Books in the Onati International Series in Law and Society series

This book illustrates how a range of topics can be researched from a socio-legal perspective.

This book looks at the theory and practice of legal borrowing and adaptation in different areas of the world and offers a range of valuable insights.

Based on both quantitative and qualitative analyses, this is the first comprehensive study of women in the world's legal professions.

This book looks at the theory and practice of legal borrowing and adaptation in different areas of the world and offers a range of valuable insights.

In many jurisdictions today, life imprisonment is the most severe penalty that can be imposed. Despite this, it is a relatively under-researched form of punishment and no meaningful attempt has been made to understand its full human rights implications. This important collection fills that gap by addressing these two key questions: what is life imprisonment and what human rights are relevant to it? These questions are explored from the perspective of a range of jurisdictions, in essays that draw on both empirical and doctrinal research. Under the editorship of two leading scholars in the field, this innovative and important work will be a landmark publication in the field of penal studies and human rights.

Family justice requires not only a legal framework within which personal obligations are regulated over the life course, but also a justice system which can deliver legal information, advice and support at times of change of status or family stress, together with mechanisms for negotiation, dispute management and resolution, with adjudication as the last resort. The past few years have seen unparalleled turbulence in the way family justice systems function. These changes are associated with economic constraints in many countries, including England and Wales, where legal aid for private family matters has largely disappeared. But there is also a change in ideology in a number of jurisdictions, including Canada, towards what is sometimes called neo-liberalism, whereby the state seeks to reduce its area of activity while at the same time maintaining strong views on family values. Legal services may become fragmented and marketised, and the role of law and lawyers reduced, while self-help web based services expand.The contributors to this volume share their anxieties about the impact on the ability of individuals to achieve fair and informed resolution in family matters.

This book by criminologists and sociologists considers how to re-calibrate reason and emotion in crime and justice today.