Law: Human rights and civil liberties

Mit allen relevanten Vorschriften zum EuroparechtDie 9.

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.

Without our consent and often without our knowledge, the government can constantly monitor many of our daily activities, using closed circuit TV, global positioning systems, and a wide array of other sophisticated technologies.

Torture has lately become front page news, featured in popular movies and TV shows, and a topic of intense public debate.

Why we're better off treating corporations as people under the law-and making them behave like citizensAre corporations people?

While Islamophobia was present in our society before 9/11, it has become more pervasive in recent years.

A compelling account of how women shaped the common law right to privacy during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Drawing on a wealth of original research, Jessica Lake documents how the advent of photography and cinema drove women—whose images were being taken and circulated without their consent—to court.

Rewriting the Supreme Court's landmark gay rights decision Jack Balkin and an all-star cast of legal scholars, sitting as a hypothetical Supreme Court, rewrite the famous 2015 opinion in Obergefell v.

The debate over the framers’ concept of freedom of religion has become heated and divisive.

This new edition upon the 50th anniversary of In re Gault includes expanded coverage of the Roberts Courts juvenile justice decisions including Miller v.

This book considers the increasing trend towards a 'culture of control' in democratic countries.

Providing practical and theoretical resources on media law and ethics for the United Kingdom and United States of America and referencing other legal jurisdictions such as France, Japan, India, China and Saudi Arabia, Comparative Media Law and Ethics is suitable for upper undergraduate and postgraduate study and for professionals in the media who need to work internationally.

What can straight people do to support gay rights?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Cesar Chavez was one tough fellow.

Here American history and American law merge into one.

When Arthur Gochman filed a class-action suit in 1968 on behalf of San Antonio school children, he and his clients were directly challenging the inequality of education funding in Texas.

Esta breve selección de Decretos y documentos de Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz muestra su ideario.

"Se presenta a la comunidad académica el tercer tomo sobre temas nucleares del derecho civil, dedicado en esta ocasión a la apreciación de la naturaleza desde el enfoque jurídico y las diversas relaciones entre las personas que tienen como fuente e interés protegido los objetos materiales.

En Teoría política e historia constitucional, Claudio Contreras sigue una línea de investigación que inició con su tesis doctoral defendida en la Universidad Nacional de Plata.

This collection incorporates the crucial democratic principles on which our identity as Americans is based.

This volume examines European and national higher-court decisions on social media from the perspective of fundamental rights and judicial dialogue.

Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema Online-Identität und Privatsphäre.

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

Covering 17 Asian jurisdictions representing differing stages in the development of data protection regulatory systems this book offers an in-depth, cross-jurisdictional commentary on the developing world of Asian privacy and personal data protection, with a special focus on private international law issues.

Religious freedom is a fundamental and relatively uncontested right in both the United States and Europe.

Governments around the world use machine learning in automated decision-making systems for a broad range of functions.

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.

First Published in 1993.

Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader is a much-needed exploration of the relationship between sex, gender and gender identity.

Governments around the world use machine learning in automated decision-making systems for a broad range of functions.

First Published in 1993.

This book presents original research on the controversies surrounding animal sacrifice in South Asia through the lens of court cases.

Hurricane Katrina inflicted damage on a scale unprecedented in American history, nearly destroying a major city and killing thousands of its citizens.

This book presents original research on the controversies surrounding animal sacrifice in South Asia through the lens of court cases.

Religious freedom is a fundamental and relatively uncontested right in both the United States and Europe.

La Constitución Nacional reconoce el derecho de las autoridades indígenas para ejercer funciones jurisdiccionales dentro de su ámbito territorial, de conformidad con sus propias normas y procedimientos.

This title was first published in 2003.

Since 2005, Voice of Witness has illuminated contemporary human rights crises through its oral history book series.

Sex and Gender: A Contemporary Reader is a much-needed exploration of the relationship between sex, gender and gender identity.