China’s Water Law and Policy Reform: How Far Have We Travelled?

This final chapter affirms the importance of listening to women’s experiences when considering how legal responses to intimate partner violence might be improved to make women safe. The chapter reviews key themes identified in the book, including abusers’ use of the legal system to continue abuse and the role of child protection workers, police, lawyers, and judges in facilitating that abuse. It highlights a common and continuing failure of those who work in the legal system to recognize the significance of nonphysical abuse, to persistently misunderstand the dynamics of separation and ultimately, to fail to prioritize safety. This chapter makes recommendations for law and policy reform toward making the legal system safer.

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The rights of people with disabilities

International Human Rights, Social Policy & Global ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447349211.003.0019 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 237-248

Author(s):

Charles O’Mahony ◽

Shivaun Quinlivan

Keyword(s):

Social Policy ◽

Policy Reform ◽

People With Disabilities ◽

Policy Reforms ◽

Persons With Disabilities ◽

Eu Policy ◽

Law And Policy ◽

The Eu

This chapter assesses the role of the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD) in driving law and policy reform globally relating to the rights of people with disabilities. By ratifying the CRPD states promise to adopt proactive equality norms and provide positive supports for persons with disabilities. They are also required to involve people with disabilities in the enforcement and implementation of the CRPD. It is thus a valuable tool for those advocating for the realisation of the rights of persons with disabilities that they be treated on an equal basis with others and fully included in society. The potential of the CRPD as a tool for social policy reforms is illustrated with reference to its use to impact EU policy to accelerate the de-institutionalisation and de-segregation of persons with disabilities across the EU.

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The Evolution of Ghana's Water Law and Policy

Review of European Community & International Environmental Law ◽

10.1111/j.1467-9388.2010.00694.x ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 19 (3) ◽

pp. 339-350 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Joseph B. Agyenim ◽

Joyeeta Gupta

Keyword(s):

Water Law ◽

Law And Policy

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A Tale of Two Systems: Conflict, Law and the Development of Water Allocation in Two Common Law Jurisdictions

International Journal of Rural Law and Policy ◽

10.5130/ijrlp.i1.2011.2605 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 1-19 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Paul Martin ◽

John C Becker

Keyword(s):

Social Factors ◽

Water Allocation ◽

Water Policy ◽

The United States ◽

Water Law ◽

Australian Water ◽

Legal Traditions ◽

Law And Policy ◽

Incomplete Model ◽

Substantial Degree

This paper examines how the law governing water has evolved in the United States and Australia. The evolution of water law in these jurisdictions demonstrates that the ‘scientific modernism’ that prioritises economics and hydrology as the pivots around which water institutions are designed may be an incomplete model. From the history we recount, we suggest that, ranking equally with these considerations in shaping water law and policy, is the broader framework of laws and institutions, and legal culture within a society. These factors shape the types of solutions to conflicts in a society and determine, to a substantial degree, the solutions to water conflicts that become law, which then in part determine future legal solutions. This observation is of more than theoretical importance. Towards the end of this paper we consider the latest water modernist experiment, the Australian Water Act. We suggest that closer attention to social factors and legal traditions would have resulted in a more effective law. We believe this holds important lessons for water policy generally.

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