Law: Human rights and civil liberties

This volume in the Swedish Studies in European Law series, produced by the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies, heralds the new harmonised regime of private enforcement of EU competition law.

The UK's engagement with the legal protection of human rights at a European level has been, at varying stages, pioneering, sceptical and antagonistic.

The subjects of Privacy and Data Protection are more relevant than ever with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becoming enforceable in May 2018.

Since the 1960s, school rules and regulations concerning apparel and hair have been the subject of litigation in the federal courts.

In Defense of Politicization of Human Rights: The UN Special Procedures constitutes the first comprehensive study of the United Nations Special Procedures, covering their history, methods of work, institutional status, relationship with other politically driven organs, and processes affecting their development.

This book uses empirical analysis to show that courts refrain from using the proportionality test as a means of judicial activism.

Prominent privacy law experts, regulators and academics examine contemporary legal approaches to privacy from a comparative perspective.

This volume considers the way in which the focus on individual rights may constitute an obstacle to ensuring fairness in criminal proceedings.

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

Evelyne Schmid demonstrates how violations of economic, social and cultural rights can overlap with international crimes.

The relationship between law and religion is evident throughout history.

Freedom of information (FOI) is now an international phenomenon with over 100 countries from Albania to Zimbabwe enacting the right to know for their citizens.

Academic Freedom and the Law: A Comparative Study provides a critical analysis of the law relating to academic freedom in three major jurisdictions: the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States.

Corrado Becker wagt in diesem Band eine rechtswissenschaftliche Gesamtschau auf die gleichgeschlechtliche Ehe und stellt das Thema in einem umfassenden verfassungsrechtlichen und rechtsvergleichenden Zusammenhang dar.

This volume explores the emergence, evolution, and politics of North Korean human rights activism and its relevance for international policy.

Zahlreiche verbraucherschutzrechtliche Vorstöße des deutschen Gesetzgebers und der Europäischen Union versuchen seit den siebziger Jahren des vergangenen Jahrhunderts dem Verbraucher individuelle Rechte einzuräumen, wenn dieser aufgrund einer irreführenden Werbung einen Vertrag geschlossen hat.

The relationship between Canada's Indigenous peoples and the Canadian government is one that has increasingly come to the fore.

Der unaufhaltsame digitale Fortschritt bringt weitreichende Umwalzungen fur das Recht der Vertraulichkeit, des Datengeheimnisses und der Sicherheit von Informationen mit sich.

Se ha señalado con mucha razón que en el marco del Estado constitucional los derechos fundamentales son la piedra angular del derecho público y privado.

This volume of essays, situated at the interface between legal doctrine and legal and political philosophy, discusses the conceptual and normative issues posed by the right to inclusion and exclusion the EU claims for itself when enacting and enforcing immigration and asylum policy under the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice.

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

A critical evaluation of the latest reform in Chinese law that engages legal scholarship with research of Chinese legal historians.

How does the UK Supreme Court approach human rights law?

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

How a focus on dignity transforms, and resolves, some of the country's most pressing social problems.

Although the Montaukett were among the first tribes to establish relations with the English in the seventeenth century, until now very little has been written about the evolution of their interaction with the settlers.

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

Ein Handbuch des Verfassungsrechts im StrafverfahrenDie Verfassungsbeschwerde in Strafsachen ist für die Strafverteidigung oft die letzte Möglichkeit, einen für den Mandanten unerwünschten Verlauf oder Ausgang des Strafverfahrens zu verhindern.

A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZEA FINALIST FOR THE MOORE PRIZEA NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR'A gripping and rigorous crime story about the murder of a once thriving democracy, exposing an arsenal of lethal weapons, some wielded on the streets, others in the courts and press' NAOMI KLEIN'Essential reading' YANIS VAROUFAKISThe world's largest democracy is facing the greatest challenge since the end of British colonial rule in 1947.

In its controversial Bakke decision of 1978, the Supreme Court upheld racial and ethnic diversity in university admissionsbut it was not to be the last word on the matter.

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.

In recent years, human rights have come under fire, with the rise of political illiberalism and the coming to power of populist authoritarian leaders in many parts of the world who contest and dismiss the idea of human rights.

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

What is the legacy of Brown vs.

Über die letzten zwei Jahrhunderte hat der U.

An interdisciplinary group of privacy scholars explores social meaning and value of privacy in new privacy-sensitive areas.

These essays focus on the intellectual and philosophical roots of religious liberty and the confrontations with the authority of secular law.

A legal-theoretical account of collective rights, grounded in the normative-moral view of ''value collectivism''.

It has been well-established that many of the injustices that people around the world experience every day, from food insecurity to unsafe labor conditions and natural disasters, are the result of wide-scale structural problems of politics and economics.

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.

This book examines the disclosure and withholding of all forms of confidential information handled by professionals.

These original essays focus on fundamental issues and practical implications of the relationship between disability and the good human life.