Law: Human rights and civil liberties

Cellular technology has always been a surveillance technology, but "e;cellular convergence"e; - the growing trend for all forms of communication to consolidate onto the cellular handset - has dramatically increased the impact of that surveillance.

Expert scholars and practitioners shed light on the laws of humanitarian action and make sense of the various elements involved.

Fact-finding is at the heart of human rights advocacy, and is often at the center of international controversies about alleged government abuses.

This comparative analysis of six common law nations identifies and assesses the issues currently challenging judiciary, regulators and religious charities.

Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-FictionLonglisted for the National Book AwardOne of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2017Former public defender James Forman, Jr.

In Humanity's Law, renowned legal scholar Ruti Teitel offers a powerful account of one of the central transformations of the post-Cold War era: the profound normative shift in the international legal order from prioritizing state security to protecting human security.

This book is about judicial reasoning in human rights cases.

How far did the European Union (EU) referendum result of 23 June 2016 really justify and necessitate the policies executed in response to it?

Takes a behind the scenes look at the debates and decisions of the Kenyan Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission.

In the past thirty years, women's representation and gender equality has developed unevenly in Latin America.

Indigenous peoples in Canada are striving for greater economic prosperity and political self-determination.

This book analyzes civil wars over the past twenty years and examines what motivates some rebel groups to abide by international law.

Poetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern Ireland is a richly detailed exploration of how modern Irish poetry has been shaped by, and responded to, the laws, judgments, and constitutions of both of the island's jurisdictions.

This book takes a design-oriented approach to the broad range of issues that arise in constitutional drafting concerning gender equality.

In Media and Law: Between Free Speech and Censorship, Mathieu Deflem and Derek M.

This book seeks to rebalance the relationship between comparison and justification to achieve more effective equality and non-discrimination law.

Bentham on Liberty focuses on the crucial formative years, when the English social philosopher Jeremy Bentham was in his twenties and thirties between 1770 and 1790, and draws on the unpublished manuscripts held at University College, London, to throw a new light on his early intellectual development.

In recent years a strand of thinking has developed in private law scholarship which has come to be known as 'rights' or 'rights-based' analysis.

Canadian news reports are riddled with accounts of Access to Information requests denied and government reports released with large swaths of content redacted.

How most presidents avoid upsetting the racial status quoand why those who do pave the way for lawless, norm-violating successorsWhen Barack Obama won the White House in 2008, becoming the nation's first Black president, the stage was set for Donald Trump's eventual rise to power.

An assessment of the transitional processes aimed at creating a stable and just society in South Africa.

For centuries, Canadian sovereignty has existed uneasily alongside forms of Indigenous legal and political authority.

This book reframes the historical, legal and moral discourse on the question of whether torture can be justified in exceptional circumstances.

Permanent States of Emergency and the Rule of Law explores the impact that oxymoronic 'permanent' states of emergency have on the validity and effectiveness of constitutional norms and, ultimately, constituent power.

This pioneering work draws together the law and other regulatory rules that relate to newsgathering.

The fifth edition of this highly praised study charts and explains the progress that continues to be made towards the goal of worldwide abolition of the death penalty.

This collection of essays explores the evolution of anti-discrimination law in European civil law jurisdictions.

A technical guide to performing systematic experiments that create more transparency for corporate surveillance and its algorithms.

This detailed examination explores the extent to which non-pecuniary damages can properly be awarded to companies.

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This collection of essays is a tribute to Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, who died aged 72 on 1 December 2020 after having retired from the UK Supreme Court just two months earlier.

This volume presents and critiques the distorted effects of the international human rights movement''s focus on the fight against impunity.

Focuses on the exercise and protection of cross- and beyond-border expressive and religious liberties, and on the First Amendment''s relationship to the world beyond US shores.

Examines security theology, surveillance and the industry of fear from the intimate spaces of everyday life in settler colonial contexts.

How does an idea that forms in the minds of a few activists in one part of the world become a global norm that nearly all states obey?

The European Convention on Human Rights has evolved into a sophisticated legal system, whose formal reach into the domestic law and politics of the Contracting States is limited only by the ever-widening scope of the Convention itself, as determined by a transnational court.

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The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other industrialized nation in the world-about 1 in 100 adults, or more than 2 million people-while national spending on prisons has catapulted 400 percent.

Since the year 2000, the material and personal scope of EU non-discrimination law has been significantly broadened and has challenged national courts to introduce a comprehensive equality framework into their national law to correspond with the European standard.

A rigorous analysis of the relationship between proportionality and deference under the Human Rights Act.

An empirical account of the mismatch between Dutch foreign policy and their approach to human rights domestically.

The UK's engagement with the legal protection of human rights at a European level has been, at varying stages, pioneering, sceptical and antagonistic.

Contrary to predictions that it would become increasingly redundant in a globalizing world, citizenship is back with a vengeance.

Leading experts in EU constitutional law examine the foundational importance of citizenship rights in delimiting the scope of EU law.

In many ways, the United States' post-9/11 engagement with legal rules is puzzling.

This book examines how human rights came to define the bounds of universal morality during the political crises and conflicts of the twentieth century.

This volume sets out to disentangle the debate about the Millennium Development goals in theory and practice.

This book sets out to assess the role and impact of socio-economic strategies used by civil society actors in South Africa.