Law: Human rights and civil liberties

'If there were a Nobel Prize in History, Colley would be my nominee' Jill Lepore, New Yorker'One of the most exciting historians of her generation, but also one of the most interesting writers of non-fiction around' - William Dalrymple, Guardian'Colley takes you on intellectual journeys you wouldn't think to take on your own, and when you arrive you wonder that you never did it before' - David Aaronovitch, the Times'A global history of remarkable depth, imagination and insight' Tony Barber, Financial Times Summer BooksStarting not with the United States, but with the Corsican constitution of 1755, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen moves through every continent, disrupting accepted narratives.

This book addresses the relationship between efficient management of critical minerals and sustainability in the Global South, including Sub-Saharan Africa.

Thelegal struggle for civil rights throughout the Southeast and into the 1980s In this book, twenty-threelawyers discuss their experiences in the struggle to advance and maintain civilrights in the United States South.

This book analyses and compares how the USA's liberal allies responded to the use of torture against their citizens after 9/11.

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

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

This book explores the implications of freedom as a non-domination-oriented view for understanding EU security regulation and its constitutional implications.

Provides an overview of the UN Convention on Migrant Workers'' Rights, including its history, content and implementation.

Permanent States of Emergency and the Rule of Law explores the impact that oxymoronic 'permanent' states of emergency have on the validity and effectiveness of constitutional norms and, ultimately, constituent power.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, breathtaking changes in technology are posing stark challenges to our constitutional values.

Contemporary political and legal theory typically justifies the value of political and legal institutions on the grounds that such institutions bring about desirable outcomes - such as justice, security, and prosperity.

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

Modern family life exhibits a huge variety of new forms.

This book examines the countervailing arguments in the religious exemption debate and explains why this issue continues to be so heated and controversial in modern-day America.

A comprehensive analysis and innovative, holistic interpretation of the child''s right to development.

Examines the history of the struggle to advance human rights and provides a global framework of constitutional protections to implement these rights.

In the 2015 UK General Election, the Conservative party pledged to reset the UK's relations with Europe, holding an in-out referendum on membership of the European Union and repealing the Human Rights Act, to be replaced with a UK Bill of Rights.

The relationship between law and religion is evident throughout history.

A compelling, empirically driven argument for participatory, flexible, and survivor-focussed redress programmes for abuse in state care.

This volume of essays, situated at the interface between legal doctrine and legal and political philosophy, discusses the conceptual and normative issues posed by the right to inclusion and exclusion the EU claims for itself when enacting and enforcing immigration and asylum policy under the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice.

In 1925 Leonard Rhinelander, the youngest son of a wealthy New York society family, sued to end his marriage to Alice Jones, a former domestic servant and the daughter of a "e;colored"e; cabman.

This ambitious, innovative project examines the principle of effective judicial protection in EU law over two volumes.

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

In recent years, human rights have come under fire, with the rise of political illiberalism and the coming to power of populist authoritarian leaders in many parts of the world who contest and dismiss the idea of human rights.

In 1958 Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving, two young lovers from Caroline County, Virginia, got married.

This book offers insight on access to justice from rural areas in internationally comparable contexts to highlight the diversity of experiences within, and across rural areas globally.

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

This comparative analysis of six common law nations identifies and assesses the issues currently challenging judiciary, regulators and religious charities.

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.

Comparing and contrasting the World Wars.

Das aus zwei Hauptteilen bestehende verfassungsvergleichende Werk ist den Grundrechtsordnungen in Polen und Deutschland gewidmet.

This book explains the phenomenon of states'' compliance with human rights tribunals'' rulings using theories from international law, human rights, and international relations.

During the Allies invasion of Italy in the thick of World War II, American soldier James Kutcher was hit by a German mortar shell and lost both of his legs.

In The Journey to Separate but Equal: Madame Decuirs Quest for Racial Justice in the Reconstruction Era, Jack Beermann tells the story of how, in Hall v.

Ten years after the Freedom of Information Act 2000 came into force in the UK, the implementation and case law related to the Act remains contentious.

This volume offers insights into the consequences of a growing reliance on the principle of solidarity to ''inscribe'' social policies.

This book highlights the importance of law, policy and rights in improving children''s lives, combining historical analysis and human rights law.

In many countries today there is a growing and genuinely-held concern that the institutional arrangements for the protection of human rights suffer from a 'democratic deficit'.

The gay rights question is whether the second-class legal status of gay people should be changed.

For centuries, Canadian sovereignty has existed uneasily alongside forms of Indigenous legal and political authority.

Criminal procedure in the common law world is being recast in the image of human rights.

Canadian news reports are riddled with accounts of Access to Information requests denied and government reports released with large swaths of content redacted.

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.

The European Union is a supranational organisation with a set of circumscribed powers.

Der Band versammelt Beitrage zu aktuellen Herausforderungen der Europaischen Union, die im Kontext der "e;Conference on European Democracy (EuDEM) 2015"e; in Wien von namhaften Autorinnen und Autoren verfasst worden sind.

How can we guarantee a right to life or a right to health without also guaranteeing a decent environment in which to exercise these rights?