Lag & samhälle

Gender is an increasingly prominent aspect of the contemporary debate and discourse around law. It is curious that gender, while figuring so centrally in the construction and …

This Open-Access-book questions the relationship between institutionalized images and understandings of policing - the monolithic ideas common to most, if not all, Western law …

Homophobia is still rife and it remains dangerous and even life-threatening to be out in Africa, but Chantal Zabus here traces the range of representations of same-sex desire in …

Die Autorin befasst sich mit dem Vorliegen menschlicher Sexualitat und nimmt dabei Bezug auf deren rechtliche Relevanz. Neben der geschichtlichen Entwicklung des Sexualstrafrechts …

This book traces victims’ active participatory rights through different procedural stages in adversarial and non-adversarial justice systems, in an attempt to identify what role …

First published in 1991, Social Security and Social Control (now with a new preface by the author) takes a fresh look at social security policy and demonstrates how the …

Loyalität wird vom Bürger erwartet und stellt zugleich eine grundlegende Voraussetzung für das Funktionieren des demokratischen Verfassungsstaates dar. Ohne Loyalität fehlt es an …

Scholars widely agree that a federal system cannot work effectively without democracy. As a result of the division or sharing of powers between levels of government, there remains …

Overwhelmingly, critical practitioners working across a range of human service fields, who are committed to emancipatory and progressive social change ideals, report feeling …

There can be no dispute that the judges of the high courts and the Supreme Court of India wield tremendous powers. However, power comes with a price which bestows huge …