Social Law

This volume offers a diverse set of perspectives on transnational crime. Providing a wide-ranging overview of the legal and policy issues that aris...

In 1856, the US Supreme Court denied Dred Scott, now free of slavery, his Constitutional rights, solely because he was black. According to the Cour...

This title was first published in 2002. Gender has become a culturally laden signifier. Sometimes used to differentiate the social from the biologi...

This key collection brings together a selection of papers commissioned and published by the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law & Society. It incorp...

This title was first published in 2002: The issue of immigration and crime in all of its many contexts and forms, is a problem which affects numero...

This book discusses the extent to which the UK Human Rights Act successfully balances protection of rights and democracy. It explores the claim tha...

This title was first published in 2003. The fulfilment of health care rights in a world where resources are scarce is a prominent issue. In this vo...

In 1962, a 15-year-old Arizona boy named Gerald Gault may or may not have made a lewd phone call to a neighbor. Gerald was arrested, prosecuted, re...

This book was first published in 2003.Justice, Humanity and the New World Order offers a refreshing analysis of current jurisprudential concerns re...

This volume provides up-to-date and nuanced analysis across a wide spectrum of capital punishment issues. The essays move beyond the conventional l...

In Philip K. Dicks short story Minority Report, the institution of Precrime punishes people with imprisonment for crimes they would have committed ...

Neoliberalism has been studied as a political ideology, an historical moment, an economic programme, an institutional model, and a totalising polit...

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

This title was first published in 2003: As new medical technologies and treatments develop with increasing momentum, the legal and ethical implicat...

Recent social and political developments in the EU have clearly shown the profound structural changes in European society and its politics. Reflect...

This book contributes to a feminist understanding of international human rights by examining restrictions on reproductive freedom through the lens ...

First published in 1976, this book studies the impact of a uniquely unpopular tax on English rural communities. It examines the tithe system during...

Over time there has been a miscommunication between mainstream economics and human rights that has paved the way to a justificatory ideology that v...

This volume presents an analysis of controversial events and issues shaping a rapidly changing international legal, political, and social landscape...

First published in 1999, this book breaks new ground by treating the restrictive covenant from the aspect of the control of land use. At its heart ...

Since the shutdown of our public psychiatry system, the seriously mentally ill are now mostly managed by public safety officers, school officials, ...

This title was first published in 2002.The wide range of essays contained within this volume present contemporary thinking on the legal and ethical...

This title was first published in 2001. In the tight frame of its first twenty years, Massachusetts Bay dramatically altered its constitutional ord...

First published in 1999, Making Foreign People Pay deals with the recovery of monetary claims in cross-border legal relations and contains the resu...