Embracing Vulnerability: The Challenges and Implications for Law

Author: Daniel Bedford; Jonathan Herring
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032238319
Published In: December 2021
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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 in order to counter the way law is being used to mask that condition in order to enable more people to escape the stigma associated with it. 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.

Introduction: Vulnerability Refigured

Daniel Bedford

Part 1: Family and Child Law

Family Law’s Instincts and the Relational Subject

Alison Diduck

Response: Reflections on ‘Family Law’s Instincts’: law’s varied Relationship with the vulnerabilities of family law’s children

Jo Bridgeman

Part 2: Law and Ageing

Ageing and Universal Beneficial Vulnerability

Jonathan Herring

Response: Reflections on Ageing and the Binaries of Vulnerability

Rosie Harding