Social law and Medical law

What role does law play in post-communist societies?

Increasing knowledge of the biological is fundamentally transforming what life itself means and where its boundaries lie.

Despite some significant advances in the creation and protection of rights affecting women's health, these do not always translate into actual health benefits for women.

This book addresses the discursive importance of the prosecution's opening statement before an international criminal tribunal.

This volume examines how and to what extent security officers make use of`legal tools.

Analyses the relation of preventive and curative health policy and its evolution over time.

This book investigates the dynamic intertwinement of law and morality, with a focus on new and developing fields of law.

Are pregnant women entitled to the same rights of self-determination and bodily integrity as other adults?

Im Bereich der Gesundwissenschaften werden nach aktuellen Schätzungen mehr als 500 unterschiedliche Studiengänge angeboten, Tendenz steigend.

Over the past two decades, legal thought and practice in Latin America have changed dramatically: new constitutions or constitutional reforms have consolidated democratic rule, fundamental innovations have been introduced in state institutions, social movements have turned to law to advance their causes, and processes of globalization have had profound effects on legal norms and practices.

This book addresses the use of biometrics - including fingerprint identification, DNA identification and facial recognition - in the criminal justice system: balancing the need to ensure society is protected from harms, such as crime and terrorism, while also preserving individual rights.

How have national identities changed, developed and reacted in the wake of transition from communism to democracy in Central and Eastern Europe?

This book draws on a wide selection of interdisciplinary literature discussing complex adaptive systems - including scholarship from economics, political science, evolutionary biology, cognitive science, and religion - to apply general complexity tenets to the institutions, conceptual framework, and theoretical justifications of the copyright system, both in the United States and internationally.

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

The first comprehensive study of Chilean constitutional history in the English language.

Diese Kurzdarstellung des deutschen und chinesischen Arbeitsrechts wird dem Leser zum besseren Verständnis und als Hilfe zur Verständigung in deutscher, englischer und chinesischer Sprache zur Verfügung gestellt.

Taking the shifting global drug policy terrain as a starting point, this collection moves beyond debates about whether to reform drug policies to a focus on delivering 'drug policy justice' - repairing the damage caused by the war on drugs as a component of reform efforts and safeguarding against future harms in legal markets.

While the idea of immigration embodies America's rhetorical commitment to democracy, recent immigration control policies also showcase abysmal failures in democratic practice.

This book presents the findings of the first comprehensive study on the most recent and most unique and innovative method of monitoring international human rights law at the United Nations.

Hypercrime develops a new theoretical approach toward current reformulations in criminal behaviours, in particular the phenomenon of cybercrime.

The increasing trend and prevalence of incivilities-targeting punitive regulatory measures across Europe raises important issues regarding the legitimacy, effectiveness and impact of such formal social control.

Cyber hate can take many different forms from online material which can lead to actual offline abuse and violence, cyber violence; cyber stalking, and online harassment with the use of visual images, videos, chat rooms, text and social media which are intended to cause harm.

Lawfare is a complex and evolving concept with many permutations.

This book explores the practical and theoretical opportunities as well as the challenges raised by the expansion of transitional justice into new and 'aparadigmatic' cases.

In the context of education, Church and State issues are of growing importance and appear to be increasingly divisive.

This book uses the Canadian cannabis legalization experiment, analyzed in the historical context of wider drug criminalization in Canada and placed in an international perspective, to examine important lessons about the differential implementation of federal law in jurisdictions within federalist constitutional democracies.

In the wake of Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary renditions, and secret torture centres in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, Revenge versus Legality addresses the relationship between law and wild or vigilante justice; between the power to enforce retribution and the desire to seek revenge.

This book examines the birth of the European individual as a juridical problem, focusing on legal case dossiers from the European Court of Justice as an electrifying laboratory for the study of law and society.

This volume contains a collection of original papers by leading legal scholars and social scientists that develop new perspectives on anti-discrimination law, with an emphasis on employment discrimination.

Child Protection and Parents with a Learning Disability provides the practical knowledge that professionals need in order to understand common intellectual disabilities and how they might affect parenting capability.

This book examines the relationship between international human rights discourse and the justifi cations for criminal punishment.

Using case studies drawn from Latin America, Africa, India and Eastern Europe, this volume examines the role of courts as a channel for social transformation for excluded sectors of society in contemporary democracies.

In God vs.

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Combining insights from comparative legal theory, jurisprudence and legal history, this collection examines the legal and constitutional identity of Central and Eastern Europe.

Despite the key importance of accountability for the legitimacy of humanitarian action, inadequate academic attention has been given to how the concept of accountability is evolving within the specific branches of the humanitarian enterprise.

Chronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of the rise of Trump's populist support in 2016, and his failed efforts to nullify the result of the 2020 election.

This volume makes a contribution to the field of neurolaw by investigating issues raised by the development, use, and regulation of neurointerventions.

Rarely do acts of civil disobedience come in such grand fashion as Taiwan's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement.

With increasing recognition of the international market in health professionals and the impact of globalism on regulation, the governance of the health workforce is moving towards greater public engagement and increased transparency.

Originally published in 1981 Law, State and Society confronts many of the most important issues within the developing field of law and society.

This volume addresses the contentious and topical issue of aboriginal self-government over child welfare.

A collection of essays and commentary that explores the status of dissent in the work and lives of judges, lawyers, and citizens, and in our institutions and culture.

This book argues that we need to focus attention on the ways that workers themselves have invested subjectively in what it means to be a worker.

Human trafficking is a crime that undermines fundamental human rights and a broader sense of global order.

This edited collection provides a comprehensive, insightful, and detailed study of a vital area of public policy debate as it is currently occurring in countries across the world from India to South Africa and the United Kingdom to Australia.

This volume suggests alternative ethical frameworks and models of regulation relating to the governance of genetic information.

A key resource for psychiatrists and other clinicians working in forensic services with individuals who present with neurodevelopmental disorders.