Social law and Medical law

This book pursues a critical perspective on the phenomenon of state violence and its legal unaccountability.

This book explores the problems associated with regulating the funding of political parties and election campaigns in a timely assessment of a topic of great political controversy.

Dieses Buch analysiert und bewertet die Rechtslage zur Durchführung medizinischer Behandlungen bei örtlichem und/oder zeitlichem Versatz auf dem Gebiet des Standesrechts, des Haftungsrechts, des Werberechts, des Rechts der medizinischen Verordnungen, des SGB V-Leistungsrechts, des Medizinprodukterechts und des Datenschutzrechts.

Law is widely assumed to provide contemporary society with its most important means of organizing responsibility.

This book provides a critical legal perspective on the legitimacy of international courts and tribunals.

This volume considers the ethical legitimacy of invoking the criminal law to regulate medical and scientific practice and bioethical issues.

A comprehensive, stimulating introduction to trusts law, which provides readers with a clear conceptual framework to aid understanding of this challenging area of the law.

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

Who are the perpetrators of modern slavery?

Forensic psychiatry (the interface of psychiatry and the law), forensic psychology, and mental health law are growing and evolving subspecialties in their respective larger disciplines.

This collection brings together lawyers and theologians in the U.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will be a topic for academic research for years to come.

This short guide cuts through the confusing mass of legislation to provide a concise and jargon-free explanation of current community care practice and the law.

In New Zealand, as well as in Australia, Canada and other comparable jurisdictions, Indigenous peoples comprise a significantly disproportionate percentage of the prison population.

Taking inspiration from the classic text by Raymond Williams, Keywords in Criminology reflects on the language used by criminologists and offers a one stop guide to core concepts in the discipline.

Establishing a new framework for understanding insider risk by focusing on systems of organisation within large enterprises, including public, private, and not-for-profit sectors, this book analyses practices to better assess, prevent, detect, and respond to insider risk and protect assets and public good.

Having control over personal data is regarded as a fundamental right in the EU.

This book is a critical study of the laws regulating landownership patterns.

Justice for All identifies ten central flaws in the criminal justice system and offers an array of solutions - from status quo to evolution to revolution - to address the inequities and injustices that far too often result in courtrooms across the United States.

This collection explores the stakes, risks and opportunities invoked in opening and exploring law's archive and re-examining law's evidence.

This volume explores the diversity and complexity of transgender people's experiences and demonstrates that gendered bodies are constructed through different social, cultural and economic networks and through different spaces and places.

This book explores the objectives pursued in donor programs, the methods used to advance them, and the underlying assumptions and strategies.

Exploring the pressing issues of juvenile delinquency, victimization, and justice in Chinese societies, this book showcases contemporary research on these critical topics.

Advances in modern biotechnology have produced profound and far-reaching implications for the relationship between humans, animals and the environment.

Das Buch arbeitet die zentralen Kriterien des Krankheitsbegriffs im Recht heraus.

The principle of legal certainty is of fundamental importance for law and society: it has been vital in stabilising normative expectations and in providing a framework for social interaction, as well as defining the scope of individual freedom and political power.

This book comes at a time when the intrinsic and self-evident value of queer rights and protections, from gay marriage to hate crimes, is increasingly put in question.

This book explores the impacts of global economic, political and cultural shifts on various international legal frameworks and legal norms.

This book celebrates Professor Margaret Brazier's outstanding contribution to the field of healthcare law and bioethics.

This book provides a detailed analysis of one of the most prominent and widespread international phenomena to which criminal justice systems has been applied: the expression of revisionist views relating to mass atrocities and the outright denial of their existence.

This book explores the concept of punishment: its meaning and significance, not least to those subject to it; its social, political and emotional contexts; its role in the criminal justice system; and the difficulties of bringing punishment to an end.

This book offers a radically different introduction to law, one that reflects the challenges and opportunities presented by the rapid technological developments of our time.

Topical and compelling, this volume provides an excellent re-evaluation of the 'best interests' test in the healthcare arena; the ways in which it has developed, the inherent difficulties in its use and its interpretation in legal cases concerning the medical care of children.

This new volume provides an abundance of information on new biomedical applications being used today.

The Regulation of Animal Health and Welfare draws on the research of scientists, lawyers, economists and political scientists to address the current and future regulatory problems posed by the issues of animal health and disease.

Feminist approaches to international law have been mischaracterised by the mainstream of the discipline as being a niche field that pertains only to women's lived experiences and their participation in decision-making processes.

Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade: Remedying the 'Past'?

Within contemporary society, globalization has emerged as a key concern at the centre of ethical, legal and policy debates relating to health care.

The forensic nurse has a powerful role in medical-legal investigations.

Ideal for students taking law modules on construction, surveying, real estate, planning and civil engineering courses, Galbraith's Construction and Land Management Law for Students is an excellent overview of the key legal issues in the built environment.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Congress enacted a vast body of legislation to protect the environment and individual health and safety.

When part of a person's body is separated from them, or when a person dies, it is unclear what legal status the item of bodily material is able to obtain.

A Different Perspective on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provides a brief history of health insurance within the United States, offering an accessible perspective on the highly contentious Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).

Lawyers and the Construction of Transnational Justice examines the people, the conflicts, and the mechanisms involved in producing transnational norms and institutions.

This book discusses court-oriented legal reforms across Asia with a focus on the creation of 'new courts' over the last 20 years.

This book seeks to provide and promote a better understanding and a more responsive and inclusive governance of the automation and digital devices in public institutions, particularly the law and justice sector.

Based on over a decade of research, this book examines the social harms of Australian prescription and non-prescription medicine regulation and how these ultimately stem from neoliberalism and its reinforcement of state and corporate power.