinguishes itself from bioethics and from a mere set of international instruments on the regulation of biomedical practices.
The controversial topic of the technology of Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis, and the muddled approach to this subject adopted by the UK Parliament, is explored in detail in this volume.
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Forgiveness and Mental Health considers the role of forgiveness in mental life, concerning both forgiving and being forgiven.
Published in 1997, an edited collection of essays by a group of international public interest scholars and activists that examines the role and function of the law school in developing, transmitting and understanding the use of law to bring about social change to the advantage of subordinated people.
There has been much important work done in the past two decades in America on issues of under representation based on social differences such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, and age.
The Ethics of Lacanian Psychoanalysis observes different aspects of life - childhood, romantic love, sex, death, and human suffering - through a Lacanian lens, with a glance toward a Buddhist point of view.
Presenting feminist readings of texts from the legal philosophical and jurisprudential canon, the papers collected here offer an interdisciplinary and critical challenge to established modes of reading law.
This title was first published in 2001: Welfare law is a legal field integral to most jurisprudential formulations, whether artificially designated as doctrinal, theoretical or practical.