Social law and Medical law

With more than 50,000 private foundations in the United States and the increasing scrutiny of the IRS, this much-needed, annually updated manual provides you with a wide range of tax rules and regulations for these foundations.

Migration policing experiments such as boat turn-backs and offshore refugee processing have been criticised as unlawful and have been characterised as exceptional.

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.

Judicial Education has greatly expanded in common law countries in the past 25 years.

This book compares the civil and common law approach to analyze the question - 'What sorts of conduct may the state legitimately make criminal?

Point of care (POC) diagnostic devices are predominantly used for the diagnosis and monitoring of diseases.

This collection identifies and discusses problems and opportunities for the theory and practice of international criminal justice.

In response to exciting developments in genetics, neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, a number of criminologists have embraced the position that criminal behaviour is the product of biological, psychological, and sociological factors operating together in complex ways.

This collection focuses on Ukraine's ethno-cultural minorities who in recent years have undergone forced displacement, emigration, the destruction of familiar ways of life, and a transformation of identity and language behaviour.

What role does law play in post-communist societies?

What kind of a world is one in which border security is understood as necessary?

The book profiles some of the macro and micro factors that have impact on European religious literacy.

This book provides an overview of the progress and continuing disparities faced by people with disabilities around the world.

This book shows the rise and morphology of a self-identified `illiberal democracy', the first 21st century illiberal political regime arising in the European Union.

This volume considers whether it is possible to establish carefully tailored hate speech policies that recognize the histories and values of different countries.

Austerity has reconfigured and scaled back the governance and delivery of public services and negatively affected society's most vulnerable groups.

This book explores destitution from the perspective of international human rights law and, more specifically, economic, social, and cultural rights.

Therapy: The Basics is an introductory book to psychotherapy and its different theoretical approaches.

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

This book offers a comprehensive and nuanced examination of the right to an adequate standard of living in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), shedding light on the multifaceted challenges, opportunities, and imperatives for action.

A detailed analysis of the ethical, legal, and regulatory landscape of medical devices in the US and EU.

In recent times, the phrase 'personalised medicine' has become the symbol of medical progress and a label for better health care in the future.

This book addresses the theoretical underpinnings of the field of transitional justice, something that has hitherto been lacking both in study and practice.

In the years since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, or, colloquially, Obamacare), most of the discussion about it has been political.

This book employs a transitional justice lens to address the 'disappearances' that occurred during the Northern Ireland conflict - or 'Troubles' - and the post-conflict response to these 'disappearances.

This book elaborates a new framework for considering and understanding the relationship between law and memory.

This book focusses on the debates concerning aspects of intellectual property law that bear on access to medicines in a set of developing countries.

Through a comparative analysis involving 13 countries from Africa, America, Asia and Europe, this book provides an invaluable assessment of women's equality at the global level.

This edited collection brings together a range of experts on surrogacy, at a time when the law in the UK has been fully reconsidered for the first time in generations.

Forensic psychiatry (the interface of psychiatry and the law), forensic psychology, and mental health law are growing and evolving subspecialties in their respective larger disciplines.

This edited collection addresses a number of free speech vs security concerns that are engaged by counter-terrorism law and policy makers across a number of liberal democracies, and explores the delicate balance between free speech and the censoring of views that promote hatred or clash with fundamental democratic values.

Der Bundestag hat im Jahr 1998 das Transfusionsgesetz beschlossen.

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

These essays were presented originally as lectures at the official ceremonies which marked the opening of the new Law Building in the University of Toronto.

The role played by legal professionals in the laundering of criminal proceeds generated by others has become a priority concern for authorities at national and international levels.

This book investigates the implementation of disability rights and duties in the European Union, aiming to understand its functioning and explore ways forward through a critical analysis of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) within the context of international regulation.

Homicide Case Studies is a first-of-its-kind text, offering readers more than 30 case studies drawn from real-world homicide cases that include the often-overlooked context and complexities faced by victims, offenders, law enforcement, attorneys, jurors, and correctional personnel.

Giorgio Agamben: Power, Law and the Uses of Criticism is a thorough engagement with the thought of the influential Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben.

The process of judicial control over institutions is often described as growing socio-legal trend which impacts the development of modern societies.

A growing body of EU law and regulation is preoccupied with the protection of EU citizens from health and environmental risks.

This book is a legal and political intervention into a contemporary debate concerning the appropriateness of sexual offence prosecutions brought against young gender non-conforming people for so-called 'gender identity fraud'.

This guide helps readers understand the past, present, and future of America's Medicare and Medicaid programs, which provide health care services and medical coverage to millions of Americans across the USA.

Synesthesia is the phenomenon where sensual perceptions are joined together as a combined experience - that is, the ability to feel color, hear the visual, or even smell emotion.

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.

First published in 1992, Crime, Criminal Justice and the Probation Service is a thought-provoking analysis of the role of the probation service in developing an integrated system of criminal justice.

What is the place assigned to religion in the constitutions of contemporary States?

This book presents a comprehensive assessment of regional responses to the crisis in the asylum/refugee system and critically examines how different regions tackle the problem.