Law: Human rights and civil liberties

This book is a practical guide to freeing political prisoners and provides a comprehensive review of this UN body''s 1,200 jurisprudence cases.

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 Defamation Act constitutes a significant overhaul of UK defamation legislation, which follows years of concern about the detrimental effects that preceeding libel laws had on freedom of expression, and the extent to which the jurisdiction had become a magnet for libel claimants.

Argues that North American settler colonialism included episodes of genocide of Indigenous peoples as defined by the United Nations Genocide Convention.

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

Humanitarian protection has evolved from an act of charity into a legal obligation not to remove certain categories of non-nationals.

Reconceives civil rights as a set of legal guarantees that all will be included in the legal, political, economic and social projects central to civil society.

The book shows that civil disobedience is generally more defensible than private conscientious objection.

This book is about the UN''s role in housing, land, and property rights in countries after violent conflict.

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

Examines the ethical, legal, and regulatory challenges presented as genomics become commonplace, easily available consumer products.

Humanitarian protection has evolved from an act of charity into a legal obligation not to remove certain categories of non-nationals.

The subjects of this volume are more relevant than ever, especially in light of the raft of electoral scandals concerning voter profiling.

This book analyzes the contemporary politics of immigration from the asylum crisis to Islamophobia, multiculturalism, and post-colonialism.

Offers a comprehensive analysis of the contested emergence of new human rights for the first time.

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

The Bloody Sunday Inquiry has been epic in its scale and implications.

The information society has created an environment where new technologies increasingly threaten the right to privacy.

Human rights have not been a central concern of corporate law.

In recent years, controversial issues related to religion or belief, discrimination, equality and human rights have come to the fore, especially in the context of public debates around multiculturalism following the 'social policy shock' created by the impact of violent religious extremism.

Leading experts examine the threats posed by populism to human rights and the international systems and explore how to confront them.

Examines the implementation of the rights revolution, bringing together a distinguished group of political scientists and legal scholars who study the roles of agencies and courts in shaping the enforcement of civil rights statutes.

This book presents the only contemporary legal analysis of refugee detention at Guantánamo Bay under the US Migrant Interdiction Program.

The authors not only investigate the current forms of property rights on reservations but also expose the limitations of each system, showing that customary rights are insecure, certificates of possession cannot be sold outside the First Nation, and leases are temporary.

An eighth-generation Charlestonian with a prestigious address, impeccable social credentials, and years of intimate association with segregationist politicians, U.

The world appears to be globalising economically, technologically and even, to a halting extent, politically.

"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.

Social justice and human rights movements are entering a new phase.

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.

Combining socio-legal and ethnohistorical studies, this book presents the history of doodem, or clan identification markings, left by Anishinaabe on treaties and other legal documents from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries.

Freedom of expression is a fundamental right at the heart of any democratic society.

Knocking on the Door is the first book-length work to analyze federal involvement in residential segregation from Reconstruction to the present.

A comprehensive treatment of contemporary surveillance technologies and regulatory strategies with an emphasis on policing and national security.

Terrorism will always be frontpage news - counterterrorism is often discussed as an afterthought, yet it is vitally important to understand what is done in the name of our safety.

A timely book which considers aspects of human rights law and the armed forces.

American Spies is an entertaining, accessible, and sophisticated exposition of the existing laws and technologies that enable massive modern surveillance.

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.

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

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

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

Today, the debate over reparations--whether African-Americans should be compensated for decades of racial subjugation--stands as the most racially divisive issue in American politics.

A new and comprehensive account of the South African Constitutional Court''s social rights decisions.

This book examines companies'' and investors'' moral and legal complicity in human rights violations in the context of globalisation.

This book delivers an original, theoretically informed analysis of the legal regulation of online speech.

Practice issues surrounding the legal concept of capacity are of fundamental importance to social work.

The last twenty years have seen rapid development of the equitable action for breach of confidence.

When an individual is accused of a crime he is provided, at least in theory, with numerous constitutional rights throughout the legal process.

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