The essays selected for this volume develop conventional abolition discourse and explore the conceptual framework through which abolition is understood and posited.
This volume explores the factors that give rise to the number of people seeking asylum and examines the barriers they currently and will continue to face.
In Making Freedom Anne-Maria Makhulu explores practices of squatting and illegal settlement on the outskirts of Cape Town during and immediately following the end of apartheid.
This volume considers the most recent demands for justice within the international system, examining how such aspirations often conflict with norms of state sovereignty and non-intervention.
The problems of medical care confront us daily: a bureaucracy that makes a trip to the doctor worse than a trip to the dentist, doctors who can't practice medicine the way they choose, more than 40 million people without health insurance.
Hidden older illegal drug users are a seldom researched group; most research on illegal drug users instead focusses on the young or the institutionalised.
Many advocates of euthanasia consider the criminal law to be an inappropriate medium to adjudicate the profound ethical and humanitarian dilemmas associated with end of life decisions.
Gegenstand der Untersuchung zum Finanzierungssystem der GKV (Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung) sind Umfang und Verteilung der Lasten sowie ein anforderungsgerechtes Reformmodell.
Examining the challenges of using the global anti-money laundering (AML) framework in an uneven global regulatory landscape, this book discusses the difficulties of relating de-regulation, liberalization and conflict of laws to the dynamics of the market economy and demonstrates how the global environment engenders money laundering.
Das Lehrbuch behandelt die für das deutsche Arbeitsrecht bedeutsamen EU-rechtlichen Problembereiche wie den allgemeinen EU-Arbeitnehmerschutz, Diskriminierungsverbote in Gehalts- und sonstigen Angelegenheiten, Insolvenzsicherung, Betriebsübergang, Massenentlassung, Arbeitszeit- und Urlaubsfragen sowie prekäre Arbeitsverhältnisse.
Examining the treatment of persons with mental disabilities in the criminal justice system, this book offers new perspectives that are crucial to an understanding of the ways in which society projects onto criminal defendants prejudices and attitudes about responsibility, free will, autonomy, choice, public safety, and the meaning and purpose of punishment, all with a focus on ways to enhance dignity in the criminal trial process.
An understanding of law and its efficacy in Latin America demands concepts distinct from the hegemonic notions of "e;rule of law"e; which have dominated debates on law, politics and society, and that recognize the diversity of situations and contexts characterizing the region.
This book proposes a new way of thinking about the controversial and complex challenges associated with the regulation of high-cost credit, specifically payday lending.
In an era marked by processes of economic, political and legal integration that are arguably unprecedented in their range and impact, the translation of law has assumed a significance which it would be hard to overstate.
At the intersection of law, feminism and philosophy, this book analyses the ways in which certain bodies and 'selves' continue to be treated as monstrous aberrations from the 'ideal' figure or norm.
Globalization has become a common phenomenon, yet one that many people experience as a threat not only to their economic existence, but also to their cultural and moral self-image.
It is hard to believe that there was a time, not long ago, when there was no right to obtain government information, no protection against hazards in children's toys and other consumer products, no federal safety standards for motor vehicles, and no insurance to protect an investors' money and securities in brokerage accounts.
The Law of Assisted Reproduction, Second Edition examines the impact of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (HFEA 2008) and the ongoing controversial issues that surround it from legal, ethical, moral, social and medical points of view.
State formation after civil war offers a new model for studying the formation of the state in a national peace transition as an integrated national phenomenon.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been fast growing since its evolution and experiments with various new add-on features; human efficiency is one among those and the most controversial topic.
In the days, months, and now years following the events of September 11th, 2001, discrimination against the Sikh community in America has escalated sharply, due in part to a populace that often confuses Sikhs, compelled by their faith to wear turbans, with the Muslim extremists responsible for the devastating terrorist attacks.
Recent scandals involving the use of human body parts have highlighted the need for legal clarification surrounding property law and the use of human tissue.
The last twenty years have seen an explosion in the development of information technology, to the point that people spend a major portion of waking life in online spaces.
