Law: Human rights and civil liberties

Over the past three decades, neither France's treatment of Muslims nor changes in French, British, and German immigration laws have confirmed multiculturalist hopes or postnationalist expectations.

This book provides an account and explanation of a fundamental dilemma facing secular states: the 'legitimacy gap' left by the withdrawal of religion as a source of legitimacy.

There are few figures and leaders of recent American history of greater social and political consequence than Jesse Jackson, and few more relevant for America's current political climate.

Examines how privacy, confidentiality, consent, identifiability, safeguards and data sharing affect the pursuit of health research for the common good.

This book offers conceptual analyses, highlights issues, proposes solutions, and discusses practices regarding privacy and data protection in transitional times.

The authors not only investigate the current forms of property rights on reservations but also expose the limitations of each system, showing that customary rights are insecure, certificates of possession cannot be sold outside the First Nation, and leases are temporary.

In Contours of Dignity, Suzanne Killmister sets out an original and innovative approach to understanding dignity.

A critical, theoretical, and empirical examination of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (LWOP) is long overdue.

With this book, Charlotte Walker-Said and John D.

Most modern democracies punish hate speech.

An in-depth study of processes of judicial transformation that enabled the success of human rights trials in Latin America.

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.

Hurricane Katrina inflicted damage on a scale unprecedented in American history, nearly destroying a major city and killing thousands of its citizens.

Born into a tenant farming family in North Carolina in 1946, Mary Louise, Mary Ann, Mary Alice, and Mary Catherine were medical miracles.

National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs), defined by the UN as bodies established to promote and protect human rights, have increased in number since the General Assembly adopted principles governing their effectiveness in 1993.

Drawing on two empirical studies and influential theoretical frameworks, this book provides a critical overview of the key regulatory challenges concerning cyberbullying and sexting behaviours among young people (persons under 18 years).

This book examines the positive and negative impact testifying has on those who bear witness to the horrors of war.

The subjects of Privacy and Data Protection are more relevant than ever, and especially since 25 May 2018, when the European General Data Protection Regulation became enforceable.

The book analyzes a contemporary policy question at the nexus of democracy, criminal justice, and constitutional citizenship.

This is the second edition of the acclaimed Security and Human Rights, first published in 2007.

An internationally-renowned scholar in the fields of international and transitional justice, Diane Orentlicher provides an unparalleled account of an international tribunal's impact in societies that have the greatest stake in its work.

The first book to engage in a comprehensive examination of the human right to water in theory and in practice.

This book examines trends in the constitutional and legal regulations in all Latin American countries regarding the amparo proceedings.

Every Supreme Court transition presents an opportunity for a shift in the balance of the third branch of American government, but the replacement of Thurgood Marshall with Clarence Thomas in 1991 proved particularly momentous.

When, in Obergefell v.

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That Every Man Be Armed, the first scholarly book on the Second Amendment to the U.

Freedom of speech is central to the liberal democratic tradition.

Introduces the Everyday Peace Indicators as a measurement, diagnostic and evaluation tool and makes an argument for its utility in conflict affected contexts.

Senior judges and politicians increasingly question the role of the EU and the European Court of Human Rights.

This book investigates the limits of the legitimate role of the state in regulating the human body.

This collection of essays analyses how diversity in human identity and disadvantage affects the articulation, realisation, violation and enforcement of human rights.

Economic interaction has enlarged the international trade in goods and services, but the safe and humane flow of persons across international borders remains a challenge in a State-based model of territorial jurisdictions.

Die Verfassungsgeschichtsschreibung ist zwischen der Geschichts- und Rechtswissenschaft angesiedelt.

This important edited collection is the culmination of research undertaken by the Children's Rights Judgments Project.

During a 1931 trial of four Nazi stormtroopers, known as the Eden Dance Palace trial, Hans Litten grilled Hitler in a brilliant and merciless three-hour cross-examination, forcing him into multiple contradictions and evasions and finally reducing him to helpless and humiliating rage (the transcription of Hitler's full testimony is included.

Religions are a problem for human rights, and human rights are a problem for religions.

This book calls into question the legitimacy of state uses of violence and mounts a sustained effort at interpretation, sense making, and critique.

In the past two decades, '"e;civil society"e; has become a central organizing concept in the social sciences.

In this pathbreaking study, Pamela Steiner deconstructs the psychological obstacles that have prevented peaceful settlements to longstanding issues.

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

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.

Der Autor nimmt mit der Nutzung von Land einen rechtlichen Gegenstand in den Blick, der im römischen Reich wie heute von existentieller Bedeutung ist.

This new edition of the Blackstone's Guide to the Anti-Terrorism Legislation provides expert explanation of the key anti-terrorism legislation.

Examines the persisting inequality between formal commitments to gender equality and equal citizenship.