Over the past few decades, European countries have witnessed a proliferation of legal norms concerning marginalized individuals and minorities who increasingly invoke them in front of courts to assert their rights and claim protection. This book explores the relationship between law, rights, and social mobilization in Europe. It specifically inquires into the extent and ways in which legal processes and entitlements are mobilized by less privileged social actors to advance their rights claims and pursue social change. Most distinctly, the book explores such processes in the context of the...
Over the past few decades, European countries have witnessed a proliferation of legal norms concerning marginalized individuals and minorities who inc...
The issue of whether transnational risk can be regulated through a social sphere goes to the heart of what John Ruggie has described as 'embedded liberalism' - how capitalist countries have reconciled markets with the social community that markets require to survive and thrive. This collection - located in the wider debates about global capitalism and its regulation - tackles the challenge of finding a way forward for regulation, rejecting the old division of regulation into 'economic' and 'social, ' as if the two were conceptually and empirically distinct. Instead, the book engages with a...
The issue of whether transnational risk can be regulated through a social sphere goes to the heart of what John Ruggie has described as 'embedded libe...
From a women's rights perspective, this collection examines the human right to social security and social protection. The book's contributors stress the need to address women's poverty and exclusion within a human rights' framework that takes account of gender. The chapters unpack the rights to social security and protection and their relationship to human rights principles, such as gender equality, participation, and dignity. Alongside conceptual insights across the field of women's social security rights, the collection analyzes recent developments in international law and in a range of...
From a women's rights perspective, this collection examines the human right to social security and social protection. The book's contributors stress t...
Family justice requires a legal framework within which personal obligations are regulated over the life course. However, family justice also requires a justice system which can deliver legal information, advice, and support at times of change of status or family stress, together with mechanisms for negotiation, dispute management, and resolution, with adjudication as the last resort. The past few years have seen unparalleled turbulence in the way family justice systems function. These changes are associated with economic constraints in many countries, including England and Wales, where legal...
Family justice requires a legal framework within which personal obligations are regulated over the life course. However, family justice also requires ...
This collection deals with the intricacies of enhancing access to human rights in a world that is to a large extent characterised by legal pluralism, ie the co-existence and interaction of various legal orders in a same field of social relations. The point of departure is that the promotion of human rights is a desirable, yet complex undertaking, and that the insights generated within the scholarly tradition of legal pluralism and the 'universality debate' can help elucidate the issues at stake. Aware of numerous misunderstandings and of the mutual suspicion that exists between human rights...
This collection deals with the intricacies of enhancing access to human rights in a world that is to a large extent characterised by legal pluralism, ...
Life imprisonment is the most severe penalty that can be imposed by the criminal justice system. Despite this, it is a relatively under-researched form of punishment. No meaningful attempt has been made to understand its human rights implications. This important collection fills that gap by addressing these two key questions: namely what is life imprisonment and what human rights are relevant to it? These questions are explored from the perspective of a range of jurisdictions, and a dual perspective drawing on both empirical and doctrinal research is offered. Under the editorship of two...
Life imprisonment is the most severe penalty that can be imposed by the criminal justice system. Despite this, it is a relatively under-researched for...
In the global era, controversies abound over temporary labour migration. However labour migration has not previously been subjected to a sustained socio-legal analysis on a comparative basis, critiquing the underpinning concepts conventionally accepted as fundamental in this area. This collection of essays aims to fill that void. Complex regulatory challenges arise from temporary labour migration. This collection examines these challenges and the extent to which temporary labour migration programs can be ethical, equitable, and efficacious, and so deliver decent work for workers. While the...
In the global era, controversies abound over temporary labour migration. However labour migration has not previously been subjected to a sustained soc...
This innovative collection offers one of the first analysis of criminologies of the military from an interdisciplinary perspective. Criminologists have commented in detail in the past on the military; war crimes for example, is a well discussed topic. This collection looks at those equally important, but less explored aspects, such as private military actors, insurgents and paramilitary groups. The contributions, by leading experts in the field, have a broad reach and take a truly global approach to the subject.
This innovative collection offers one of the first analysis of criminologies of the military from an interdisciplinary perspective. Criminologists hav...
Transparency is a fundamental principle of justice. A cornerstone of the rule of law, it allows for public engagement and for democratic control of the decisions and actions of both the judiciary and the justice authorities. This book looks at the question of transparency from the perspective of transitional justice. Bringing together perspectives of scholars from across the disciplinary spectrum, the collection looks at the question from the socio-legal, cultural studies and practitioner perspective. Taking a three part approach it looks firstly at basic principles guiding justice globally...
Transparency is a fundamental principle of justice. A cornerstone of the rule of law, it allows for public engagement and for democratic control of th...
