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First edition. |
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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Studies in law, politics, and society,
1059-4337 ;
volume 76
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Studies in law, politics, and society.
1059-4337 ; volume 76.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
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. |
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Chapter 2-A Brave New British Citizenry? Reconceptualizing the Acquisition of British Citizenship by ChildrenIntroduction; 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. |
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Formation of StigmaThe 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. |
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A Disability Rights Approach to US End-of-Life CareWhy 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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society provides a vehicle for the publication of scholarly articles in interdisciplinary legal scholarship. 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sociological jurisprudence.
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Sociological jurisprudence. |
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Law -- Political aspects.
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Law -- Political aspects. |
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Political sociology.
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Political sociology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Law. |
| Added Author |
Sarat, Austin, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Studies in law, politics, and society. First edition. Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018 1787562085 9781787562080 (OCoLC)1021215077 |
| ISBN |
9781787562073 (electronic book) |
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1787562077 (electronic book) |
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9781787562080 |
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1787562085 |
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