Law: Human rights and civil liberties

A unique investigation into how alliances form in highly polarized times among LGBTQ, immigrant, and labor rights activists, revealing the impacts within each rights movement.

Hace dos siglos, Benjamín Constant buscó dar sentido a la Jefatura del Estado y elaboró, a tal efecto, la doctrina del poder neutro o preservador.

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the criminal defence of self-defence from a philosophical, legal and human rights perspective.

What does it mean to "e;act black"e; or "e;act white"e;?

This collection of essays is a tribute to Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, who died aged 72 on 1 December 2020 after having retired from the UK Supreme Court just two months earlier.

While the legal systems of the United Kingdom and Germany differ in essential respects, the current process of 'constitutionalisation' is well recognised on both sides of the Channel.

This book studies the experiences of face veil wearers in Europe and examines the ramifications of the empirical findings for legislative agendas.

This book examines how human rights came to define the bounds of universal morality during the political crises and conflicts of the twentieth century.

For decades Sydney Kentridge QC has been admired as a brilliant advocate, an outstanding lawyer and, during the apartheid years in South Africa, a courageous defender of the individual against an oppressive state.

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

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

If a pregnant woman refuses medical treatment needed by the fetus - for instance for religious reasons - or conducts some aspect of her life in a way which risks fetal harm, there may arise an instance of "e;maternal-fetal conflict"e;.

In Humanity's Law, renowned legal scholar Ruti Teitel offers a powerful account of one of the central transformations of the post-Cold War era: the profound normative shift in the international legal order from prioritizing state security to protecting human security.

This book shows how a series of contradictions worked their way into the International Bill of Human Rights.

This book covers civil rights and civil liberties politics in the United States from the ratification of the Bill of Rights to more recent controversies, such as the travel ban and proposals to end birthright citizenship.

A comparative analysis of the extent and role of transnational judicial dialogue in European refugee law, first published in 2010.

Originally the constitution was expected to express and channel popular sovereignty.

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.

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

An eighth-generation Charlestonian with a prestigious address, impeccable social credentials, and years of intimate association with segregationist politicians, U.

Tom Bingham (1933-2010) was the 'greatest judge of our time' (The Guardian), a towering figure in modern British public life who championed the rule of law and human rights inside and outside the courtroom.

Social justice and human rights movements are entering a new phase.

This is the first book-length work to offer a sustained comparison of Roma and African Americans.

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

The Constitution in 2020 is a powerful blueprint for implementing a more progressive vision of constitutional law in the years ahead.

This book calls into question the legitimacy of state uses of violence and mounts a sustained effort at interpretation, sense making, and critique.

This Handbook is the latest version of a book that was last published in 2003, and has been completely revised to take account of the innumerable legal developments since then.

Winner of the 2018 Inner Temple New Authors Book Prize and the 2016 SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship.

En este trabajo colectivo se analiza la necesidad y el alcance de un principio de neutralidad en el constitucionalismo, es decir, los ámbitos en los que se impide adoptar decisiones o realizar actividad que favorezca determinadas y concretas posiciones ideológicas u opciones políticas, es decir, actividad de tendencia en ámbitos regidos por la idea de interés general o público.

The early Supreme Court justices wrestled with how much press and speech is protected by freedoms of press and speech, before and under the First Amendment, and with whether the Sedition Act of 1798 violated those freedoms.

On any given day nearly 3000 foreign national citizens are detained under immigration powers in UK detention centres alone.

International human rights law is sometimes criticized as an infringement of constitutional democracy.

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A human right to housing represents the law's most direct and overt protection of housing and home.

This collection of essays explores the evolution of anti-discrimination law in European civil law jurisdictions.

This book is concerned with children's economic and social rights (sometimes referred to simply as children's social rights).

Das Gesellschaftsrecht stellt einen Kernbereich des Wirtschaftsrechts und damit der juristischen Ausbildung dar.

The Equality Act 2010 is a major landmark in the long struggle for equal rights.

This book charts the ambiguous and contested meanings of civil rights in law and culture, confronting important questions about race in contemporary America.