Social Law

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...

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...

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...

First published in 1973, Wrongful Imprisonment aims to combine the human interest of individual cases of wrongful imprisonment with a general analy...

Faced with evolving trade and health dynamics, this book presents a historical, conceptual, and empirical examination of public health and medical ...

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

It has long been argued that families play a crucial role in helping support prisoners during and beyond their time in prison. Through harnessing m...

This book examines the everyday judicial experience in four multicultural jurisdictions as a means of exploring the relationship between legal syst...

By exploring crimmigration at its intersection with international refugee law, this book exposes crimmigration as a system focused on the governanc...

This book analyses the multifaceted ways law operates in the context of human mobility, as well as the ways in which human mobility affects law.Mig...

Through a wide range of international and interdisciplinary case studies, this book develops the notion of legacy, and in particular, living legacy...

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...

Across many social and commercial domains, governments regulate the official names used to identify individuals, groups, places, companies & pr...

This edited book addresses contemporary challenges in clinical legal education (CLE), considering its role in legal education and in the broader co...

This book critically examines the colonial dimensions of restorative justice through the lens of justice policy reform in Jamaica.Restorative justi...

What is a contract in Islam? Is it an aspect of Muslim religion or of secular life? How much has it changed over the centuries? Undertaking a searc...

Is it lawful for a doctor to give a patient life-shortening pain relief? Can treatment be lawfully provided to a child under 16 on the basis of her...

Legislating under the Charter explores how governments and Parliament justify limitations on rights when advancing laws that raise rights concerns ...

This book examines issues in educational law and the way leaders, policymakers and policy implementers influence just processes and outcomes in sch...

A thoroughly revised and updated fourth edition of a text that has become an international standard for curriculum development in health profession...

This book presents a comprehensive review of ethical issues arising in psychiatric care and research. Compared to the first edition, ten of the 40 ...

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...

This book evaluates some of the most common ethical issues confronted by reproductive endocrinologists, embryologists, and their teams. The authors...

Experts believe that self-driving cars will be much safer than conventional cars. However, there will still be some accidents, even fatal ones. The...

Experts believe that self-driving cars will be much safer than conventional cars. However, there will still be some accidents, even fatal ones. The...

This resource offers extensive updates on the leading Supreme Court cases impacting law enforcement in the United States, creating a must-have refe...

This resource offers extensive updates on the leading Supreme Court cases impacting law enforcement in the United States, creating a must-have refe...

This book shines a light on the still unexplored relationships between federalism and disability rights. It investigates how the UN Convention on t...

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...

To understand a schools values and priorities, look at its schedule. When schedules do not meet the instructional needs of students, the result is ...