Law: Human rights and civil liberties

Dred Scott and his landmark Supreme Court case are ingrained in the national memory, but he was just one of multitudes who appealed for their freedom in courtrooms across the country.

Die Stewardship-Verantwortung ist spätestens mit Veröffentlichung der überarbeiteten Aktionärsrechterichtlinie im Sommer 2017 für alle europäischen Mitgliedsstaaten ein Thema geworden.

Spain is a notable exception to the implicit rules of late twentieth-century democratization: after the death of General Francisco Franco in 1975, the recovering nation began to consolidate democracy without enacting any of the mechanisms promoted by the international transitional justice movement.

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No American leader has accomplished more for his state than Governor Ron DeSantis.

¿Qué es la responsabilidad objetiva?

Can the Australian state be restructured to empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and ensure that their distinct voices are heard in the processes of government?

This book analyzes the contemporary politics of immigration from the asylum crisis to Islamophobia, multiculturalism, and post-colonialism.

Human rights can be understood as moral or political.

This book draws attention to emerging issues around the rights of minorities, marginalized groups, and persons in Africa.

Should an employee be allowed to wear a religious symbol at work?

The UK has some of the largest immigration detention facilities in Europe, holding as many as 3000 individuals at any point in time.

This book addresses the interrelationship between economic and financial crises, the responses thereto, and economic and social rights.

The first textbook on international and European disability law and policy, analysing the interaction between different legal systems and sources.

As a settler state, Canada's claims to sovereign control over territory are contested by Indigenous claims to land and to self-determination.

The last twenty years have seen rapid development of the equitable action for breach of confidence.

This book is a contemporary, comprehensive, and accessible text on the use of force and international law suitable for a range of audiences.

This book explores the powers, activities, and accountability of MI5 from the end of the Second World War to 1964.

In the 20 years between 1895 and 1915, two key leaders-Booker T.

Explores different conceptions of legal personhood within EU data protection law and wider issues of privacy and individual rights.

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Large-scale migration constitutes an unavoidable social reality within the European Union.

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.

Eine umfassende Erhebung zum Richterinnenanteil an Schweizer Gerichten fehlt bislang.

Band 11 des Europa-Teils der Verfassungen der Welt widmet sich der französischen Verfassungsgeschichte von ihren Anfängen im späten 18.

This multi-disciplinary collection interrogates the role of human rights in addressing past injustices.

Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing?

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONA New Yorker Best Book of 2024 * An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2024 * Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard First Book Prize'Reads like a legal thriller' ESQUIRE'As propulsive and affecting as it is infuriating' VANITY FAIRA powerful work of reportage and American history that braids together the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation's earliest days, and a small-town murder in the 1990s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land more than a century later.

The European Union is a supranational organisation with a set of circumscribed powers.

The book shows how state-enforced religious laws impact human rights, and what people do to advance their rights from within.

Paul Konrad Lang befasst sich mit Fragen zur rechtlichen Behandlung von Personenabbildungen.

The Defamation Act constitutes a significant overhaul of UK defamation legislation, which follows years of concern about the detrimental effects that preceeding libel laws had on freedom of expression, and the extent to which the jurisdiction had become a magnet for libel claimants.

The world appears to be globalising economically, technologically and even, to a halting extent, politically.

This volume addresses interrogation and torture at a unique moment.

What rights to privacy do we have on the internet, and how can we make them real?

A new and comprehensive account of the South African Constitutional Court''s social rights decisions.

On May 4, 2020, Californians for Consumer Privacy (an advocacy group founded by Alistair MacTaggart) announced that it had collected more than 900,000 signatures to qualify the CPRA (California Privacy Rights Act) for the November 2020 ballot.

The first monograph analysing all legal regimes applicable to the use of less-lethal weapons.

La constante crisis política que nuestro país ha sufrido en los últimos años ha hecho que muchos empiecen a observar cuidadosamente la Constitución como herramienta para la búsqueda de salidas institucionales.

Within the Middle East there are a wide range of minority groups outside the mainstream religious and ethnic culture.

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What are the connections between conceptions of rights found in English law and those found in bills of rights around the World?

Banning them, securing us?

Growing interest in reparations for African Americans has prompted a range of responses, from lawsuits against major corporations and a march in Washington to an anti-reparations ad campaign.