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Law, Responsibility and Vulnerability: State Accountability and Responsiveness (Gender in Law, Culture, and Society) - Hardcover

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9780367085810: Law, Responsibility and Vulnerability: State Accountability and Responsiveness (Gender in Law, Culture, and Society)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 036708581X ISBN 13: 9780367085810
Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

This book addresses how law and public policy cause or exacerbate vulnerability in individuals and groups.

Bringing together scholars, judges and practitioners, it identifies how individuals and groups can become vulnerabilised through the operation of law, and examines how the State can acknowledge and remedy that impact. The book offers not only a theoretical, ethical and normative conception of vulnerability in law, but also an evaluation of the diverse practices of responding to vulnerability in law through accountability mechanisms and public campaigns. The analysis of vulnerability contained in this volume is enhanced by the common use of Ireland as a case study. Despite the robust rights protections available at national, regional and international level, Ireland remains a State where at risk people have experienced vulnerability across a range of thematic areas, such as criminal law, migration and asylum, historical abuse, LGBTI rights and austerity. Drawing on comparative analyses and a consideration of the role of international law in domestic settings, this book offers a comparison of diverse national and transnational attempts to ensure State accountability and responsiveness to legally created vulnerabilities. The book demonstrates lessons learned from theory and practice regarding how vulnerability can be experienced by individuals and groups, structured by law and addressed through legal and political action.

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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About the Author

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

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
036708581X
ISBN 13 
9780367085810
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
222
Editor
Gallen James, Ni Mhuirthile Tanya