Social Law

This collection of essays focuses on law and society research examining how police manage the job put to them and the extent to which the law figur...

What is the relationship between creativity, cultural heritage institutions and copyright? Who owns culture and cultural heritage? The digital age ...

Surrogacy presents particularly complex questions for human rights law and theory. This book provides a unique and insightful examination into the ...

This title was first published in 2002.In this informative and captivating book the author presents a moral critique of the laws governing the crea...

This title was first published in 2003. Bringing together the two fields of land reform and law, this volume examines the role the law and lawyers ...

This title was first published in 2003: The problem of legitimacy and legality is one of the key issues of modern thought and nowhere more intensel...

This book examines how legal institutions reify the value of death in the twenty-first century. Its starting point is that bio-technological innova...

This book examines the concept of witness protection which is still at an early developmental stage in several African countries including Nigeria,...

The Politics and Crisis Management of Animal Health Security addresses the 2001 foot and mouth epidemic in the United Kingdom - one of, if not the,...

Penal Abolitionism and Transformative Justice in Brazil discusses how penal abolitionism provides fundamental theoretical bases and practical refer...

This book presents original research on the controversies surrounding animal sacrifice in South Asia through the lens of court cases. It focuses on...

This book addresses the issue of the timing of transitional justice policies in countries that had negotiated transitions from authoritarianism to ...

Forced Mobility of EU Citizens is a critical evaluation from an empirical perspective of existing practices of the use of transnational criminal ju...

Lawfare is a complex and evolving concept with many permutations. It is a term that is used to describe both a judicialisation of politics where th...

This book examines the contemporary significance of the Law and Economics movement.Drawing on anthropology, sociology, political economy, and ethic...

Community Justice discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs and addresses the important relationship betwee...

Community Justice discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs and addresses the important relationship betwee...

Paraprofessional educators entered US schools amidst the struggles of the late 1960s. Immersed in the crisis of care in public education, paras imp...

Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022 and 2023! Written by two renowned leaders in the field, the much-anticipated fifth edition of Clinical Ha...

Legal decisions continue to mystify: why was this person sentenced to 20 years in prison, but that person to just 10 years for the same crime? Why ...

This book develops a theoretical framework for examining and assessing the regulatory arrangements for medical products.Since the first half of the...

This groundbreaking book covers the restoration of the law of restitution of cultural property, matching the time, space, and depth dimensions of t...

The sudden and unexpected death of a patient can be emotionally complex and overwhelming for clinicians. This book will equip medical and other hea...

Reconstructing Parentage is a comprehensive investigation into what makes someone a parent. Drawing on liberal-egalitarian philosophy, the book arg...

Reconstructing Parentage is a comprehensive investigation into what makes someone a parent. Drawing on liberal-egalitarian philosophy, the book arg...

With the number of surgical procedures requiring sedation increasing every year, most hospitals and other facilities now have a procedural (moderat...

This book explores how law can be understood through film by engaging creatively with the intellectual and aesthetic dimensions of both fields.Chal...

How social security disability law is out of touch with the contemporary American labor market Passing down nearly a million decisions each year, ...

How the FDA was shaped by public health crises and patient advocacy, told against a background of the contentious hearings on the breast cancer dru...

How does sexual consent work? How do we know that another person really wants to have sex with us? Why do people sometimes give in to sex that they...

How does sexual consent work? How do we know that another person really wants to have sex with us? Why do people sometimes give in to sex that they...

The conventional interpretation of safety, known as Safety-I, denotes a condition where as little as possible goes wrong, and the focus of practica...

Safety professionals must prepare every day to safeguard their employees in the workplace. Additionally, part of every safety professionals respons...