Law: Human rights and civil liberties

Since the year 2000, the material and personal scope of EU non-discrimination law has been significantly broadened and has challenged national courts to introduce a comprehensive equality framework into their national law to correspond with the European standard.

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

Sex and Privacy in American Law presents empirical analyses of civil and criminal state court decisions applying the U.

Few episodes in the modern civil rights movement were more galvanizing or more memorialized than the brutal murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaneyidealists eager to protect and promote the rights of black Americans, even in the deep and very dangerous South.

La repercusión de las conductas de los actores privados sobre el disfrute de los derechos humanos no solo constituye un asunto de interés creciente en la sociedad internacional del siglo xxi, sino que es un factor importante para interpretar el alcance de las obligaciones jurídicas internacionales de los Estados en materia de derechos humanos, así como para trazar los límites del Derecho internacional penal.

Can the Australian state be restructured to empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and ensure that their distinct voices are heard in the processes of government?

One of the hallmark features of the post-civil rights United States is the reign of colorblindness over national conversations about race and law.

International law and most national legal systems recognize the right to strike as a fundamental human right.

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.

In Defense of Politicization of Human Rights: The UN Special Procedures constitutes the first comprehensive study of the United Nations Special Procedures, covering their history, methods of work, institutional status, relationship with other politically driven organs, and processes affecting their development.

Ten years after the passing of the Human Rights Act 1998, it is timely to evaluate the Act's effectiveness.

The landmark Brown v.

Law and Gender in Modern Ireland: Critique and Reform is the first generalist text to tackle the intersection of law and gender in this jurisdiction for over two decades.

L’art idolâtre la création autant qu’il exalte la liberté.

Most people believe that the right to privacy is inherently at odds with the right to free speech.

As constitutional law globalizes, the quest for a common grammar or 'generic constitutional law' becomes more pressing.

Sixteen essays about the First Amendment from the man who changed the way America reads literature A lawyer, literary agent, and author, Charles Rembar never stopped fighting against the puritanical laws that prevented Americans from consuming controversial art.

In Lord Sumption and the Limits of the Law, leading public law scholars reflect on the nature and limits of the judicial role and its implications for human rights protection and democracy.

A critical analysis of Israel''s control of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, advocating a normative and functional approach.

This book seeks to rebalance the relationship between comparison and justification to achieve more effective equality and non-discrimination law.

Todo el tiempo, con maestría, densidad y competencia, el profesor Ricardo invita al lector o lectora a esta travesía, marcada por avances y retrocesos, en el proceso de construcción histórica de los derechos de las personas.

This book brings together contributions from some of the leading authorities in the field of EU immigration and asylum law to reflect upon developments since the Amsterdam Treaty and, particularly, the Tampere European Council in 1999.

This book represents the first attempt to examine how EU fundamental rights are protected and enforced by EU governing bodies.

Offers a new understanding of the relationships between litigation strategies, growing private funding and European human rights justice.

A provocative new approach to race in the workplaceWhat role should racial difference play in the American workplace?

This book provides a critical evaluation of the ways in which EU law engages with minority rights protection: at its core is an analysis of EU law and minority rights.

This book uncovers how banks, individuals, and companies worked as economic accomplices to the oppressive Argentinian dictatorship.

In 2007, for the first time in nearly seventy years, the Supreme Court decided to hear a case involving the Second Amendment.

Uses a comparative analysis of case law in leading common law nations to demonstrate how religious discrimination is culturally determined.

This book addresses one of the most serious societal questions of our time: how to create new spaces and frameworks for minority recognition given the State-centric sovereignty discourse and the persisting equality jargon that dominate today's world.

In Muslim countries, apostasy and blasphemy laws are defended on the grounds that they are based on Islamic Shari'a and intended to protect religion.

Wie gehen Rechtsanwender mit einem völlig unbekannten Institut um?

Provides students with an introduction to legal philosophy, using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to reflect on human rights.

Understand the complexities of EU law and its implications on UK lawLaw of the European Union, 13th Edition, by Morano-Foadi and Neller is a comprehensive and visually appealing coverage of the structure, law and practice of the European Union and its impact on UK law.

In almost every highly publicized case of police using deadly force and killing unarmed individuals, the person killed was an African American male.

In Apotheken ist der verantwortungsbewusste Umgang mit sensiblen Daten gefordert.

A bold critique of US policies towards terror suspects after 9/11, which will interest all those who value human rights and humanitarian law.

An in-depth review of the challenges of neoliberal models and policies for realizing the right to health.

This book retraces the evolution of crimes against humanity and their application in terms of both historic legal analysis and subject-matter content.

This book analyses human rights in post-national contexts and demonstrates, through the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, that the Margin of Appreciation doctrine is an essential part of human rights adjudication.

A novel legal argument about the voting rights of refugees recognised in the 1951 Geneva Convention.

Esta obra trae propuestas sistemáticas para buscar lograr, a través del razonamiento y la argumentación jurídica, un adecuado equilibrio entre una teoría de la autoridad y una teoría de la justicia, entre la democracia y el constitucionalismo.

Interdisciplinary exploration of Asian understandings of human dignity and human rights in courts, religion, and socio-political changes.

Demonstrates how ''carceral animal law'' strategies put animal protection efforts at war with general anti-oppression and civil rights efforts.

Captures the essence of the multi-layered subject of human rights law in a way that is authoritative, critical and scholarly.

Historically, critics of interracial, interfaith, and most recently same-sex marriage have invoked conscience and religious liberty to defend their objections, and often they have been accused of bigotry.

Examines the interdisciplinary development of law and religion, with a particular focus on Professor Norman Doe''s pioneering role.