Social Law

This book examines how science fiction informs the legal imagination of technological futures.Science fiction, the contributors to this book argue,...

Socio-legal research on the legal experiences of the poor reflects an understanding of the close connection between economic inequality and law. Th...

In the parliamentary system of government, manifestos constitute and represent an important aspect of the democratic electoral politics as statemen...

Pepin-Neff coins the term Tolerable Inequality to examine the ways in which politicians and political actors use the policy process as a tool to ma...

Pepin-Neff coins the term Tolerable Inequality to examine the ways in which politicians and political actors use the policy process as a tool to ma...

Begutachtungen von Menschen mit psychischen Störungen sind anspruchsvoll und gelten als schwierig. Das vorliegende Standardwerk bietet deshalb eine...

Media law as a means of organization in the real world and the virtual world continues to gain in economic and cultural importance. The global mark...

Practical Social Work Law: analysing court cases and inquiries presents legal issues associated with social work in an accessible format. It approa...

Alastair Hudsons Equity and Trusts is an ideal textbook for undergraduate courses on the law of trusts and equitable remedies. It provides a clear,...

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

First published in 1998, this volume was formally completed in July 1994, but completing the structure of the market is not all the same thing as h...

Advances in modern biotechnology have produced profound and far-reaching implications for the relationship between humans, animals and the environm...

Presenting a unique blend of historical and contemporary research from a range of interdisciplinary and theoretical analysis, this book examines th...

Scholars of international human rights law are largely unfamiliar with law and society scholarship, while the study of international human rights h...

The Data Protection and Medical Research in Europe: PRIVIREAL series focuses on the 'Privacy in Research Ethics and Law' EC-funded project examinin...

Ethnographies of law are historically associated with anthropology and the study of far-away places and people. In contrast, this volume underscore...

This book investigates how and why the criminal law differentiates between different types of body alterations, with particular reference to how th...

This book addresses womens rights to work and motherhood in Libya from a legal and international human rights perspective. In an attempt to solve t...

Where do a doctor's responsibilities lie in communicating diagnostic and predictive genetic information to a patient's family members? On the one h...

Health law and policy in Nigeria is an evolving and complex field of law, spanning a broad legal landscape and drawn from various sources. In addr...

An understanding of law and its efficacy in Latin America demands concepts distinct from the hegemonic notions of rule of law which have dominated ...

This volume highlights important classic and contemporary works by law and society scholars who analyze the complex and often highly political rela...

Australia is now the only major Anglophone country that has not adopted a Bill of Rights. Since 1982 Canada, New Zealand and the UK have all adopte...

Synesthesia is the phenomenon where sensual perceptions are joined together as a combined experience that is, the ability to feel color, hear the ...

This book explores the contemporary phenomenon of forced marriage and 'honour' killings in Britain. Set against a background of increasing 'honour'...

Maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia was first recognised as a global concern in 2008 after the hijackings of World Food Programme vessels. It ...

This title was first published in 2002.This book offers an intriguing examination of the law concerning liability for psychiatric injury suffered b...

This title was first published in 2001. Of the many far reaching issues facing post-communist states in the wake of the collapse of communist rule,...

This title was first published in 2002: Political ethics is a rapidly growing field in disciplines such as political science, philosophy, applied e...

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...

Social Citizenship in the Shadow of Competition explores how economic concepts and tools are reshaping regulatory law. Building on studies that li...

This title was first published in 2003.This book analyzes the policy initiatives used in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United...

Partnerships between the public and private sectors are an increasingly accepted method to deal with pressing global issues, such as those relating...