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This work brings together leading and emerging scholars in Health Law and Ethics. Each contributor analyses a 'leading work', which has for them shed light on the field's development. These are both autobiographical, reflecting upon the works that have proved significant to contributors, and also critical analyses of the current state of the field.

Looking at two of the key paradigms of the post-Cold War era - national sovereignty, and human rights - this book examines the possibilities for their reconciliation from a global perspective. Scholars and students of human rights, migration, nationalism and multiculturalism will find this a very valuable resource.

“It’s never your typical day at the office when Michael Jackson attends a meeting in person, headphones on his ears and a Walkman in his hands. Little did I know then that he was listening to the first demos for what would become Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad…” Most lawyers aren’t like John Mason. Then again, most lawyers don’t do what he does. For decades, John Mason has been a confidante, meditator, gladiator and last line of defense for some of the most visible (and talented) artists in the world; from Brian Wilson and Roy Orbison, to Reba McEntire and the Jackson Five, to Quincy Jones, Shakira, and his dear friend of over forty years, Olivia Newton-John. In Crazy Lucky, he tells their stories from his perspective, and shows us what it means to truly have someone’s back. A butcher’s son with humble origins, John Mason was a talented guitar player in his own right before choosing to become lawyer. Since then, he has guided his clients through devastating business bumps and craters, multi-million dollar lawsuits, divorces, child custody issues, and stalkers, while also helping to navigate breakdowns, illness, physical and mental abuse, and a wide variety of legal issues with not just hundreds of millions of dollars, but careers, on the line. Many (if not most) entertainment lawyers work through managers and agents to help celebrities achieve specific goals. Mason, on the other hand, serves as a lynchpin to his clients’ inner circle, a steady presence in what is often a privileged, but harrowing lifestyle. Crazy Lucky is a career retrospective packed with never before heard stories. A rollicking journey for anyone interested in entertainment history, Crazy Lucky shows what it takes to represent the interests of some of the biggest names in the world, in critical, career-defining moments.

Using novel, bioethical framing alongside critical and comprehensive analysis of harm reduction approaches, this cutting-edge book addresses the multifaceted and transdisciplinary issue of drug addiction in society, exploring how addiction can be conceptualized from various disciplinary perspectives for positive policy outcomes.

This book explores how normalcy looks from desisters' point of view, thereby shedding light on the gendered, classed, and age-graded harms of the normal life desisters (are told to) aspire to as well as the forms of resistance involved in approaching it.

This book provides an up-to-date interdisciplinary assessment of the accountability of the executive power in different European States and at the European Union level. A valuable resource for researchers, academics and policy-makers in Constitutional Law, Public Law, Comparative Law, Comparative Politics, Legal History and Government.

This book explores and explains how traditional and alternative media have framed the issues of gun trafficking into Mexico, drug related violence, and spillover violence. It reveals how gun trafficking and drug related violence are social problems for Mexico.

Offering suggestions and recommendations for how to bring down the use of PTD in Europe, this book is essential reading for all those engaged with European penal research and practice.

This book reflects on constitutional balancing from the perspective of fundamental labour rights. It reviews the theoretical debates on judicial balancing and the approaches adopted by the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights, to proceed with a closer assessment of Italian and Spanish judicial traditions.

Explores abstraction as a keyword in aesthetic modernism and in critical thinking since Marx

This book explores the ways in which the study of the domestic and the international, far from being separate spheres, are in fact woven together in multiple ways. It seeks to question this traditional domestic/international binary and approach their entanglement through a range of different empirical settings and methodological approaches.

Every law student and legal scholar uses Wesley Hohfeld's ideas whether they realize it or not. This collection offers the first comprehensive, single-stop volume to clarify and examine the value, ubiquity, and import of Hohfeld's work. The book also features newly uncovered personal papers from Hohfeld's family.

The idea of a chain of production that straddles the boundaries of national states is central to understanding the workings of the global economy; this book focuses on how a range of countries at different stages of development and regulatory capability deal with the regulation of food production and distribution.

In Complexity Economics for Environmental Governance, Jean-Francois Mercure reframes environmental policy and provides a rigorous methodology necessary to tackle the complexity of environmental policy and the transition to sustainability. The book offers a detailed account of the deficiencies of environmental economics and then develops a theory of innovation and macroeconomics based on complexity theory. It also develops a new foundation for evidence-based policy-making using a Risk-Opportunity Analysis applied to the sustainability transition. This multidisciplinary work was developed in partnership with prominent natural scientists and economists as well as active policy-makers with the aim to revolutionize thinking in the face of the full complexity of the sustainability transition, and to show how it can best be governed to minimize its distributional impacts. The book should be read by academics and policy-makers seeking new ways to think about environmental policy-making.

Health research around the world relies on access to data, and much of the most valuable, reliable, and comprehensive data collections are held by governments. These collections, which contain data on whole populations, are a powerful tool in the hands of researchers, especially when they are linked and analyzed, and can help to address "e;wicked problems"e; in health and emerging global threats such as COVID-19. At the same time, these data collections contain sensitive information that must only be used in ways that respect the values, interests, and rights of individuals and their communities. Sharing Linked Data for Health Research provides a template for allowing research access to government data collections in a regulatory environment designed to build social license while supporting the research enterprise.

This volume is a call to embrace the power of positionality, telling a new history of law and society through the experiences of successful scholars from populations that academia has historically marginalized. Experts record their positionalities across their research and document what they learned about the law in the process.

This book addresses one of the oldest political offences in the European continent, lèse-majesté, in light of its historical evolution and the threat it poses to a democratic public sphere in modern-day Europe. It stands as a warning and a call for the abolition of lèse-majesté laws as a democratic necessity.

This book examines how the Roman, French and English legal systems have each dealt with the issue of unforeseen, supervening events which have rendered the performance of contractual obligations either impossible or fundamentally different in nature, sometimes known as Force Majeure or Acts of God.