Gender & the Law 11

Clever, attractive and ambitious, intellectually daring and physically courageous, Cornelia Sorabji was a truly remarkable woman. As India's first female lawyer, she was original and often outspoken……続きを見る

While there is extensive research published concerning juvenile justice and sentencing, most of the research focuses on individual and extra-legal factors, such as age, race, and gender, with scant ……続きを見る

In Restorative and Responsive Human Services, Gale Burford, John Braithwaite, and Valerie Braithwaite bring together a distinguished collection providing rich lessons on how regulation in human serv……続きを見る

Recently, new methods of dispute resolution in matters of family lawーsuch as arbitration, mediation, and conciliationーhave created new forms of legal culture that affect minority communities throu……続きを見る

Demands for redress of historical injustice are a crucial component of contemporary struggles for social and transnational justice. However, understanding when and why an unjust history matters for ……続きを見る

Este libro reúne treinta y tres textos diferentes, articulados a partir de dos ideas principales: el entrecruzamiento de una serie de aproximaciones conceptuales y su tratamiento a partir de perspec……続きを見る

This book focuses on the socio-political environment that allows for the impactful work of NGOs through their proximity to local communities. The book showcases how this space has helped South Afric……続きを見る

The 1998 Rome Statute, the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC), includes a longer list of gender-based crimes than any previous instrument of international criminal law. The S……続きを見る

Indigenous women continue to be overrepresented in Canadian prisons; research demonstrates how their overincarceration and often extensive experiences of victimization are interconnected with and th……続きを見る

In 2014, Conrad Roy committed suicide following encouragement from his long-distance girlfriend, Michelle Carter, in what has become known as the Texting Suicide case. The case has attracted much at……続きを見る

From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Stone Yard Devotional 'Savage: think Atwood in the outback' PAULA HAWKINS 'An unforgettable reading experience' LIANE MORIARTY 'Ferocious . . . ……続きを見る

Millions of Americans rely on the likes of birth control, IVF, and genetic testing to make plans as intimate and farreaching as any over a lifetime. This is no less than the medicine of miracles. It……続きを見る

Criminological research has historically been based on the study of men, boys and crime. As a result, the criminal justice system’s development of policies, programs, and treatment regimes was based……続きを見る

The influence of women in the colonial family and the community is examined using tax and probate records of southside Colonial Virginia. 続きを見る

Published in 1998. This collection of papers, written by leading lawyers and sociologists in the UK, focuses on the relationships between gender and the law in the context of three areas of law: fam……続きを見る

Originally published in 2004. Nordic Equality at a Crossroads makes a major contribution to the debates on equality and difference in contemporary Europe. In this absorbing work, feminist legal scho……続きを見る

Boys’ Secrets and Men’s Loves is the memoir of a law professor who has written over twenty books on the basic rights of American constitutionalism. He has been a prominent advocate of gay rights and……続きを見る

Signed into law in 2000, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) defined the crime of human trafficking and brought attention to an issue previously unknown to most Americans. But while human ……続きを見る

Consent is used in many different social and legal contexts with the pervasive understanding that it is, and has always been, about autonomy – but has it? Beginning with an overview of consent’s rol……続きを見る

Identitätspolitik steckt in der Sackgasse: Empowerment wird auf Gender-Sternchen und die Vermeidung des N-Worts verkürzt. Überall sollen Minderheiten vor möglichen Verletzungen geschützt werden – in……続きを見る

Social Identity and the Law: Race, Sexuality and Intersectionality is an important resource for inquiry into the relationship between law and social identity in the contexts of race, sexuality and i……続きを見る

Relying on a multidisciplinary framework of inquiry and critical perspective, this edited volume addresses the unique experiences of Black males within various stages of contact in the criminal just……続きを見る

This book explains why we should stop thinking of freedom as limited to a right to be left alone. It explores how Kantian philosophy and Jewish thought instead give rise to a concept of positive fre……続きを見る

While the general public may feel uncomfortable discussing sexual assault and violence with neighbors or coworkers, the popularity of Twitter, Snapchat, and a host of other social media platforms su……続きを見る

Despite ongoing challenges to the criminalisation and surveillance of queer lives, police leaders are now promoted as allies and defenders of LGBT rights. However, in this book, Emma K. Russell argu……続きを見る

This book offers an innovative, comparative approach to the study of women’s legal rights during a formative period of Anglo–American history. It traces how colonists transplanted English legal inst……続きを見る

This book explores, through a children’s rights-based perspective, the emergence of a safeguarding dystopia in child online protection that has emerged from a tension between an over-reliance in tec……続きを見る

En 1978 nuestro ordenamiento jurídico daba un vuelco radical con unas pocas palabras "todos somos iguales ante la ley", consagradas en la Constitución. Se acababan así muchos siglos de desigualdad e……続きを見る

Puta no se nace es un libro denuncia contra la explotación de mujeres y niñas por el lobby del sexo. En sus páginas, la reconocida periodista dice basta ya a la esclavitud del siglo XXI que desnuda ……続きを見る

This book critically examines domestic violence law in India. It focuses on women’s experiences and perspectives as victims and litigants, with regard to accessibility to law and justice. It also re……続きを見る