This collection written by legal scholars from around the world offers insights into a variety of topics from children s rights to criminal law jurisprudence medical ethics and more Its breadth reflects the fact that these are all elements of what can broadly be called law and society that enterprise that is interested in law s place or influence in diffferent aspects of real lives and understands law to be simultaneously symbol philosophy and action It also testament to the broad range of vision of Professor Michael Freeman in whose honour the volume was conceived The contributions are divided into categories which reflect his distinguished career and publications over 85 books and countless articles including pioneering work on children s rights domestic violence religious law jurisprudence law and culture family law and medicine ethics and the law as well as his enduring commitment to interdisciplinarity