Product Description: This collection shows how Deleuze's ideas have influenced current thinking in legal philosophy. In particular, it explores the relations between law and life, addressing topics that are contested and controversial -- war, the right to life, genetic science, and security.

Product Description: This volume examines the evolution of reproductive law in Italy from the 'far west' of the 1980s and 90s through to one of the most potentially restrictive systems in Europe. The book employs an array of sociological, philosophical and legal material in order to discover why such a repressive piece of legislation has been produced at the end of a period of substantial change in the dynamic of gender relations in Italy...read more

Product Description: This book explores the many approaches available to the study of law and literature. An exploration of the many relationships between law and literature. Looks at what law and literature can learn from one another. Makes those involved in literary studies more conscious of the impact that law has had on literary history...read more

Product Description: This volume attempts to analyze the contradictory notions of citizenship posited by postcolonial Irish constitutional discourse. In the postcolonial period of Ireland's history, Irish citizenship has been marked by a conflict between foundational nationalist notions of the nation and a more liberal narrative of individual autonomy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An analysis of the role of constitutional government from an international and interdisciplinary perspective. The blend of cross-national reference and comparison, and the fertilization of one discipline by another seeks to appeal to a broad interdisciplinary audience.

Product Description: Developing medical technology has placed a strain on traditional conceptions of death. This book examines the ways in which medical and legal professionals intervene between the individual and their death. Also examined is the shift in attitude in Irish society towards death and dying, and how recent legislation has impinged on issues such as treatment withdrawal, active euthanasia, and the right to die...read more