From a legal perspective, this book explores how -care- is valued and recognized, how it is regulated and restricted, and how the values of caring are reflected in the law. It does this by examining the law's interaction with caring in a wide range of fields, including family, medical, welfare, criminal, and tort law. At the heart of the book is the claim that the law has failed to recognize the importance of caring in many areas and doing so has led to the costs and burdens of care falling on those who provide it, primarily women. It has also meant that the law has failed to protect those...

An engaging introduction to the more advanced writings on family law, designed to provide the additional insights necessary to excel in the study of the subject.

Now available in paperback The debate over whether human bodies and their parts should be governed by the laws of property has accelerated with the pace of technological change. Having long held that a corpse could not be property, the common law first recognised that there could be a property interest in human tissue in some circumstances in the early 1900s, but it was not until a string of judicial decisions and statutory regulation in the 1990s and early 2000s that the place of this 'exception' was cemented. The 2009 decision of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales in Yearworth & Ors...

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. The book is structured into five sections that cover fields of law where there is already significant recourse to the concept of vulnerability. These sections include a main chapter by a legal theorist who has previously examined the creative potential of vulnerability and responses from scholars working in the same field. This is designed to draw out some of the central debates...