Law: Human rights and civil liberties

This is the first-and the only authorized-biography of Elbert Parr Tuttle (1897-1996), the judge who led the federal court with jurisdiction over most of the Deep South through the most tumultuous years of the civil rights revolution.

Tyrannicide uses a captivating narrative to unpack the experiences of slavery and slave law in South Carolina and Massachusetts during the Revolutionary Era.

Freedom of religion or belief is deeply entrenched in international human rights conventions and constitutional traditions around the world.

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.

It is increasingly implausible to speak of a purely domestic abortion law, as the legal debates around the world draw on precedents and influences of different national and regional contexts.

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.

Each year, more than half a million migrant children journey from countries around the globe and enter the United States with no lawful immigration status; many of them have no parent or legal guardian to provide care and custody.

The world seems to have reached agreement on a set of ideals regarding state human rights behavior and the appropriate institutions to promote and protect those ideals.

Most Americans assume that the United States provides a gold standard for human rightsa 2007 survey found that 80 percent of U.

The 1998 arrest of General Augusto Pinochet in London and subsequent extradition proceedings sent an electrifying wave through the international community.

Concise and Abridged EditionIn this blistering polemic, veteran journalist Mick Hume presents an uncompromising defence of freedom of expression, which he argues is threatened in the West, not by jackbooted censorship but by a creeping culture of conformism and You-Can't-Say-That.

Comparing and contrasting the World Wars.

The shocking first-hand account of one man's remarkable fight for freedom; now an award-winning motion picture.

In these original essays, America's leading historians and legal scholars reassess the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and its relevance to issues of liberty, justice, and equality.

In this controversial and hotly discussed book, Sir Peregrine presents a reactionary and playful look at the origins, evolution and demise of the aristocracy.

Same-sex marriage has become one of the most volatile issues in American politics.

Same-sex marriage has become one of the most volatile issues in American politics.

In this eye-opening work, the president of the ACLU takes a hard look at the human and social costs of the War on Terror.

When the states ratified the Bill of Rights in the eighteenth century, the Fourth Amendment seemed straightforward.

It was among the most notorious criminal cases of its day.

From bestselling author Simon Winchester, the extraordinary story of how America was united into a single nation.

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

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

In common law jurisdictions, litigants are free to choose whether to procure legal representation or litigate in person.

In common law jurisdictions, litigants are free to choose whether to procure legal representation or litigate in person.

The fundamental, inalienable rights and privileges set forth in the Bill of Rights represent the very foundations of American liberty.

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A radical and exciting history of a city - its culture, its people and its politics - that refreshes our image of Europe's past and of the writing of history itself.

The uncompromising Nick Cohen exposes the reality behind the freedoms we enjoy in the book that won Polemic of the Year at the 2013 Political Book Awards.

An exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day.

'This is history as it should be.

'It is unlikely that a clearer, more stimulating account of the Russians' extraordinary period of imperial history will be written.

This popular history of the English Civil War tells the story of the bloody conflict between Oliver Cromwell and Charles I from the perspectives of those involved.

Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union.

How most presidents avoid upsetting the racial status quoand why those who do pave the way for lawless, norm-violating successorsWhen Barack Obama won the White House in 2008, becoming the nation's first Black president, the stage was set for Donald Trump's eventual rise to power.

Rewriting the Supreme Court's landmark gay rights decision Jack Balkin and an all-star cast of legal scholars, sitting as a hypothetical Supreme Court, rewrite the famous 2015 opinion in Obergefell v.

Why we’re better off treating corporations as people under the law—and making them behave like citizens Are corporations people?

A compelling account of how women shaped the common law right to privacy during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Drawing on a wealth of original research, Jessica Lake documents how the advent of photography and cinema drove women—whose images were being taken and circulated without their consent—to court.

A leading legal scholar explores how the constitutional right to seek justice has been restricted by the Supreme Court The Supreme Court’s decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about.

When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, its primary target was the outright exclusion of women from particular jobs.

America's preeminent First Amendment lawyer speaks out on the most controversial free-speech issues of our time Since 1971, when the Pentagon Papers were leaked to the New York Times and furious debate over First Amendment rights ensued, free-speech cases have emerged in rapid succession.

This book, the first of its kind, comprehensively explores Native American claims against the United States government over the past two centuries.

The debate over the framers’ concept of freedom of religion has become heated and divisive.

In 1943, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi defied the curfew and mass removal of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, and was subsequently convicted and imprisoned as a result.

La libre determinación de los pueblos indígenas es un derecho fundamental reconocido por el derecho internacional de los derechos humanos a partir del cambio del paradigma de la asimilación al paradigma intercultural.