Law: Books

The future of mental health, disability and criminal law : essays in honour of Emeritus Professor Bernadette McSherry

This book brings together contributions from twenty-three world-leading scholars and commentators which address a range of contemporary and pressing international themes in mental health, disability and criminal law. The authors use the work of internationally renowned academic, Emeritus Professor Bernadette McSherry, as a springboard to reflect on recent developments in these areas of law and to anticipate the future directions they may take. In doing so, they aim to inform and inspire a new generation of mental health, disability and criminal law scholars, advocates and reformers. The book is divided into four substantive sections: reforming mental health and disability law; regulating coercion and restrictive practices; improving access to justice and the criminal law; and transforming mental health law. It also includes an introduction from the editors and an afterword from Emeritus Professor McSherry. The book is aimed at regulators, policymakers, lawyers, clinicians, consumer advocates and academics who are interested in the urgent and contentious issues surrounding the reform and development of mental health, disability and criminal law. It will help them understand the key issues and problems and presents suggestions for reform. The book is interdisciplinary and international in its focus (Provided by publisher).

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Making Decisions Judicially: A Guide for Decision-makers

Are you involved in making decisions in court, a tribunal, or another formal decision-making environment? This book gives guidance in the skills required to reach and deliver well-structured judicial decisions. The authors (all of whom have extensive judicial and quasi-judicial experience) instruct the readers on the skills required at each stage of a hearing, including: - ensuring there is a fair hearing process; - standards and conduct of decision-makers; - successful communication; - taking into account the needs of vulnerable participants and litigants in person; - case management; - assessing evidence; and - the process of reaching and then delivering a well-structured decision. The book includes practical guidance, examples, and short exercises to help the reader engage with the issues discussed and understand the skills required. Buy this book and you will have the confidence you need to make great decisions (Provided by Publisher).

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Sex, Gender, and International Human Rights Law

This book investigates the relationship between sex and gender under international human rights law, and how this influences the formation of individual subjects. Combining feminist, queer and psychoanalytical perspectives, the author scrutinises the sexed/gendered human rights discourse, starting from the assumptions underpinning interpretations of sex, gender, and the related notions of gender identity, sex characteristics and sexual orientation. Human rights law has so far offered only a limited account of the diversity of sexed/gendered subjectivities, being based on a series of simplistic assumptions. Namely, that: there are only two sexes and two genders; that sex is a natural fact and gender is a social construct; that gender is the metonymic signifier for women; and that gender power relations take the asymmetrical shape of male domination versus female oppression. Against these assumptions, dominative and subordinate postures interchangeably attach to femininities and masculinities, depending on the subjects' roles, their positionalities and the situational meanings of their acts. The limits of an approach to gender which is based on rigid binaries are evident in two case-studies, on the UN human rights treaty bodies' vocabulary on medically unnecessary interventions upon intersex children, and on the European Court of Human Rights' narrative on sadomasochism. This examination of the impact of human rights on gendered subjectivities will be of interest to scholars, students and researchers in international law, gender studies, queer studies, cultural studies, critical race theory and psychoanalysis (Provided by Publisher).

Debt Capital Markets: Law, Regulation and Policy

Debt capital markets have been at the heart of regulatory and policy debates since the global financial crisis of 2008. In this work, Vincenzo Bavoso explores the role financial markets and products have in fuelling episodes of crises and financial instability. Focussing on the law and regulation, but also drawing on current economics and finance scholarship, 'Debt Capital Markets' examines both the pre-2008 regulatory environment, and the framework that has emerged from post-crisis regulatory corrections since.

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The Reality of Assisted Dying : Understanding the Issues

At a critical moment in the UK debate, this book provides up-to-date reflections from a broad variety of international experts on the profoundly important issues that surround changes in the law in any jurisdiction in connection with assisted dying and considers the realities that surround such changes.

The Reality of Assisted Dying covers all the important issues in the debates about assisted suicide and euthanasia. This includes thoughts on the role of the law, discussion of important philosophical and ethical concepts, investigating the various issues that arise in the practice of medicine and palliative care, and scrutinizing concerns about definitions, coercion, consequences and safety. (Provided by Publisher.)