Law: Human rights and civil liberties

This book challenges the common view that the Russian Constitution is a sham or a reflection of Russia's authoritarian past.

This book challenges whether the protection and privilege of religious belief and identity should be prioritized over any other right.

While young children's rights have received considerable attention and have accordingly advanced over the past two decades, the rights of adolescents have been neglected.

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).

Una comprensión del derecho y su eficacia en América Latina exige conceptos distintos a las nociones hegemónicas de ""estado de derecho"" que han dominado los debates sobre el derecho, la política y la sociedad, y que reconozcan la diversidad de situaciones y contextos que caracterizan a la región.

Over the past three decades, neither France's treatment of Muslims nor changes in French, British, and German immigration laws have confirmed multiculturalist hopes or postnationalist expectations.

In 1846 two slaves, Dred and Harriet Scott, filed petitions for their freedom in the Old Courthouse in St.

The Human Rights Act 1998 is criticised for providing a weak protection of human rights.

Non-territorial autonomy (NTA) is a statecraft tool that is increasingly gaining importance in societies seeking to accommodate demands by ethno-cultural groups for a voice in cultural affairs important to the protection and preservation of their identity, such as language, education, and religion.

Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing?

In Frontiers of Gender Equality, editor Rebecca Cook enlarges the chorus of voices to introduce new and different discourses about the wrongs of gender discrimination and to explain the multiple dimensions of gender equality.

Freedom of expression is generally analysed as a bare liberty against restraint by state action.

The purpose of Granville Sharpe's Cases on Slavery is twofold: first, to publish previously unpublished legal materials principally in three important cases in the 18th century on the issue of slavery in England, and specifically the status of black people who were slaves in the American colonies or the West Indies and who were taken to England by their masters.

"e;Since the fall of the Berlin wall there has been a surprising dearth of high quality of scholarship on legal culture in the communist successor states of East Central Europe.

This book deals with human rights action planning, as a largely under-researched area, from theoretical, doctrinal, empirical, and practical perspectives, and as such, provides the most comprehensive studies of human rights planning to date.

Consociations are power-sharing arrangements, increasingly used to manage ethno-nationalist, ethno-linguistic, and ethno-religious conflicts.

Drawing from multiple scholarly fields, Kenyon examines free speech''s positive dimensions of enablement and how they can be pursued.

The Rights of Indians and Tribes, first published in 1983, has sold over 100,000 copies and is the most popular resource in the field of Federal Indian Law.

Over the last 15 years, privacy actions have been recognised at common law or in equity across common law jurisdictions, and statutory privacy protections have proliferated.

This unique book, formed as a series of essays in honour of the memory of Paul Heim CMG, the founder of Lincoln's Inn European Group, focusses on the building of bridges between individuals and institutions in European, international, and human rights law.

Freedom of speech is central to the liberal democratic tradition.

Zahlreiche verbraucherschutzrechtliche Vorstöße des deutschen Gesetzgebers und der Europäischen Union versuchen seit den siebziger Jahren des vergangenen Jahrhunderts dem Verbraucher individuelle Rechte einzuräumen, wenn dieser aufgrund einer irreführenden Werbung einen Vertrag geschlossen hat.

This book examines law and religion from the perspective of its case law.

Islam is a growing presence practically everywhere in Europe.

This book provides an overview of the progress and continuing disparities faced by people with disabilities around the world.

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.

The new third edition of Medicine, Ethics and the Law takes account of the numerous cases and proposed legislative changes that have taken place in Ireland since the last edition in 2011.

Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the human rights movement achieved unprecedented global prominence.

Leading academics and practitioners examine how the Human Rights Act influences private law cases in theory and practice.

Adolescence, Privacy, and the Law provides a foundation for understanding privacy rights and how they relate to adolescents.

Jan Oster develops a coherent theoretical and doctrinal framework for the scope, content and limitations of media freedom.

First Amendment Freedoms: A Reference Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of the discourse on First Amendment freedom issues in an objective and unbiased manner and provides valuable data and documents to guide readers to further research on the subject.

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.

Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the human rights movement achieved unprecedented global prominence.

It's a common complaint: the United States is overrun by rules and procedures that shackle professional judgment, have no valid purpose, and serve only to appease courts and lawyers.

Now in a comprehensively updated edition, this indispensable handbook analyzes how international humanitarian law has evolved in the face of these many new challenges.

Homophobia exists in many different forms across Europe.

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

This book explores the relationship between truth and freedom in the free press.

An excellent resource for high school and college students, this book surveys the size, scope, and nature of government surveillance in 21st-century America, with a particular focus on technology-enabled surveillance and its impact on privacy and other civil liberties.

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