Law: Human rights and civil liberties

Today''s struggle for free speech is placed into historical context to explore how laws protect, or threaten, less-powerful speakers.

The book shows how state-enforced religious laws impact human rights, and what people do to advance their rights from within.

This book argues that there is an important connection between ethical resistance to British imperialism and the ethical discovery of gay rights.

Dieses Übungsbuch bietet Studierenden und Kandidierenden für die Anwaltsprüfung sowie Praktizierenden die Möglichkeit, ihr Wissen im Bereich Einleitungsartikel des ZGB und Personenrecht, insbesondere Persönlichkeitsschutz, natürliche Person im Allgemeinen sowie Vereins- und Stiftungsrecht, zu überprüfen und zu festigen.

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

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.

The effect of a criminal record or arrest can be long-lasting and damaging.

Während bisher zur Geschichte des Strafrechts in der alten Bundesrepublik lediglich kürzere, überblicksartige Gesamtdarstellungen existierten, nimmt dieser Band das gesamte Spektrum des Allgemeinen Teils, flankiert durch die "Grundlagen" und die Rechtsfolgenseite, detailreich in den Blick.

This volume explains the FTC''s privacy activities and how they fit in the context of the agency''s consumer protection mission.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of how to attain equality in the area of disability discrimination.

This book examines law and religion from the perspective of its case law.

This book brings together papers that offer conceptual analyses, highlight issues, propose solutions, and discuss practices regarding privacy, data protection and Artificial Intelligence.

Se ha señalado con mucha razón que en el marco del Estado constitucional los derechos fundamentales son la piedra angular del derecho público y privado.

The changes made by the Lisbon Treaty suggest that its entry into force in December 2009 marks a new stage in the shaping of the EU's commitment to the protection of fundamental rights.

Cell phone apps share location information; software companies store user data in the cloud; biometric scanners read fingerprints; employees of some businesses have microchips implanted in their hands.

Reconceives civil rights as a set of legal guarantees that all will be included in the legal, political, economic and social projects central to civil society.

This book offers a thematic and comprehensive account of international humanitarian law by juxtaposing key materials and targeted commentary.

The landmark Brown v.

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Advocates within the growing field of children's rights have designed dynamic campaigns to protect and promote children's rights.

Cet ouvrage analyse les relations qui existent entre les besoins du juriste dans sa compréhension du monde et la question du « réel du droit » – et plus largement du « réel pour le droit ».

This stirring collection of essays and talks by activist and former judge Albie Sachs is the culmination of more than 25 years of thought about constitution-making and non-racialism.

What can straight people do to support gay rights?

In recent years a strand of thinking has developed in private law scholarship which has come to be known as 'rights' or 'rights-based' analysis.

This book explains our right to freedom of expression, its limits, and how Canadian courts draw the line.

This book explores the implications of freedom as a non-domination-oriented view for understanding EU security regulation and its constitutional implications.

This book analyses the international legal framework governing terrorism and counter-terrorism and assesses the legal issues relating to post-9/11 international practice.

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

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The European Convention on Human Rights has evolved into a sophisticated legal system, whose formal reach into the domestic law and politics of the Contracting States is limited only by the ever-widening scope of the Convention itself, as determined by a transnational court.

Cornerstone on Information Law is a one-volume practical guide focused on data protection law, freedom of information and the environmental information regulations.

A much-needed corrective on what privacy is, why it matters, and how we can protect in an age when so many believe that the concept is dead.

This book examines an unexplored method of interpretation: the use of domestic law in the interpretation of international law.

Palestinians have used the language of human rights to articulate their struggle against the Israeli occupation and internationalise the injustices they face.

There are now a number of statutes in different parts of the world that offer non-constitutional protection for human rights through mechanisms such as strong interpretive obligations, quasi-tort actions and obligations on legislatures to consider whether statutes are felt to breach human rights obligations.

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

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.

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

EU Anti-Discrimination Law provides a detailed and critical analysis of the corpus of European Union law prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age, and sexual orientation.

A fresh response to the problem of illegal immigration in the United States through the context of Christian theology.

"e;This collection of short meditations, written from a prison cell, captures the past two decades of police violence that gave rise to Black Lives Matter while digging deeply into the history of the United States.

This volume presents and critiques the distorted effects of the international human rights movement''s focus on the fight against impunity.