Embracing vulnerability: the challenges and implications for law

This book brings together legal scholars engaging with vulnerability theory to explore the implications and challenges for law of understanding vulnerability as generative and a source of connection and development. The book is structured into five sections that cover fields of law where there is already significant recourse to the concept of vulnerability. These sections include a main chapter by a legal theorist who has previously examined the creative potential of vulnerability and responses from scholars working in the same field. This is designed to draw out some of the central debates concerning how vulnerability is conceptualised in law. Several contributors highlight the need to re-focus on some of these more positive aspects of vulnerability to counter the way law is being used enable persons toescape the stigma associated with vulnerability by concealing that condition. They seek to explore how law might embrace vulnerability, rather than conceal it. The book also includes contributions that seek to bring vulnerability into a non-binary relationship with other core legal concepts, such as autonomy and dignity. Rather than discarding these legal concepts in favour of vulnerability, these contributions highlight how vulnerability can be entwined with relational autonomy and embodied dignity. This book is essential reading for both students studying legal theory and practitioners interested in vulnerability.

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Table of Cases -- UK Cases -- Dart v Dart [1996] 2 FLR 286 -- Mesher v Mesher and Hall [1980] 1 All ER 126 -- Miller v Miller -- McFarlane v McFarlane [2006] UKHL 34 -- O'Brien v Ministry of Justice [2013] ICR 499 -- Prest v Petrodel Resources Ltd and Others [2013] UKSC 34 -- Qazi v London Borough of Harrow [2003] 3 WLR 792 -- Radmacher v Granatino [2010] UKSC 42 -- Re: GC [2008] EWHC 3402 (Fam) -- Re T [1992] EWCA Civ 18 -- St George's Healthcare NHS Trust v S [1999] Fam 26

A v East Kent Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2015] EWHC 1038 -- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust v Evans [2018] EWHC 308 -- Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 WLR 582 -- DL v A Local Authority [2012] EWCA 253 -- Gosh v Yates [2017] EWHC 972 -- Grimstone v Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust [2015] EWHC 3756 -- In the Matter of E (A Child) [2018] EWCA Civ 550 -- In the Matter of M [2017] EWCA Civ 2164 -- In the Matter of M (Children) [2018] EWCA Civ 2164 -- In the Matter of Z (A Child) (No 2) [2016] EWHC 1191

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