Social law and Medical law

Exploring the phenomenon of diffusion of legal norms accompanying economic globalisation in developing countries, this book examines the blanket imposition of standard regulatory templates, maintaining that every jurisdiction requires customised legal solutions.

Offers an alternative picture of the causes of human violence, showing strategies for change through concerted societal action.

The history of incorporations legislation and its administration is intimately tied to changes in social beliefs in respect to the role and purpose of the corporation.

The relationship between culture and the law has become an emergent concern within contemporary Cultural Studies as a field, but the recent focus has been largely limited to the role played by cultural representations and identity politics in the legitimation of legal discourse and policies.

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Big Data: A Business and Legal Guide supplies a clear understanding of the interrelationships between Big Data, the new business insights it reveals, and the laws, regulations, and contracting practices that impact the use of the insights and the data.

This title was first published in 2003: The problem of legitimacy and legality is one of the key issues of modern thought and nowhere more intensely debated than in the countries of the former Soviet bloc.

This book provides insight into the globally interlinked disability rights community and its political efforts today.

Provides practical solutions for ending coercion in mental health care and realizing the universal right to legal capacity.

Whilst workers' organizations and third-party analysts around the world commonly cite age as the most prevalent form of discrimination in the workplace, age discrimination has not had the same high profile as discrimination on grounds of sex or race.

This book argues, from a normative perspective, for the incorporation of an egalitarian sensitivity into tort law, and more generally, into private law.

Employing critical-systems thinking, this study analyses the evolution of a health system providing universal coverage.

This book offers a novel study on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on insurance from an international and comparative perspective.

Why do law reforms spread around the world in waves?

As medical devices become even more intricate, concerns about efficacy, safety, and reliability continue to be raised.

This book argues that communities need better planning to be safely navigated by people with mobility impairment and to facilitate intergenerational aging in place.

Assault on the Soul: Women in the Former Yugoslavia sheds light upon women's wartime experiences and makes sense of their coping strategies in the face of the innumerable atrocities committed against them.

This edited collection gathers together the principal findings of the three-year RELIGARE project, which dealt with the question of religious and philosophical diversity in European law.

This book discusses the socioeconomic effects of Right-to-Work (RTW) laws on state populations.

The growth of Islam both worldwide and particularly in the United States is especially notable among African-American inmates incarcerated in American state and federal penitentiaries.

This book brings together Indigenous, Third World and Settler perspectives on the theory and practice of decolonizing law.

This book is about the regulation of corporations that use bribery in international commerce to win or maintain overseas business contracts and interests.

Police and People in London is still the largest and most detailed study of a police force and its relations with the public that has yet been undertaken in Britain.

This ground-breaking collection dares to take the next step in the advancement of an autonomous, inter-disciplinary restorative justice field of study.

Rethinking Rape Law provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of contemporary rape laws, across a range of jurisdictions.

Money laundering is a global issue and there is evidence that the services provided by the legal profession may be misused to launder the proceeds of crime.

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

In the era of information and communication, issues of misinformation and miscommunication are more pressing than ever.

Agent-Based Modelling for Criminological Theory Testing and Development addresses the question whether and how we can use simulation methods in order to test criminological theories, and if they fail to be corroborated, how we can use simulation to mend and further develop theories.

Asylum, Welfare and the Cosmopolitan Ideal: A Sociology of Rights puts forward the argument that rights must be understood as part of a social process: a terrain for strategies of inclusion and exclusion but also of contestation and negotiation.

Building upon an interdisciplinary synthesis of recent literature from the fields of transitional justice and conflict transformation, this book introduces a groundbreaking theoretical framework that highlights the critical importance of identity in the relationship between transitional justice and reconciliation in deeply divided societies.

Extending law beyond the human, the book probes the conceptual openings, methodological challenges and ethical conundrums of law in a time of deep socio-ecological disturbances and transitions.

This book analyses and reconstructs the European Convention on Human Rights standard of application and execution of preventive deprivation of liberty.

EU expansion has stoked fears that criminals from the East may abuse freedom of movement to exploit the benefit systems of richer states.

The Idea of Home in Law: Displacement and Dispossession explores an important set of legal and policy issues surrounding the concepts of home and homelessness, taking a growing area of legal scholarship into the new arena of human rights and international law.

In recent years, controversy has surrounded the role of top government lawyers in the United States and the United Kingdom.

When diagnosed with diabetes the first thing a person asks is what food they can eat.

Binding Men tells stories about men, violence and law in late Victorian England.

This book is an essential resource to understanding the intersection of medical genetics and law.

Criminal justice procedure is the bedrock of human rights.

This book presents a critical analysis of the concept of 'adequate housing'.

This landmark book focuses on urban surfaces, on exploring their authorship and management, and on their role in struggles for the right to the city.

In this book, Laurence Armand French frames the emergence of medical, clinical, and legal ethical standards within the long history of institutional and systemic racial and gender biases in the United States.