Law & Society

In the philosophy of law there has been a proliferation of advanced work in the last thirty years on the normativity of law. Recent theories explo...

Sex and sexuality are an integral part of human life and vital for the survival of the human race, but sexual freedoms in many countries have yet t...

This book presents an interdisciplinary exploration of digital sovereignty in China, which are addressed mainly from political, legal and historica...

Legal Innovation explores the impact of technology on the legal profession and societal change. Reflecting contributions from an international grou...

Over the last half century, courts have come to play increasingly important roles in democracies. That role is studied by historians, political sci...

Storytelling has the capacity to address feelings and demonstrate themes to illuminate beyond argument and theoretical exposition. In Otters Journ...

This book offers new perspectives on two key themes: the criminal law of sexual consent and the temporalities of law. It uses detailed feminist ana...

This book critically engages criminal law issues relating to sexuality and violence in order to argue that an attention to emotions can produce a m...

Focusing on cities in the European Arctic, this book consolidates research on sustainable development, local and urban governance, and transnationa...

The past years have seen numerous crises from the 2007-2008 financial crisis to the migration crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. These crises have s...

Maritime Autonomous Vehicles (MAVs) have the potential to radically alter all uses of maritime space, with technology progressing faster than the l...

This book brings together established and emerging scholars (including graduate students) from multiple disciplines (primarily law and social scien...

This book examines the legal protection and management of inland waters in Europe.With inland waters facing a range of significant threats, includ...

At the beginning of 2020, the Polish justice system faced unprecedented challenge related to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The need to red...

This book discusses legal services clinics and various other access-to-justice initiatives that are established to protect and represent the rights...

This book examines the adequacy of laws in India as a response to sexual and gender-based violence against women. It addresses questions such as: i...

Through a comparative analysis involving 13 countries from Africa, America, Asia and Europe, this book provides an invaluable assessment of womens ...

One of the first to provide a socio-legal comparative history of under-studied or ignored Jewish attempts in the 1930s Anglosphere to counter the r...

This book employs scholarly analysis to ground practical tools for applying the EU Trade Mark law (EUTM) functionality refusal grounds to address b...

The Nordic states were among the first in the world to enact general gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low threshold enforcement me...

This book addresses key questions around gender-sensitive legislation as a key output of gender sensitive Parliaments and explores practical ways t...

High levels of remand or pre-trial detention (PTD) is a matter of growing concern in many countries, and at a European level. Despite being respons...

Drawing on experiences from other jurisdictions within the UK, Criminalising Coercive Control explores the challenges and potential successes which...

This book introduces experiential knowledge of the intersectionality of disability, sexuality, and gender equality issues. Scholars and disabled pe...

This book presents the case law of Polish courts, namely the Supreme Court, administrative courts and the Constitutional Tribunal, in which the pri...

At the intersection of law, feminism and philosophy, this book analyses the ways in which certain bodies and selves continue to be treated as monst...

The scope of criminal justice surveillance, from the police to the prisons, has expanded rapidly in recent decades. At the same time, the use of bi...

This book explores the emergent and internationally widespread phenomenon of precariousness, specifically in relation to the home. It maps the comp...

The book analyses how State aid law and the law of the free movement of goods apply to renewable energy support schemes, how they have impacted on ...

The scholars who contribute to this issue utilize diverse research methods to examine the lived experiences of people engaged in prostitution and t...

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society (SLPS) provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles within the broad parameters of interdisci...

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles within the broad parameters of interdisciplinary...

Taking a fresh and modern approach, Contemporary Family Law: Principles and Practice gives students all the information they need to develop a clea...

Taking a fresh and modern approach, Contemporary Family Law: Principles and Practice gives students all the information they need to develop a clea...

International case-studies on regulation and science collaboration show how competition and economic pressures on the national regulators of biomed...

International case-studies on regulation and science collaboration show how competition and economic pressures on the national regulators of biomed...

A central concept in international human rights law and many national constitutions is human dignity. Departing from established approaches to dign...

Problem-solving courts are special courts that do not simply punish offenders, but use other justice principleslike therapeutic jurisprudence and r...

The Fear of Erring, a combination of thick ethnography and an ethnopoetic storyline, illustrates how mistrust, ignorance, and imagination govern th...

The Fourth Parliamentary Reform Act of 1918 gave the vote to nearly thirteen million men and over eight million women and determined the structure ...

The idea of American exceptionalism has made frequent appearances in discussions of criminal justice policies--as it has in many other areas--to he...

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Winner of the Scribes Book AwardAs brilliantly imaginative as it is urgently timely.Richard H. Fallon, Jr., Harvard Law SchoolAt no time more than ...