As genetic technologies advance, genetic testing may well offer the prospect of detecting the onset of future disabilities. Some research also forwards that certain behavioural profiles may have a strong genetic basis, such as the determination to succeed, or the propensity for risk-taking. As this technology becomes more prevalent, there is a danger that genetic information may be misused by third parties and that particular genetic profiles may be discriminated against by employers, by providers of social goods and services, such as insurance companies and even by educational facilities.
This book explores the different forms and potential uses of genetic testing. Drawing together leading experts in disability law, bioethics, health law and a range of related fields, it highlights the ethical and legal challenges arising as a result of emerging and rapidly advancing genetic science. On examining transatlantic perspectives on the matter, chapters in the book ask whether the US Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) is proving to be an effective tool in addressing the issue of genetic discrimination and alleviating fears of discrimination. The book also reviews what insights may be gained from GINA within employment and health insurance contexts, and asks how the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) may impact similar debates within the European Union. The book focuses particularly on the legislative and policy framework in the European Union, with an emphasis on the gaps in protection and the scope for specific legislative action in this area.
This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of discrimination law, bioethics and disability law, and will be of considerable use to legal practitioners, medical practitioners and policy-makers in this area.
Àâòîð: Wilmshurst Íàçâàíèå: Perspectives on the ICRC Study on Customary International Humanitarian Law ISBN: 1107402387 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107402386 Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Cambridge Academ Ðåéòèíã: Öåíà: 46470.00 T Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Åñòü ó ïîñòàâùèêà Ïîñòàâêà ïîä çàêàç. Îïèñàíèå: This book discusses the study of Customary International Humanitarian Law (Cambridge, 2005) and analyses the law relating to such matters as targeting, prisoners of war, weapons, war crimes and the protection of the environment during conflicts.
Àâòîð: Virginia Mantouvalou Íàçâàíèå: The Right to Work: Legal and Philosophical Perspectives ISBN: 184946510X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781849465106 Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Bloomsbury Academic Ðåéòèíã: Öåíà: 100320.00 T Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Åñòü ó ïîñòàâùèêà Ïîñòàâêà ïîä çàêàç. Îïèñàíèå: This book addresses the uncertainty and controversy that surrounds the right to work both in theoretical scholarship and in policy-making. It discusses the philosophical underpinnings of the right to work, and its development in human rights law.
Àâòîð: Asher Flynn, Jacqueline Hodgson Íàçâàíèå: Access to Justice and Legal Aid: Comparative Perspectives on Unmet Legal Need ISBN: 1509929819 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509929818 Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Bloomsbury Academic Ðåéòèíã: Öåíà: 36950.00 T Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Åñòü ó ïîñòàâùèêà Ïîñòàâêà ïîä çàêàç. Îïèñàíèå: This book considers how access to justice is affected by restrictions to legal aid budgets and increasingly prescriptive service guidelines. As common law jurisdictions, England and Wales and Australia, share similar ideals, policies and practices, but they differ in aspects of their legal and political culture, in the nature of the communities they serve and in their approaches to providing access to justice. These jurisdictions thus provide us with different perspectives on what constitutes justice and how we might seek to overcome the burgeoning crisis in unmet legal need. The book fills an important gap in existing scholarship as the first to bring together new empirical and theoretical knowledge examining different responses to legal aid crises both in the domestic and comparative contexts, across criminal, civil and family law. It achieves this by examining the broader social, political, legal, health and welfare impacts of legal aid cuts and prescriptive service guidelines. Across both jurisdictions, this work suggests that it is the most vulnerable groups who lose out in the way the law now operates in the twenty-first century. This book is essential reading for academics, students, practitioners and policymakers interested in criminal and civil justice, access to justice, the provision of legal assistance and legal aid.
Àâòîð: John Harrington, Maria Stuttaford Íàçâàíèå: Global Health and Human Rights: Legal and Philosophical Perspectives ISBN: 0415631629 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415631624 Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Taylor&Francis Ðåéòèíã: Öåíà: 53070.00 T Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Åñòü ó ïîñòàâùèêà Ïîñòàâêà ïîä çàêàç. Îïèñàíèå: This book brings together internationally renowned scholars to critically interrogate the development of rights based approaches to health. The volume integrates discussions of the right to health at a theoretical and practical level, and engages with the emerging systems of global health governance.
