Law: Human rights and civil liberties

A multidisciplinary empirical study of how juvenile justice standards were operationalised by the state and UNICEF in post-genocide Rwanda.

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

This detailed examination explores the extent to which non-pecuniary damages can properly be awarded to companies.

El estudio y la comprensión de los derechos políticos y de participación: sufragio, referéndum, revocatoria, iniciativa legislativa y otras formas participativas, resulta indispensable para lograr que, cumplido el bicentenario de nuestra independencia, la voluntad expresada por la ciudadanía presida en definitiva la vida de la Nación peruana, prevalezca en los procedimientos democráticos, y destierre las vías de hecho y fuerza utilizadas por los gobernantes de facto que mediante golpes de estado usurparon el poder político y establecieron regímenes dictatoriales para su beneficio particular en gran parte de la historia política pasada.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the law and procedure of the European Court of Human Rights.

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

ZUSTANDEKOMMEN UND FORTWIRKEN EINER DER BEKANNTESTEN URKUNDEN DER TIROLER GESCHICHTE IM VERLAUF VON 500 JAHREN Das Landlibell, eine auf den 23.

A collection of expert essays analysing the AFSJ and its implications from the point of view of fundamental rights.

Explores different conceptions of legal personhood within EU data protection law and wider issues of privacy and individual rights.

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

The meteoric rise in criminal prosecutions of former heads of state is examined for the first time in this probing and engaging narrative.

Minority Accommodation through Territorial and Non-Territorial Autonomy explores the relationship between minority, territory, and autonomy, and how it informs our understanding of non-territorial autonomy (NTA) as a strategy for accommodating ethno-cultural diversity in modern societies.

This volume outlines why discrimination against older people results from a combination of age and other grounds of discrimination.

This book is about the places of First Amendment expression.

Analyses how human rights law can overcome constraining approaches to the right to health of irregular migrants.

This book explores the means by which economic liberalisation can be reconciled with human rights and environmental protection in the regulation of international trade.

This book explores how restrictive copyright laws deny access to information for the print disabled, despite equality laws protecting access.

As the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded, stark social inequalities have increasingly been revealed and, in many cases, exacerbated by the global health crisis.

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

Human rights can be understood as moral or political.

Winner: Langum Prize Before 1954, both law and custom mandated strict racial segregation throughout much of the nation.

To what extent should parents be able to choose the kind of child they have?

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

Proposes a new way of thinking about information privacy that leverages law to protect disclosures in contexts of trust.

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

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

Canadians like to see themselves as champions of human rights in the international community.

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.

Provides an analysis of the origins, current sources, and character of privacy law in Ireland with a particular focus on how to navigate privacy claims and balance privacy with other interests before the Irish courts.

Focussing on access to territory and authorization of presence and residence for third-country nationals, this book examines the EU law on immigration and asylum, addressing related questions of security of residence.

This book examines the disclosure and withholding of all forms of confidential information handled by professionals.

On what grounds should religious accommodation claims be limited?

The idea of sovereignty and the debates that surround it are not merely of historical, academic, or legal interest: they are also potent, vibrant issues and as current and relevant as today's front page news in the United States and in other Western democracies.

Palestinians have used the language of human rights to articulate their struggle against the Israeli occupation and internationalise the injustices they face.

Cellular technology has always been a surveillance technology, but "e;cellular convergence"e; - the growing trend for all forms of communication to consolidate onto the cellular handset - has dramatically increased the impact of that surveillance.

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American by Birth explores the history and legacy of Wong Kim Ark and the 1898 Supreme Court case that bears his name, which established the automatic citizenship of individuals born within the geographic boundaries of the United States.

The European Convention on Human Rights is one of the most influential human rights documents in existence, in terms of its scope, impact, and jurisdiction.

It has been well-established that many of the injustices that people around the world experience every day, from food insecurity to unsafe labor conditions and natural disasters, are the result of wide-scale structural problems of politics and economics.

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.

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.

Cornerstone on Information Law is a one-volume practical guide focused on data protection law, freedom of information and the environmental information regulations.

Human Rights Law in Scotland, Fourth Edition provides essential practical guidance to the Scottish legal profession.