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This book traces, assesses and compares the history of conscientious objection – in the cultural context of six common law nations – from refusal of military service and a range of similar moral dilemmas, to objecting to abortion, to the current social polarisation surrounding vaccination hesitancy in the COVID-19 pandemic.

It considers the impact of this form of dissent in relation to social movements like Black Lives Matter, social activists such as Gandhi, and whistle blowers like Daniel Ellsberg. It reflects on the relationships between the sacred and the secular, the state...

Profiling national and international social inclusion agendas, Charity Law and Social Inclusion examines the fit between the charity law framework and the needs of the socially marginalized in some leading common law nations: the US, England and Wales, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

It:

• examines the concepts of philanthropy, inclusion, alienation and justice
• considers the competing claims of philanthropy, legal rights and politics as appropriate methods of pursuing social justice
• explains how weaknesses in charity law...

Charity Law & Social Policy explores contemporary law, policy and practice in a range of modern common law nations. It does so in four parts and from the perspective of how this has evolved in the UK.

As progenitor of a system bequeathed to its colonies and after centuries of leadership in developing the core principles, policies and precedents that subsequently shaped its development, the contribution of England & Wales, the originating jurisdiction, is first described and analysed in detail. This is achieved in the seven chapters comprising Parts 1 and 2. These broadly sketch the...

Recent decades have seen many changes too adoption law and practice with a sharp decline in the voluntary relinquishment of children, an increase of children in the public care systems of developed nations and the decrease in children being made available for intercountry adoption by developing countries. In addition human rights has increasingly come to bear on adoption in relation to issues such as the ethical dilemmas inherent in intercountry adoption and the sometimes conflicting rights of adoptees and birth parents in relation to accessing agency birth records.

This...