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Embracing Vulnerability: The Challenges and Implications for Law book cover

1st Edition

Embracing Vulnerability The Challenges and Implications for Law

Edited By Daniel Bedford, Jonathan Herring Copyright 2020
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge
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This book brings together legal scholars engaging with vulnerability theory to explore the implications and challenges for law of understanding vulnerability as generative and a source of connection and development. The book is structured into five sections that cover fields of law where there is already significant recourse to the concept of vulnerability. These sections include a main chapter... Read more

Introduction: Vulnerability Refigured

Daniel Bedford

Part 1: Family and Child Law

Family Law’s Instincts and the Relational Subject

Alison Diduck

Response: Reflections on ‘Family Law’s Instincts’: law’s varied Relationship with the vulnerabilities of family law’s children

Jo Bridgeman

Part 2: Law and Ageing

Ageing and Universal Beneficial Vulnerability

Jonathan Herring

Response: Reflections on Ageing and the Binaries of Vulnerability

Rosie Harding

Part 3: Healthcare Law

The Idea of Vulnerability in Healthcare Law and Ethics: From the Margins to the Mainstream?

Mary Neal

Response: Challenging the Frames of Health Care Law

Beverley Clough

Part 4: Labour Law

The Potential and Limitations of the Vulnerability Approach for Labour Law

Lisa Rodgers

Response: Vulnerability and Labour Law: On the Transition from Theory to Practice

Nicole Busby

Part 5: Human Rights Law

Embracing Vulnerability: Towards Human Rights for a More-Than-Human World

Anna Grear

Response: On Some Problems with Rights

Fiona De Londras

Biography

Dr Daniel Bedford, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Portsmouth.

Jonathan Herring, DW Wolfe-Clarendon Fellow in Law at Exeter College, Oxford University and Professor of Law at the Law Faculty, Oxford University.

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