Extensive welfare, law, and policy reforms characterized the making and unmaking of Keynesian states in the 20th century. This collection highlights the gendered nature of these regulatory shifts and,
Gavigan (law, Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada) and Chunn (sociology, Simon Fraser U., Canada) present ten papers from a workshop in which feminist scholars explored the construction and experience of
What calls for thinking about law? What does it mean to think about? What is aboutness? Could it be that law, in its essence, has not yet been thought about? In exploring these questions, this book cl
Multimedia technology is a key component of the digital society. This book comprehensively examines the extent to which copyright and database right protect multimedia works. It does so from the pers
This book examines the potential impact of human rights in the way the law interacts with families. Traditionally family law has been-dominated by consequentialist/utilitarian themes. The most notabl
Entering into force in July 2002, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court established a court exercising jurisdiction over the most serious crimes of international concern if national jud
Fourteen international specialists present twelve papers on the theory and practice of legal borrowing and adaptation in different areas of the world, including Europe, the U.S., Latin America, Southe
The modern law of defamation is frequently criticized for being outdated, obscure and even incomprehensible. The Making of the Modern Law of Defamation explains how and why the law has come to be as i
This new book sets out to examine the relationship between culture and respect for human rights. It departs from the oft-made assumption that culture is closely linked to ideas about community. Inste
In recent years, feminist theory has increasingly defined itself in opposition to universalism and to discourses of human rights. Rejecting the troubled legacies of Enlightenment thinking, feminists h
Restorative Justice has emerged around the world as a potent challenge to traditional models of criminal justice, and restorative programs, policies and legislative reforms are being implemented in ma
Scholars of law, anthropology, and sociology examine the theory of the reconstruction of peace after war and violent conflict, and examples of the reconstruction of peace in Africa and Asia. Specific
This work contains the full text of the papers given at the first Tax Law History Conference in Cambridge in September 2002, organized by the Cambridge Law Faculty's Centre for Tax Law. The papers ran
It has become increasingly difficult to speak or even think social or legal justice in an age when words have left their moorings. Perhaps images are more stable than words; maybe images and imagery p
The reform of the European Constitution continues to dominate news headlines and has provoked a massive debate, unprecedented in the history of EU law. Against this backdrop Monica Claes' book offers
For three centuries the criminal law has given rise to a divergent set of approaches to the crime of homicide. Whereas the law of murder has not fundamentally changed, the crime of manslaughter has re
Modern jurisprudence embodies two distinct traditions of thought about the nature of law. The first adopts a scientific approach which assumes that all legal phenomena possess universal characteristic
This collection of essays is the product of a series of seminars held at the University of Cambridge in 1998 under the auspices of the newly formed Cambridge Socio-Legal Group. The book presents an in
This second volume of Documents of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights includes the key documents published between 1998 and 2007. The book provides, not only the basic documents, but
Africaa??with its mix of statute, custom and religiona??is at the center of the debate about law and its impact on gender relations. This is because of the centrality of the gender question and its im
