Gender The Law category: 211 books
Regalos, favores... y donación de órganos
Ensayo exploratorio de Doremática
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Tras un repensamiento a fondo de la filosofía clásica en torno al favor y el regalo, se plantea un interrogante comparatista con la novísima solidaridad surgida en la donación de órganos. Entre ambas realidades éticas se introduce y discute la perversión del regalo acudiendo a la mitología...
Femmes et justice pénale
XIXe-XXe siècles
Language: French
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Ensemble articulé d'une trentaine d'études sur les femmes et la justice, cet ouvrage constitue la première synthèse sur ce sujet peu connu qui s'intercale entre le domaine du droit en amont, et celui de la peine – et notamment de la prison – en aval. Il se concentre sur l'histoire contemporaine...
Rechtsfragen im Alltag
Der grosse Schweizer Rechtsratgeber
Language: German
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Endlich lassen sich auch rechtliche Aspekte unseres vielseitigen Alltags klipp und klar erfassen: Der grosse Schweizer Rechtsratgeber leistet hierbei kompetente und kompakte Hilfe. Das Beobachter-Nachschlagewerk stützt sich auf den Erfahrungsschatz der Beobachter-Praxisexperten. Aktualisiert und vollständig...
Trennung
Was Paare in der Krise regeln müssen
Language: German
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Wenn nur noch Streit den Ehealltag prägt, dann kann eine Trennungszeit helfen, sich klar zu werden, wie es weitergehen soll. Auch aus rechtlichen Gründen drängt sich allenfalls eine Trennung auf, wenn eine Seite gegen den Willen der anderen die Scheidung verlangt. Was immer der Grund ist: Wer sich...
Women in Criminal Justice
True Cases By and About Canadian Women and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Women in Criminal Justice is Book Four in the Durvile True Cases Series and in it, Canadian women judges and criminal lawyers tell of cases that they have found particularly challenging. Some were disquieting/perplexing or had surprising turns, many are high-profile, and many continue to have interesting...
Women and Magna Carta
A Treaty for Rights or Wrongs?
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Are women equal? Do women have equal rights? Have women's campaigns for justice, access to law, property ownership and child custody rights, and rights to bodily and psychic integrity, won women advances? When women fought for the right to vote, to be on juries, to be independent beings entitled to jobs,...
The Politics of Virtue
Is Abortion Debatable?
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Fiercely committed to the separation of church and state, thoroughly pluralistic, largely secular: Where does a society like ours find common terms for conducting a moral debate? In view of the crises surrounding the issue of abortion, it is tempting to answer: nowhere. In this timely and provocative...
Claire L’Heureux-Dubé
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Both lionized and vilified, Claire L’Heureux-Dubé has shaped the Canadian legal landscape – and in particular its highest court. The second woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, and the first from Quebec, she was known as “the great dissenter” on the bench, making judgments that...
Straightforward
How to Mobilize Heterosexual Support for Gay Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
What can straight people do to support gay rights? How much work or sacrifice must allies take on to do their share? Ian Ayres and Jennifer Brown--law professors, activists, husband and wife--propose practical strategies for helping straight men and women advocate for and with the gay community.
Straightforward...
by John M. Kang
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. has been, and continues to be, praised as America’s greatest judge and he is widely considered to have done more than anyone else to breathe life into the Constitution’s right of free speech, probably the most crucial right for democracy. One indeed finds among professors...
The Trial of Tempel Anneke
Records of a Witchcraft Trial in Brunswick, Germany, 1663
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
The accused was Anna Roleffes, known as Tempel Anneke. She was arrested on the charge of witchcraft in June of 1663. She was found guilty and was executed on December 30th that same year. Her trial was long and involved, with many witnesses from several towns and villages. Consisting of direct...
Sex, Violence and Crime
Foucault and the 'Man' Question
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
What happens when you sex violent crimes? More specifically, what happens when you make men’s violence against women the subject of a conversation or the focus of scholarly attention? The short answer is: all hell breaks loose. Adrian Howe explores some of the ways in which this persistent and pervasive...
by Andrew E. Taslitz
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
Rape law reform has been a stunning failure. Defense lawyers persist in emphasizing victims' characters over defendants' behavior. Reform's goals of increasing rape report and conviction rates have generally not been achieved. In Rape and the Culture of the Courtroom, Andrew Taslitz locates the cause...
Economic implications of medical liability claims:
Insurance and compensation schemes in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
The issue of Medical Liability in Europe has been intensively discussed since a long time, and it needs revision to come to a harmonisation. In June 2008, the Council of Europe's Public and Private Law Unit (DG-HL Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs), in co-operation with the Health...