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This edited collection provides a forum for rigorous analysis of the necessity for both legal and social change with regard to regulation of same-sex relationships and rainbow families, the status of civil partnership as a concept and the lived re...

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In an era where new areas of life and new problems call for normative solutions while the plurality of values in society challenge the very basis for normative solutions, this book looks at a growing field of research on the relations between soci...

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Hur vet vi vad som är rätt och fel i en situation? Och hur avgör vi hur vi ska handla? Lagar är tydligt nedskrivna och det finns föreskrivna sanktioner om man bryter mot lagen. Men så tydligt är inte vårt samhälle. När vi är laglydiga utan att kän...

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Despite some significant advances in the creation and protection of rights affecting women's health, these do not always translate into actual health benefits for women. This collection asks: 'What is an effective law and what influences law's eff...

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Aboriginal title, the land rights of native peoples in former colonies, is one of the most significant developments in common law in the late-twentieth century. This book, by a key author in this field, sets out the beginnings, judicial acceptance...

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The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime offers an unparalleled and comprehensive view of the connections among gender, sex, and crime in the United States and in many other countries. Its insights illuminate both traditional areas of study i...

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Transnational business activities are important drivers of growth for developing and the least developed countries. However, they can also negatively impact the enjoyment of human rights. In some cases, multinational enterprises (MNEs) have even b...

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Women and Leadership explores the causes and consequences of the underrepresentation of women in America's leadership roles. Drawing on comprehensive research and a survey of prominent women leaders, Rhode describes the reasons for gender inequity...

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Paradigms of International Human Rights Law explores the legal, ethical, and other policy consequences of three core structural features of international human rights law: the focus on individual rights instead of duties; the division of rights in...

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This profound and scholarly treatise develops a critical version of legal positivism as the basis for modern legal scholarship. Departing from the formalism of Hart and Kelsen and blending the European tradition of Weber, Habermas and Foucault wit...

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The Modern Law of Contract is a clear and logical textbook, written by an experienced author team with well over 50 years' teaching and examining experience. Fully updated to address recent developments in Contract Law, it offers a carefully tailo...

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Svensk polis har problem. Förundersökningar läggs ned utan utredning, gärningsmän går fria och polisen kompenserar sina brister med att frisera statistiken. Trots minskad brottslighet och ökade resurser till polisen fortsätter andelen uppklarade b...

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Den globala samhällsomvälvande #metoo-rörelsen som pågår i vår tid visar att genusrättsvetenskapens frågor om rätt och kön är centrala. I denna boks andra upplaga fördjupas ämnet genusrättsvetenskap: ett särskilt forskningsperspektiv på juridiken ...

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Over the past fifteen years, the dramatic increase of online self-help legal re-sources, information, and tools specifically developed for use by low-income individuals without legal counsel has been promoted as one way to help those individuals w...

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Investigating the extent to which the European Union can be defined as a "highly competitive social market economy", this edited collection illustrates and tests the constitutional reverberations of Art. 3(3) of the Treaty on the Europea...

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In Scandinavia, women's law was established as a distinct legal discipline in university teaching and legal scholarship in the mid 1970'ies. The University of Oslo (Norway) played a particularly pioneering role. At that time, there was general ter...

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This Handbook sets a new agenda for theoretical and practical explorations of citizenship, analysing the main challenges and prospects informing today's world of increased migration and globalization. It will also explore new forms of membership a...

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In the early 1970s, many questioned whether Aboriginal title existed in Canada and rejected the notion that Aboriginal peoples should have rights different from those of other citizens. But in 1973 the Supreme Court of Canada issued a landmark dec...

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Now in its second edition, this textbook presents a critical rethinking of the study of comparative law and legal theory in a globalising world, and proposes an alternative model. It highlights the inadequacies of current Western theoretical appro...

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The new edition of this major work is a must-buy for all students studying EU employment law. It offers comprehensive coverage of an increasingly complex subject, tackling both case law and legislation, and provides detailed analysis of the EU's D...

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Om rättssociologi introducerar ett innovativt tankesätt som bygger på att rättssociologi utgår från fyra dimensioner: * kodifierad statsrätt * sociala normer * rättslig praxis * social praxis Samtliga kapitel knyter an till och placeras inom dessa...

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English is the dominant language of international business relations, and a good working knowledge of the language is essential for today's legal or business professional. Legal English provides a highly practical approach to the use of English in...

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The Oxford Handbook of Freedom crafts the first wide-ranging analysis of freedom in all its dimensions: legal, cultural, religious, economic, political, and psychological. This volume includes 28 new essays by well regarded philosophers, as well s...

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Revised and Expanded Edition Wait-what's wrong with rights? It is usually assumed that trans and gender nonconforming people should follow the civil rights and "equality" strategies of lesbian and gay rights organizations by agitating fo...

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Logically organized to support the topics commonly taught on jurisprudence and legal theory courses, this text provides an easy-to-follow and digestible account of this wide-ranging subject, making it the ideal companion text for further reading a...

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Law and medicine can be caught in a tight embrace. They both play a central role in the politics of harm, making decisions regarding what counts as injury and what might be the most suitable forms of redress or remedy. But where do law and medicin...

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The stark reality is that throughout the world, women disproportionately live in poverty. This indicates that gender can both cause and perpetuate poverty, but this is a complex and cross-cutting relationship.The full enjoyment of human rights is ...

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The Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Africa critiques the three main models of constitutionally protecting economic, social and cultural rights in Africa - direct, indirect and hybrid models. It examines the choices that state...

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Hannah Arendt's portrayal of the terrible consequences of blind obedience, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil contains an introduction by Amos Elon in Penguin Classics. Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt's autho...

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A compelling explanation of how the law shapes the distribution of wealth Capital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most people have no idea where it actually comes from. What is it, exactly, that transforms mere wealth into an asse...

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