David Sugarman

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The need to stop rape is pressing and, since it is the outcome of a wide range of practices and institutions in society, so too must the policies be to stop it This important book offers a comprehensive guide to the international policies developed to stop rape , together with case study examples on how they work. The book engages with the law and criminal justice system, health services, specialised services for victim-survivors, educational and cultural interventions, as well as how they can best be coordinated. It is informed by theory and evidence drawn from scholarship and practice from around the world. The book will be of interest to a global readership of students, practitioners and policy makers as well as anyone who wants to know how rape can be stopped.

Legal Life-Writing provides the first sustained treatment of the implications of life-writing on legal biography, autobiography and the visual history of law in society through a focus on neglected sources, and on those usually marginalized or ignored in legal biography and legal history, such as women and minorities. Draws on a range of sources and disciplinary approaches including legal history, life-writing, sociology, history, art history, feminism and post-colonialism, seeking to build a bridge-head between themChallenges the methodologies employed in conventional accounts of legal livesAims to ignite debate about the nature of the relationship between socio-legal studies and legal historyAims to enlarge the fields of legal biography, legal history, history and socio-legal studies, and to foster a closer and more inter-disciplinary dialogue between these disciplines

The essays in this third volume of "Developments in European Company Law" are concerned with conflicts of interest and duty in company law. The first part provides a legal analysis of the duties of company directors, of their accountability and of the trustee's perspective. A second part provides a socio-legal analysis and a third part an economic analysis. The essays provide important contributions to law reform and scholarly debate of these pressing issues of company law. The contributors include leading judges with an interest in the field and academics from the UK and Australia.