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Titolo: | Studies in law, politics, and society . Vol. 76 / / edited by Austin Sarat |
Pubblicazione: | United Kingdom : , : Emerald Publishing, , 2018 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (248 pages) |
Disciplina: | 340.115 |
Soggetto topico: | Sociological jurisprudence |
Political sociology | |
Law - Political aspects | |
Law, Jurisprudence | |
Law & society | |
Persona (resp. second.): | SaratAustin |
Note generali: | Includes index. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- STUDIES IN LAW, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Editorial Board -- Chapter 1-TO WHAT EXTENT ISPLYLER v. DOE AN EFFECTIVEPROTECTION FOR THE RIGHT TOEDUCATION FOR IRREGULARMIGRANT CHILDREN INCONTEMPORARY US? -- Introduction -- Preliminary Considerations -- Current Threats to the Right to Education for Irregular Immigrant Children -- Immigration and Children's Rights -- Legal Guarantees of the Right to Education -- Plyler v. Doe -- Facts -- Analysis of Plyler v. Doe -- Texas's Arguments -- The Situation Since Plyler -- Conclusion -- References -- Cases -- Chapter 2-A Brave New British Citizenry? Reconceptualizing the Acquisition of British Citizenship by Children -- Introduction -- Invisible Children -- Socio-Legal Lens of Rights, Status, Identity -- The Context for British Citizenship of Children -- The Case Study: Registration of Children as British Citizens -- The Law in the Books -- The Law in Action -- Children's Welfare in Family Law and Nationality Law -- Critique and Alternative Framework -- Conclusion -- References -- Symposium on Law and Disability -- Chapter 3-HIV/AIDS, Obesity, and STIGMA: A NEW ERA FORNON-DISCRIMINATION LAW? -- Introduction -- Formation of Stigma -- The UK and EU Legal Framework -- Emerging Decisions of the CJEU -- Implications of the UK and EU Legal Framework and Potential Interventions -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4-Putting the "Right to Die" in Its Place: Disability Rights and Physician-Assisted Suicide in the Context of US End-of-Life Care -- Introduction -- What is PAS? -- The Debate Among Us Disability Rights Advocates -- Toward a Disability Rights Approach to Terminal Illness -- The Structure of US Hospice Care -- Obstacles to Kinship Care for the Terminally Ill -- Patients Without Kinship Support in the US Hospice System. |
A Disability Rights Approach to US End-of-Life Care -- Why a "Social Model" of Terminal Illness Should Inform - But Cannot Resolve - the Question of the "Right to Die" -- The Agreement Underneath the Disagreement -- Putting the "Right to Die" in Its Place -- A National Disability Rights Agenda for the "Right to Die" -- References -- Chapter 5-Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights: Challenging "Genetic Genocide" -- Introduction: "My Brother is a Blessing" -- The Disability Critique of Prenatal Testing: Expressivist Objections -- The Tension Between Disability Rights and Reproductive Rights -- The Disability Rights Critique: "Informed Choice" -- The Tension in Political Context: New Developments in Prenatal Testing and Screening -- Disability Mobilization: Down Syndrome Information Acts and the PPDCAA -- Reason-Based Abortion Restrictions: Down Syndrome and Sex-Selection Abortion Bans -- The Use of Disability in Pro-Life and Pro-Choice Politics -- Feminist Responses to the Use of Disability in Abortion Politics: Implications for Disability Scholarship -- The Articulation of Disability Rights: Implications for Sociolegal Scholarship -- References. | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles within the broad parameters of interdisciplinary legal scholarship. In this latest edition of this highly successful research series, chapters examine a diverse range of legal issues and their impact on and intersections with society. This volume features a special section with papers dedicated to law and disability. The chapters examine issues of HIV, obesity, disability rights, assisted suicide and prenatal testing. Other papers included in this important volume address the right to education for migrant children in the United States and the rights to citizenship of British children. This volume brings together leading scholars and will be vital reading for all those researching in this subject area. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Studies in law, politics, and society |
ISBN: | 9781787562097 |
1787562093 | |
9781787562073 | |
1787562077 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910807431603321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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