Embracing Vulnerability: The Challenges and Implications for Law

ISBN-13: 9781032238319 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 206 str.

Daniel Bedford; Jonathan Herring

Opis

This book brings together legal scholars engaging with vulnerability theory to explore the implications and challenges for law of understanding vulnerability as generative, and a source of connection and development.

Spis treści

1.  Introduction: Vulnerability Refigured;  Part 1: Family and Child Law;  2. Family Law’s Instincts and the Relational Subject;  3. Response: Reflections on ‘Family Law’s Instincts’: law’s varied Relationship with the vulnerabilities of family law’s children;  Part 2: Law and Ageing;  4. Ageing and Universal Beneficial Vulnerability;  5. Response: Reflections on Ageing and the Binaries of Vulnerability;  Part 3: Healthcare Law;  6. The Idea of Vulnerability in Healthcare Law and Ethics: From the Margins to the Mainstream?;  8. Response: Challenging the Frames of Health Care Law;  Part 4: Labour Law;  9. The Potential and Limitations of the Vulnerability Approach for Labour Law;  10. Response: Vulnerability and Labour Law: On the Transition from Theory to Practice;  Part 5: Human Rights Law;  11. Embracing Vulnerability: Towards Human Rights for a More-Than-Human World ;  12. Response: On Some Problems with Rights

O autorze

Dr Daniel Bedford, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Portsmouth.

Jonathan Herring, DW Wolfe-Clarendon Fellow in Law at Exeter College, Oxford University and Professor of Law at the Law Faculty, Oxford University.