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      • Trusted Partner
        Business, Economics & Law
        May 2019

        Women before the court

        Law and patriarchy in the Anglo-American world, 1600–1800

        by Lindsay R. Moore, Pamela Sharpe

        This book offers an innovative, comparative approach to the study of women's legal rights during a formative period of Anglo-American history. It traces how colonists transplanted English legal institutions to America, examines the remarkable depth of women's legal knowledge and shows how the law increasingly undermined patriarchal relationships between parents and children, masters and servants, husbands and wives. The book will be of interest to scholars of Britain and colonial America, and to laypeople interested in how women in the past navigated and negotiated the structures of authority that governed them. It is packed with fascinating stories that women related to the courts in cases ranging from murder and abuse to debt and estate litigation. Ultimately, it makes a remarkable contribution to our understandings of law, power and gender in the early modern world.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 2018

        Cooking up a revolution

        Food Not Bombs, Homes Not Jails, and resistance to gentrification

        by Sean Parson, Uri Gordon, Laurence Davis, Nathan Jun, Alex Prichard

        During the late 1980s and early 1990s the City San Francisco waged a war with the homeless. During this period over 1,000 arrests and citations where handed out by the police to activists for simply handing out free food in public parks. Why would a liberal city arrest activists helping the homeless? In exploring this question, the book uses the conflict between the city and activists as a unique opportunity to examine the contested nature of urban politics, homelessness, and public space while developing an anarchist alternative to liberal urban politics that is rooted in mutual aid, solidarity, and anti-capitalism. In addition to exploring theoretical and political issues related to gentrification, broken-windows policing, and anti-homeless laws, this book provides both activists, students, and scholars, examples of how anarchist homeless activists in San Francisco resisted these process.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 2018

        Cooking up a revolution

        Food Not Bombs, Homes Not Jails, and resistance to gentrification

        by Sean Parson, Uri Gordon, Laurence Davis, Nathan Jun, Alex Prichard

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 2018

        Cooking up a revolution

        Food Not Bombs, Homes Not Jails, and resistance to gentrification

        by Sean Parson, Uri Gordon, Laurence Davis, Nathan Jun, Alex Prichard

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2020

        Cooking up a revolution

        Food Not Bombs, Homes Not Jails, and resistance to gentrification

        by Sean Parson, Uri Gordon, Laurence Davis, Nathan Jun, Alex Prichard

        During the late 1980s and early 1990s the city of San Francisco waged a war against the homeless. Over 1,000 arrests and citations where handed out by the police to activists for simply distributing free food in public parks. Why would a liberal city arrest activists helping the homeless? In exploring this question, the book treats the conflict between the city and activists as a unique opportunity to examine the contested nature of homelessness and public space while developing an anarchist alternative to liberal urban politics that is rooted in mutual aid, solidarity, and anti-capitalism. In addition to exploring theoretical and political issues related to gentrification, broken-windows policing, and anti-homeless laws, this book provides activists, students and scholars, examples of how anarchist homeless activists in San Francisco resisted these processes.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2024

        Gender and punishment in Ireland

        Women, murder and the death penalty, 1922–64

        by Lynsey Black

        Gender and punishment in Ireland explores women's lethal violence in Ireland. Drawing on comprehensive archival research, including government documents, press reporting, the remnants of public opinion and the voices of the women themselves, the book contributes to the burgeoning literature on gender and punishment and women who kill. Engaging with concepts such as 'double deviance', chivalry, paternalism and 'coercive confinement', the work explores the penal landscape for offending women in postcolonial Ireland, examining in particular the role of the Catholic Church in responses to female deviance. The book is an extensive interdisciplinary treatment of women who kill in Ireland and will be useful to scholars of gender, criminology and history.

      • Trusted Partner
        Business, Economics & Law
        May 2024

        Governance, democracy and ethics in crisis-decision-making

        The pandemic and beyond

        by Caroline Redhead, Melanie Smallman

        This book is a powerful addition to a developing literature informed by arts and humanities research carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic. Investigating the impacts of crisis governance and decision-making on people and populations, the book brings together microbial organisms and humans, children and data, decision-making and infection prevention, publics and process, global vaccine distribution and citizens' juries. Through its eight chapters, the book stimulates broadly-drawn discussions about exceptional executive powers in an emergency, the role of trust, and the importance of the principles of good governance - such as selflessness, ethics, integrity, accountability and honesty in leadership. The lessons drawn out in this book will support future decision-makers in both ordinary times and extra-ordinary emergencies.

