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Beyond the Virus
Multidisciplinary and International Perspectives on Inequalities Raised by COVID-19
Stark social inequalities have been revealed and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This book explores these inequalities through three thematic strands: power and governance, gender, and marginalized communities. Through its examination, the book uncovers how unequal the pandemic truly is.
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Fragile Rights
Disability, Public Policy, and Social Change
Drawing on biographical interviews collected from individuals with either mobility or visual impairments in France, this book analyzes the reception of disability policies in the fields of education, employment, social rights and accessibility.
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Egalitarian Digital Privacy
Image-based Abuse and Beyond
This book considers the social, legal and technological features of unauthorised dissemination of intimate images. With a focus on private law theory, the book defines the appropriate scope of liability of platforms and viewers. Through its analysis, it develops a new theory of egalitarian digital privacy.
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Belief in Marriage
The Evidence for Reforming Weddings Law
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book draws on the accounts of 170 individuals who had, or led, a wedding ceremony outside the legal framework. The authors examine what these ceremonies can tell us about how couples want to marry, and what aspects of the current law preclude them from doing so.
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Capacity, Participation and Values in Comparative Legal Perspective
With contributions from an international team of experts, this collection provides a much-needed international, comparative approach to mental capacity law.
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Diverse Voices in Public Law
Taking a unique and critical approach to the study of Public Law, this book explores the main topics in UK Public Law from a range of underexplored perspectives and amplifies the voices of scholars who are underrepresented in the field. It represents a much-needed complement to traditional textbooks in Public Law.
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Critical and Comparative Rhetoric
Unmasking Privilege and Power in Law and Legal Advocacy to Achieve Truth, Justice, and Equity
Through the lenses of comparative and critical rhetoric, this book theorizes how alternative approaches to communication can transform legal meanings and legal outcomes, infusing them with more inclusive participation, equity and justice.
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Class and Social Background Discrimination in the Modern Workplace
Mapping Inequality in the Digital Age
This book exposes how inequalities based on class and social background arise from employment practices in the digital age. Examining the ways in which digitalisation creates risks of discrimination, the book proposes essential law reform and improvements to workplace policy.
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Tackling Torture
Prevention in Practice
Malcolm D. Evans tells the story of torture prevention under international law, setting out what is really happening in places of detention around the world. Challenging assumptions about torture’s root causes, he calls for what is needed to enable us to bring about change.
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What Are Animal Rights For?
How should we treat animals? The field of animal rights raises pressing questions about how humans treat the other animals as livestock farming exerts an increasing toll on the planet, and we learn more about their capacity to think and experience pain. This book shows what the world might look like if animals had greater rights.
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Sexual History Evidence And The Rape Trial
Adopting a critical multidisciplinary perspective underpinned by feminist theory, this accessible book mounts an important interrogation into the use of a victim’s sexual history as evidence in rape trials.
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Unchecked Power?
How Recent Constitutional Reforms Are Threatening UK Democracy
Alison Young provides the first consolidated account of constitutional changes taking place which strengthen governmental powers and weaken political and legal checks, arguing that the democracy is being endangered.
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