Law: Human rights and civil liberties

This book examines the concept of intersectional discrimination and why it has been difficult for jurisdictions around the world to redress it in discrimination law.

The book explores artistic freedom as a human right and the contemporary challenges for its protection under international law.

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.

Der Sammelband erweitert die Perspektiven europawissenschaftlicher Forschung.

Die Überarbeitung bringt das Lehrbuch auf den aktuellen Stand.

Argues that international human rights and water laws provide legal bases for the right to water and its extraterritorial application.

In recent years, feminist theory has increasingly defined itself in opposition to universalism and to discourses of human rights.

Focuses on the exercise and protection of cross- and beyond-border expressive and religious liberties, and on the First Amendment''s relationship to the world beyond US shores.

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

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

In 1987 Judge Russell Clark mandated tax increases to help pay for improvements to the Kansas City, Missouri, School District in an effort to lure white students and quality teachers back to the inner-city district.

Studies how victims of human rights violations in Latin America, their families, and their advocates work to overcome entrenched impunity and seek legal justice.

Although over 100 countries have developed data privacy laws, there is a lack of expert guidance on these laws.

Im Buch werden die Verfassungsordnungen der 27 EU-Mitgliedstaaten in integrierter Form dargestellt.

What practical impact does the incorporation of international human rights standards into domestic law have?

When Hiss ne Habr , the deposed dictator of Chad, was found guilty of crimes against humanity in 2016, it was described as 'a watershed for human rights justice in Africa and beyond'.

Many of the most influential contributions to private law scholarship in the latter part of the twentieth century go beyond purely doctrinal accounts of private law.

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

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The tension between freedom of expression and European personal data protection regulation is unmistakable.

Spain is a notable exception to the implicit rules of late twentieth-century democratization: after the death of General Francisco Franco in 1975, the recovering nation began to consolidate democracy without enacting any of the mechanisms promoted by the international transitional justice movement.

Concerns associated with globalisation of markets, exacerbated by the 'credit crunch', have placed pressure on many nation states to make their labour markets more 'flexible'.

This volume contributes to the growing field of comparative Jewish and American law, presenting twenty-six essays characterized by a number of distinct features.

An examination of corporate privacy management in the United States, Germany, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom, identifying international best practices and making policy recommendations.

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

In den globalen Datengesellschaften zählen Informationen über Handeln, Denken und Fühlen der Menschen.

The concept of 'human security' has influenced discourse and practice and has been the subject of vigorous debate.

How does an idea that forms in the minds of a few activists in one part of the world become a global norm that nearly all states obey?

With this book, Charlotte Walker-Said and John D.

The most comprehensive and critical analysis of the application of European consensus by the European Court of Human Rights.

Academic Freedom and the Law: A Comparative Study provides a critical analysis of the law relating to academic freedom in three major jurisdictions: the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States.

Each state in Europe has its own national laws which affect religion and these are increasingly the subject of political and academic debate.

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

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

This book explores the struggle for disability rights, with a focus on Web equality for people with cognitive disabilities.

Institutions matter for the advancement of human rights in global health.

Indirect discrimination (or disparate impact) concerns the application of the same rule to everyone, even though that rule significantly disadvantages one particular group in society.

This book considers how access to justice is affected by restrictions to legal aid budgets and increasingly prescriptive service guidelines.

La obra que el lector tiene en sus manos está dedicada al estudio de la consolidación de la Carta de Derechos Fundamentales de la Unión Europea, una vez que el texto ha cumplido los veinte años desde su proclamación (Niza, 2000) y transcurridos ya los primeros diez años desde que, con la entrada en vigor del Tratado de Lisboa (2009), la Carta deviniera un texto jurídicamente vinculante (tanto para las instituciones de la UE como para los Estados miembros cuando aplican Derecho de la Unión), con el mismo valor jurídico que los Tratados de la Unión.

The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, established in 1987, was the third regional instrument, after the European and American systems, for the promotion and protection of human rights.

This seventh volume in the Swedish Studies in European Law series brings together some of the most prominent scholars working within the fast-evolving field of EU civil justice.

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This book is an originalist rereading of the Fourth Amendment that reveals when and how contemporary surveillance technologies should be subject to constitutional regulation.

Fully updated to cover topics such as climate change, trade and business activities, while retaining the original style and structure.