Social law and Medical law

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.

Health and healthcare are vitally important to all of us, and academic interest in the law regulating health has, over the last 50 years, become an important field of academic study.

Western societies are immersed in debates about immigration and illegality.

Some have estimated that healthcare fraud in the United States results in losses of approximately $80 billion a year.

Triage decision-making during a pandemic is linked to complex ethical, medical, and legal dilemmas, which in the past have been discussed mainly based on hypothetical scenarios.

This book argues that South Africa is haunted by the spectre of reparation.

This edited volume brings together leading scholars on the death penalty within international, regional and municipal law.

This title was first published in 2001.

Feminist Perspectives on Child Law is a collection of interdisciplinary socio-legal essays which explore the complex relationship between childhood,gender and the law.

Changing attitudes towards cannabis across Europe are challenging old convictions of drug prohibition and making space for new approaches to the drug.

When does the exercise of an interest constitute a human right?

This edited collection illuminates the weaknesses and strengths of crime reporting across a wide range of countries, with a focus on democratic countries in which the police bear some accountability to citizens.

Bringing together theoretical, empirical and comparative perspectives on the European Social Model (ESM) and transitional labour market policy, this volume contains theoretical accounts of the ESM and a discussion of policy implications for European social and employment policies that derive from research on transitional labour markets.

This book offers a multifaceted look at Northeast India and the customs and traditions that underpin its legal framework.

A thoroughly researched, empirically-based explanation of the failures of end-of-life communication & decision-making in the United States.

The rich field of urban law has thus far lacked a holistic and concerted scholarly focus on comparative and global perspectives.

This book breaks new ground in interpreting how identity informs the judgements of State workers, as normative orientations coincide with identities and authority.

Whether or not wrongdoers show remorse and how they show remorse are matters that attract great interest both in law and in popular culture.

Thirty years after the adoption of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, this book provides diverse perspectives from countries and regions across the globe on its implementation, critique and potential for reform.

From bans on religious symbols in public spaces, to the provision of abortion by doctors, recent cases across Europe have highlighted acute dilemmas about how best to respond to the claims of individuals or groups feeling that their values or beliefs are not treated fairly by the law.

International human rights law challenges core tenets of mental health law, policy and practice.

Commentators have shown how a 'culture of security' ushered in after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 has involved exceptional legal measures and increased recourse to secrecy on the basis of protecting public safety and safeguarding national security.

This book investigates how and why the criminal law differentiates between different types of body alterations, with particular reference to how they are conceptualised within legal discourse.

This book provides an overview of the progress and continuing disparities faced by people with disabilities around the world.

This book analyzes in detail how and why people become involved in long-firm (planned bankruptcy) fraud, the similarities and differences between long-firm fraud and other crimes, the links between bankruptcy fraudsters and other professional and organized criminals, the techniques that fraudsters use, and the social and commercial relationships that exist within the operational world of the long-firm fraudster.

This book aims to produce lawyers who can debate, criticise and change professional ethics as well as understand their underlying rationale.

This book discusses the practice of free speech and its limitations - defamation and hate speech - in the context of Indonesia.

This work maps the criminal process''s impact on several key issues in medicine and its arbitration of bioethics.

The Soviet Union comprehensively governed the mobility of its citizens by barring emigration and strictly regulating internal migration.

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

This book is comprised of extensive reviews and instructional chapters that discuss the quality of life in several aspects of cancer.

Environmental Health Ethics illuminates the conflicts between protecting the environment and promoting human health.

This is the first book to unpack the legal and ethical issues surrounding unauthorised intimate examinations during labour.

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

Leading authorities present the latest cutting edge research on state judicial elections.

It has long been acknowledged that the death penalty in the United States of America has been shaped by the country's history of slavery and racial violence, but this book considers the lesser-explored relationship between the two practices' respective abolitionist movements.

'This book provides the background and practical guidance for all those of us who face challenges for the way we handle medical records.

Entangled Territorialities offers vivid ethnographic examples of how Indigenous lands in Australia and Canada are tangled with governments, industries, and mainstream society.

This volume takes stock of contemporary perspectives on gender and crime.

This book presents a Foucauldian problematisation analysis of crime, with a particular focus on the twentieth century.

The essays and articles selected for this volume analyze what is generally understood by freedom of religion and belief in today's world.

This new book is an edited collection of papers arising from a conference on Law and Development in the twenty-first century held in 2001.

The toll of America's gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lost-more than 35,000 each year.

Based on the fifth edition of Kaplin and Lee s indispensable guide to the law that bears on the conduct of higher education, The Law of Higher Education, Fifth Edition: Student Version provides an up-to-date textbook, reference, and guide for coursework in higher education law and programs preparing higher education administrators for leadership roles.

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.