Bøger i Onati International Series in Law and Society serien

This book provides a vivid reader on experiences of mediation throughout history and in many different regional, cultural and legal contexts.

This volume examines the effects that gender has had in shaping tax law and how taxation impacts upon the possibilities for equality in other areas.

The essays in this volume analyse feminism's recent positioning in international law scholarship.

Does gender make a difference to the way the judiciary works and should work? Or is gender-blindness a built-in prerequisite of judicial objectivity? If gender does make a difference, how might this be defined? These are the key questions posed in this collection of essays, by some 30 authors, from 15 countries.

This book provides a vivid reader on experiences of mediation throughout history and in many different regional, cultural and legal contexts.

This edited collection, the result of an international seminar held at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain in 2010, explores the potential legal and criminological consequences of climate change, both domestically and for the international community.

Focusing on paid work that blurs traditional legal boundaries and the challenge this poses to traditional forms of labour regulation, this collection of original case studies illustrates the wide range of different forms of regulation designed to provide decent work.

This book explores what response the law has or should have to different family practices arising from cultural and religious beliefs. The issue has become increasingly debated as western countries have become more culturally diverse.

The present book brings together perspectives from different legal fields to examine the significant legal, moral and political issues which arise in relation to the use of lethal force in both domestic and international law.

This book explores new directions in contemporary theorising about the impact of social and cultural dynamics on crime and social control.

This book takes a much needed "global" perspective and presents important new insights into changing penal policy and practice.

This book takes a much needed "global" perspective and presents important new insights into changing penal policy and practice.

These essays focus on the global impact of legal policies on levels of poverty.

These essays focus on the global impact of legal policies on levels of poverty.

This book analyzes the concept of the family in the context of increasing challenges and questions created by multicultural societies.

This book analyzes the concept of the family in the context of increasing challenges and questions created by multicultural societies.

In this book historians, legal scholars and political theorists consider the fate of national democracy in the age of globalization.

In this book historians, legal scholars and political theorists consider the fate of national democracy in the age of globalization.

This collection of papers investigates the institution of the law in combination with, and as part of, a multiplicity of sign systems.

This collection of papers investigates the institution of the law in combination with, and as part of, a multiplicity of sign systems.

This book considers the relationship between family law and family values in the way law is framed and closes with a plea to rethink family law.

This book questions various spaces engage with the construction of identity, character and values, both historically and the present day.

This multidisciplinary book studies and assesses the range of problems that form the 'language question' in Europe and diverse societies.

This book examines transnational policing, a term meaning the policing reform by various parties involved in the policing of recipient countries.

This book looks at the uncertainties which arise when attempting to answer the question; can there be such a thing as a European sociology of law

This book contains empirical research on the nature and importance of children's relationships with parents after parental separation.

This book analyses a range of equality projects across public and private law, considering competing conceptions of equality and alternatives to it.

This book is about the harms and crimes women are subjected to as a result of global social processes, and their efforts to control their futures.

This book focuses on the paradox presented by cultural/institutional diversity and contractual efficiency in cross-border business transactions.

This book provides an introduction to the important scholarship of Eugen Ehrlich and a starting point for further reading and discussion.