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This is the first volume of a series, Current Legal Issues. It explores the relationship of law and science, with a particular focus on the role of science as evidence. Scientific evidence impinges on a wide range of legal issues, including, risk assessment in mental health and child abuse, criminal investigations and chemical and medical products.

Common and civil law jurisdictions are represented in this text which looks at the relationship between law and religion. The volume discusses common hermeneutical questions faced by Islamic, Christian and Jewish traditions and the implications for religious practice over human rights.

These essays explore the ways in which history has been used by lawyers. Largely theoretical in focus, the volume covers a broad range of issues, including discussions of norms in medieval England, the works of Montesquieu, Maine, and Weber, and of the nature of legal argument in 19th-century England, and in 20th- century war crimes trials.

Law and Global Health is the latest volume in the Current Legal Issues series. It contains a broad range of articles from scholars and public health experts dicussing the interaction between law and public health in low-, middle- and high-income countries.

This is the third volume of a series entitled 'Current Legal Issues'. It considers the many areas where medicine intersects with the law. All important and changing facets of law and medicine are reflected in this collection.

Law and Sociology contains a broad range of essays by scholars interested in the interactions between law and sociology. The volume includes amongst other topics, a sociology of jurisprudence, an examination of the social dynamics of regulatory interactions, and a consideration of the place of legal culture in the sociology of law.

Law and Philosophy, the latest volume in the Current Legal Issues series, contains a broad range of essays by scholars interested in the interactions between law and philosophy. This volume examines the themes of the nature of law; and the State, the citizen, and the law.

Law and Psychology, the latest volume in the Current Legal Issues series, contains a broad range of essays by scholars interested in the interactions between law and psychology. The volume includes studies of jury trials in terrorism cases, psycological evidence in family law cases, child witness testimony and the role of psychology in punishment theory.

Law and Popular Culture contains a broad range of essays by scholars interested in the interactions between law and popular culture. The volume includes amongst other topics, discussions of law and lawyers as represented in the cinema; law in fiction; law and popular music; crime and punishment in popular culture; and the law on sexuality and media representations of lesbianism.

Law and Bioethics contains a broad range of essays by scholars interested in the interactions between law and bioethics It includes studies examining the regulation of stem cell research, human rights and bioethics, the regulation of reproductive technologies, and distributive justice in healthcare and pandemic planning.

The latest volume in the Current Legal Issues series offers an insight into the evolving state of law and neuroscience scholarship today. Focussing on the inter-connections between the two disciplines, it addresses the key issues informing current debates.

Offering an insight into the evolving state of law and childhood studies in the modern age, the latest volume in the Current Legal Issues series brings together an international and interdisciplinary cast to address the key issues informing current debates.

Law and Language, the latest volume in the Current Legal Issues series, contains a broad range of essays by scholars interested in the interactions between law and language. This volume examines the themes of truth in language and the law, and the role of language in different areas of law, including contract and criminal law.

This book explores the relationship between law and geography, particularly in relation to globalisation that renders relations between the local and the global more significant. The book is structured according to conceptual frames - boundaries, land, property, nature, identity, culture and time, and knowledge.

This is the second volume of a series entitled 'Current Legal Issues'. It shows that although law is literature, it also features in literature such as Shakespeare, Dickens, and Hardy. The law is also used to control literature through defamation, blasphemy, obscenity, etc.

Law and Anthropology, the latest volume in the Current Legal Issues series, offers an insight into the state of law and anthropology scholarship today. Focussing on the inter-connections between the two disciplines it also includes case studies from around the world.