Social law and Medical law

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 rethinks the boundaries of transitional justice, urging scholars and practitioners to confront the often-overlooked nexus between mass violence and ecological harm.

Michael Likosky examines the continuities and discontinuities between colonial and present-day high tech transnational legal orders.

The sexual abuse of children is an area of increasing concern to social services agencies, lawmakers, and the general public.

The Communicative Architecture of Policing is a ground-breaking study of police communications and police-media relations in the social media era.

Austerity has reconfigured and scaled back the governance and delivery of public services and negatively affected society's most vulnerable groups.

The process of food inspection relies on an inspector's understanding of the intrinsic hazards associated with individual foods.

This title was first published in 2001.

This book provides a robust analysis of the history of clinical ethics, the philosophical theories that support its practice, and the practical institutional criteria needed to become a practicing clinical ethicist.

Although concerns over the ecological impacts of pesticides gave rise to the environmental movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, since that time, pesticide use and its effects have been largely ignored by the law and by legal scholars.

Published in 1998.

This book makes a critical intervention into debates about journalism and the crisis in local news.

This collection brings together legal scholars, canonists and political scientists to focus on the issue of public funding in support of religious activities and institutions in Europe.

Das Werk behandelt in zwei Bänden alle examenswichtigen Fragen des Arbeitsrechts.

Community Justice discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs and addresses the important relationship between the criminal justice system and the community in the USA.

Depression is amorphous.

Whether there is a public health need for the containment and response to swine flu, or an individual need to access health care across the border for a hip operation to alleviate pain, the EU has an increasingly powerful role in the field of human health.

What should be the primary goals of a judicial appointments system, and how much weight should be placed on diversity in particular?

Globalisation, and the vast migrations of capital and labour that have accompanied it in recent decades, has transformed family law in once unimaginable ways.

Contributing to the debate on work performance evaluation in a time of technological transformation, this book explores the impact of digitisation on production and organisation models, as well as on the rights and interests of the stakeholders involved.

This volume shows how and why legal empowerment is important for those exercising their religious rights under various jurisdictions, in conditions of legal pluralism.

Public Benefit in Charity Law examines the legal principles and practical applications of the public benefit test in charity law in the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the Republic of Ireland.

This book contributes to the international debate on Indigenous Peoples Law, containing both in-depth research of Scandinavian historical and legal contexts with respect to the Sami and demonstrating current stances in Sami Law research.

This edited collection of contributions explores non-normative genders, sexualities, and relationality among Autistic people.

A standard reference work for all who prepare, order, appraise, or evaluate reports on the consequences of accidents.

The book emphasizes the technological advancements in tissue engineering related to biomaterials and biomanufacturing techniques.

This volume gathers together chapters that address the theme of implementing fundamental labour rights in China.

The question "e;what is science"e; has been one of the most vigorously contested legal questions as to what is legally acceptable scientific foundation for the submission of expert opinion in a wide variety of cases, especially in products liability cases.

Discover how to best provide effective mental health treatments for criminal offenders Prisons and jails are increasingly being filled with inmates who suffer from mental illness and need treatment.

Over the last decade, Europe has been struggling to cope with a series of significant and challenging global crises.

This book provides a socio-legal examination of the media's influence on the development and implementation of criminal justice policy.

The relationship between law and religion has traditionally been analysed according to two basic paradigms.

In contrast to other figures generated within social theory for thinking about outsiders, such as Rene Girard's 'scapegoat' and Zygmunt Bauman's 'stranger', Foucault's Monsters and the Challenge of Law suggests that the figure of 'the monster' offers greater analytical precision and explanatory power in relation to understanding the processes whereby outsiders are constituted.

The Assisted Decision-Making Handbook is a one-stop resource for practice and procedure in relation to the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 (as amended) ('ADMCA') in Ireland.

Between 2000 and 2015, women ascended to the top of judiciaries across Africa, most notably as chief justices of supreme courts in common law countries like Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Zambia, but also as presidents of constitutional courts in civil law countries such as Benin, Burundi, Gabon, Niger and Senegal.

Ce volume est consacré aux différents aspects de la vie professionnelle des médecins et soignants: formation universitaire puis postgrade, autorisation cantonale de pratiquer, le tout débouchant sur une activité exercée sous sa propre responsabilité professionnelle ou, au contraire, encadrée.

This book is a legal and political intervention into a contemporary debate concerning the appropriateness of sexual offence prosecutions brought against young gender non-conforming people for so-called 'gender identity fraud'.

Born in the late nineteenth century, sexuality is a relatively new category within the human sciences in general and law and society scholarship in particular.

Fear, rage, courage, discrimination.

The gap between what the law and legal processes deliver for victims of domestic abuse and what they actually need has, in some instances, arguably widened.

With a number of public health panics emerging in the past few years, most recently the panic over 'swine flu' in 2009, the publication of this two volume collection is extremely timely.

The process of judicial control over institutions is often described as growing socio-legal trend which impacts the development of modern societies.

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Restorative justice is one of the most talked about developments in the field of crime and justice.

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

Sudan has been undergoing profound changes characterized by an uncertain transition from conflict to post-conflict society and the separation of the country in the midst of ongoing human rights concerns.