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By Senthorun Sunil Raj

This book draws on the analytic and political dimensions of queer, alongside the analytic and political usefulness of reading emotion, to navigate legal interventions aimed at addressing the rights of LGBT people. Scholars, activists, lawyers, and judges concerned with eliminating violence and…

Hardback – 2020-01-31 
Routledge
Social Justice

Edited by Frances Hamilton, Guido Noto La Diega

This edited collection provides a forum for rigorous analysis of the necessity for both legal and social change with regard to regulation of same-sex relationships and rainbow families, the status of civil partnership as a concept and the lived reality of equality for LGBTQ+ persons. Twenty-eight…

Hardback – 2020-01-31 
Routledge

Edited by Graham Gee, Erika Rackley

What should be the primary goals of a judicial appointments system, and how much weight should be placed on diversity in particular? Why is achieving a diverse judiciary across the UK taking so long? Is it time for positive action? What role should the current judiciary play in the appointment of…

Paperback – 2019-12-28 
Routledge

Edited by Mohammad Mazher Idriss

This book explores the largely neglected relationship between men, masculinities and honour-based abuse (HBA). There is a common misconception that HBA – whether physical violence, emotional abuse or so-called ‘honour’ killings – occurs only against women. This book addresses the gap in the…

Hardback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

Edited by Irehobhude O. Iyioha

Despite some significant advances in the creation and protection of rights affecting women’s health, these do not always translate into actual health benefits for women.　This collection asks: 'What is an effective law and what influences law’s effectiveness or ineffectiveness? What dynamics,…

Hardback – 2019-12-10 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

Edited by Marie Bruvik Heinskou, May-Len Skilbrei, Kari Stefansen

While the Nordic countries are listed at the top in most international rankings of gender equality and citizens’ feelings of security, studies on the prevalence of sexual victimisation present a different picture, suggesting that the very countries that have invested much in establishing gender…

Hardback – 2019-11-13 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Gender and Society

By Kerry O'Halloran

This book identifies, analyses and discusses the nexus of legal issues that have emerged in recent years around sexuality and gender. It audits these against specific human rights requirements and evaluates the outcomes as evidenced in the legislation and caselaw of six leading common law…

Hardback – 2019-11-11 
Routledge
Human Rights and International Law

By Shalu Nigam

This book critically examines domestic violence law in India. It focuses on women’s experiences and perspectives as victims and litigants, with regard to accessibility to law and justice. It also reflects on the manner in which the legal process reproduces gender hierarchies. This volume:…

Hardback – 2019-09-04
Routledge India

By Maggie Brennan, Andy Phippen

This book explores, through a children’s rights-based perspective, the emergence of a safeguarding dystopia in child online protection that has emerged from a tension between an over-reliance in technical solutions and a lack of understanding around code and algorithm capabilities. The text argues…

Hardback – 2019-09-03
Routledge

By Emma K. Russell

Despite ongoing challenges to the criminalisation and surveillance of queer lives, police leaders are now promoted as allies and defenders of LGBT rights. However, in this book, Emma K. Russell argues that the surface inclusion of select LGBT identities in the protective aspirations of the law…

Hardback – 2019-09-03
Routledge
Queering Criminology and Criminal Justice

By Kim Treiger-Bar-Am

This book explains why we should stop thinking of freedom as limited to a right to be left alone. It explores how Kantian philosophy and Jewish thought instead give rise to a concept of positive freedom. At heart, freedom is inextricably linked to the obligation to respect the autonomy and dignity…

Hardback – 2019-08-22
Routledge

Edited by Beverley Clough, Jonathan Herring

This book explores the intersecting issues relating the phenomenon of ageing to gender and family law. The latter has tended to focus mainly on family life in young and middle age; and, indeed, the issues of childhood and parenting are key in many family law texts. Family life for older members has…

Paperback – 2019-07-29
Routledge