Beyond Elder Law: New Directions in Law and Ageing

T. Carney: Guardianship, ＂Social＂ Citizenship, & Theorizing Substitute Decisionmaking Law.- N. A. Kohn: A Civil Rights Approach to Elder Law.- C. P. Sabatino, E. Wood: The Conceptualization of Legal Capacity of Older Persons in Western law.- H. Meenan: Age Discrimination and the Future Development of Elder Rights in the European Union: Walking Side by Side or Hand in Hand?.- A. M. Soden: Family Matters - Some Emerging Legal Issues in Intergenerational and Generational Relations.- I. Doron, B. Spanier: International Elder Law - The Future of Elder Law.- A. Evrard, C. Lacour: A European Approach to Developing the Field of Law and Ageing.- J. Herring: Elder Abuse - A Human Rights Agenda for the Future.- A. Murphy: Aid in Dying - United States and Around the World.

Dr. Israel (Issi) Doron and Ann Soden Ad. E. are both leading international scholars in the field of elder law. Dr. Doron, is a Professor of Law and a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Gerontology, University of Haifa, Israel, and has edited the book Theories on Law and Ageing: The Jurisprudence of Elder Law (Springer, 2009). Ann Soden is the head of the National Institute of Law, Aging and Policy, based in Montreal, Canada, and has edited the book Advising the Older Client (LexisNexis, 2005).