James Gallen and Tanya Ni Mhuirthile / Introduction-responsibility and a vulnerable society : state accountability and responsiveness -- Ann Power-Forde / 'Vulnerability' as a factor in the assessment of claims before the European Court of Human Rights -- Stephen Coutts / The impact of the charter of fundamental rights : the case of the returns directive -- Antonia Porter / Prosecuting domestic abuse : vulnerability theory as heuristic -- Liz Heffernan / Vulnerability in the Irish criminal trial process : the situation of giving evidence -- Darren McStravick / State accountability and the vulnerable individual. An Irish restorative approach -- Luke Moffett / Vulnerability, resilience and the responsive state in transitional societies : seriously injured victims of the troubles in Northern Ireland -- Gladys Ganiel / Responding to abuse in Ireland : what can the Catholic Church learn from the truth and reconciliation vommission of Canada? -- James Gallen / Institutional liability, historical abuses, and vulnerability -- Claire-Michelle Smyth / Vulnerability, social and economic rights, and austerity in Ireland -- Koldo Casla / Social rights and situational vulnerability in the UK : theory and practice -- Fergus Ryan / Is marriage a cure for all ills? Vulnerability and LGBTQ communities in the wake of the marriage referendum -- Maire Leane & Fiachra O Suilleabhain / Transgender children and young people in Ireland : socio-legal challenges to self-identification and expression of gender -- Tanya Ni Mhuirthile / Recent reforms in law on LGBT rights in Ireland : tightening the tourniquet in the rights of vulnerable intersex people.
Summary:
"This book addresses how law and public policy cause or exacerbate vulnerability in individuals and groups. Bringing together scholars, judges and practitioners, it identifies how individuals and groups can become vulnerabilised through the operation of law, and examines how the State can acknowledge and remedy that impact. The book offers not only a theoretical, ethical and normative conception of vulnerability in law, but also an evaluation of the diverse practices of responding to vulnerability in law through accountability mechanisms and public campaigns. The analysis of vulnerability contained in this volume is enhanced by the common use of Ireland as a case study. Despite the robust rights protections available at national, regional and international level, Ireland remains a State where at risk people have experienced vulnerability across a range of thematic areas, such as criminal law, migration and asylum, historical abuse, LGBTI rights and austerity. Drawing on comparative analyses and a consideration of the role of international law in domestic settings, this book offers a comparison of diverse national and transnational attempts to ensure State accountability and responsiveness to legally created vulnerabilities. The book demonstrates lessons learned from theory and practice regarding how vulnerability can be experienced by individuals and groups, structured by law and addressed through legal and political action. This book will be of considerable interest to socio-legal and "law and society" scholars, as well as others working in international human rights, jurisprudence, philosophy, legal theory, political theory, feminist theory, and ethics"-- Provided by publisher.
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