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Introduction To Feminist Jurisprudenceby Hilaire Barnett
Routledge-Cavendish 1998; US$ 55.95Aims to provide a student text which covers the major issues in feminist jurisprudence and to analyze the manner in which both traditional jurisprudence and law have remained a masculine subject despite the achievements of formal legal equality on the part of women. more...
Sourcebook On Feminist Jurisprudenceby Hilaire Barnett
Routledge-Cavendish 1996; US$ 145.00Analyzing the relationship between feminist theories and the law, this work takes as its starting point a study of women and culture on an international level, which demonstrates how religious and cultural influences have been fundamental in establishing contempoary legal and social mores. more...
Feminist Perspectives On The Foundational Subjects Of Lawby Anne Bottomley
Routledge-Cavendish 1996; US$ 58.00The essays in this volume fall within a chapter on one of the foundational law subjects on the degree syllabus, and aim to provide an account of feminist approaches to each of the following areas: contracts, torts, land law, equity and trusts, criminal law, public law, and European law. more...
Romancing The Tomes Popular Culture Law And Feminismby Margaret Thornton
Routledge-Cavendish 2002; US$ 73.95With contributions by scholars from the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, this provocative collection of essays explores the uneasy relationship between law and popular culture from a feminist perspective. more...
Sharing Transboundary Resourcesby Eyal Benvenisti; James Crawford; John Bell
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 97.00Why do states often use transboundary resources inefficiently? Benvenisti considers a range of factors, including mismanagement as a link between domestic and international processes. He also looks forward to potential solutions in this multi-disciplinary approach. Benvenisti's analysis will interest international environmentalists and lawyers, and international relations scholars and practitioners. more...
Open Governmentby Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2003; US$ 67.00Building open and transparent government is a challenge shared by all countries. Transparency and accountability in the public administration are enhanced by strong public scrutiny based on solid legal provisions for access to information. Investing in consultation and public participation allows governments to tap new sources of policy-relevant ideas, information and resources when making decisions. more...
Using the Building Regulations: Administrative Proceduresby Mike Billington
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 60.95As the Building Regulations and Approved Documents have become more and more complex, they have become increasingly unfriendly for a professional user. Compliance is only possible by understanding a wide range of supporting documentation. Alternative approaches are implied, but not described or analysed. This series of books on individual Documents goes far beyond analysis of the Regulations and Documents themselves, and offers practical advice on using not just the traditional routes to compliance but also on the alternative approaches suggested but not explained in the Approved Documents. The advantages and disadvantages of each form of compliance are analysed in depth. This book examines the background to the Building Regulations, and... more...
Using the Building Regulations: Part M Accessby Melanie Smith
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 57.95This informative book takes the practitioner through the requirements for Part M of the Building Regulations, explaining and expanding the guidance given in the Approved Document, and comparing the advice in BS83000 and other relevant publications. Access statements are demystified, and the implications for the building in use under the Disability Discrimination Act are clarified. It will inform all those working within the built environment, enabling them to deal with a complex and evolving area of the law which directly affects everyone. As with the other books in the Using the Building Regulations series Part M Access goes far beyond analysis of the Regulations and Documents themselves, and offers practical advice on using not just the... more...
Planning, Law and Economicsby Barrie Needham
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 53.95What rights does the state have over privately owned land? Why should some landowners be favoured over others? How can the practice of land-use planning be improved? This book addresses these useful questions, and shows that the interests people have in property rights over land and buildings are not just emotional but often financial too. more...
Gender, Culture and Human Rights by Siobhán Mullally
Hart 2006; US$ 117.60Argues that feminism must return to the universal and reconstruct the theory and practice of human rights. This work offers discourse ethics and its post-metaphysical defence of universalism as a key to this process of reconstruction. The implications of discourse ethics and the possibility of reclaiming universalism are also explored. more...









