Law: Human rights and civil liberties

A monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's rulings on race, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights spells out in compelling detail the political and social context within which the Supreme Court Justices operate and the consequences of their decisions for American race relations.

The disturbing reality of contemporary life is that technology has laid bare the private facts of most people's lives.

This book shows how Lewis was interested in the truths and falsehoods about human nature and how these conceptions manifest themselves in the public square.

Fact-finding is at the heart of human rights advocacy, and is often at the center of international controversies about alleged government abuses.

This book conceptualizes the ''prohibition of advocacy of religious hatred'' from the perspectives of international and comparative law.

Presents a critical evaluation of a controversial interpretative tool the ECtHR uses to answer morally/politically sensitive human rights questions.

As Americans wrestle with red-versus-blue debates over traditional values, defense of marriage, and gay rights, reason often seems to take a back seat to emotion.

"e;The Two Michaels is a timely and highly-readable book - a gripping human drama that also tells a bigger story about the fast-changing world of international diplomacy, superpower rivalry, and the struggle to secure the Internet.

In Contours of Dignity, Suzanne Killmister sets out an original and innovative approach to understanding dignity.

Leading legal scholars explore the role of the law in the emergence and rise of Islamophobia in the United States following the events of 9/11.

Institutions matter for the advancement of human rights in global health.

This thorough legal resource guides those pushing the frontlines of the nation''s oldest battle: the fight to protect indigenous cultures.

This book analyses the horizontal effect of fundamental rights in the European Union, from a constitutional perspective.

Indirect discrimination (or disparate impact) concerns the application of the same rule to everyone, even though that rule significantly disadvantages one particular group in society.

Fur die normative Ordnung politischer Gemeinschaften bildet das Verhaltnis zum Religiosen seit den zivilisatorischen Anfangen eine der wiederkehrenden Grundfragen, die der Band in 21 Kapiteln behandelt.

All states are challenged by the need to protect national security while maintaining the rule of law, but the issue is particularly complex in the China Hong Kong context.

Written by a leading human rights and employment practitioner, the new edition of Monaghan on Equality Law combines a comprehensive survey of UK equality law with an analytical critique of the legal framework and the concepts that underpin it.

At the young age of fifteen, Dikgang Moseneke was imprisoned for participating in anti-apartheid activities.

Freedom of expression is generally analysed as a bare liberty against restraint by state action.

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.

The value of work cannot be underestimated in today's world.

An in-depth study of processes of judicial transformation that enabled the success of human rights trials in Latin America.

The right to free speech intersects with many other constitutional rights.

Bemühungen um eine Demokratisierung der Europäischen Union sind bereits seit Ende der 1970er Jahren zu beobachten.

In recent years, the law relating to entry, search and seizure has undergone major change.

Brings to light evidence of a shift toward a fuller engagement with international human rights norms and their application to domestic policy dilemmas in the US.

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

Die Bankrechtliche Vereinigung - Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Bankrecht e.

Explores the effects in theory and in practice of recent foreign inspired legal reforms in East Asia and Oceania.

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

This book presents the only contemporary legal analysis of refugee detention at Guantánamo Bay under the US Migrant Interdiction Program.

With the incorporation into domestic law of the European Convention on Human Rights,the UK courts will increasingly be called upon to strike the balance between the potentially conflicting rights of the right to privacy under Article 8 and the right to freedom of expression under Article 10.

Demonstrates how ''carceral animal law'' strategies put animal protection efforts at war with general anti-oppression and civil rights efforts.

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

The book describes how education in particular helps make persons with disabilities achieve economic independence and social inclusion.

This is a completely revised and expanded second edition, building on the first edition with two principal aims: to elucidate the role that domestic tort principles play in securing to citizens the human rights standards laid down in the European Convention on Human Rights, including the new 'remedy' under the Human Rights Act 1998; and to evaluate tort principles for compliance with those standards.

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

Until the watershed leak of top-secret documents by Edward Snowden to the Guardian UK and the Washington Post, most Americans did not realize the extent to which our government is actively acquiring personal information from telecommunications companies and other corporations.

In these original essays, America's leading historians and legal scholars reassess the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and its relevance to issues of liberty, justice, and equality.