Law, Responsibility and Vulnerability

State Accountability and Responsiveness
Herausgeber: Gallen, James; Ni Mhuirthile, Tanya

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Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses how law and public policy cause or exacerbate vulnerability in individuals and groups.This book will be of considerable interest to socio-legal and "law and society" scholars, as well as others working in international human rights, jurisprudence, philosophy, legal theory, political theory, feminist theory, and ethics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 348g
• ISBN-13: 9781032075334
• ISBN-10: 1032075333
• Artikelnr.: 67825827

Autorenporträt

James Gallen and Tanya Ní Mhuirthile are based at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: Framing Vulnerability I. Introducing the Vulnerable Society 1.
James Gallen and Tanya Ní Mhuirthile, DCU, "Introduction: Framing State
Accountability for Vulnerability" 2. Who is Vulnerable? The Usefulness of a
Vulnerability Theory in Jurisprudence and Public Policy (Titti Mattsson) 3.
Reflections on 'Vulnerability' as a Factor in the Assessment of Claims
Before the European Court of Human Rights (Ann Power-Forde) II. Migration
and Asylum 4. Acknowledging the Vulnerability of People on the Move:
Towards a Coherent and Responsive EU Approach to Vulnerability (Mikaela
Heikkla and Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso) 5. Promoting the Visibility of Migrant
Children in Irish Immigration Law: A Welfare Imperative (Patricia Brazil)
6. The European Union as a Human Rights Organisation? The Role of the
Charter in Asylum Cases, Stephen Coutts III. Criminalisation and
Vulnerability 7. Legislative Policy on Vulnerability: Reflections on the
Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Act 2014 (Liz
Heffernan) 8. Criminalising Abortion: Shaming Vulnerability? (Vicky Conway)
9. Irish Adult Reparative Panel Schemes, Vulnerable Adults and State
Accountability: A Time for Courage (Darren McStravick) Part Two: Responding
to Vulnerability IV. Accountability, Vulnerability and the Past 10. State
Accountability for Historical Abuse: Interrogating the Structures of
Vulnerability (James Gallen) 11. The right to reparation for 'historic'
abuse: how do the State's recent responses to the Magdalene Laundries abuse
and the treatment of unmarried mothers and their children measure up?
(Maeve O'Rourke) 12. Responses to Clerical Sexual Abuse in Ireland:
Learning from the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission of Canada? (Gladys
Ganiel) 13. Seeking Redress for the Past in Northern Ireland: Victimhood,
Responsibility and the Politics of the Past (Luke Moffett) V.
Socio-Economic Rights and Austerity 14. The Impact of the Economic Crisis
on Socio Economic Rights (Claire-Michelle Smyth) 15. Vulnerability and
Social Rights - What Role for Judges? A Neo-Republican Assessment (Tom
Hickey) VI. Vindicating LGBT Rights: Ending Vulnerability? 16. Transgender
Children and Young People in Ireland: Socio-Legal Challenges to
Self-Expression of Gender (Maire Leane and Fiachra Ó Súilleabháin) 17. Is
Marriage a Cure for All Ills? Vulnerability and LGBT Communities in the
Wake of the Marriage Referendum (Fergus Ryan) 18. Recent Reforms in Law on
LGBT Rights in Ireland: Tightening the Tourniquet on the Rights of
Vulnerable Intersex People (Tanya Ní Mhuirthile) 19. Conclusion