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Delivering Family Justice in the 21st Century
Family justice requires not only a legal framework within which personal obligations are regulated over the life course, but also a justice system which can deliver legal …
Family Law and Family Values
Each individual experiences obligations arising from personal relationships. These are often hard to fulfil and give rise to tension between the demands of various …
Gender and Judging
Does gender make a difference to the way the judiciary works and should work? Or is gender-blindness a built-in prerequisite of judicial objectivity? If gender does make a …
Juvenile Law Violators, Human Rights, and the Development of New Juvenile Justice Systems
This volume brings together scholars and practitioners specialising in juvenile justice from the US, Europe, alongside scholars from Africa and Asia who are working on human rights …
Poverty and the Law
This collection of essays focuses attention on the global impact of legal policies on levels of poverty. They illustrate the distinct dimensions of poverty in a range of different …
Making Human Rights Intelligible
Human rights have become a defining feature of contemporary society, permeating public discourse on politics, law and culture. But why did human rights emerge as a key social force …
Regulatory Transformations
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 …
Fundamental Rights and Legal Consequences of Criminal Conviction
The legal position of convicted offenders is complex, as are the social consequences that can result from a criminal conviction. After they have served their sentences, custodial …
Making Law for Families
Making Law for Families is the result of a workshop organized by Mavis Maclean and held between May 26 and June 2,1999, at the international Institute for the Sociology of Law …
Women’s Rights to Social Security and Social Protection
This collection examines the human rights to social security and social protection from a women’s rights perspective. The contributors stress the need to address women’s poverty …
Rethinking Equality Projects in Law
The concept of equality has been a key animating principle of modern feminism, and has been highly productive for feminist legal thought and feminist politics concerning law. Today …
Digital Family Justice
The editors’ earlier book Delivering Family Justice in the 21st Century (2016) described a period of turbulence in family justice arising from financial austerity. Governments …