Law: Human rights and civil liberties

Implied constitutional principles form part of the landscape of the development of fundamental rights in common law jurisdictions, affecting issues ranging from the remuneration of judges to the appropriation of property by the state.

The Article 6 fair trial rights are the most heavily-litigated Convention rights before the European Court of Human Rights, generating a large and complex body of case law.

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In recent years, the law relating to entry, search and seizure has undergone major change.

Mental health laws exist in many countries to regulate the involuntary detention and treatment of individuals with serious mental illnesses.

This volume in the Swedish Studies in European Law series, produced by the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies, heralds the new harmonised regime of private enforcement of EU competition law.

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

The subjects of Privacy and Data Protection are more relevant than ever with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becoming enforceable in May 2018.

In Defense of Politicization of Human Rights: The UN Special Procedures constitutes the first comprehensive study of the United Nations Special Procedures, covering their history, methods of work, institutional status, relationship with other politically driven organs, and processes affecting their development.

This book uses empirical analysis to show that courts refrain from using the proportionality test as a means of judicial activism.

Prominent privacy law experts, regulators and academics examine contemporary legal approaches to privacy from a comparative perspective.

This volume considers the way in which the focus on individual rights may constitute an obstacle to ensuring fairness in criminal proceedings.

The European Convention on Human Rights: A Commentary is the first complete article-by-article commentary on the ECHR and its Protocols in English.

Evelyne Schmid demonstrates how violations of economic, social and cultural rights can overlap with international crimes.

The relationship between law and religion is evident throughout history.

Freedom of information (FOI) is now an international phenomenon with over 100 countries from Albania to Zimbabwe enacting the right to know for their citizens.

Academic Freedom and the Law: A Comparative Study provides a critical analysis of the law relating to academic freedom in three major jurisdictions: the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States.

This volume explores the emergence, evolution, and politics of North Korean human rights activism and its relevance for international policy.

The relationship between Canada's Indigenous peoples and the Canadian government is one that has increasingly come to the fore.

This volume of essays, situated at the interface between legal doctrine and legal and political philosophy, discusses the conceptual and normative issues posed by the right to inclusion and exclusion the EU claims for itself when enacting and enforcing immigration and asylum policy under the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice.

This thought-provoking book provides a systematic, philosophically-grounded reconceptualisation of press freedom and press regulation.

A critical evaluation of the latest reform in Chinese law that engages legal scholarship with research of Chinese legal historians.

How does the UK Supreme Court approach human rights law?

A groundbreaking application of contemporary philosophy to human rights law that proposes several significant innovations for the progressive development of human rights.

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A telling reevaluation of African American roles in government and law during ReconstructionAt Freedom's Door rescues from obscurity the identities, images, and long-term contributions of black leaders who helped to rebuild and reform South Carolina after the Civil War.

In recent years, human rights have come under fire, with the rise of political illiberalism and the coming to power of populist authoritarian leaders in many parts of the world who contest and dismiss the idea of human rights.

The European Convention on Human Rights: A Commentary is the first complete article-by-article commentary on the ECHR and its Protocols in English.

What is the legacy of Brown vs.

An interdisciplinary group of privacy scholars explores social meaning and value of privacy in new privacy-sensitive areas.

These essays focus on the intellectual and philosophical roots of religious liberty and the confrontations with the authority of secular law.

A legal-theoretical account of collective rights, grounded in the normative-moral view of ''value collectivism''.

It has been well-established that many of the injustices that people around the world experience every day, from food insecurity to unsafe labor conditions and natural disasters, are the result of wide-scale structural problems of politics and economics.

This book examines the disclosure and withholding of all forms of confidential information handled by professionals.

These original essays focus on fundamental issues and practical implications of the relationship between disability and the good human life.

This book represents the first attempt to examine how EU fundamental rights are protected and enforced by EU governing bodies.

This book uncovers legal shifts founded on misunderstandings about discrimination and describes how law and organizations can do better.

Following on from the first volume, this unique book is the only collection of native analyses of the status of legislation in 30 European jurisdictions plus the EU.

A Second Appeal: A Consideration of Freedom and Social Justice engages in an analysis of the ideals of freedom and social justice.

The abuse of workers in export processing zones in developing countries, the undignified treatment of elderly people in care homes, and the dangers for internet users' privacy arising from private companies' control of their data are prominent examples of how our most fundamental interests are increasingly jeopardized by powerful private actors.

How do courts reconcile protecting family life with immigration control in human rights cases?

A provocative new approach to race in the workplaceWhat role should racial difference play in the American workplace?

This book challenges whether the protection and privilege of religious belief and identity should be prioritized over any other right.

Gender and the Jubilee is a bold reconceptualization of black freedom during the Civil War that uncovers the political and constitutional claims made by African American women.

AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IS AT RISKNo oneconservative or liberalshould be comfortable with a few Silicon Valleyoligarchs having a monopoly over the marketplace of ideas, and with it, democracy itself.

La controverse contemporaine qui s’élève au sujet de l’épistémologie de la discipline du droit comparé nourrit une interrogation relevant de la théorie générale du droit.

These essays focus on the intellectual and philosophical roots of religious liberty and the confrontations with the authority of secular law.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, breathtaking changes in technology are posing stark challenges to our constitutional values.

In an epoch of transnational armed conflict, global environmental harm, and rising inequality, the extraterritorial application of human rights law has become a pressing and controversial legal issue.