Law: Human rights and civil liberties

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

How do courts reconcile protecting family life with immigration control in human rights cases?

This volume considers the way in which the focus on individual rights may constitute an obstacle to ensuring fairness in criminal proceedings.

Voting rights are a perennial topic in American politics.

Minority Accommodation through Territorial and Non-Territorial Autonomy explores the relationship between minority, territory, and autonomy, and how it informs our understanding of non-territorial autonomy (NTA) as a strategy for accommodating ethno-cultural diversity in modern societies.

Examines security theology, surveillance and the industry of fear from the intimate spaces of everyday life in settler colonial contexts.

American Spies is an entertaining, accessible, and sophisticated exposition of the existing laws and technologies that enable massive modern surveillance.

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

Perhaps more than any other Supreme Court ruling, Brown v.

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.

A Second Appeal: A Consideration of Freedom and Social Justice engages in an analysis of the ideals of freedom and social justice.

This book provides a new conceptual model for considering constitutional rights from a comparative perspective.

Hidden in Plain Sight tells the tragic untold story of children's rights in America.

This book uses primary sources to closely examine the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and to show how legal interpretations of it have had a profound impact on American life as we know it.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the law and procedure of the European Court of Human Rights.

Recent revelations, by Edward Snowden and others, of the vast network of government spying enabled by modern technology have raised major concerns both in the European Union and the United States on how to protect privacy in the face of increasing governmental surveillance.

Considers how law interacts with economic and social processes to create global gender injustices.

This comprehensive 2007 volume provides an approach to equality and anti-discrimination law in the European Union.

As constitutional law globalizes, the quest for a common grammar or 'generic constitutional law' becomes more pressing.

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 details the legal ramifications of existing anti-blasphemy laws and debates the legitimacy of such laws in Western liberal democracies.

Evaluates and reconsiders how the human rights of vulnerable migrants are protected through Europe''s supranational courts.

The root of all inequality is the process of othering - and its solution is the practice of belongingWe all yearn for connection and community, but we live in a time when calls for further division along the well-wrought lines of religion, race, ethnicity, caste, and sexuality are pervasive.

The value of work cannot be underestimated in today's world.

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

Religious freedom is now widely accepted as fundamental to any liberal democracy.

The media today, and especially the national press, are frequently in conflict with people in the public eye, particularly politicians and celebrities, over the disclosure of private information and behaviour.

We live in an age saturated with surveillance.

In Defense of Politicization of Human Rights: The UN Special Procedures constitutes the first comprehensive study of the United Nations Special Procedures, covering their history, methods of work, institutional status, relationship with other politically driven organs, and processes affecting their development.

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

Explains how human rights can boil down to a matter of principle and yet call for implementation through policies.

A groundbreaking application of contemporary philosophy to human rights law that proposes several significant innovations for the progressive development of human rights.

The Bloody Sunday Inquiry has been epic in its scale and implications.

The first global and comparative study of litigation in which refugees seek protection from a place of ostensible ''refuge''.

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

Leading scholars and practitioners address the challenges in the adjudication of refugee claims from those fleeing violence and conflict.

The first comprehensive analysis of the concept of European Public Order as deployed by the European Court of Human Rights.

Ein sachgerechter Umgang mit den Ressourcen und eine effiziente Bearbeitung der Arbeitslast sind zentrale Faktoren für ein effektives Justizmanagement und damit letztlich für eine gut funktionierende Justiz.

Rapid technological change, the advent of Big Data, and the creation of society-wide government surveillance programs have transformed the accessibility of highly personal information; these developments have highlighted the ambiguous treatment of privacy and personal intimacy.

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

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

Expert scholars and practitioners shed light on the laws of humanitarian action and make sense of the various elements involved.

This book presents a new constitutional argument for the legitimacy of evolutive interpretation of the ECHR.

For centuries, Canadian sovereignty has existed uneasily alongside forms of Indigenous legal and political authority.