Law: Human rights and civil liberties

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.

God does not discriminate based on gender.

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.

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.

Is it time to take a break from feminism?

This book, the first of its kind, comprehensively explores Native American claims against the United States government over the past two centuries.

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

One of the hallmark features of the post-civil rights United States is the reign of colorblindness over national conversations about race and law.

This is the first-and the only authorized-biography of Elbert Parr Tuttle (1897-1996), the judge who led the federal court with jurisdiction over most of the Deep South through the most tumultuous years of the civil rights revolution.

"EU ZAHLT €185 MILLIARDEN ZU VIEL FÜR GASInternationale Wahrnehmung und KritikDie politischen Führungen der USA, der EU und des Vereinigten Königreichs sehen sich zunehmender Kritik ausgesetzt.

Wherever there is a person,s right, there is a corresponding duty imposed upon that person to respect the rights of others.

Muchas democracias aparecen recorridas por un temible fantasma: el hastío o la fatiga.

En muchos países de América Latina los ciudadanos de a pie sienten que el poder político está en manos de una minoría y que el voto periódico no alcanza como mecanismo de control.

"Son demasiados los ciudadanos que no tienen presente la medida en que su propio bienestar es producto de un sistema de gobierno que los beneficia todos los días", escribe Cass R.

Durante las últimas décadas, la promesa de igualdad y su búsqueda han sido una constante en las prácticas, las normas y la reflexión jurídicas, lo que reafirma que ni el Estado ni los individuos deben decidir o realizar acciones discriminatorias guiadas por prejuicios y estigmatizaciones.

Las problemáticas vinculadas al ejercicio de la libertad de expresión y el acceso a los medios de comunicación adquirieron una centralidad inédita en el debate político desde la vuelta a la democracia.

Es un gran honor presentar a la comunidad académica el presente libro, fruto de la dialéctica entre destacados profesores de pregrado y posgrado de la Universidad de Medellín, que reúne diferentes capítulos sobre temas actuales de derecho privado, abordados con elevado rigor crítico, analítico y propositivo.

Constituye un motivo de especial satisfacción presentar a la comunidad académica esta nueva obra colectiva, titulada La acción popular: análisis evolutivo de algunas temáticas en los 20 años de vigencia de la Ley 472 de 1998, que reúne seis disertaciones jurídicas con serias y profundas reflexiones sobre aspectos trascendentales para la comprensión de los derechos colectivos y del mecanismo procesal constitucional que los protege por excelencia en Colombia: la acción popular.

Este libro presenta algunos aspectos problemáticos de la interpretación de las fuentes del derecho, desde una perspectiva histórica.

Este libro ofrece un corpus sistemático del pensamiento delprofesor Dieter Grimm sobre los orígenes, desarrollo y futuro de ese logrollamado constitucionalismo.

En Reforma y desmembramiento constitucional, Richard Albert, profesor de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Texas en Austin, aborda el problema que plantean las enmiendas que modifican los pilares estructurales de las constituciones.

El doctor Castaño Peña presenta aquí una notable contribución que, con ligeras modificaciones, reproduce su tesis doctoral, defendida el pasado curso académico 2018-2019 en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

En este libro, Jorge Ernesto Roa Roa nos muestra las posibilidades de establecer mediaciones entre la filosofía y el derecho.

Este libro nos adentra en los laberintos de la búsqueda de la verdad sobre el conflicto armado y sobre fenómenos de violencia masiva.