Azar Masoumi
Azar Masoumi
This article explores the temporality of migration control through an analysis of refugee claim processing in Canada. I draw on organizational reports, commissioned studies, media reports, interviews and archival data to argue that time is ...
The Governmentalization of the Trade Union and the Potential of Union-Based Resistance. The Case of Undocumented Migrant Domestic Workers in the Netherlands Making Rights Claims [0.03%]
工会的政权化及其潜在反抗作用——以荷兰无证移工为例
Anja Eleveld,Franca Van Hooren
Anja Eleveld
Ambivalence about rights is well known: rights may both challenge existing injustices while simultaneously re-enforcing sovereign regulatory control over citizens. In this article, we focus on the paradox that potentially radical and transf...
Labour Constitutions and Market Logics: A Socio-Historical Approach [0.03%]
劳动宪法与市场逻辑:历史 sociology视角
Robert Knegt
Robert Knegt
The article evaluates labour law's strategies of coping with the pressure put on its project of realizing justice by a hegemony of economic perspectives on labour markets. Its consequences for a methodology of labour law are set out by crit...
Human Rights and the Excess of Identity: A Legal and Theoretical Inquiry into the Notion of Identity in Strasbourg Case Law [0.03%]
人权与身份的过度:欧洲人权法院判例中“身份”概念的法律与理论考察
Yussef Al Tamimi
Yussef Al Tamimi
Identity is a central theme in contemporary politics, but legal academia lacks a rigorous analysis of this concept. The aim of this article is twofold: (i) firstly, it aims to reveal presumptions on identity in human rights law by mapping h...
Joy to the world! A (healthy) child is born! Reconceptualizing 'harm' in wrongful conception [0.03%]
Joy to the World!孩子健康出生!论“错误受孕”中的“伤害”概念的重构
Nicolette Priaulx
Nicolette Priaulx
The wrongful conception action holds both a troubled past and future. As a response to rapid technological advancement in the area of reproduction, this action has introduced complex legal and ethical issues in the courts' efforts to respon...
E Jackson
E Jackson
The principle of patient self-determination has assumed central importance in British medical law in recent years. This article considers whether this increasingly strong commitment to patient autonomy has any resonance for abortion law. In...
Julie Wallbank
Julie Wallbank
This article examines recent developments in family law which are concerned with the child's right to know her genetic history. It specifically investigates three areas. First, the Child Support (Pensions and Social Security) Act 2000 (CPSS...
Ruth Fletcher
Ruth Fletcher
This article draws on Pashukanis's concept of legal form and on O'Brien's concept of synthetic value to argue that legal form plays a role in reproductive relations by constructing legal subjects as the bearers of reproductive responsibilit...
Regulating dangerous futures: the German Embryo Protection Act of 1990--legislation in risk society [0.03%]
论风险社会中的立法──德国一九九○年人类胚胎保护法之研究
C Augst
C Augst
This article summarises the outcome of a research project which analyses the legislative debate about the German Embryonenschutzgesetz (Embryo Protection Act) in 1990. From 1988 to 1990 the German Parliament discussed legislation for the pr...
V E Munro
V E Munro
The judgment in the English Court of Appeal case of Re A (Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation) highlights forcefully the highly individualistic and abstract assumptions that commonly shape the deployment of rights discourse in liberal lega...