Includes index.

Where injury or damage is feared : peace bonds as counter-law? / Brandon Chase -- "Families in all their subversive variety" : over-representation, the ethnic child protection penalty, and responding to diversity whilst protecting children / Lucinda Ferguson -- The gracious spaces of children's law : innocence and culpability in the construction of a children's court / Akhila L. Ananth -- The dialectics of wrongful life and wrongful birth claims in Israel : a disability critique / Sagit Mor -- Human rights in context : international law and spatial injustice in New Orleans, Louisiana / Jean Carmalt -- Mitigation versus individualism : examining judges' capital sentencing decisions / Ross Kleinstuber.

This volume of Studies in law, politics and society brings together the work of scholars of several different generations and several different national contexts. The articles published here feature both cutting edge issues of major interest to policy makers and activists as well as those that address venerable issues in the interdisciplinary study of law. They illuminate family law, the way law deals with children, international human rights, and the way law deals with injury and damages claims.