International Women’s Day, Women in Law 11 results
For International Women’s Day (8th March) and the International Day of Women Judges (10th March), Intersentia is diving into past books highlighting women in law. Browse this selection of books, which examine how women’s representation and rights in the law shape their experience of justice and equality in war, within the family, as lawyers, and in countries around the world.
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Changing Families, Changing Family Law in Europe
Book | 1st edition 2024 | World | Konrad Duden, Denise WiedemannWhat constitutes a “family” in Europe? The answer to this question is constantly changing and increasingly varied. This book addresses areas of family law where developments have been particularly salient and have, at times, created fissures between European States. It also suggests ways of addressing and overcoming these divergences.
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Lawyer Roles in Knowledge Work
Defender, Enabler, InvestigatorBook | 1st edition 2023 | Europe | Petter Gottschalk, Christopher HamertonThis book provides the first thorough examination of the concept of lawyer roles in knowledge work, offering a detailed comparative exploration and analysis of the globalized legal services industry in terms of individual and corporate professional functions.€89.00 incl. VAT -
Plurality and Diversity in Law: The Human Rights Paradigm
Book | 1st edition 2023 | United Kingdom | Laurence Burgorgue-LarsenThis book provides an understanding of how States around the world, whether in the Global North or the Global South, deal with and organize the religious, ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity within them and how, in the same vein, they deal with the plurality of opinions and legal systems.€205.00 incl. VAT -
Surrogacy in Latin America
Book | 1st edition 2023 | World | Nicolás Espejo-Yaksic, Claire Fenton-Glynn, Jens M. ScherpeThis book canvasses the laws regarding surrogacy in Latin American jurisdictions, putting the legal developments into their historical and social contexts. It also categorises the approaches taken and compares them to developments around the globe.€99.00 incl. VAT -
Between Sexuality, Gender and Reproduction
On the Pluralisation of Family FormsBook | 1st edition 2023 | World | Nina Dethloff, Katharina KaeslingThis book addresses the pluralisation of family forms as an expression of the transformation of society and its normative foundations. Against a legal background, the development of diverse family concepts and practices is examined and the (severed) links between sexuality, gender and reproduction are explored.€113.00 incl. VAT -
From Formal to Material Equality
Comparative Perspectives from History, Plurality of Disciplines and TheoryBook | 1st edition 2023 | World | Stefan Grundmann, Jan ThiessenThis book concerns equality in personal status - absolute, anti-discrimination - and how formal protection was superseded by material, fuller protection. It discusses history - Latin America, then the French Revolution - and disciplines - philosophy, ethics, economics, sociology, systems theory - with their diverse views and moves into modern phenomena like digitalization.€102.00 incl. VAT -
Family Matters
Essays in Honour of John EekelaarBook | 1st edition 2022 | United Kingdom | Jens Scherpe, Stephen GilmoreThis book is a collection of 66 essays on family law and family justice by academics and senior judges, celebrating the long and distinguished career of leading family law scholar, John Eekelaar, FBA.€166.00 incl. VAT -
The Impact of Technology and Innovation on the Wellbeing of the Legal Profession
Book | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | Michael Legg, Prue Vines, Janet ChanThis book concerns the impact of recent changes in technology (including the internet and artificial intelligence), as well as innovations (such as the changing ways of billing, new law firm structures and requirements and new employment practices) on the wellbeing of lawyers. There is evidence that the wellbeing of lawyers can be enhanced or diminished by these new practices and developments.€95.00 incl. VAT -
Cultural Difference and Economic Disadvantage in Regional Human Rights Courts
An Integrated ViewBook | 1st edition 2020 | United Kingdom | Valeska David ContrerasThis book critically examines the compartmentalised legal thinking through which cases concerning cultural and economic interests tend to be presented and decided in regional human rights courts. It proposes a number of conceptual and practical tools to allow for a more holistic examination of such cases, with the aim of delivering better justice.€150.00 incl. VAT -
Plurality and Diversity of Family Relations in Europe
Book | 1st edition 2019 | United Kingdom | Katharina Boele-Woelki, Dieter MartinyThis volume contains the contributions delivered at CEFL's sixth international conference, which focused on comparative and international family law in Europe in their respective cultural contexts.€95.00 incl. VAT -
Gender and War
International and Transitional Justice PerspectivesBook | 1st edition 2019 | World | Solange Mouthaan, Olga JuraszThis book explores and challenges common assumptions about gender, conflict, and post-conflict situations. It critically examines the gendered aspects of international and transitional justice processes by subverting traditional understandings of how wars are waged, the power dynamics involved, and the experiences of victims.€90.00 incl. VAT