Social Law

This book explores the ethical and governance concerns of stem cell technology, taking a comparative approach between countries of differing socio-...

This book is an essential resource to understanding the intersection of medical genetics and law. In a unique approach, it provides an overview on ...

The right to participate in cultural life is profoundly rooted in international human rights law, and, with regard to persons with disabilities, it...

Exploring the nuances and complexities in mens and womens accounts of how mainstream pornography is experienced in their everyday lives, this book ...

The display of religious symbols in the public space has been the subject of much debate. This book provides an overview of the presence of religio...

This book provides an innovative and policy-oriented analysis of gender stereotypes in advertising regulation from a socio-legal perspective.Examin...

The European Union has introduced key legislation to regulate online platforms: the Digital Services Act (DSA); the Digital Markets Act (DMA); and ...

This is a practical and comprehensive guide to international ART law and practice for practicing lawyers, covering surrogacy, gamete donation and f...

This book advances the debate on the hybrid areas of labour by taking the case of work arrangements that destabilise the dichotomies between standa...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the illicit practice of football trafficking, focusing on the exploitation of underage African playe...

This book offers a comprehensive and nuanced examination of the right to an adequate standard of living in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), shedding light...

This book contributes to and broadens the field of Border Criminology, by bringing together a collection of chapters from leading scholars engaged ...

Global governance is tightening and foreshadows world state formation becoming a live political issue in this century. Some observers treat it as i...

This handbook provides a timely synthesis of the international literature that investigates mens experiences of intimate partner violence and help ...

In an age of digital globalization, navigating the complex landscape of international health data transfers presents significant challenges. This a...

This book reinterprets the notion of the commons by tracing how it has been mobilised in the aftermath of economic crisis. In a period of widesprea...

Building on previous work in rural criminology, this book casts a global and comparative look across nineteen countries, drawing on themes of crime...

This book explores the distinctive nature of clinical legal education in a range of global contexts.The emergence of law school-based clinical lega...

Maritime Autonomous Vehicles (MAVs) have the potential to radically alter all uses of maritime space, with technology progressing faster than the l...

This book examines the adequacy of laws in India as a response to sexual and gender-based violence against women. It addresses questions such as: i...

This book examines how civil society engages with transitional justice in Russia, demonstrating a broad range of roles civil society can undertake ...

This book is the first empirical study of police discretion in India. Going beyond anecdotal accounts, it addresses the issues and concerns of arre...

Through a comparative analysis involving 13 countries from Africa, America, Asia and Europe, this book provides an invaluable assessment of womens ...

This book brings together contributions from twenty-three world-leading scholars and commentators that address a range of contemporary and pressing...

This collection brings together international experts to present a comparative analysis of wrongful conviction and criminal procedure. The volume t...

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

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...