Social law and Medical law

Communication problems between science and the courts are widely deplored and sometimes exploited by a variety of groups.

Discusses Upendra Baxi''s role as an Indian jurist and how his contributions have shaped our understanding of legal jurisprudence.

Criminal Evidence is a well-respected and trusted introduction to the rules of criminal evidence for criminal justice students and professionals.

This book provides a leading point of reference in the field of partial defences to murder and with respect to the mental condition defences of loss of control and diminished responsibility in general.

This book analyses the impact of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) on EU non-discrimination law and governance.

Transitional justice and diaspora studies are interdisciplinary and expanding fields of study.

Whereas previous studies of legitimacy and trust have mostly dealt with procedural justice and the police, this book focuses on other crucial understudied aspects of legitimacy within criminal law, policy and criminal justice.

Ubiquitous Law explores the possibility of understanding the law in dissociation from the State while, at the same time, establishing the conditions of meaningful communication between various legalities.

This book addresses the relationship between International Refugee Law and International Human Rights Law.

Increasing numbers of people with autism and other developmental disabilities are being convicted of sex offences, resulting in draconian and public punishment.

This edited collection provides a forum for rigorous analysis of the necessity for both legal and social change with regard to regulation of same-sex relationships and rainbow families, the status of civil partnership as a concept and the lived reality of equality for LGBTQ+ persons.

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

The interaction of faith and the community is a fundamental of modern society.

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.

This book explores the intricate and multi-dimensional conception of clarity and obscurity in the law.

This book compares legally allowed dismissal conditions in employment contracts in Taiwan and Japan and then examines the possibility of introducing the Taiwan-style severance payment system into Japanese employment contracts.

First published in 1983, Prejudice and Pride chronicles legal and social discrimination against gay people living in Britain in 1980s.

This volume illustrates to the public, and legal experts, the basic principles of the field of neuroscience, that commonly goes under the name of Neurolaw.

Hilfen für Menschen mit BehinderungViele denken im Zusammenhang mit einer Behinderung oder Schwerbehinderung an einen Rollstuhlfahrer, einen blinden oder krebskranken Menschen oder andere Personen mit sichtbaren oder angeborenen Beeinträchtigungen.

This book explores the complicated relationship between constitutions and transitional justice.

A practical resource for dealing with family matters upon death, this first-of-its-kind publication from the American Bar Association and AARP - the nation's leading associations in the law and the advancement of issues that matter most to people 50+ and their families - helps answer the myriad of questions surrounding what needs to be done following a loved one's passing.

Local government affects us all.

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.

Research on sexual violence has been a growing area of academic study since the 1970s.

Originally published in 1981 and then as a second edition, revised and updated in 1983 and now with a new Preface by Ian Kennedy, this is a hard-hitting and penetrating investigation behind the facade of late 20th Century medical thinking.

This book addresses the issue of agency in relation to child marriage.

This book examines how child protection law has been shaped by the transition to late modernity and how it copes with the ever-changing concept of risk.

What role do transitional justice processes play in determining the gender outcomes of transitions from conflict and authoritarianism?

'Why do we vote in schools?

In their latest collaboration, Clinical Manual of Psychiatry and Law, noted forensic psychiatrist Dr.

Since devolution in 1999, social policy within Scotland has burgeoned.

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.

Examining specific areas of family law from a feminist perspective, this book assesses the impact that feminism has had upon family law.

Prison Segregation: The Limits of Law explores the use of segregation in English prisons by examining how law is used and experienced, and how human rights are upheld.

In the 1970s, the Federal Trade Commission had embarked on an activist consumer protection and antitrust agenda which resulted in severe public and congressional backlash, including calls to abolish the agency.

The Routledge Handbook on Victims' Issues in Criminal Justice is a comprehensive and authoritative handbook on current issues, with a distinctive emphasis on the delivery of suitable and effective services.

Lawscape: Property, Environment, Law considers the ways in which property law transforms both natural environments and social economies.

Die Rechtsbeziehung Arbeitnehmer - Arbeitgeber, ein interessantes Rechtsgebiet, das jeden einzelnen betrifft.

Social justice is a concept which is widely touted and lauded as desirable, yet its meaning may differ depending on whether its focus is on the underlying values of social justice, the more specific objectives these entail, or the actual practices or policies which aim to achieve social justice.

This book explores the relationship between space, subjectivity and property in order to invert conventional socio-legal understandings of property.

This book explains why we should stop thinking of freedom as limited to a right to be left alone.

A Practitioner's Guide to Cybersecurity and Data Protection offers an accessible introduction and practical guidance on the crucial topic of cybersecurity for all those working with clients in the fields of psychology, neuropsychology, psychotherapy, and counselling.

Intellectual Property and Health TechnologiesBalancing Innovation and the Public's Health Joanna T.

The digital age began in 1939 with the construction of the first digital computer.

Previous collections of essays on equity and trusts law have focused on doctrinal issues, only occasionally giving a policy gloss or suggestion of social context and impact.

Justice and Security Reform: Development Agencies and Informal Institutions in Sierra Leone undertakes a deep contextual analysis of the reform of the country's security and justice sectors since the end of the civil war in 2002.

This book investigates the struggles for hegemony, and a possible 'crisis of crisis management' at the core of Italy's political economy.