Àâòîð: Asher Flynn, Jacqueline Hodgson Íàçâàíèå: Access to Justice and Legal Aid: Comparative Perspectives on Unmet Legal Need ISBN: 1509900845 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509900848 Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Bloomsbury Academic Ðåéòèíã: Öåíà: 89760.00 T Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Åñòü ó ïîñòàâùèêà Ïîñòàâêà ïîä çàêàç. Îïèñàíèå: This book considers how access to justice is affected by restrictions to legal aid budgets and increasingly prescriptive service guidelines. As common law jurisdictions, England and Wales and Australia, share similar ideals, policies and practices, but they differ in aspects of their legal and political culture, in the nature of the communities they serve and in their approaches to providing access to justice. These jurisdictions thus provide us with different perspectives on what constitutes justice and how we might seek to overcome the burgeoning crisis in unmet legal need. The book fills an important gap in existing scholarship as the first to bring together new empirical and theoretical knowledge examining different responses to legal aid crises both in the domestic and comparative contexts, across criminal, civil and family law. It achieves this by examining the broader social, political, legal, health and welfare impacts of legal aid cuts and prescriptive service guidelines. Across both jurisdictions, this work suggests that it is the most vulnerable groups who lose out in the way the law now operates in the twenty-first century. This book is essential reading for academics, students, practitioners and policymakers interested in criminal and civil justice, access to justice, the provision of legal assistance and legal aid. Subject: Criminal Law, Public Law, Asylum Law, Refugee Law, Human Rights, Comparative Law]
Àâòîð: Edoardo Ales Íàçâàíèå: Health and Safety at Work: European and Comparative Perspectives ISBN: 904114661X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789041146618 Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Turpin Ðåéòèíã: Öåíà: 195890.00 T Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Åñòü ó ïîñòàâùèêà Ïîñòàâêà ïîä çàêàç. Îïèñàíèå: The safety obligation in any employment relationship, enshrined in numerous laws and regulations, must necessarily absorb advances in medicine and technology. The law of health and safety at work is perhaps best understood as an ongoing process engaged in the making of a dynamic and effective regulatory framework able to cope with an ever-changing work environment. This book, an in-depth survey of the current state of health and safety law in Europe represents the work of labour lawyers involved into the Pontignano International Seminars and into the European Working Group on Labour Law (EWL). The seventeen contributing labour lawyers provide national reports from ten EU Member States, along with a chapter on EU law relating to health and safety and a concluding comparative analysis. Among the topics examined are the following: the concepts of 'health', 'danger', and 'risk'; employers' obligations to inform, evaluate, and monitor; rights and duties of workers' representatives with regard to health and safety at work; the obligation to carry out a systematic work environment management; reintegration efforts required from the employer and employee; instruments available to help the employer in the proper fulfilment of safety obligations; the interaction between health and safety regulation and the social security system; labour inspecti civil, administrative and criminal liability of the employer; specific legislation regarding pregnant women; protection of other vulnerable groups; moral harassment or 'mobbing'; sexual harassment; work-related stress the concept of p nibilit au travail; effect of a company's hierarchical structure on liability; and domestic workers and home-workers. For practitioners dealing with cases involving health and safety issues at work, this book will be welcomed as a thorough and up-to-date guide on available approaches. Of especial value is the detailed coverage of the scope of the safety obligation, the consequences of its violation, workers' representation, and the link between occupational health and safety and the fight against harassment at work.
Àâòîð: Gal, Tali; Duramy, Benedetta Íàçâàíèå: International Perspectives and Empirical Findings on Child Participation ISBN: 0199366985 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199366989 Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Oxford Academ Ðåéòèíã: Öåíà: 88710.00 T Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Åñòü ó ïîñòàâùèêà Ïîñòàâêà ïîä çàêàç. Îïèñàíèå: This book provides a much-needed, first broad portrayal of how child participation is implemented in practice today.
Àâòîð: Konig David Thomas, Finkelman Paul, Bracey Christopher Alan Íàçâàíèå: The Dred Scott Case: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Race and Law ISBN: 0821419129 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821419120 Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Wiley EDC Ðåéòèíã: Öåíà: 29730.00 T Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Åñòü ó ïîñòàâùèêà Ïîñòàâêà ïîä çàêàç. Îïèñàíèå: In 1846, two slaves, Dred and Harriet Scott, filed petitions for their freedom in the Old Courthouse in St Louis, Missouri. It is the first true civil rights case decided by the US Supreme Court. This title offers a collection of essays that revisits the history of the case and its aftermath in American life and law.
Àâòîð: Aart de Geus, Christiane Weidenfeld, Eric Thode Íàçâàíèå: Europe Reforms Labour Markets: - Leaders?ˆ˜ Perspectives - ISBN: 3110365774 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110365771 Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Walter de Gruyter Öåíà: 123910.00 T Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Åñòü ó ïîñòàâùèêà Ïîñòàâêà ïîä çàêàç. Îïèñàíèå: Focusing on the perspectives of policy-makers, the book's purpose is to closely examine the factors that make for successful/unsuccessful labor market related policy reforms. The aim is to reveal the political aspects, namely the chances, challenges and impediments to designing labor market reforms and to establish the conditions under which successful labor market reforms can be advocated, adopted and implemented (process). The work includes exclusive interviews with twelve former European prime ministers about the labour market reforms they initiated in their respective countries: Wolfgang Schussel Anders Fogh Rasmussen Andrus Ansip Francois Fillon Gerhard Schroder Georgios Papandreou Mario Monti Jan Peter Balkenende Jerzy Buzek Iveta Radicova Luis Rodriguez Zapatero Tony Blair
Àâòîð: Angus J. L. Menuge Íàçâàíèå: Religious Liberty and the Law: Theistic and Non-Theistic Perspectives ISBN: 0367273438 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367273439 Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Taylor&Francis Ðåéòèíã: Öåíà: 46950.00 T Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Åñòü ó ïîñòàâùèêà Ïîñòàâêà ïîä çàêàç. Îïèñàíèå: This book provides an analysis of the general concept of religious liberty with a close study of important cases that serve as a test bed for proposals. It combines the insights of both pure academics and experienced practitioners in law to take a fresh look at the nature, scope and limits of religious liberty.
Àâòîð: Arlette Bolk Íàçâàíèå: Unemployment Insurance: Issues, Challenges and Perspectives ISBN: 1536149373 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781536149371 Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Nova Science Ðåéòèíã: Öåíà: 89750.00 T Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Íåâîçìîæíà ïîñòàâêà. Îïèñàíèå: Unemployment insurance (UI) is a federal-state system and mandatory AJC partner. UI benefits are available to workers who have involuntarily lost their jobs and have demonstrated a required level of labor force attachment. UI provides weekly cash payments to replace a portion of eligible workers earnings, up to a statewide maximum. Eligibility and benefit levels vary by state, though most states offer up to 26 weeks of state-financed UI benefits through each states Unemployment Compensation (UC) program. Certain economic conditions may extend the duration of UI benefits through the permanent Extended Benefit (EB) program.
