Law: Human rights and civil liberties

A human right to higher education was included in the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which came into force in 1976.

Parliament and the Law (Second Edition) is an edited collection of essays, supported by the UK's Study of Parliament Group, including contributions by leading constitutional lawyers, political scientists and parliamentary officials.

This book offers insight on access to justice from rural areas in internationally comparable contexts to highlight the diversity of experiences within, and across rural areas globally.

Students of American history know of the law's critical role in systematizing a racial hierarchy in the United States.

Examines extraterritoriality and transatlantic jurisdictional conflicts in data protection law, focusing on fundamental rights.

A fully revised and comprehensive overview of the legal principles governing the entry of people into Australia.

La objeción de conciencia en la atención de la salud es un tema que ha crecido en los tipos de problemas que plantea y en su complejidad en muchos países de América Latina.

This long-awaited book is the most detailed and up-to-date account of the complex history of Pueblo Indian land in New Mexico, beginning in the late seventeenth century and continuing to the present day.

Landmark Cases in Defamation Law is a diverse and engaging edited collection that brings together eminent scholars from the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada and New Zealand to analyse cases of enduring significance to defamation law.

Philosopher Kings?

Freedom of information is an extension of freedom of speech, a fundamental human right recognized in international law, which is today understood more generally as freedom of expression in any medium, be it orally, in writing, print, through the Internet or through art forms.

Born into a tenant farming family in North Carolina in 1946, Mary Louise, Mary Ann, Mary Alice, and Mary Catherine were medical miracles.

The book analyzes a contemporary policy question at the nexus of democracy, criminal justice, and constitutional citizenship.

The European Court of Justice has been celebrated as a central force in the creation and deepening of the EU internal market.

This book examines the positive and negative impact testifying has on those who bear witness to the horrors of war.

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

How do bills of rights influence legislative decision-making in New Zealand and the United Kingdom?

Indigenous peoples in Canada are striving for greater economic prosperity and political self-determination.

An unprecedented attempt to analyze the role of the law in the global movement for social justice.

Covering 17 Asian jurisdictions representing differing stages in the development of data protection regulatory systems this book offers an in-depth, cross-jurisdictional commentary on the developing world of Asian privacy and personal data protection, with a special focus on private international law issues.

Band 11 des Europa-Teils der Verfassungen der Welt widmet sich der französischen Verfassungsgeschichte von ihren Anfängen im späten 18.

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

Human rights can be understood as moral or political.

An eminent constitutional scholar reveals how our approach to rights is dividing America, and how we can build a better system of justice: "e;Incisive.

This book analyses human rights in post-national contexts and demonstrates, through the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, that the Margin of Appreciation doctrine is an essential part of human rights adjudication.

This indispensable, one-stop resource examines where Democrats and Republicans stand on current civil rights and liberties issues related to voting, free speech, abortion and reproductive rights, guns, and other hot button topics.

This book examines companies'' and investors'' moral and legal complicity in human rights violations in the context of globalisation.

For centuries, since the Roman Empire's adoption of Christianity, the continent of Europe has been perceived as something of a Christian fortress.

Brings to light evidence of a shift toward a fuller engagement with international human rights norms and their application to domestic policy dilemmas in the US.

A shocking exploration of Americas preferred method of capital punishment.

The civil rights era was a time of pervasive change in American political and social life.

When an individual is accused of a crime he is provided, at least in theory, with numerous constitutional rights throughout the legal process.

Die Stewardship-Verantwortung ist spätestens mit Veröffentlichung der überarbeiteten Aktionärsrechterichtlinie im Sommer 2017 für alle europäischen Mitgliedsstaaten ein Thema geworden.

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

On May 4, 2020, Californians for Consumer Privacy (an advocacy group founded by Alistair MacTaggart) announced that it had collected more than 900,000 signatures to qualify the CPRA (California Privacy Rights Act) for the November 2020 ballot.

This book assesses economic rights and explains their evolution, measurement, and implementation internationally.

Cosmopolitanism and the Development of the International Criminal Court analyzes a set of prominent and competing discourses that emerged in the context of the development and establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

This edited volume discusses the persistence of amnesty in the age of human rights accountability.

Esta obra se centra en el analisis de la crisis del constitucionalismo, estudio que transita por los regimenes autoritarios, hasta anclar en el constitucionalismo erigido en la postguerra mundial.

Freedom of expression is a fundamental right at the heart of any democratic society.

This book provides a sustained treatment of the politico-legal context and content of a proposed business and human rights treaty.

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