      • Trusted Partner
        Business, Economics & Law
        December 2020

        Women before the court

        Law and patriarchy in the Anglo-American world, 1600–1800

        by Lindsay R. Moore

        Women before the court offers an innovative, comparative approach to the study of women's legal rights during a formative period of Anglo-American history. It traces how colonists transplanted English legal institutions to America, examines the remarkable depth of women's legal knowledge and shows how the law increasingly undermined patriarchal relationships between parents and children, masters and servants, husbands and wives. The book will be of interest to scholars of Britain and colonial America, and to laypeople interested in how women in the past navigated and negotiated the structures of authority that governed them. It is packed with fascinating stories that women related to the courts in cases ranging from murder and abuse to debt and estate litigation. Ultimately, it makes a remarkable contribution to our understandings of law, power and gender in the early modern world.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2022

        Gender and punishment in Ireland

        Women, murder and the death penalty, 1922–64

        by Lynsey Black

        Gender and punishment in Ireland explores women's lethal violence in Ireland. Drawing on comprehensive archival research, including government documents, press reporting, the remnants of public opinion and the voices of the women themselves, the book contributes to the burgeoning literature on gender and punishment and women who kill. Engaging with concepts such as 'double deviance', chivalry, paternalism and 'coercive confinement', the work explores the penal landscape for offending women in postcolonial Ireland, examining in particular the role of the Catholic Church in responses to female deviance. The book is an extensive interdisciplinary treatment of women who kill in Ireland and will be useful to scholars of gender, criminology and history.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2022

        Gender and punishment in Ireland

        Women, murder and the death penalty, 1922–64

        by Lynsey Black

        Gender and punishment in Ireland explores women's lethal violence in Ireland. Drawing on comprehensive archival research, including government documents, press reporting, the remnants of public opinion and the voices of the women themselves, the book contributes to the burgeoning literature on gender and punishment and women who kill. Engaging with concepts such as 'double deviance', chivalry, paternalism and 'coercive confinement', the work explores the penal landscape for offending women in postcolonial Ireland, examining in particular the role of the Catholic Church in responses to female deviance. The book is an extensive interdisciplinary treatment of women who kill in Ireland and will be useful to scholars of gender, criminology and history.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2022

        Gender and punishment in Ireland

        Women, murder and the death penalty, 1922–64

        by Lynsey Black

        Gender and punishment in Ireland explores women's lethal violence in Ireland. Drawing on comprehensive archival research, including government documents, press reporting, the remnants of public opinion and the voices of the women themselves, the book contributes to the burgeoning literature on gender and punishment and women who kill. Engaging with concepts such as 'double deviance', chivalry, paternalism and 'coercive confinement', the work explores the penal landscape for offending women in postcolonial Ireland, examining in particular the role of the Catholic Church in responses to female deviance. The book is an extensive interdisciplinary treatment of women who kill in Ireland and will be useful to scholars of gender, criminology and history.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2024

        Brexit and citizens’ rights

        History, policy and experience

        by Djordje Sredanovic, Bridget Byrne

        The book offers interdisciplinary analyses of the impact of Brexit on the rights of EU27 citizens in the UK, Britons in the UK and the EU, and third-country nationals. It combines a historical examination of citizenship and migration between the UK, Europe and the Commonwealth with the analysis of policies and of the experiences of the different groups impacted by Brexit. The book discusses Brexit within the larger history and dynamics of UK and EU citizenship and migration. The individual chapters look at how Brexit is transforming the citizenship rights of different groups, including issues of loss of citizenship and experiences of naturalisation. They further examine the fears of the groups impacted, and larger issues of belonging, marginalisation, political orientations and mobilisations that cross legal status, nationality, ethnicity, race and class.

      • Jurisprudence & general issues

        Miraculous Shari‘a, Rather than Powerless Laws

        by Mohamed Wafik Zain al-Abedin (Dr.), Ref'at Al-Awadi (Dr.), Abdullah Al-Musleh (Dr.), Kawthar Al-Abji (Dr.), Mohsen Fadly (Judge)

