Social Law

Since devolution in 1999, social policy within Scotland has burgeoned. The Scottish Parliament has a range of powers in relation to key policy area...

Legal issues encroach into almost every aspect of modern day education in Ireland. Education and the Law has been completely updated since the last...

As legal jurisdictions in the Global South, both India and South Africa have long histories of inequality and structural oppression. This book enga...

As legal jurisdictions in the Global South, both India and South Africa have long histories of inequality and structural oppression. This book enga...

We are all the result of gestation: the process of becoming before birth. The very nature of human gestation, however, has shifted and will continu...

Bringing together a range of perspectives, this book establishes a criminology of the domestic, paying particular attention to emerging spatial and...

This book presents a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study into the various goals assigned to international criminal trials. It starts from the ...

The Disputed Freedoms of a Disrupted Press explores the origins, connections, and contradictions evident amongst divergent understandings of press ...

This book provides an original and compelling analysis of registration as a dynamic process which makes and unmakes legal identities.Critical legal...

Taking up the study of legal education in distinctly biopolitical terms, this book provides a critical and political analysis of resistance in the ...

Taking up the concept of vulnerability, this book examines the gendered impact of market-based procurement practices.In recent years, ideological s...

This title was first published in 2001. The global legal landscape is littered with attempts to provide context and meaning for sexual harassment l...

This title was first published in 2000. The trend in the public courts and in the private sector toward resolving civil cases through mediation, as...

This title was first published in 2002: After outlining the origins and development of family mediation on a world-wide basis, this book assesses f...

This title was first published in 2002: After outlining the origins and development of family mediation on a world-wide basis, this book assesses f...

This book investigates the role of Islam and religious freedom in the constitutional transitions of six North African and Middle Eastern countries,...

This compilation represents the first study to examine the historical evolution and shifting global dynamics of policing across the Lusophone commu...

While the visibility of disability studies has increased in recent years, few have thoroughly examined the marginalization of people with disabilit...

Within an international context in which the right to silence has long been regarded as sacrosanct, this book provides the first comprehensive, emp...

This book focuses on the ethical, aesthetic, and scholarly dimensions of how genocide-related works of art, documentary films, poetry and performan...

The drug control regime established by the international community has not succeeded in curbing either the demand for, or the offer of, narcotics. ...

This book aims to augment the Ashgate series by taking stock of the current state of migration law literature. It also aims to sketch out the conto...

This book provides a timely critical overview of both the health and trajectory of international criminal law's continuing evolution. It represents...

This book surveys secondary literature on the biggest questions that have animated the field of Islamic law since its beginnings. It offers scholar...

Interest in social science and empirical analyses of law, courts and specifically the politics of judges has never been higher or more salient. Con...

This title was first published in 2001. This book explores the complex and often striking differences between national and local perspectives, part...

There are more than 20 theories that explain crime. Each theory has weaknesses, and no scholar knows which theory is best. To remedy this unsatisfa...

This volume examines the range of Non-Trade Concerns (NTCs) that may conflict with international economic rules and proposes ways to protect them w...

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,...

Regional Autonomy, Cultural Diversity and Differentiated Territorial Government assesses the current state of the international theory and practice...

Does participatory governance benefit the environment? The European Water Framework Directive (WFD), which came into force in 2000 with the aim of ...

Health rights litigation is still an emerging phenomenon in Africa, despite the constitutions of many African countries having provisions to advanc...

It is generally accepted in legal and bioethical discourse that the patient has a right to self-determination. In practice though, this is often no...

This book examines the relationship between intellectual property in pharmaceuticals and access to medicines from a human rights perspective, with ...

This book explores the human rights consequences of recent and ongoing revisions of mental health legislation in England and Ireland. Presenting a ...

Disability and Shopping:Customers, Markets and the State provides an examination of the diverse experiences and perspectives of disabled customers,...

Disasters raise serious challenges for contemporary legal orders: they demand significant management, but usually amidst massive disruption to the ...

This book explores the question of justification of law. It examines some perennial jurisprudential debates and suggests that law must find its jus...

This book investigates the dynamic intertwinement of law and morality, with a focus on new and developing fields of law. Taking as its starting poi...

This groundbreaking monograph asserts the need for the establishment of an exclusionary rule of evidence in China as a means of protecting the peop...

Legal Architecture addresses how the environment of the trial can be seen as a physical expression of our relationship with ideals of justice. It p...

The book profiles some of the macro and micro factors that have impact on European religious literacy. It seeks to understand religious illiteracy ...

Food safety has become a major concern for consumers in the developed world and Europe in particular. This has been highlighted by the recent spate...

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

In recent years, a conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court, over vigorous dissents, has developed circumventions to the Establishment Claus...