Social law and Medical law

This book brings together some of the most respected Asian and Australasian experts on medical liability to provide insightful perspectives on civil and criminal law from selected Australasian jurisdictions.

Understanding Victimology: An Active Learning Approach is the only textbook with extensive discussion of both online and offline victimization reinforced by group and individual learning activities.

This book explores the largely neglected relationship between men, masculinities and honour-based abuse (HBA).

This edited collection explores the disruptive effects of technology on law: in particular, the challenge presented to regulators as they strive to manage the transition from one technological state to another (such as the transition from analogue to digital or from fossil fuels to green renewables) and the opportunities (and challenges) presented as regulators transition from traditional rule-based legal governance to governance that relies on new technologies and tools.

Placing contemporary technological developments in their historical context, this book argues for the importance of law in their regulation.

Showcasing research from across the social sciences, this edited volume seeks to provide readers with an empirically grounded sense of how many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people marry in the US and Canada, what their marriages look like, and how LGBT people themselves are impacted by marriage and marriage equality.

City Limits contributes to a growing body of work under the umbrella of 'cultural criminology', which attempts to bring an appreciation of cultural change to an understanding of crime in late modernity (Hayward and Young 2004).

This book presents a critical chronology of the modern slavery survivor journey in the UK, from intervention by the authorities to long-term recovery.

This book argues that suicidal people have the right to receive treatment and for reasonable steps to be taken that they are protected from killing themselves.

Emmanuelle Jouannet explores the concept of international law from the European Enlightenment to the post-Cold War world.

Presenting legal and philosophical essays on money, this book exploresthe conditions according to which an object like a piece of paper, or anelectronic signal, has come to be seen as having a value.

The most basic of human rights, the right to life, is the focus of this book.

Luminescent Thermometers deals with all aspects of the subject from principles of methods to their applications in different areas.

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.

As most Americans know, conflicts of interest riddle the US health care system.

At a time when Europe is witnessing major cultural, social, economic and political challenges and transformations, this book brings together leading researchers and experts to consider a range of pressing questions relating to the historical origins, contemporary manifestations and future prospects for juvenile justice.

A homicide committed by a mentally disordered person who is under the care of health service professionals is a shocking event.

This book offers a critical analysis of the European colonial heritage in the Arab countries and highlights the way this legacy is still with us today, informing the current state of relations between Europe and the formerly colonized states.

The reach of free movement within the EU Internal Market and what constitutes a restriction are the topics of this book.

Explains why lawyers seeking gender progress from primary legal materials should start with the common law.

In the nearly four decades since the First International Symposium on Victimology convened in Jerusalem in 1973, some concepts and themes have continued to hold a prominent place in the literature, while new ones have also emerged.

First published in 1999, this international collection of essays on legal education addresses the following issues: The Law School and the University.

The concept of 'organised crime' is constructed and mobilised by a milieu of complex factors and discourses including a politics of law and order, and international insecurity, combined with the vested interests and priorities of scholars, politicians, government officials, and policing authorities.

Public Security in Federal Polities is the first systematic and methodical study to bring together the fields of security studies and comparative federalism.

This book provides the first overarching, empirically grounded, critical analysis of child trafficking as an idea, ordering principle, and artefact of politics.

This book presents a legal genealogy of biodiversity - of its strategic use before and after the adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 1993.

The book identifies and analyzes important yet insufficiently explored moral issues in k-12 special education.

On 1 December 2009 the Treaty of Lisbon entered into force.

Provides an international comparative study of the implementation of disability rights law and policy focused on the emerging principles of self-determination and personalisation.

This book shows how the legal systems of individual European countries protect patient autonomy.

Psychiatric Expert Testimony: Emerging Applications is for practitioners who need to be at the cutting edge of admissibility in court.

This book analyzes the emergence of cyber-bullying and anti-authority student expressions through the use of cell phone and Internet technologies.

Genocide and Victimology examines genocide in its diverse features, from different yet connected perspectives, to offer an interdisciplinary, victimological imagination of genocide.

This volume looks at the forms and functions of counterspeech as well as what determines its effectiveness and success from multidisciplinary perspectives.

A concise and accessible overview of the design, implementation and management of medical software.

This book considers the 1996-2006 welfare laws in the United States from a feminist perspective.

Cybercrimes are often viewed as technical offenses that require technical solutions, such as antivirus programs or automated intrusion detection tools.

This collection critically explores the use of financial technology (FinTech) and artificial intelligence (AI) in the financial sector and discusses effective regulation and the prevention of crime.

Changes in family structures, demographics, social attitudes and economic policies over the last 60 years have had a large impact on family lives and correspondingly on family law.

Health professionals are often confronted with situations that demand change, including a community's inability to access adequate health care, lack of disease-specific prevention programs, or legislators who do not understand economic and noneconomic impacts of a particular disease or prevention.

Providing the basis for critical engagement with the pessimism of the contemporary age, The Degradation of the International Legal Order?

First published in 1999, Making Foreign People Pay deals with the recovery of monetary claims in cross-border legal relations and contains the results of a comparative empirical research of debt recovery procedures of three countries with different socio-legal environments, Germany, England and Turkey.

Unsere Gesellschaft wird nicht zuletzt dank anhaltendem Wohlstand und medizinisch-technischem Fortschritt immer älter.

Comprehensive analysis showing that utilities and welfare services are important building blocks for the EU social market economy.

It is generally accepted in legal and bioethical discourse that the patient has a right to self-determination.

This book reframes the study of multicide (that is, serial and mass murder) to use objective measures, and aims to expand our understanding of multicide offending through descriptive and inferential statistical analyses of different homicide patterns of the offenders.

To date, there have been few theoretical inquiries into the relationship between the technological innovation and basic objectives of consumer protection laws.

Über 15 Jahre nach Erlass der geltenden Verbraucherkredit-Richtlinie hat die Europäische Kommission im Oktober 2002 einen Vorschlag für eine reformierte Richtlinie zum europäischen Verbraucherkreditrecht vorgelegt, der einschneidende Veränderungen vorsieht und in der Folge heftig diskutiert wurde.