        The law of any nation is the mirror of its material, intellectual and social conditions. if  it is true that the law is the source of happiness and revival of every society, as the philosophers of law say, then it will not be so unless it fulfills their cultural, intellectual and material requirements and aspirations that are dictated by the nature of their religious and social environment, rather it will be a pity on them, and it will be a source of their misery and suffering, not their happiness and revival, for correct legislation is the result of the nation’s spirit and the result of its traditions and customs, since everyone is captive to his religious and social values ​​and principles.  The most important results of reality and its implications is the invalidity of the human mind while it is a source of legislation. History proves to us day after day that the structure of the mind is weak and frail that it is easy to be deceived, decepted and cheated, as it is possible to provide a group of minds with flawed false information, or to seduce them with corrupted and perverted delusions, so they easily make massive errors, and are driven to the apparent astray without the slightest concern!! Indeed, reality has proven that minds, when grouped, may be unable to search the tools, methods, attributes, phenomena of incidents, people's bodies and their appearances. While these minds have shown their ingenuity in dealing with the quantity of events, they have shown, on the other hand, an unlimited helplessness in dealing with  their quality. While it is supposed that they use rational, logical thinking when they cooperate with each other, but rather they slipped in the abyss and pits of emotional, sentimental and imaginative delusional thinking without the slightest wisdom or insight.  Reality has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the application of man-made laws was and still the most important reason for the spread of crime and the increase in its rates and diversity in a way that did not exist at the time of our ancestors, and that these laws did not fulfill their role in fulfilling the requirements of litigants, resolving their arguments, and settling their disputes. They have neither become a deterrence, nor have they completed cases, nor have they restored the rights to their owners. Rather, the so many loopholes in them have led to stubbornness in litigation, procrastination in procedures, frequent appeals, abstention from fulfilling rights and duties, increased oppression and aggression,  the prevalence of poverty, misery and deprivation, stirring up chaos and barbarism,  And spread the spirit of revenge and vengeance among the litigants.  The validity of any legislation is decided on the basis of the validity of its values ​​and principles and its consistency with reality. Rational legislative policy must depend on elements that are homogeneous with the environment that controls it. If it is based on elements that are in conflict with it, the link between the texts and their goals is lost so that they do not lead to achieve the intended purpose, as any legislative organization is not intended in itself, rather it is merely a means to achieve its goals related to controlling life and happiness of people, and in this framework the merits of Sharia emerge it is are from the Creator who is more knowledgeable about the conditions of his servants, and who knows what is in their goodness and what is the consequence of their affairs, and it is distinguished from the man made law as it has features and characteristics that make it more worthy to follow and more appropriate to apply, as its enactment is not controlled by opinions, and whims does not mess with its destination.  Nothing more revealing that than man made law's contradiction and inconsistency, for those who sanctify the law and defend it, do not sanctify one thing and do not defend one thing, as the law is multiple in its totalities as well as its parts, it's even contradictory in its totalities as well as its parts, so what law do they call peoples to respect and sanctify?  The law that permits homosexuals' marriage or the law that prohibits it?  The law that permits divorce between spouses, the law that restricts it, or the law that prevents it?  The law that permits adoption, the law that restricts it, or the law that prevents it?  The law that gives the testator the hand in choosing who he bequeaths - even if it is a dog - or is it the law that limits and restricts his authority?  The law that uses the death penalty, or the law that restricts its images and situations, or the law that absolutely prohibits its use?  The law that allows drinking alcohol, the law that restricts it, or the law that prohibits it?  The law that brings taxes and fees to a third, a quarter, or a tenth?  The law that approves granting those subject to interest on their money and deposits in return for safekeeping them, or the law that deducted from them in return for safekeeping them?  Thus tens and hundreds of conflicting and contradictory examples of laws, all of which are established by their authors, sometimes by mind and sometimes by experience.  We do not have a single law that can be respected or defended, but we are in front of tens and hundreds of different laws according to different systems of multiple countries, rather there is hardly a single human act in which all systems agree on a common punishment for in addition to its criminalization, and this in itself violates the idea of ​​the law and its necessity.

      • True stories
        October 2020

        Witness

        by Louise Milligan

        Throughout her career charting the experiences of people who have the courage to come forward to police and then look to find justice in court, Milligan has watched how witnesses are treated (or, too frequently, mistreated) in the courtroom. They have described to her how they relive the associated trauma, often years later. Then, she saw this first-hand, when she became a witness and was cross-examined herself in the trial of the decade, R v George Pell.   Never-before-published court transcripts expose widespread systemic flaws. And through a combination of extraordinarily candid interviews with defence counsel, prosecutors and even judges, and the heartbreaking stories of witnesses in high-profile cases, the brutal reality of the system is laid bare.   Revealing the devastating effects of an adversarial legal system that can be sexist, callous and too often weighted towards the rich and powerful, Milligan also highlights its failure to protect the wellbeing of the most vulnerable. In detailing these flaws and the ongoing human cost, Witness is a compelling call for change.

      • Geography & the Environment

        Eradicating Ecocide

        Laws and Governance to Prevent the Destruction of Our Planet

        by Polly Higgins

        Eradicating Ecocide highlights the need for enforceable, legally binding mechanisms in national and international law to hold to account perpetrators of long term severe damage to the environment. At this critical juncture in history it is vital that we set global standards of accountability for corporations, in order to put an end to the culture of impunity and double standards that pervade the international legal system. Higgins advocates the introduction of a new international law, Ecocide: ‘damage, destruction to or loss of ecosystems’, as the 5th Crime Against Peace. This would hold to account heads of corporate bodies that are found guilty of damaging the environment; it would present corporations with a new choice: they could choose to be part of the solution, part of the salvation of the planet’s future, by complying with the new law of Ecocide. The opportunity to implement this law represents a crossroads in the fate of humanity; we can accept the change, or we can continue to allow its destruction, risking future brutal war over disappearing natural resources.This is the first book to explain that we all have a commanding voice and the power to call upon all our governments to change the existing rules of the game.Higgins presents examples of laws in other countries which have succeeded in curtailing the power of governments, corporations and banks and made a quick and effective change, demonstrating that her proposal is not impossible. Eradicating Ecocide is a crash course on what laws work, what doesn’t and what else is needed to prevent the imminent disaster of global collapse.Eradicating Ecocide provides a comprehensive overview of what needs to be done in order to prevent ecocide. It is a book providing a template of a body of laws for all governments to implement, which applies equally to smaller communities and anyone who is involved in decision-making. --- The author is becoming a world figure in promoting the idea that ecocide should become an international crime like genocide. Here is a link to a talk she gave recently in Vienna, suggesting that a German language edition might be a prospect. ERDgespräche//EARTHtalks 2013: Polly Higgins on Vimeo.

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