LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jonathan herring

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  • Shifting the Spotlight in the Law of Rape
    Jonathan Herring / Sorcha McCormack
    We need a new law of rape -. One one which puts the focus on the defendant, rather than the victim. Many survivors of rape report that their experience of the criminal courts is that they are on trial. This book argues we need to redefine rape so the focus is on the defendant and his responsibility. ...
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    35,83 €

  • Criminal Law
    Jonathan Herring
    Written by one of the leading experts in the field, this textbook is the ideal companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students looking for an accessible, engaging and concise introduction to criminal law. Covering the basic principles of criminal liability, the newly updated 14th edition specifically highlights the criminal offences which not only best illustrate the unde...
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    192,30 €

  • The Right to Be Protected from Committing Suicide
    Jonathan Herring
    This book argues that suicidal people have the right to receive treatment and for reasonable steps to be taken that they are protected from killing themselves. Those suffering threats to life from mental health issues deserve the same protection as those who face threats to life from ill health or violence from others. The book explores the ethical and legal case for giving tho...
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    75,73 €

  • The Right to Be Protected from Committing Suicide
    Jonathan Herring
    This book argues that suicidal people have the right to receive treatment and for reasonable steps to be taken that they are protected from killing themselves. Those suffering threats to life from mental health issues deserve the same protection as those who face threats to life from ill health or violence from others. The book explores the ethical and legal case for giving tho...
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    154,13 €

  • Emergent Medicine and the Law
    Jonathan Herring / P.-L. Chau
    This book examines the relationship between law and scientific advancement, with a particular focus on the theory of evolution and medical innovation. Historically, the law has struggled to keep pace with modern medical advances. The authors demonstrate that the laws that govern human behaviour must evolve in response to such advances. This book describes how evolution shapes u...
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    136,40 €

  • Criminal Law
    Jonathan Herring
    Criminal Law: The Basics is an insightful introduction to the legal aspects of criminal acts, ranging from battery to burglary and harassment to homicide. Featuring a range of case studies, from both the infamous to the bizarre, the new edition has been thoroughly updated to include new material. ...
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    35,79 €

  • Law Through the Life Course
    Jonathan Herring
    Court decisions are typically seen as one-off interventions relating to an incident in a person’s life, but a legal decision can impact on the person as they were and the person they will become. This book is the first to explore the interactions of the law with the life course in order to understand the complex life journey as a whole. Jonathan Herring reveals how the law priv...
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    56,25 €

  • Law Through the Life Course
    Jonathan Herring
    Court decisions are typically seen as one-off interventions relating to an incident in a person’s life, but a legal decision can impact on the person as they were and the person they will become. This book is the first to explore the interactions of the law with the life course in order to understand the complex life journey as a whole. Jonathan Herring reveals how the law priv...
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    129,89 €

  • The Law as a Moral Agent
    Charles Foster / Jonathan Herring
    This book examines the controversial and repercussive contention that an objective of the law should be to promote personal morality - to make people ethically better. It surveys a number of domains, including criminal law, tort law, contract law, family law, and medical law (particularly the realm of moral enhancement technologies) asking for each: (a) Does the existing law se...
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    79,36 €

  • Emergent Medicine and the Law
    Jonathan Herring / P.-L. Chau
    This book examines the relationship between law and scientific advancement, with a particular focus on the theory of evolution and medical innovation. Historically, the law has struggled to keep pace with modern medical advances. The authors demonstrate that the laws that govern human behaviour must evolve in response to such advances. This book describes how evolution shapes u...
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    134,71 €

  • Great Debates in Criminal Law
    Jonathan Herring
    This textbook is an introduction to more advanced writings on criminal law, primarily designed to allow students to think critically and analyse specific topics. Each chapter is structured around key questions and debates that provoke deeper thought. It asks questions such as: Why do we have the laws that we have? Could the criminal law look differently? How should the law be a...
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    59,98 €

  • Law and the Relational Self
    Jonathan Herring
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    167,38 €

