Law: Human rights and civil liberties

Leading experts examine the threats posed by populism to human rights and the international systems and explore how to confront them.

Leading experts examine the threats posed by populism to human rights and the international systems and explore how to confront them.

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

A comprehensive analysis into the background of legal responses to, and wider implications of, hate speech in Japan.

Offers a First Amendment approach to defend against governmental censorship of the newest form of technological expression: robotic speech.

Systematic and critical examination of Chinese refugee law and policy including information acquired from interviews and field visits.

This thorough legal resource guides those pushing the frontlines of the nation''s oldest battle: the fight to protect indigenous cultures.

Integrates research, theory, and practice in supported decision-making and describes implications for supports provision in the disability field.

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

A comprehensive look at the toll US government policies took on civil liberties, human rights, and the rule of law in the name of the war on terror.

Provides case studies of the intersection of diplomacy and transitional judicial processes during humanitarian crises in Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, Darfur, and Libya.

Integrates research, theory, and practice in supported decision-making and describes implications for supports provision in the disability field.

Presents a critical evaluation of a controversial interpretative tool the ECtHR uses to answer morally/politically sensitive human rights questions.

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

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

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

Provides case studies of the intersection of diplomacy and transitional judicial processes during humanitarian crises in Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, Darfur, and Libya.

This book tells the story of how Americans, from the Civil War through today, have fought over the meaning of civil rights.

Discusses how mass detention and deportation of immigrants, has escalated even higher since the Obama and Trump administrations.

This book re-imagines transitional justice as a movement, and explains why truth commissions are being promoted and created.

This book re-imagines transitional justice as a movement, and explains why truth commissions are being promoted and created.

The book is for all readers interested in African institutions and contemporary global challenges of peace, security, human rights, and international law.

The book is for all readers interested in African institutions and contemporary global challenges of peace, security, human rights, and international law.

Human rights can be understood as moral or political.

Human rights can be understood as moral or political.

This book provides a ground-breaking discussion of the human right to make decisions in our own lives.

A comprehensive treatment of contemporary surveillance technologies and regulatory strategies with an emphasis on policing and national security.

We live in an age of surveillance.

This book offers new perspectives and insights into the functioning of mechanisms utilised by global constitutionalism.

The first book to engage in a comprehensive examination of the human right to water in theory and in practice.

Explores the effect of justice measures on ''regime consolidation'' in a post-transition context.

Uses a comparative analysis of case law in leading common law nations to demonstrate how religious discrimination is culturally determined.

A comprehensive treatment of contemporary surveillance technologies and regulatory strategies with an emphasis on policing and national security.

We live in an age of surveillance.

This book offers new perspectives and insights into the functioning of mechanisms utilised by global constitutionalism.

The first book to engage in a comprehensive examination of the human right to water in theory and in practice.

This book provides a ground-breaking discussion of the human right to make decisions in our own lives.

Leading legal scholars explore the role of the law in the emergence and rise of Islamophobia in the United States following the events of 9/11.

Takes a behind the scenes look at the debates and decisions of the Kenyan Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission.

Takes a behind the scenes look at the debates and decisions of the Kenyan Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission.

Examines a trio of key concepts that help to stabilize states and the international order: human rights, democracy, and legitimacy.

This book highlights the importance of law, policy and rights in improving children''s lives, combining historical analysis and human rights law.

This is the first book on the policy questions raised by two revolutions in recording the police - copwatching and police-worn body cameras.

This is the first book on the policy questions raised by two revolutions in recording the police - copwatching and police-worn body cameras.

The first textbook on international and European disability law and policy, analysing the interaction between different legal systems and sources.

Captures significant transformations in the theory and practice of economic and social rights in constitutional and human rights law.

Justifies a two-track approach that includes individual and systemic remedies in both domestic and international human rights law.

Justifies a two-track approach that includes individual and systemic remedies in both domestic and international human rights law.

Demonstrates how ''carceral animal law'' strategies put animal protection efforts at war with general anti-oppression and civil rights efforts.

Focuses on understanding human rights as they really are and their proper role in international affairs.