Law and the Relational Self

NOTE EDITORE

This book promotes a relational understanding of the self. It explores how law can be transformed by focusing on the promotion and protection of caring relationships, rather than individual rights. This offers a radical and profound re-imagining of what law is about and what it should be trying to do. It moves from the theoretical into offering practical examples of how the law could be developed to enhance relationships, rather than undermine them.

SOMMARIO

1. The concept of the relational self; 2. Law and the vulnerable self; 3. Law and the caring self; 4. Law and the abused self; 5. Medical law and the relational self; 6. Family law and the relational self; 7. Criminal law and the relational self; 8. Concluding thoughts.

PREFAZIONE

This book argues that the most important thing to people and society is relationships, although the law emphasises individual rights and interests. The book offers a profound challenge to individualist ways of understanding the law and offers a new radical relational approach.

AUTORE

Jonathan Herring is a Fellow in Law at Exeter College, and Professor of Law at the Law Faculty, at the University of Oxford. He has written on family law, medical law, criminal law and legal issues surrounding care and old age. His books include: Vulnerability, Childhood and the Law (2018); Human Thriving and the Law (2018, with C. Foster); Medical Law and Ethics (2018); Criminal Law (2018); and Family Law (9th edition, forthcoming).

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781108425131
• Collana: Law in Context
• Dimensioni: 254 x 16 x 179 mm Ø 540 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 270