Datenschutz bleibt ein leeres Versprechen, wenn seine Regeln nicht auch effektiv durchgesetzt werden – das gilt auch und gerade im Beschäftigungsverhältnis mit seinen besonderen Gefährdungslagen für Beschäftigte.
This book offers insight on access to justice from rural areas in internationally comparable contexts to highlight the diversity of experiences within, and across rural areas globally.
This book offers insight on access to justice from rural areas in internationally comparable contexts to highlight the diversity of experiences within, and across rural areas globally.
Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning are key figures in the struggles playing out in our democracies over internet use, state secrets, and mass surveillance in the age of terror.
In 1787, British philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham conceived of the panopticon, a ring of cells observed by a central watchtower, as a labor-saving device for those in authority.
There are two oppositional narratives in relation to telling the story of indigenous peoples and minorities in relation to globalization and intellectual property rights.
The official report that has shaped the international debate about NSA surveillance"e;We cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of extraordinarily sensitive private information is there for the plucking.
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.
America's preeminent First Amendment lawyer speaks out on the most controversial free-speech issues of our time Since 1971, when the Pentagon Papers were leaked to the New York Times and furious debate over First Amendment rights ensued, free-speech cases have emerged in rapid succession.
In 1943, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi defied the curfew and mass removal of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, and was subsequently convicted and imprisoned as a result.
Una de las discusiones que perdura desde el fin de la última dictadura militar en la Argentina es la que se refiere a la naturaleza criminal de los actos perpetrados desde el Estado en aquel período.
Die Neuauflage:Im Rahmen der Neuauflage wurde das Lehrbuch auf den neuesten Stand gebracht, in einigen Abschnitten gestrafft und neu strukturiert, in den Ausgangsfällen aktualisiert und durch Fallbeispiele aus der aktuellen Rechtsprechung ergänzt.
In 2014, after a decade of political turmoil, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) carried out Thailand's 13th coup since the country's transformation from absolute to constitutional monarchy in 1932.
In its controversial Bakke decision of 1978, the Supreme Court upheld racial and ethnic diversity in university admissionsbut it was not to be the last word on the matter.
Without our consent and often without our knowledge, the government can constantly monitor many of our daily activities, using closed circuit TV, global positioning systems, and a wide array of other sophisticated technologies.
A compelling account of how women shaped the common law right to privacy during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Drawing on a wealth of original research, Jessica Lake documents how the advent of photography and cinema drove women—whose images were being taken and circulated without their consent—to court.
Rewriting the Supreme Court's landmark gay rights decision Jack Balkin and an all-star cast of legal scholars, sitting as a hypothetical Supreme Court, rewrite the famous 2015 opinion in Obergefell v.
A leading legal scholar explores how the constitutional right to seek justice has been restricted by the Supreme Court The Supreme Court’s decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about.
This new edition upon the 50th anniversary of In re Gault includes expanded coverage of the Roberts Courts juvenile justice decisions including Miller v.
The Politics of Love in Myanmar offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT activists before, during, and after Myanmar's post-2011 political transition.
When first written into the Constitution, intellectual property aimed to facilitate "e;progress of science and the useful arts"e; by granting rights to authors and inventors.
Emptied Lands investigates the protracted legal, planning, and territorial conflict between the settler Israeli state and indigenous Bedouin citizens over traditional lands in southern Israel/Palestine.
