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Population ageing poses a huge challenge to law and society,
carrying important structural and institutional implications. This
book portrays elder law as an emerging research discipline in the
European setting in terms of both conceptual and theoretical
perspectives as well as elements of the law. Providing a deepened
understanding of population ageing in terms of vulnerability,
intergenerational conflict and solidarity, expert contributors
highlight the necessity for a contextualized ageing concept. As
well as offering a comparative analysis of active ageing policies
across the EU, this book examines a range of topics including age
discrimination in employment and the freedom of movement of EU
citizens from the ageing individual's point of view. It also goes
on to describe elder care developments, discussing the ageing
individual's autonomy in relation to both traditional inheritance
rights and growing instances of dementia. Timely and engaging, this
book will appeal to academic scholars and students in relevant
areas of law as well as those studying across the social sciences.
Exploring a broad range of socio-legal issues in relation to
demographic ageing, it will also inform legal practitioners and
policymakers alike. Contributors include: M. Axmin, A. Blackham, C.
Brokelind, J. Fudge, E. Holm, A. Inghammar, M. Katzin, M. Kullmann,
T. Mattsson, P. Norberg, A. Numhauser-Henning, H. Pettersson, M.
Roennmar, E. Ryrstedt, K. Scott, E. Trolle OEnnerfors, C.
Ulander-Wanman, J.J. Votinius, A. Zbyszewska
This book explores the normative and legal evolution of the Social
Dimension - labour law, social security law and family law - in
both the EU and its Member States, during the last decade. It does
this from a wide range of theoretical and legal-substantive
perspectives. The past decade has witnessed the entering into force
of the Lisbon Treaty and its emphasis on fundamental rights, a new
coordination regulation within the field of social security
(Regulation 883/2004/EC), and the case law of the Court of Justice
of the European Union in the so-called Laval Quartet. Furthermore
structural changes affecting demographics and family have also
challenged solidarity in new ways. The book is organised by
reference to distinct 'normative patterns' and their development in
the fields of law covered, such as the protection of established
groups, the position of market functional values and the scope for
just distribution. The book represents an innovative and important
interdisciplinary approach to analysing EU law and Social Europe,
and contributes a complex, yet thought-provoking, picture for the
future. The contributors represent an interesting mix of well-known
and distinguished as well as upcoming and promising researchers
throughout Europe and beyond.
Although European policy initiatives to advance the position of
women in Academia (and especially in science) have proliferated,
both at national and EU levels, serious inequities of many kinds
remain. This situation is exposed and investigated in this
outstanding book, which presents reports and discussions from a
two-day conference held at the Law Faculty of Lund University in
December 2004. The participants - law professors and social
scientists - present detailed reports on domestic experiences and
regulations in eight European countries: Denmark, France, Germany,
Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
Among the many provocative issues raised and explored are the
following: "positive action" in theory and practice; the progress
of the EU Commission's strategy to integrate equal opportunity into
all Community policies and activities; the motives for promoting
women in Academia; the importance not only of setting targets but
of funding to achieve them; the extensive group of part-timers and
fixed-term employees at the margin of the traditional academic
career; the importance of creating a situation in Academia where
"woman excellence" shows; and the development of "marketable"
research disciplines embodied in private research institutes. With
its penetrating analysis of its subject - women in Academia in
Europe - and its many keen insights into the possibilities within
Community equality law to move forward quickly and effectively
toward equity in academic positions for women and men, "Women in
Academia and Equality Law" will be read avidly and put to use by
committed lawyers, academics, and policymakers throughout the EU
countries.
The non-discrimination principle enshrined in the Treaty of Rome
has grown, through the case law of the European Court of Justice,
into a normative core of the utmost importance for the totality of
Community law. In particular, the equal treatment doctrine which
developed from the application of non-discrimination in employment
continues to challenge the legal structures of labour law and
European social integration. This collection of essays on the
current and future state of equal treatment and non-discrimination
in EC law presents the proceedings of a conference held at Lund
University in December 2000, sponsored by the Norma Research
Programme, which studies normative patterns and their development
in the legal regulation of employment, housing, family and social
security from a European integration perspective. Important areas
of discussion include the following, among many other topics:
indirect discrimination, defining the protected group, pregnancy
discrimination, positive action, flexibilization of working life,
rights of contract workers, and reasonable adjustments for workers
with disabilities. In an interesting outcome, the discussion
reveals that an analysis in terms of discrimination adds to our
understanding of law even in areas that are not generally
articulated in such terms. In the wake of the European Charter of
Fundamental Rights, and in the light of the distinct possibility
that Europe may be moving toward a "Single Non-Discrimination/Equal
Treatment Act", this is a fruitful point of view - one of many
insights that should make this book a useful source of material
with which practitioners, academics, and other interested
professionals can further the development of the equal treatment
principle in European law.
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