  • Human Thriving and the Law
    Charles Foster / Jonathan Herring
    The idea of the Good Life - of what constitutes human thriving, is, implicitly, the foundation and justification of the law. The law exists to hold societies together; to hold in tension the rights of individuals as against individuals, the rights of individuals as against various types of non-humans such as corporations (and vice versa), and the rights of individuals individua...
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    67,04 €

  • Great Debates in Medical Law and Ethics
    Imogen Goold / Jonathan Herring
    This textbook is an ambitious and engaging introduction to the more advanced writings on medical law and ethics, primarily designed to allow students to ’get under the skin’ of the topic and begin to build their critical thinking and analysis skills. Each chapter is structured around key questions and debates that provoke deeper thought and, ultimately, a clearer understanding....
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    59,99 €

  • Vulnerability, Childhood and the Law
    Jonathan Herring
    This book will challenge the orthodox view that children cannot have the same rights as adults because they are particularly vulnerable. It will argue that we should treat adults and children in the same way as the child liberationists claim. However, the basis of that claim is not that children are more competent than we traditionally given them credit for, but rather that adu...
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    66,71 €

  • Identity, Personhood and the Law
    Charles Foster / Jonathan Herring
    This book is an examination of how the law understands human identity and the whole notion of ’human being’. On these two notions the law, usually unconsciously, builds the superstructure of ’human rights’. It explores how the law understands the concept of a human being, and hence a person who is entitled to human rights. This involves a discussion of the legal treatment of th...
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    72,88 €

  • Q&A Medical Law
    Jonathan Herring
    Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in assessment. Each book contains essay and problem-based questions on the most commonly examined topics, complete with expert guidance and model answers that help you to:Plan your revision and know what examiners are looking for Understand and...
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    74,94 €

  • Altruism, Welfare and the Law
    Charles Foster / Jonathan Herring
    This book is an assault on the notion that it is empirically accurate and legally and philosophically satisfactory to see humans as atomistic entities. It contends that our welfare is inextricably entangled with that of others, and accordingly law and ethics, in determining our best interests, should recognise the central importance of relationality, the performance of obligati...
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    66,94 €

  • Great Debates in Family Law
    Jonathan Herring / Rebecca Probert / Stephen Gilmore
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    61,29 €

  • Relational Autonomy and Family Law
    Jonathan Herring
    This book explores the importance of autonomy in family law. It argues that traditional understandings of autonomy are inappropriate in the family law context and instead recommends the use of relational autonomy. The book starts by explaining how autonomy has historically been understood, before exploring the problems with its use in family law. It then sets out the model of r...
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    66,58 €

  • Cómo discutir
    Jonathan Herring
    La habilidad para persuadir, influir y convencer es una capacidad vital para el éxito en el trabajo y en la vida. Sin embargo, la mayoría de nosotros no tenemos idea de cómo discutir bien. De hecho, muchas personas todavía consideran que discutir es algo que debe evitarse a toda costa y, en general, lo hacemos bastante mal… o no lo hacemos en absoluto. No obstante, es probable ...
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    11,96 €

  • Caring and the Law
    Jonathan Herring
    ’Caring and the Law’ considers the law’s response to caring. It explores how care is valued and recognised, how it is regulated and restricted and how the values of caring are reflected in the law. It does this by examining the law’s interaction with caring in a wide range of fields including family, medical, welfare, criminal and tort law. At the heart of the book is the claim...
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    75,29 €

  • Cómo decidir
    Jonathan Herring
    Todos tomamos cientos de decisiones cada día, desde las muy triviales hasta las que pueden cambiar nuestra vida. Podemos tomar algunas decisiones casi sin pensar. Algunas otras parecen tan difíciles que simplemente no podemos decidir. Allí es donde este pequeño e ingenioso libro entra en escena. En palabras sencillas, esta obra te guía a través de cualquier decisión que enfrent...
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    9,31 €

  • European Human Rights and Family Law
    Choudhry / Jonathan Herring / Shazia Choudhry
    This book examines the potential impact of human rights in the way the law interacts with families. Traditionally family law has been dominated by consequentialist/utilitarian themes. The most notable example of this occurs in the law relating to children and the employment of the 'welfare principle'. This requires the court to focus on the welfare of the child as the paramount...
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    226,40 €