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  • Masculinity, Law and Familyby Richard Collier

    Routledge 1995; US$ 55.95

    An incisive exploration of representations in law of male sexuality, authority, paternity and men's violence in the family. This book is of central importance to our understanding of the social and political dimension of masculinity. more...

  • Directory Of Commonwealth Law Schools 2003-2004by John Hatchard

    Routledge-Cavendish 2002; US$ 90.00

    The Commonwealth Legal Education Association's aim is to foster high standards of legal education and research in Commonwealth countries. This directory provides information on law schools in Commonwealth countries for the period 2003 to 2004. more...

  • Child Law Lecture Notesby Duncan Bloy

    Routledge-Cavendish 1994; US$ 59.00

    This work, part of the Lecture Notes series, offers useful information on child law. It seeks to provide sufficiently comprehensive coverage of the major components of a child law syllabus. The workings of the Children Act 1989 and its attendant case law figures prominently in the book. more...

  • Multicultural Jurisdictionsby Ayelet Shachar; Ian Shapiro

    Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 30.00

    Can the state respect cultural differences while protecting group members' rights? Schachar argues that the jurisdictional autonomy of minorities must be enhanced while providing viable legal-institutional solutions to intra-group rights violation. This will interest students of political and social theory, law, religion, institutional design, and cultural and gender studies. more...

  • The Commercial Appropriation of Personalityby Huw Beverley-Smith; William R. Cornish; Francois Dessemontet; Paul Goldstein; Robin Jacob

    Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 66.00

    Beverley-Smith provides analyses of the disparate aspects of commercial appropriation of personality and traces, in detail, the discrete patterns of development in the major common law systems. He also considers whether a coherent justification for a new remedy may be identified from a range of competing theories. more...

  • The Law and Economics of Marriage and Divorceby Antony Dnes; Robert Rowthorn

    Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 33.00

    The role of 'incentives' is considered in this economic approach to family law. The book discusses the possible adverse consequences emanating from faulty legal design, while demonstrating that good family law should provide incentives for consistent behavior. This will interest lawyers, policy-makers and economists concerned with family law. more...

  • Women And Justiceby Roslyn Muraskin

    Taylor & Francis 1999; US$ 32.95

    The discrimination and inequitable treatment of women within international criminal justice systems is the focus of this timely and insightful text. Clearly illustrated within the nine chapters of the book, women, as a class, have been excluded from parti more...

  • Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Childby Arlene Andrews; Natalie Hevener Kaufman

    Greenwood Publishing Group 1999; US$ 125.00

    This work discusses issues affecting families, communities, and governments as they seek to secure "the right of every child to a standard of living adequate for the child's physical, mental, spiritual, moral, and social development" as stipulated by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. more...

  • Sex, Preference, and Familyby David M. Estlund; Martha C. Nussbaum

    Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 45.00

    A collection of essays examining the relationship between nature and law, the 'personal' and the 'political'. Some focus on the grey area of what is 'natural'; others on areas thought to be natural rather than socially shaped. A variety of disciplines, particularly philosophy, political science and law, contribute to the debate. more...

  • Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Volume 6 Article 6by Nowak Manfred

    BRILL 2005; US$ 81.00

    This fascicle offers a comparison with related human rights provisions, followed by an in-depth exploration of the nature and scope of State obligations deriving from Article 6. more...