Rosemary Hunter

David Nelken

Caroline Hunter

Helen Carr

Brendan Edgeworth

Based on a workshop "Law and the Precarious Home" hosted by Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, July 2015.--ECIP acknowledgments.

Socio Legal Perspectives on the Home in Insecure Times

Law and the Precarious Home

This book explores the emergent and internationally widespread phenomenon of precariousness, specifically in relation to the home. It maps the complex reality of the insecure home by examining the many ways in which precariousness is manifested in legal and social change across a number of otherwise very different jurisdictions. By applying innovative work done by socio-legal scholars in other fields such as labour law and welfare law to the home, Law and the Precarious Home offers a broader theoretical understanding of contemporary 'precarisation' of law and society. It will enable reflections upon differential experience of home dependent upon class, race and gender from a range of local, national and cross-national perspectives. Finally it will explore the pluralisation of ideas of home in subjective experience, social reality and legal form. The answers offered in this book reflect the expertise and standing of the assembled authors who are international leaders in their field, with decades of first-hand practical and intellectual engagement with the area.

In the year 2111 the Super Vulcan solar powered space craft is about to make its maiden voyage into deep space. However, things don't go to plan, as shortly after its launch, a giant vortex of light appears in space and the Super Vulcan is swallowed up by it, disappearing without a trace. The mysterious Professor Pinkerton, a time traveller from the past, claims to hold the key to its disappearance. Now it is up to Matt Jacobs, who possesses super human abilities, and his techno wizard student Caitlin Simmons to follow the professor back 100 years in time in a bid to find the missing Super Vulcan. Their journey is fraught with danger as dark forces are at work, threatening to alter the very course of time itself.....

The Present Future

David S. Cowan

Simon Halliday

Paul Maginn

Lisa Naylor

Why do most welfare applicants fail to challenge adverse decisions despite a continuing sense of need? The book addresses this severely under-researched and under-theorized question. Using English homelessness law as their case study, the authors explore why homeless applicants did - but more often did not - challenge adverse decisions by seeking internal administrative review. They draw out from their data a list of the barriers to the take up of grievance rights. Further, by combining extensive interview data from aggrieved homeless applicants with ethnographic data about bureaucratic decision-making, they are able to situate these barriers within the dynamics of the citizen-bureaucracy relationship. Additionally, they point to other contexts which inform applicants' decisions about whether to request an internal review. Drawing on a diverse literature - risk, trust, audit, legal consciousness, and complaints - the authors lay the foundations for our understanding of the (non-)emergence of administrative disputes.

Caroline Hunter

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