Law: Human rights and civil liberties

This powerful book on racism in the United States argues that a threatening narrative originating in slavery continues to link Black people to inferiority, dangerousness, and crime, causing them to be presumed guilty by society and U.

Las VI Jornadas Nacionales de Derechos Fundamental (realizadas del 16 al 18 de setiembre de 2021) se desarrollan en el marco del Bicentenario de la Independencia del Perú, efeméride propicia Para reflexionar históricamente sobre el devenir y los problemas de nuestro modelo constitucional contemporáneo, no en base a un recuento de los hechos históricos, sino del estudio de las causas de la situación contemporánea tanto del régimen político y del régimen económico, como su impacto en los derechos fundamentales, y, en el quehacer judicial, así como, de analizar las posibilidades de su transformación constitucional.

The original text of the Constitution grants Congress the power to create a regime of intellectual property protection.

Law and Gender in Modern Ireland: Critique and Reform is the first generalist text to tackle the intersection of law and gender in this jurisdiction for over two decades.

Poor public resource management and the global financial crisis curbing fundamental fiscal space, millions thrown into poverty, and authoritarian regimes running successful criminal campaigns with the help of financial assistance are all phenomena that raise fundamental questions around finance and human rights.

The international law governing armed conflict is at a crossroads, as the formal framework of laws designed to control the exercise of self-defense and conduct of inter-state conflict finds itself confronted with violent 21st Century disputes of a very different character.

Historically, Indigenous artistic, cultural, and societal expression has been identified and examined within Canadian or international legal regimes.

As Americans, we cherish the freedom to associate.

This new addition to Hart's acclaimed Landmark Cases series is a diverse and engaging edited collection bringing together eminent commentators from the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, to analyse cases of enduring significance to privacy law.

Safeguarding Our Privacy and Our Values in an Age of Mass SurveillanceAmerica’s mass surveillance programs, once secret, can no longer be ignored.

This book represents the first attempt to examine how EU fundamental rights are protected and enforced by EU governing bodies.

Knocking on the Door is the first book-length work to analyze federal involvement in residential segregation from Reconstruction to the present.

A novel legal argument about the voting rights of refugees recognised in the 1951 Geneva Convention.

Leading academics and practitioners examine how the Human Rights Act influences private law cases in theory and practice.

Since the Revolutionary War, America's military and political leaders have recognized that U.

En nuestro país existen problemas que necesitan soluciones serias y estructurales, es por eso que las instituciones nacionales requieren realizar reflexiones críticas sobre temas sociales, en general y temas constitucionales, en particular; así como también proponer una serie de soluciones urgentes.

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.

Addresses the global turn toward human rights-based litigation to push governments and corporations to ambitiously address the climate emergency.

The overarching objective of this volume is to discuss and critique the legal regulation of human trafficking in national and transnational context.

Every Supreme Court transition presents an opportunity for a shift in the balance of the third branch of American government, but the replacement of Thurgood Marshall with Clarence Thomas in 1991 proved particularly momentous.

The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other industrialized nation in the world-about 1 in 100 adults, or more than 2 million people-while national spending on prisons has catapulted 400 percent.

Human dignity is one of the most challenging and exciting ideas for lawyers and political philosophers in the twenty-first century.

Although over 100 countries have developed data privacy laws, there is a lack of expert guidance on these laws.

This feminist critique of just war reasoning argues for an expansion of responsibility for harms inflicted on civilians in war.

In this pathbreaking study, Pamela Steiner deconstructs the psychological obstacles that have prevented peaceful settlements to longstanding issues.

Free to Believe investigates the protection for freedom of conscience and religion – the first of the “fundamental freedoms” listed in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms – and its interpretation in the courts.

Konstanze Röhrmann stellt in ihrem Buch das Recht der Ehescheidung, einen zu allen Zeiten umstrittenen Teil des Privatrechts, am Beispiel des preußischen Allgemeinen Landrechts von 1794 dar.

This book argues that current equal protection jurisprudence suffers from unnoticed normative and political problems, and elucidates a competing, extant interpretation.

A collection of expert essays examines the privacy rights that have been lost in the post-9/11 era-giving students and others the knowledge they need to take back their constitutional protections.

Data Protection has become one of the most important news topics of recent years, playing a role in elections and referendums, and posing a whole host of new legal questions.

It is remarkable that 10 years after the Human Rights Act came into effect, and with further reform possible, there are still no clear answers to basic questions about the relationship between the Human Rights Act, human rights principles and the common law.

Die Studie beschreibt die institutionelle, organisatorische und politische Entwicklung der EVP-Fraktion im Europaischen Parlament und konzentriert sich dabei auf die Periode nach den ersten Direktwahlen im Jahr 1979.

This comparative analysis of six common law nations identifies and assesses the issues currently challenging judiciary, regulators and religious charities.

This book provides a sustained treatment of the politico-legal context and content of a proposed business and human rights treaty.

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.

La controverse contemporaine qui s’élève au sujet de l’épistémologie de la discipline du droit comparé nourrit une interrogation relevant de la théorie générale du droit.

Understand the complexities of EU law and its implications on UK lawLaw of the European Union, 13th Edition, by Morano-Foadi and Neller is a comprehensive and visually appealing coverage of the structure, law and practice of the European Union and its impact on UK law.

It is remarkable that 10 years after the Human Rights Act came into effect, and with further reform possible, there are still no clear answers to basic questions about the relationship between the Human Rights Act, human rights principles and the common law.

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.

This book is an originalist rereading of the Fourth Amendment that reveals when and how contemporary surveillance technologies should be subject to constitutional regulation.

Criminal procedure in the common law world is being recast in the image of human rights.

This book encompasses human rights and community development, arguing that each is necessary for both understanding and practising the other.

This book delivers an original, theoretically informed analysis of the legal regulation of online speech.

The Immigration Law Handbook has established itself as the gold standard in the field and has become an invaluable resource for immigration practitioners including Asylum and Immigration Tribunal judges, barristers, solicitors, and caseworkers working in immigration, asylum, and human rights law.

Fear, rage, courage, discrimination.