Social law and Medical law

Mass incarceration has been an ongoing problem in the United States.

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.

The crypto wars have raged for half a century.

The place of cannabis in global drug prohibition is in crisis, opening up new directions for socially engaged cannabis research.

Challenging the usual introductions to the study of law, A Critical Introduction to Law argues that law is inherently political and reflects the interests of the few even while presenting itself as neutral.

First publisghed in 1998, this book Mark Cowling attempts to make sense of this massive discrepancy, much of which is now based on how 'date rape' is understood.

This book addresses the conceptual and evidentiary issues relating to the treatment of propaganda in international criminal law.

This book critically examines the proper role of the law in protecting job security in the contemporary workplace.

The Magna Carta, sealed in 1215, has come to stand for the rule of law, curbs on executive power and the freedom to enjoy basic liberties.

Manuela Sixt untersucht das grundsätzliche Spannungsverhältnis, in dem Whistleblowing steht, anhand der Dimensionen Macht, Geheimnis und Information.

This book presents a timely and innovative exploration of one of the first human rights articles about data production and processing: the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities article 31, 'Statistics and data collection'.

This book critically examines domestic violence law in India.

Even for violent crime, justice should mean more than punishment.

This Handbook focuses on the complexity surrounding the interaction between trade, labour mobility and development, taking into consideration social, economic and human rights implications, and identifies mechanisms for lawful movements across borders and their practical implementation.

This book investigates the unique challenges faced by nomadic Indigenous peoples in claiming self-determination and rights to their ancestral lands.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Utilizing a model derived from literature on environmental justice overlaid with multiple scales of agriculture, Environmental Justice and Farm Labor provides key insights about laborers in agriculture in the United States.

With contributions from well-known experts, this volume discusses clinical assessment, management, and treatment of offenders with mental disorders, including treatment in a range of secure hospital facilities, in prisons, and in the community.

Human rights and their principles of interpretation are the leading legal paradigms of our time.

Compared to other countries, Canada's Parliament shows a high level of party unity when it comes to legislative voting.

There is much debate about postfeminism, what it is, and its role in feminist politics.

This work includes Foreword by Phillip J S Steer, Professor of Obstetrics, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London.

This volume of leading scholarly articles addresses the international dynamics of emergency policy and practice.

This book addresses the effectiveness of transitional justice mechanisms for repairing social cohesion.

This workbook reflects a number of important regulatory changes that have occurred in the past 13 years, as well as the new landscape of healthcare reform.

Combining the latest work of leading sentencing and punishment scholars from twelve different countries, this major new international volume answers key questions in the study of sentencing and society.

In the parliamentary system of government, manifestos constitute and represent an important aspect of the democratic electoral politics as statements of a party's ideology, response and policy.

Whilst advances in biotechnology and information technology have undoubtedly resulted in better quality of life for mankind, they can also bring about global problems.

In recent years, a conservative majority of the U.

The issue of sexual consent has stimulated much debate in the last decade.

Corruption in the sport industry is a pervasive issue that threatens the integrity of sport as an institution.

Refugee camps are imbued in the public imagination with assumptions of anarchy, danger and refugee passivity.

With the developing landscape of a European criminal justice sphere comes an increasing imperative for scholars and practitioners to gain some insight into the diversity that exists in the criminal justice systems of European Union Member States.

Debates about the regulation of drugs are inseparable from talk of children and the young.

Marine Environmental Governance: From International Law to Local Practice considers the relationship between international environmental law and community-based management of marine areas.

This book provides a framework for addressing important philosophical issues in psychiatry and psychopharmacology.

This title was first published in 2001.

The relationship between health and law in not new but the relation is multifaceted.

This book presents a broad overview of the many intersections between health and the environment that lie at the basis of the most crucial environmental health issues, focusing on the responses provided by international and EU law.

Linking critical legal thinking to constitutional scholarship and a practical tradition of US lawyering that is orientated around anti-poverty activism, this book offers an original, revisionist account of contemporary jurisprudence, legal theory and legal activism.

Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health examines critical issues and debates including access to knowledge and medicinal products, human rights and development, innovations in life technologies and the possibility for ethical frameworks for intellectual property law and its application in public health.

This study examines two important questions regarding terrorism and political violence: which threats to human security constitute root causes for collective violence and which adequate responses for these root causes are available to the international community.

Originally published in 2004.

This book undertakes a sociolegal examination of the intermediary role within the criminal justice system.

This book explores the scope, application and role of medical law, regulatory norms and ethics, and addresses key challenges introduced by contemporary advances in biomedical research and healthcare.

This book focuses on the experience of social dialogue in Turkey, which is a European Union candidate country.