Law: Human rights and civil liberties

The UK's engagement with the legal protection of human rights at a European level has been, at varying stages, pioneering, sceptical and antagonistic.

These essays focus on the intellectual and philosophical roots of religious liberty and the confrontations with the authority of secular law.

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.

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.

In the first comprehensive accounting of the US Supreme Court's race-related jurisprudence, a distinguished historian and renowned civil rights lawyer scrutinize a legacy too often blighted by racial injustice.

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

Data Protection has become one of the most important news topics of recent years, playing a role in elections and referendums, and posing a whole host of new legal questions.

A collection of expert essays analysing the AFSJ and its implications from the point of view of fundamental rights.

Should workers ever lose their job because of their political views or affiliations?

The inspiring story of one man’s fight against his wrongful incarceration and his eventual triumph—both inside and outside the boxing ring.

Money shapes all aspects of migration.

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA)1 regulates robocalls.

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

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.

Discusses how mass detention and deportation of immigrants, has escalated even higher since the Obama and Trump administrations.

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Leading experts from common law jurisdictions examine defamation and privacy, two major and interrelated issues for law and media.

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Taking a critical attitude of dissatisfaction towards rights, the central premise of this book is that rights are technologies of governmentality.

This new book provides a clear and accessible analysis of the various ways in which human reproduction is regulated.

Applying a legal pluralist framework, this study examines the complex interrelationships between religion, law and politics in contemporary Ghana, a professedly secular State characterised by high levels of religiosity.

Exposes the tension between the legal status of immigrants and the government emphasis on integration.

Dieses Werk enthalt Forschungsergebnisse zu Fragestellungen hinsichtlich der Bedeutung von Rechtssicherheit und Grundrechten in verschiedenen Rechtsbereichen aus sudafrikanischer und deutscher Perspektive, die in Zusammenarbeit der Universitaten Augsburg und Johannesburg entstanden sind.

Reveals the political savvy and egalitarian convictions behind Lincoln's racial policiesIn the midst of America's civil rights movement, historians questioned the widely-held belief that Abraham Lincoln was the "e;Great Emancipator.

This book details the legal ramifications of existing anti-blasphemy laws and debates the legitimacy of such laws in Western liberal democracies.

This is the first book on the policy questions raised by two revolutions in recording the police - copwatching and police-worn body cameras.

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Die Anfängerhausarbeit im Staatsrecht ist ein Baustein für die Leistungsnachweise der Zwischenprüfung an nahezu allen juristischen Fakultäten.

This book takes a design-oriented approach to the broad range of issues that arise in constitutional drafting concerning gender equality.

This book re-imagines transitional justice as a movement, and explains why truth commissions are being promoted and created.

2015 Ontario Historical Society Alison Prentice Award - Winner2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award - NominatedThe story of the Bell Canada union drive and the phone operator strike that brought sweeping reform to women's workplace rights.

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The UK's new Human Rights Act with its duty to give domestic effect to the European Convention on Human Rights and the jurisprudence of the Strasbourg court will have a significant effect on many aspects of the criminal and regulatory process.

This important new book seeks to widen the understanding of the principle of equality within European law.

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

Provides an analysis of the origins, current sources, and character of privacy law in Ireland with a particular focus on how to navigate privacy claims and balance privacy with other interests before the Irish courts.

This collection of essays addresses human rights in relation to the historical settings in which its language was drafted and adopted.

In this brilliantly innovative work, Jennifer Nedelsky claims that we must rethink our notion of autonomy, rejecting the usual vocabulary of control, boundaries, and individual rights.

This book analyzes civil wars over the past twenty years and examines what motivates some rebel groups to abide by international law.

The relationship between Canada's Indigenous peoples and the Canadian government is one that has increasingly come to the fore.

The third edition of Parliament and the Law presents a timely and valuable resource covering recent developments.

Following on from the first volume, this unique book is the only collection of native analyses of the status of legislation in 30 European jurisdictions plus the EU.

2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title * A provocative look into civil rights progress in the Palmetto State from activists, statesmen, and historiansToward the Meeting of the Waters represents a watershed moment in civil rights history-bringing together voices of leading historians alongside recollections from central participants to provide the first comprehensive history of the civil rights movement as experienced by black and white South Carolinians.

The history of voting rights in America is a checkerboard marked by dogged progress against persistent prejudice toward an expanding inclusiveness.