Law: Human rights and civil liberties

The idea of sovereignty and the debates that surround it are not merely of historical, academic, or legal interest: they are also potent, vibrant issues and as current and relevant as today's front page news in the United States and in other Western democracies.

This book is a practical guide to freeing political prisoners and provides a comprehensive review of this UN body''s 1,200 jurisprudence cases.

Explores the effect of justice measures on ''regime consolidation'' in a post-transition context.

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This volume offers insights into the consequences of a growing reliance on the principle of solidarity to ''inscribe'' social policies.

Against the backdrop of the global Black Lives Matter movement, debates around the social impact of hate crime legislation have come to the political fore.

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

As a result of tremendous social, legal, and political movements after the 1954 Brown v.

Der datenschutzrechtlichen Unterweisung ist vor allem in der Zeit der hohen Regelungsflut ein hoher Stellenwert beizumessen.

Having control over personal data is regarded as a fundamental right in the EU.

Who was Fay Abrahams Stender?

Stephen Gardbaum proposes and examines a new way of protecting rights in a democracy.

This monograph investigates the International, European and Commonwealth Caribbean approaches to human trafficking from an Analytical Eclectic perspective.

There are now a number of statutes in different parts of the world that offer non-constitutional protection for human rights through mechanisms such as strong interpretive obligations, quasi-tort actions and obligations on legislatures to consider whether statutes are felt to breach human rights obligations.

Banning them, securing us?

This book explores the complexity and depths of our digital world by providing a selection of analyses and discussions from the 16th annual international conference on Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP): Ideas that Drive Our Digital World.

The first work to examine data privacy laws across Asia, covering all 26 countries and separate jurisdictions, and with in-depth analysis of the 14 which have specialised data privacy laws.

When part of a person's body is separated from them, or when a person dies, it is unclear what legal status the item of bodily material is able to obtain.

In 1925 Leonard Rhinelander, the youngest son of a wealthy New York society family, sued to end his marriage to Alice Jones, a former domestic servant and the daughter of a "e;colored"e; cabman.

Provides an international comparative study of the implementation of disability rights law and policy focused on the emerging principles of self-determination and personalisation.

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Justifies a two-track approach that includes individual and systemic remedies in both domestic and international human rights law.

An assessment of the transitional processes aimed at creating a stable and just society in South Africa.

Understand the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) and how to implement strategies to comply with this privacy regulation.

Many human rights advocates agree that conventional advocacy tools- reporting abuses to international tribunals or shaming the perpetrators of human rights violations-have proven ineffective.

The European Court of Justice has been celebrated as a central force in the creation and deepening of the EU internal market.

What is black culture?

The book explores the various and sometimes unexpected ways in which states, human rights, and private actors intersect.

A pesar de los avances logrados en los más de cuatro décadas de existencia de la Corte Interamericana, aún enfrentamos grandes desafíos, especialmente luego de la grave crisis provocada por la pandemia del Covid-19.

This book presents a unique and comprehensive examination of the human and moral rights of artists.

Interdisciplinary exploration of Asian understandings of human dignity and human rights in courts, religion, and socio-political changes.

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

Since the end of the Cold War, there has been a dramatic expansion in both the international human rights system and the transnational networks of activists, development organizations, and monitoring agencies that partially reinforce it.

Most Americans assume that the United States provides a gold standard for human rightsa 2007 survey found that 80 percent of U.

This book is concerned with the history of the idea of human rights.

The subjects of this volume are more relevant than ever, especially in light of the raft of electoral scandals concerning voter profiling.

The national security and civil liberties tensions of the World War II mass incarceration link 9/11 and the 2015 Paris-San Bernardino attacks to the Trump era in America - an era darkened by accelerating discrimination against and intimidation of those asserting rights of freedom of religion, association and speech, and an era marked by increasingly volatile protests.

The principles of freedom of expression have been developed over centuries.

This collection examines the role and value of rights in divided and post-conflict societies, approaching the subject from a comparative and theoretical perspective.

Combining socio-legal and ethnohistorical studies, this book presents the history of doodem, or clan identification markings, left by Anishinaabe on treaties and other legal documents from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries.

This book shows how an increasingly conservative Supreme Court has undermined the enforcement of rights through strategies rejected by Congress.

This book is about good government-especially ethical and fair government.

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.