Law: Human rights and civil liberties

Current advancements in civil rights and environmental activism emphasize the crucial importance of making environmental information widely available to the public, regardless of whether it is in the hands of the government or of corporations, especially when the information is needed to understand and prevent risks for human health and the environment.

This book shines a light on the still unexplored relationships between federalism and disability rights.

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.

This book looks at responsible government under the Australian Constitution.

This book covers civil rights and civil liberties politics in the United States from the ratification of the Bill of Rights to more recent controversies, such as the travel ban and proposals to end birthright citizenship.

Este libro expone la realidad del movimiento sindical en Colombia evidenciando una paradoja: un incremento exponencial de sindicatos, pero con una tasa afiliacion que no crece y se mantiene alrededor del 5 %.

In Frontiers of Gender Equality, editor Rebecca Cook enlarges the chorus of voices to introduce new and different discourses about the wrongs of gender discrimination and to explain the multiple dimensions of gender equality.

"e;A balanced and thorough look at the United States' most important contemporary race issues, with timely content and excellent supporting documentation.

This book examines the international, regional and domestic human rights frameworks that establish victim rights as a central force in law and policy in the twenty-first century.

This volume examines the investigation by the 1975 Senate Select Committee ( Church Committee ) into US intelligence abuses during the Cold War, and considers its lessons for the currentwar on terror.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the wide-ranging body of law that applies to public protest activity.

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

This book leaves no stone unturned in its comprehensive examination of the complex challenges surrounding academic freedom in Africa.

God does not discriminate based on gender.

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.

Freedom of religion or belief is deeply entrenched in international human rights conventions and constitutional traditions around the world.

Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the human rights movement achieved unprecedented global prominence.

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.

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.

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

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Bringing together cutting edge and diverse research from international and interdisciplinary perspectives, this book initiates and shapes conversations about transgender people within the criminal justice system.

This volume explores how national and international human rights courts interpret and apply human dignity.

The book challenges the dominant “liberal universality” framework in human rights, advocating for a return to the “pluralistic universality” of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, through a holistic vision of the right to self-determination.

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

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.

Is it time to take a break from feminism?

What does the right to be oneself entail?

This book, the first of its kind, comprehensively explores Native American claims against the United States government over the past two centuries.

With this book, Charlotte Walker-Said and John D.

As legal jurisdictions in the Global South, both India and South Africa have long histories of inequality and structural oppression.

This is the first-and the only authorized-biography of Elbert Parr Tuttle (1897-1996), the judge who led the federal court with jurisdiction over most of the Deep South through the most tumultuous years of the civil rights revolution.

This book explores the enduring tensions between free expression and regulation in an era of disinformation, surveillance, and digital monopolies.

The concept of human dignity is already embedded in the constitutional architecture of the European Union and throughout the world, but it remains a slippery and elusive concept.

Muchas democracias aparecen recorridas por un temible fantasma: el hastío o la fatiga.

En muchos países de América Latina los ciudadanos de a pie sienten que el poder político está en manos de una minoría y que el voto periódico no alcanza como mecanismo de control.

"Son demasiados los ciudadanos que no tienen presente la medida en que su propio bienestar es producto de un sistema de gobierno que los beneficia todos los días", escribe Cass R.

Durante las últimas décadas, la promesa de igualdad y su búsqueda han sido una constante en las prácticas, las normas y la reflexión jurídicas, lo que reafirma que ni el Estado ni los individuos deben decidir o realizar acciones discriminatorias guiadas por prejuicios y estigmatizaciones.

Es un gran honor presentar a la comunidad académica el presente libro, fruto de la dialéctica entre destacados profesores de pregrado y posgrado de la Universidad de Medellín, que reúne diferentes capítulos sobre temas actuales de derecho privado, abordados con elevado rigor crítico, analítico y propositivo.

This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of the study of the rule of law across law, the humanities, and social sciences, as well as insights into the practice of building the rule of law within and among states.

Constituye un motivo de especial satisfacción presentar a la comunidad académica esta nueva obra colectiva, titulada La acción popular: análisis evolutivo de algunas temáticas en los 20 años de vigencia de la Ley 472 de 1998, que reúne seis disertaciones jurídicas con serias y profundas reflexiones sobre aspectos trascendentales para la comprensión de los derechos colectivos y del mecanismo procesal constitucional que los protege por excelencia en Colombia: la acción popular.

Este libro presenta algunos aspectos problemáticos de la interpretación de las fuentes del derecho, desde una perspectiva histórica.

Este libro ofrece un corpus sistemático del pensamiento delprofesor Dieter Grimm sobre los orígenes, desarrollo y futuro de ese logrollamado constitucionalismo.

En Reforma y desmembramiento constitucional, Richard Albert, profesor de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Texas en Austin, aborda el problema que plantean las enmiendas que modifican los pilares estructurales de las constituciones.

El doctor Castaño Peña presenta aquí una notable contribución que, con ligeras modificaciones, reproduce su tesis doctoral, defendida el pasado curso académico 2018-2019 en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Este libro nos adentra en los laberintos de la búsqueda de la verdad sobre el conflicto armado y sobre fenómenos de violencia masiva.