Law: Human rights and civil liberties

The book addresses the legality of indefinite detention in countries including Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada, enabling a rich cross-fertilisation of experiences and discourses.

This book examines the legal boundaries of non-consensual brain-reading in criminal justice, focusing on human rights like freedom of thought.

This book tracks the transformation of preventive detention from an emergency measure into an ordinary law enforcement tool in the democratic world.

Evaluates the successes and failures of the 1996 South African Constitution following the twentieth anniversary of its enactment.

The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner's penetrating analysis of the crisis of democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.

Since its founding in 1910--the same year as another national organization devoted to the economic and social welfare aspects of race advancement, the National Urban League--the NAACP has been viewed as the vanguard national civil rights organization in American history.

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

As Americans wrestle with red-versus-blue debates over traditional values, defense of marriage, and gay rights, reason often seems to take a back seat to emotion.

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

Thoroughly updated and featuring 75 new entries, this monumental four-volume work illuminates past and present events associated with civil rights and civil liberties in the United States.

This book undertakes a comparative study of the public interest and political speech defences in defamation law, particularly from the perspective of the misuse of democratic free expression justifications.

This updated edition offers a fresh approach to the law governing employment relations, emphasising the contemporary policy themes of social inclusion, competitiveness, and the rights of citizenship in the workplace.

A succinct account of the development of American antislavery constitutionalism in the years preceding the Civil War.

This is the first book to examine the civil liberties records of American presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama.

In this pathbreaking study, Pamela Steiner deconstructs the psychological obstacles that have prevented peaceful settlements to longstanding issues.

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

An intellectually rigorous and accessible overview of key topics on the relationship between natural law and human rights.

Should workers ever lose their job because of their political views or affiliations?

Calling for future law reform, Burdon questions if you will have privacy in a world of ubiquitous data collection.

Following on from the first volume, this unique book is the only collection of native analyses of the status of legislation in 30 European jurisdictions plus the EU.

Analysis of when, where, and how American law recognizes and responds to claims made in the name of human rights.

The overarching objective of this volume is to discuss and critique the legal regulation of human trafficking in national and transnational context.

Sixteen essays about the First Amendment from the man who changed the way America reads literature A lawyer, literary agent, and author, Charles Rembar never stopped fighting against the puritanical laws that prevented Americans from consuming controversial art.

Provides a critical and theoretically informed analysis of the leading case-law on the compatibility of primary legislation with the HRA.

This book offers a comprehensive critique of the principle of proportionality and balancing as applied to human and constitutional rights.

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

Stephen Gardbaum proposes and examines a new way of protecting rights in a democracy.

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

This book shows how Lewis was interested in the truths and falsehoods about human nature and how these conceptions manifest themselves in the public square.

This book sets out to assess the role and impact of socio-economic strategies used by civil society actors in South Africa.

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.

The Educational Lockout of African Americans in Prince Edward County, Virginia (1959-1964): Personal Accounts and Reflections provides ground-breaking research on the historical events surrounding the Prince Edward County's school closings.

"Este libro es producto de la investigación de diversas inquietudes, de veintidós investigadores de diez países iberoamericanos, en torno a los desarrollos jurisprudenciales y los debates contemporáneos del derecho internacional en materia derecho internacional penal, derecho internacional humanitario, justicia transicional y las necesidades cambiantes de su protección y desarrollo en el contexto de la globalización.

Punishing Corporate Crime: Legal Penalties for Criminal and Regulatory Violations provides a practical discussion of criminal punishment trends directed at the corporate entity.

This book aims to bolster the burgeoning discourse of health and human rights.

Every Supreme Court transition presents an opportunity for a shift in the balance of the third branch of American government, but the replacement of Thurgood Marshall with Clarence Thomas in 1991 proved particularly momentous.

The landmark Brown v.

The first comprehensive study of the human rights of hostages.

Is it time to take a break from feminism?

Historically, Indigenous artistic, cultural, and societal expression has been identified and examined within Canadian or international legal regimes.

This book is a contemporary, comprehensive, and accessible text on the use of force and international law suitable for a range of audiences.

This volume sets out to disentangle the debate about the Millennium Development goals in theory and practice.