Law: Human rights and civil liberties

Why did the African-Americans fight so hard for their civil rights?

Cesar Chavez was one tough fellow.

Here American history and American law merge into one.

A study of how South Carolina's federal district courts were central to achieving and solidifying gains during the civil rights movementAs the first comprehensive study of one state's federal district courts during the long civil rights movement, The Slow Undoing argues for a reconsideration of the role of the federal courts in the civil rights movement.

The Injustice of Justice is a purposeful book designed to introduce the public as well as the profession to an alternate method of policing with a whole-community and responsibility-based approach.

In this book, twenty-three lawyers discuss their experiences in the struggle to advance and maintain civil rights in the United States South, from the 1960s to the 1980s and from Texas to Virginia to Florida.

When Arthur Gochman filed a class-action suit in 1968 on behalf of San Antonio school children, he and his clients were directly challenging the inequality of education funding in Texas.

"Se presenta a la comunidad académica el tercer tomo sobre temas nucleares del derecho civil, dedicado en esta ocasión a la apreciación de la naturaleza desde el enfoque jurídico y las diversas relaciones entre las personas que tienen como fuente e interés protegido los objetos materiales.

En Teoria politica e historia constitucional, Claudio Contreras sigue una linea de investigacion que inicio con su tesis doctoral defendida en la Universidad Nacional de Plata.

Provides students with an introduction to legal philosophy, using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to reflect on human rights.

This collection incorporates the crucial democratic principles on which our identity as Americans is based.

In The Privacy Pirates, former National Security Agency intelligence officer Dr.

Covering 17 Asian jurisdictions representing differing stages in the development of data protection regulatory systems this book offers an in-depth, cross-jurisdictional commentary on the developing world of Asian privacy and personal data protection, with a special focus on private international law issues.

First Amendment Freedoms: A Reference Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of the discourse on First Amendment freedom issues in an objective and unbiased manner and provides valuable data and documents to guide readers to further research on the subject.

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

This book looks at responsible government under the Australian Constitution.

This book examines companies'' and investors'' moral and legal complicity in human rights violations in the context of globalisation.

This book uses primary sources to closely examine the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and to show how legal interpretations of it have had a profound impact on American life as we know it.

La Constitución Nacional reconoce el derecho de las autoridades indígenas para ejercer funciones jurisdiccionales dentro de su ámbito territorial, de conformidad con sus propias normas y procedimientos.

Since 2005, Voice of Witness has illuminated contemporary human rights crises through its oral history book series.

This book shines a light on the still unexplored relationships between federalism and disability rights.

Understand the complexities of EU law and its implications on UK lawLaw of the European Union, 13th Edition, by Morano-Foadi and Neller is a comprehensive and visually appealing coverage of the structure, law and practice of the European Union and its impact on UK law.

This book looks at responsible government under the Australian Constitution.

This book covers civil rights and civil liberties politics in the United States from the ratification of the Bill of Rights to more recent controversies, such as the travel ban and proposals to end birthright citizenship.

Este libro expone la realidad del movimiento sindical en Colombia evidenciando una paradoja: un incremento exponencial de sindicatos, pero con una tasa afiliacion que no crece y se mantiene alrededor del 5 %.

In Frontiers of Gender Equality, editor Rebecca Cook enlarges the chorus of voices to introduce new and different discourses about the wrongs of gender discrimination and to explain the multiple dimensions of gender equality.

"e;A balanced and thorough look at the United States' most important contemporary race issues, with timely content and excellent supporting documentation.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the wide-ranging body of law that applies to public protest activity.

Unlike many national constitutions, which contain explicit positive rights to such things as education, a living wage, and a healthful environment, the U.

Reveals the political savvy and egalitarian convictions behind Lincoln's racial policiesIn the midst of America's civil rights movement, historians questioned the widely-held belief that Abraham Lincoln was the "e;Great Emancipator.

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.

Freedom of religion or belief is deeply entrenched in international human rights conventions and constitutional traditions around the world.

Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the human rights movement achieved unprecedented global prominence.

Nancy Leong reveals how powerful people and institutions use diversity to their own advantage and how the rest of us can respond-and do better.

A unique investigation into how alliances form in highly polarized times among LGBTQ, immigrant, and labor rights activists, revealing the impacts within each rights movement.

Contemporary feminist advocacy in human rights, international criminal law, and peace and security is gripped by the issue of sexual violence in conflict.

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

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The book challenges the dominant “liberal universality” framework in human rights, advocating for a return to the “pluralistic universality” of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, through a holistic vision of the right to self-determination.

Knocking on the Door is the first book-length work to analyze federal involvement in residential segregation from Reconstruction to the present.