Jonathan Herring is Vice Dean and Professor of Law at the Law Faculty, Oxford University and Fellow in Law at Exeter College, University of Oxford. He has written nearly 100 books on family law, medical law, criminal law and legal issues surrounding care and old age. His books include Medical Law and Ethics (2018); Family Law (2018); Childhood, Vulnerability and the Law (2018); Vulnerable Adults and the Law (2016), Caring and the Law (2013) Older People in Law and Society (2009); European Human Rights and Family Law (2010, with Shazia Choudhry) and Criminal Law (2018). He has also written for the general public The Woman Who Tickled Too Much (2009) and How to Argue (2012).
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The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethics and Law is the definitive guide to the legal and ethical issues around medical and surgical practice. It is written with the busy clinician in mind who will not have time to read lengthy and complex legal or philosophical documents...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-12-20

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The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethics and Law is the definitive guide to the legal and ethical issues around medical and surgical practice. It is written with the busy clinician in mind who will not have time to read lengthy and complex legal or philosophical documents...
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Parution : 2021-12-20

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Télécharger le livre :  The Law as a Moral Agent

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...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-03-30
Collection : SpringerBriefs in Law
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Télécharger le livre :  Emergent Medicine and the Law

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...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-02-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Criminality at Work

From the Master and Servant legislation to the Factories Acts of the 19th century, the criminal law has always had a vital yet normatively complex role in the regulation of work relations. Even in its earliest forms, it operated both as a tool to repress collective...
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Parution : 2020-03-12

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From the Master and Servant legislation to the Factories Acts of the 19th century, the criminal law has always had a vital yet normatively complex role in the regulation of work relations. Even in its earliest forms, it operated both as a tool to repress collective...
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Parution : 2020-03-12

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Télécharger le livre :  Philosophical Foundations of Medical Law

With advances in personalised medicine, the field of medical law is being challenged and transformed. The nature of the doctor-patient relationship is shifting as patients simultaneously become consumers. The regulation of emerging technologies is being thrown into...
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Parution : 2019-11-28

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With advances in personalised medicine, the field of medical law is being challenged and transformed. The nature of the doctor-patient relationship is shifting as patients simultaneously become consumers. The regulation of emerging technologies is being thrown into...
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Parution : 2019-11-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Human Thriving and the Law

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...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-10-03
Collection : SpringerBriefs in Law
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Télécharger le livre :  Vulnerability, Childhood and the Law

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...
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Parution : 2018-04-05
Collection : SpringerBriefs in Law
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Télécharger le livre :  Depression

Depression is amorphous. It defies easy generalization, and eludes medical and legal categories. Is it part of the self, or its predator? Can a sufferer be held responsible for their actions? This edited collection provides a holistic study of a protean illness. If the...
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Parution : 2017-09-08

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Depression is amorphous. It defies easy generalization, and eludes medical and legal categories. Is it part of the self, or its predator? Can a sufferer be held responsible for their actions? This edited collection provides a holistic study of a protean illness. If the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2017-08-25

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Télécharger le livre :  Identity, Personhood and the Law

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...
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Parution : 2017-03-14
Collection : SpringerBriefs in Law
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Télécharger le livre :  Vulnerable Adults and the Law

We are used to thinking that most people have the capacity to make their own decisions; that they should be free to decide how to live their lives; and that it is a good thing to be self-sufficient. However, in an examination of the legal position of vulnerable adults,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-01-22

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We are used to thinking that most people have the capacity to make their own decisions; that they should be free to decide how to live their lives; and that it is a good thing to be self-sufficient. However, in an examination of the legal position of vulnerable adults,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-01-21

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Télécharger le livre :  Altruism, Welfare and the Law

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...
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Parution : 2015-07-16
Collection : SpringerBriefs in Law
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Télécharger le livre :  Relational Autonomy and Family Law

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...
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Parution : 2014-03-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Family Law

What is a family?What makes someone a parent?What rights should children have? Family Law: A Very Short Introduction gives the reader an insight not only into what the law is, but why it is the way it is. It examines how laws have had to respond to social changes in...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-02-27

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What is a family?What makes someone a parent?What rights should children have? Family Law: A Very Short Introduction gives the reader an insight not only into what the law is, but why it is the way it is. It examines how laws have had to respond to social changes in...
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Parution : 2014-02-27

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