Law and the Relational Self (Law in Context)

Jonathan Herring
Cambridge University Press, 11/21/2019
EAN 9781108425131, ISBN10: 1108425135

Hardcover, 270 pages, 24.9 x 17 x 1.8 cm
Language: English

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.

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.