Law: Human rights and civil liberties

In 1984, John Thompson was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a white man in New Orleans, Louisiana.

This volume contributes to the growing field of comparative Jewish and American law, presenting twenty-six essays characterized by a number of distinct features.

2013 Reprint of 1962 Edition.

"e;A fascinating memoir .

"e;A fascinating memoir .

AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IS AT RISKNo oneconservative or liberalshould be comfortable with a few Silicon Valleyoligarchs having a monopoly over the marketplace of ideas, and with it, democracy itself.

In God vs.

The Internet is great-until someone hacks your accounts or otherwise violates your privacy.

In God vs.

Why did the African-Americans fight so hard for their civil rights?

It is very important that you know the Bill of Rights to be protected against civil and/or criminal neglect.

Cesar Chavez was one tough fellow.

The foundational principle of this book is the sacred rights enumerated in the United States Constitution, specifically, in the First and Thirteenth Amendments.

This book is a compilation of government reports from 2018 and 2019 on secrecy and information policies and procedures.

Most workers on temporary, zero hours and involuntary part-time contracts in the UK are women.

Most workers on temporary, zero hours and involuntary part-time contracts in the UK are women.

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Black Lives Matter and #MeToo are two of the most prominent twenty-first-century social movements in the United States.

Banning them, securing us?

Banning them, securing us?

Há um questionamento crescente social acerca do casamento e dos direitos das pessoas que mantêm relações homoafetivas.

The theoretical knowledge of right and law in principle, as distinguished from positive laws and empirical cases, belongs to the pure science of right The science of right thus designates the philosophical and systematic knowledge of the principles of natural right.

In The Rights of Man, Thomas Paine defends the representational form of government.

The subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.

Here are six historic essays on the state of race relations during the Reconstruction and early twentieth century, written from the African American point of view.

The book tells the story of a highly controversial civil rights case which involved the Alaska salmon industry.

This picturesque book, Contradiction: The Controversies of the Joy and Pain of Living in South Carolina, deals with the tragic events and the elements of racism that happened in Charleston and North Charleston during the year 2015 as she attempts to give a birds-eye view into this as well as the history of the racism of decades and even centuries.

Thomas Paine is most famous for writing Common Sense, a pamphlet distributed during the American Revolution advocating for colonial Americas independence from Great Britain.

Well-selected and authoritative, Hart Core Statutes provide the key materials needed by students in a format that is clear, compact and very easy to use.

This collection of essays is a tribute to Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, who died aged 72 on 1 December 2020 after having retired from the UK Supreme Court just two months earlier.

This collection of essays is a tribute to Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, who died aged 72 on 1 December 2020 after having retired from the UK Supreme Court just two months earlier.

In 1952, the Hill family was held hostage by escaped convicts in their suburban Pennsylvania home.

The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner's penetrating analysis of the crisis of democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.

"e;A powerful challenge to the prevailing constitutional orthodoxy of the right and the left .

George Polk Award Winner: This account of American book banning and the battles against it is "e;a tour de force to fascinate lawyers and laymen alike"e; (The New York Times Book Review).

Sixteen essays about the First Amendment from the man who changed the way America reads literatureA lawyer, literary agent, and author, Charles Rembar never stopped fighting against the puritanical laws that prevented Americans from consuming controversial art.

A unique investigation into how alliances form in highly polarized times among LGBTQ, immigrant, and labor rights activists, revealing the impacts within each rights movement.

Social justice and human rights movements are entering a new phase.

Contemporary feminist advocacy in human rights, international criminal law, and peace and security is gripped by the issue of sexual violence in conflict.

Born into a tenant farming family in North Carolina in 1946, Mary Louise, Mary Ann, Mary Alice, and Mary Catherine were medical miracles.

Nancy Leong reveals how powerful people and institutions use diversity to their own advantage and how the rest of us can respond-and do better.

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.

"e;A powerful challenge to the prevailing constitutional orthodoxy of the right and the left .

The Politics of Love in Myanmar offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT activists before, during, and after Myanmar's post-2011 political transition.

Emptied Lands investigates the protracted legal, planning, and territorial conflict between the settler Israeli state and indigenous Bedouin citizens over traditional lands in southern Israel/Palestine.

The Poverty of Privacy Rights makes a simple, controversial argument: Poor mothers in America have been deprived of the right to privacy.

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In 1952, the Hill family was held hostage by escaped convicts in their suburban Pennsylvania home.