Law: Human rights and civil liberties

Esta obra se centra en el analisis de la crisis del constitucionalismo, estudio que transita por los regimenes autoritarios, hasta anclar en el constitucionalismo erigido en la postguerra mundial.

This volume presents and critiques the distorted effects of the international human rights movement''s focus on the fight against impunity.

How do bills of rights influence legislative decision-making in New Zealand and the United Kingdom?

El estudio de títulos es el conjunto de conocimientos requeridos para determinar la factibilidad jurídica de cualquier operación sobre un bien inmueble.

In Lord Sumption and the Limits of the Law, leading public law scholars reflect on the nature and limits of the judicial role and its implications for human rights protection and democracy.

Arthur Ray's extensive knowledge in the history of the fur trade and Native economic history brought him into the courts as an expert witness in the mid-1980s.

Moral Contagion highlights the central roles that race and international diplomacy played in the development of American citizenship.

When first written into the Constitution, intellectual property aimed to facilitate "e;progress of science and the useful arts"e; by granting rights to authors and inventors.

Dieses Arbeitsbuch richtet sich an Studierende wirtschafts- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Studiengänge.

In an epoch of transnational armed conflict, global environmental harm, and rising inequality, the extraterritorial application of human rights law has become a pressing and controversial legal issue.

The 1998 arrest of General Augusto Pinochet in London and subsequent extradition proceedings sent an electrifying wave through the international community.

Tyrannicide uses a captivating narrative to unpack the experiences of slavery and slave law in South Carolina and Massachusetts during the Revolutionary Era.

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

Unlike many national constitutions, which contain explicit positive rights to such things as education, a living wage, and a healthful environment, the U.

Europa von A bis Z ist Europa zum Nachschlagen: In über 70 Sachbeiträgen erklären renommierte Europaexperten wissenschaftlich fundiert und zugleich verständlich alle wichtigen Themen und Begriffe aus Politik, Wirtschaft und Geschichte der europäischen Einigung.

This book documents and explains the differences in the ways Americans and Europeans approach the issues of privacy and intelligence gathering.

Consociations are power-sharing arrangements, increasingly used to manage ethno-nationalist, ethno-linguistic, and ethno-religious conflicts.

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

What is the legacy of Brown vs.

The notion of conflict rests at the heart of the judicial function.

How domestic courts in newly democratized states become willing and able to enforce international human rights lawWhen do domestic courts protect international human rights?

Dignity is often denounced as hopelessly amorphous or incurably theological: as feel-good philosophical window-dressing, or as the name given to whatever principles give you the answer that you think is right.

American by Birth explores the history and legacy of Wong Kim Ark and the 1898 Supreme Court case that bears his name, which established the automatic citizenship of individuals born within the geographic boundaries of the United States.

A human right to higher education was included in the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which came into force in 1976.

Thoroughly updated and featuring 75 new entries, this monumental four-volume work illuminates past and present events associated with civil rights and civil liberties in the United States.

Human rights have become a defining feature of contemporary society, permeating public discourse on politics, law and culture.

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 first global and comparative study of litigation in which refugees seek protection from a place of ostensible ''refuge''.

Die "rechtskulturellen und rechtshistorischen Betrachtungen" treffen mittlerweile auf grundlegende Krisen-Symptome und staatspolitische, den Freiheitsbegriff neu austarierende Tendenzen.

During the Allies invasion of Italy in the thick of World War II, American soldier James Kutcher was hit by a German mortar shell and lost both of his legs.

This edited collection addresses some of the most important challenges in contemporary human rights law and practice.

In common law jurisdictions, litigants are free to choose whether to procure legal representation or litigate in person.

Reveals the political savvy and egalitarian convictions behind Lincoln's racial policiesIn the midst of America's civil rights movement, historians questioned the widely-held belief that Abraham Lincoln was the "e;Great Emancipator.

Nachdem sich die spezialisierte Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit nach kontinentaleuropaischem Vorbild in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten auerhalb des angelsachsischen Rechtskreises global weitgehend durchgesetzt hat, haben Verfassungsgerichte in den unterschiedlichsten Verfassungsordnungen zunehmend Fragen mit weit reichenden politischen Konsequenzen entschieden.

The Protections for Religious Rights is the first practitioner work to offer a full and systematic treatment of the law as it pertains to religious rights in the UK and abroad.

This updated edition offers a fresh approach to the law governing employment relations, emphasising the contemporary policy themes of social inclusion, competitiveness, and the rights of citizenship in the workplace.

An analysis of rights-based activism in South Korea, including case studies of women, workers, disabled persons, migrants, and sexual minorities.

Contra la Izquierda explora algo básico del libertarismo que mucha gente ha olvidado hoy en día.

The ever increasing relevance of European law which involves replacement or supplementation of and interaction with national law not only affects the states in Europe but also, and foremost, the citizens.

Das Buch zeichnet das politische Ringen von Politikern und Ministerialbeamten, Richtern und Wissenschaftlern um eine Europäische Union seit dem Haager Europakongress 1948 bis zum Vertrag von Lissabon 2007 nach.

This book examines and critiques how the United States Supreme Court under the leadership of Chief Justice John Roberts perpetuates structural inequality.

Analysis of when, where, and how American law recognizes and responds to claims made in the name of human rights.

First Amendment Freedoms: A Reference Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of the discourse on First Amendment freedom issues in an objective and unbiased manner and provides valuable data and documents to guide readers to further research on the subject.

The civil rights era was a time of pervasive change in American political and social life.

How do you keep students motivated when their perception of a subject conflicts with the reality of its academic study?