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. ...