Law: Human rights and civil liberties

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

This book investigates the limits of the legitimate role of the state in regulating the human body.

This is the first volume to overview the complex Romanian transitional justice effort.

This collection examines the role and value of rights in divided and post-conflict societies, approaching the subject from a comparative and theoretical perspective.

Même si la plupart des adolescents ont déjà fait des bêtises qui enfreignent les lois, seulement quelques-uns vont s'enfoncer dans une trajectoire délinquante qui hypothéquera le reste de leur vie.

Having control over personal data is regarded as a fundamental right in the EU.

An original theory and set of essays on negotiating transitional justice, drawing on the authors'' first-hand experience of Colombia''s peace talks.

What happens inside our prisons?

Explores whether states possess extraterritorial obligations under international law to respect and ensure economic, social and cultural rights.

This textbook comprehensively examines and analyses the interpretation and application of the United Kingdom's Human Rights Act 1998.

International law and most national legal systems recognize the right to strike as a fundamental human right.

The terrorist attacks of 9/11 precipitated significant legal changes over the ensuing ten years, a "e;long decade"e; that saw both domestic and international legal systems evolve in reaction to the seemingly permanent threat of international terrorism.

"e;At its core, the freedom-to-marry movement is about the same thing every civil rights struggle has been about: taking seriously our country's promise to be a nation its citizens can make better, its promise to be a place where people don't have to give up their differences or hide them in order to be treated equally.

A critical take on the convergence of human rights discourse with the counterterrorism agenda revealing its effects on developing countries.

This book develops ''Collective Equality'' as a new theoretical basis for the law of peace and for transitional justice.

In the past two decades, '"e;civil society"e; has become a central organizing concept in the social sciences.

Drawing from multiple scholarly fields, Kenyon examines free speech''s positive dimensions of enablement and how they can be pursued.

The management of religious and ideological diversity remains a key challenge of our time deeply entangled with debates about the nature of liberal democracy, equality, social cohesion, minorities and nationalism, security and foreign policy.

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Since the 1960s, ideas developed during the civil rights movement have been astonishingly successful in fighting overt discrimina-tion and prejudice.

Explores the effects in theory and in practice of recent foreign inspired legal reforms in East Asia and Oceania.

Human Rights Law in Scotland, Fourth Edition provides essential practical guidance to the Scottish legal profession.

Can the Australian state be restructured to empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and ensure that their distinct voices are heard in the processes of government?

Property as a human rights concern is manifested through its incorporation in international instruments and as a subject of the law through property-related cases considered by international human rights organs.

Original scholarship on economic and social human rights from cutting-edge scholars in the fields of economics, law, political science, sociology and anthropology.

This book explores the relationship between truth and freedom in the free press.

A critical examination of the effect of the European Court of Human Rights on Russia''s approach to human rights.

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

"e;The history of the black lawyer in South Carolina,"e; writes W.

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

The first volume of its kind to take a comprehensive view of social justice issues and interventions for young people from a global perspective.

In recent years the impact of human rights and fundamental rights on private law has risen in prominence and led to a whole series of detailed investigations.

Is it defensible to use the concept of a right?

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

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

All states are challenged by the need to protect national security while maintaining the rule of law, but the issue is particularly complex in the China Hong Kong context.

Through mapping the rights discourse and the transformations in transnational finance capitalism since the world wars, and interrogating the connections between the two, Radha D'Souza examines contemporary rights in theory and practice through the lens of the struggles of the people of the Third World, their experiences of national liberation and socialism and their aspirations for emancipation and freedom.

This book brings together papers that offer conceptual analyses, highlight issues, propose solutions, and discuss practices regarding privacy, data protection and enforcing rights in a changing world.

This book examines the disclosure and withholding of all forms of confidential information handled by professionals.

Argues that international human rights and water laws provide legal bases for the right to water and its extraterritorial application.

Social scientists and legal scholars from different disciplines and perspectives explore the intersection of labor and democracy.

This book examines reciprocity between asymmetrical sides in war and conflict.

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.

The 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has inspired advocates and policy makers across the globe, injecting children's rights terminology into various public and private arenas.

This book shows how Lewis was interested in the truths and falsehoods about human nature and how these conceptions manifest themselves in the public square.