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Cover Local Maladies, Global Remedies
Local Maladies, Global Remedies
Reclaiming the Right to Health in Latin America
Everaldo Lamprea-Montealegre

This forward-looking book provides an in-depth analysis of the major transformations of the right to health in Latin America over the past decades, marked by the turn towards the pharmaceuticalisation of health care. Everaldo Lamprea-Montealegre investigates how health-based litigation has deepened inequalities in the global South, exploring the practices of key actors that are reclaiming the right to health in the region.

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Monograph Book
Published:
16 Jun 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800376540
Collection:
Law 2022
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Reconciling Religion and Human Rights
Faith in Multilateralism
Ibrahim Salama and Michael Wiener
Projecting a global interdisciplinary vision, this insightful book develops a peer-to-peer learning methodology to facilitate reconciling religion and human rights, both in multilateral contexts and at the national level. Written by leading human rights practitioners, the book illuminates the tension zones between religion and rights, exploring how the ‘faith’ elements in both disciplines can create synergies for protecting equal human dignity.
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14 Apr 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800377608
Collection:
Law 2022
Cover Research Handbook on the International Law of Indigenous Rights
Research Handbook on the International Law of Indigenous Rights
Edited by Dwight Newman
This ground-breaking Research Handbook provides a state-of-the-art discussion of the international law of Indigenous rights and how it has developed in recent decades.  Drawing from their extensive knowledge of the topic, leading scholars provide strong general coverage and highlight the challenges and cutting-edge issues arising in international Indigenous rights law.
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Handbook
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12 Apr 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788115797
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Law 2022
Cover Allegiance, Citizenship and the Law
Allegiance, Citizenship and the Law
The Enigma of Belonging
Helen Irving
Weaving together theoretical, historical, and legal approaches, this book offers a fresh perspective on the modern revival of the concept of allegiance, identifying and contextualising its evolving association with theories of citizenship.
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Monograph Book
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08 Apr 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839102547
Collection:
Law 2022
Cover Research Handbook on Law and Literature
Research Handbook on Law and Literature
Edited by Peter Goodrich, Daniela Gandorfer, and Cecilia Gebruers
In this original and thought-provoking Research Handbook, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, artists, lawyers, judges, and writers offer a range of perspectives on rethinking law by means of literary concepts. Presenting a comprehensive introduction to jurisliterary themes, it destabilises the traditional hierarchy that places law before literature and exposes the literary nature of the legal.
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Handbook
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25 Mar 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839102264
Collection:
Law 2022
Cover Research Handbook on European Union Citizenship Law and Policy
Research Handbook on European Union Citizenship Law and Policy
Navigating Challenges and Crises
Edited by Dora Kostakopoulou and Daniel Thym
This Research Handbook provides a panoramic guide to the study and research of EU citizenship and its development within a challenging environment characterised by restrictive access to social benefits, Brexit, Euroscepticism and Covid-19. It combines theoretical perspectives with analyses of both the existing and future rights, duties and social protection that EU citizens ought to enjoy in a democratic and principled European Union.
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Handbook
Published:
17 Mar 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788972901
Collection:
Law 2022
Cover Private Law in Context
Private Law in Context
Enriching Legal Doctrine
Marc Loth
Contemplating the nature, practice and study of private law, this comprehensive book offers a detailed overview of private law’s theoretical dimensions. It promotes a reflective attitude towards the topic, encouraging the reader to question how private law is practiced and studied, what this implies for their own engagement in the field and what kind of private lawyer they want to be. This thought-provoking book draws on examples from a range of legal systems to provide philosophical perspectives on the diverse dimensions of private law.
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Monograph Book
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15 Feb 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800374300
Collection:
Law 2022
Cover Technology, Innovation and Healthcare
Technology, Innovation and Healthcare
An Evolving Relationship
Bernadette J. Richards, Mark Taylor, and Susannah Sage Jacobson
This timely book emphasizes the importance of regulation in enabling and channelling innovation at a time when technology is increasingly embedded in healthcare. It considers the adequacy of current regulatory approaches, identifying apparent gaps, risks and liabilities, and discusses how these might be collectively addressed. The authors present possible solutions that balance the protection and promotion of public trust in healthcare against enabling technological progress and disruptive innovation.
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Monograph Book
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15 Feb 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788973144
Collection:
Law 2022
Cover Hashtag Jurisprudence
Hashtag Jurisprudence
Terror and Legality on Twitter
Cassandra Sharp
This thoroughly engaging book uses empirical analysis to illustrate that the response of individuals to global terror events, via social media, provokes an opportunity to interpret the ways in which individuals view their place in the world and their relation to law and justice. It is through analysing these responses that Cassandra Sharp demonstrates that a ‘hashtag jurisprudence’ can be constructed.
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Monograph Book
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11 Feb 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800372597
Collection:
Law 2022
Cover Defining Disaster
Defining Disaster
Disciplines and Domains
Edited by Marie Aronsson-Storrier and Rasmus Dahlberg
This timely book unpacks the idea of ‘disaster’ from a variety of approaches, broadening understanding and improving the usability of this complex and often contested concept. Including multidisciplinary perspectives from leading and emerging scholars, it offers reflections on how the concept of disaster has been shaped by and within various fields of research, providing complementary and thought-provoking comparisons across many domains.
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Monograph Book
Published:
21 Jan 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100307
Collection:
Law 2022