Law Through the Life Course

Description

This book is the first to explore the interactions of the law with the whole lifecourse and no-one as well qualified to write it as this author. Court decisions are typically seen as one-off interventions relating to an incident in a person's life, but a legal decision can impact on the person as they were and who they will become. This book is the first to explore the interactions of the law with the life course in order to understand the complex life journey as a whole. Jonathan Herring reveals how the law privileges "middle age" to the detriment of the whole life story and explains why an understanding of the life course is important for lawyers. Relevant to those working in family law, elder law, medical law and ethics, jurisprudence, gender and the law, it will promote new thinking by exploring the engagement of the law with the life course of the self.

Jonathan Herring is Professor of Law and DM Wolfe-Clarendon Fellow in Law at Exeter College, University of Oxford. He researches and teaches on a range of law areas including Family Law, Criminal Law, Medical Law, Elder Law, Care Law, and Law and Vulnerability. He is the author of several best-selling law textbooks in these areas as well as a number of other books and articles. He is an editor for the Child and Family Law Quarterly.

"[This] book provides an insightful introduction of the life course perspective within the legal discipline and provides a solid basis upon which further development of this approach within the legal discipline can take place... A thought provoking book, worthwhile reading." International Journal of Law, Policy and The Family