The regulation of intimate relationships has been a key battleground in the culture wars of the past three decades.  In this bold and innovative book, Jean Cohen presents a new approach to regulating intimacy that promises to defuse the tensions that have long sparked conflict among legislators, jurists, activists, and scholars.

Disputes have typically arisen over questions that apparently set the demands of personal autonomy, justice, and responsibility against each other.  Can law stay out of the bedroom without shielding oppression and abuse?  Can we protect the pursuit of personal happiness while requiring people to behave responsibly toward others?  Can regulation acknowledge a variety of intimate relationships without privileging any?  Must regulating intimacy involve a clash between privacy and equality?

A synthesis of feminist theory, political theory, constitutional jurisprudence, and cutting-edge research in the sociology of law, this powerful work will reshape not only legal and political debates, but how we think about the intimate relationships at the core of our own lives.

Since its inception in Illinois in 1899, the juvenile court has become a remarkable legal and social institution all over the developed world, one that plays a singular role in modern government. At its founding, the juvenile court was intended to reverse longstanding legal traditions and to place the child's interests first in areas of law ranging from dependency to delinquency.  Yet in recent years, legal responses to youths' offenses have undergone striking changes, as more juveniles are being transferred to adult courts and serving adult sentences.

A Century of Juvenile Justice is the first standard, comprehensive, and comparative reference work to span the history and current state of juvenile justice.  An extraordinary assemblage of leading authorities have produced an accessible, illustrated document, designed as a reference for everyone from probation personnel and police to students, educators, lawyers and social workers.

EC Customs Law is an important new study which places the law relating to customs duty in its broader international and EC context.  It is a key resource for those already familiar with the area, whether as practitioners, government or Community officials, or graduate students as well as an accessible introduction for readers who are coming to the subject for the first time.  It aims, in particular, to highlight the role of the European Court of Justice in customs matters. 

Fred M. Vinson began his political career as a small-town Kentucky lawyer and rose to positions of authority in all three branches of the federal government, ultimately becoming Chief Justice of the United States.  In this first major biographical treatment, James E. St.Clair and Linda C. Gugin offer an in-depth analysis of one of the few Kentuckians to reach the highest levels of government in the twentieth century. 

Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson of Kentucky:  A Political Biography offers a wealth of insight into one of the most significant and highly regarded political figures to emerge from Kentucky.  The biography sheds light not only on a politician but also on the pivotal era in the country's history in which he flourished. 

In 697 Adomnan, the abbot of Iona, promulgated a 'law' at the synod held in Birr.  This law, known as the Cain Adomnain or Lex innocentium, was to protect women, children and non-combatants in warfare, and it was remembered for generations  as a significant moment in Irish legal history.  Yet today the law, and its author, are barely known.

This book consists of three essays on Adomnan by the three of the foremost authorities on him and his monastery at that time, together with a translation of the Law itself.

International organisations have become major players on the international scene, whose acts and activities affect individuals, companies and states.  Damage to interests or violation of rights sometimes occurs (such as during peacekeeping operations, for example).  Karel Wellens considers what remedies are available to potential claimants such as private contractors, staff members or indeed, anyone suffering damage as a result of their actions.  Can they turn to an ombudsman or national courts, or do they have to rely on support from their own state?  Are the remedies provided by international organisations adequate?  Wellens' conclusions include suggestions for alternative remedial options in the future.