Law: Human rights and civil liberties

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

This inquiry into the human rights dimensions of climate change identifies future perspectives, concerns and dilemmas for law and policy.

Liberal Languages reinterprets twentieth-century liberalism as a complex set of discourses relating not only to liberty but also to welfare and community.

Argues that international human rights and water laws provide legal bases for the right to water and its extraterritorial application.

This book brings together papers that offer conceptual analyses, highlight issues, propose solutions, and discuss practices regarding privacy, data protection and Artificial Intelligence.

Examining the role of 'open remedies' in human rights adjudication, this book provides a new perspective informing comparative constitutional debates on how to structure institutional relationships over fundamental rights and freedoms.

The Law and Economics of Privacy, Personal Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Incomplete Monitoring presents new findings and perspectives from leading international scholars on several emerging areas issues in legal and economic research.

This is the first book to provide an overview of the processes and practices of transitional justice in the Asia-Pacific region.

Humanitarian protection has evolved from an act of charity into a legal obligation not to remove certain categories of non-nationals.

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

How do we understand and justify the particular partialities that discrimination law tries to protect against?

How does an idea that forms in the minds of a few activists in one part of the world become a global norm that nearly all states obey?

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

Der Bürgerkommentar bietet verständliche und zeitgemäße Erläuterungen zu den Regelungen der nordrheinwestfälischenLandesverfassung.

An empirically rich and conceptually informed study of the politics of transitional justice in post-communist Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

The fifth edition of this highly praised study charts and explains the progress that continues to be made towards the goal of worldwide abolition of the death penalty.

Chief Justice John Marshall argued that a constitution "e;requires that only its great outlines should be marked [and] its important objects designated.

The terrorist attacks of 9/11 precipitated significant legal changes over the ensuing ten years, a "e;long decade"e; that saw both domestic and international legal systems evolve in reaction to the seemingly permanent threat of international terrorism.

Over the last 15 years, privacy actions have been recognised at common law or in equity across common law jurisdictions, and statutory privacy protections have proliferated.

In 2014, after a decade of political turmoil, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) carried out Thailand's 13th coup since the country's transformation from absolute to constitutional monarchy in 1932.

This is the first book to examine the civil liberties records of American presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama.

An original theory and set of essays on negotiating transitional justice, drawing on the authors'' first-hand experience of Colombia''s peace talks.

This book examines the South African Constitutional Court to determine how it has functioned during the nation''s transition.

This book critically appraises the European Convention on Human Rights at a time of considerable change.

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.

Examines election case law to demonstrate and assess how the Supreme Court has radically transformed American democracy.

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

This book explores how the Internet impacts on the protection of fundamental rights, particularly with regard to freedom of speech and privacy.

This volume sets out to disentangle the debate about the Millennium Development goals in theory and practice.

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.

Discusses how mass detention and deportation of immigrants, has escalated even higher since the Obama and Trump administrations.

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

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

This ambitious, innovative project examines the principle of effective judicial protection in EU law over two volumes.

This book provides the first comprehensive account of the role played by the European Convention on Human Rights during the conflict in Northern Ireland from 1968.

Examines the law governing American education and proposes social constructivist pedagogy as a model for reform efforts.

Argues that European human rights law must acknowledge that autonomy is dependent on the existence of trusting and caring relationships.

Anita Whitney was a child of wealth and privilege who became a vocal leftist early in the twentieth century, supporting radical labor groups such as the Wobblies and helping to organize the Communist Labor Party.

Diese Einführung in die Informatik vermittelt Programmierung als Synthese von Theorie und Praxis.

An extensive analysis of the norms and legal institutions of the African Union and their relevance to Africa''s quest for peace.

The first comprehensive study of the challenges faced by children in establishing entitlement to refugee protection.

This indispensable, one-stop resource examines where Democrats and Republicans stand on current civil rights and liberties issues related to voting, free speech, abortion and reproductive rights, guns, and other hot button topics.

An original analysis of the definition and scope of the right not to be held in slavery, servitude and forced labour.

Plus qu’un ouvrage de philosophie, de sociologie ou de théorie juridique, Le Droit de la société est une théorie sociale comme on n’en a plus produit depuis Max Weber et surtout Hegel.

This book explains the reciprocal relations between the Supreme Court and the Israeli political system.

An empirical account of the mismatch between Dutch foreign policy and their approach to human rights domestically.

Africa, with its mix of statute, custom and religion is at the centre of the debate about law and its impact on gender relations.