Law: Human rights and civil liberties

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.

EU Anti-Discrimination Law provides a detailed and critical analysis of the corpus of European Union law prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age, and sexual orientation.

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.

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

What impact has the evolution and proliferation of surveillance in the digital age had on fundamental rights?

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

There are now a number of statutes in different parts of the world that offer non-constitutional protection for human rights through mechanisms such as strong interpretive obligations, quasi-tort actions and obligations on legislatures to consider whether statutes are felt to breach human rights obligations.

Comprehensive analysis of international law''s protection of women''s rights in armed conflict, with an emphasis on how these protections operate in practice.

A historical and comparative analysis investigating two hundred years of migration and citizenship laws in South America.

Religions are a problem for human rights, and human rights are a problem for religions.

Social scientists and legal scholars from different disciplines and perspectives explore the intersection of labor and democracy.

Discover the definitive biography of Marcus Garvey 'Grant is an accomplished storyteller and writes with an elegance leavened by wit and cynicism that makes this book eminently readable' Guardian At one time during the first half of the twentieth century, Marcus Garvey was the most famous black man on the planet.

This book argues that current equal protection jurisprudence suffers from unnoticed normative and political problems, and elucidates a competing, extant interpretation.

This book explores how the concept of fairness is used in different legal fields to ensure that the laws we live under are just and reasonable.

In the United States and Europe, an increasing emphasis on equality has pitted rights claims against each other, raising profound philosophical, moral, legal, and political questions about the meaning and reach of religious liberty.

This thorough legal resource guides those pushing the frontlines of the nation''s oldest battle: the fight to protect indigenous cultures.

This is the first book to examine the civil liberties records of American presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama.

This book examines the legal and policy issues behind the ambiguity involved with civil rights protections for Jewish students.

Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the human rights movement achieved unprecedented global prominence.

Paul Konrad Lang befasst sich mit Fragen zur rechtlichen Behandlung von Personenabbildungen.

Bollinger provides a masterful critique of the major theories of freedom of expression, finding these theories persuasive but inadequate.

Since the 1960s, school rules and regulations concerning apparel and hair have been the subject of litigation in the federal courts.

The book analyzes a contemporary policy question at the nexus of democracy, criminal justice, and constitutional citizenship.

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

An analytical study of human dignity as the humanity of a person, as a constitutional value and a constitutional right.

A unique investigation into how alliances form in highly polarized times among LGBTQ, immigrant, and labor rights activists, revealing the impacts within each rights movement.

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.

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

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.

The purpose of Granville Sharpe's Cases on Slavery is twofold: first, to publish previously unpublished legal materials principally in three important cases in the 18th century on the issue of slavery in England, and specifically the status of black people who were slaves in the American colonies or the West Indies and who were taken to England by their masters.

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

From the 1930s to the early 1960s civil rights law was made primarily through constitutional litigation.

This book shows how a series of contradictions worked their way into the International Bill of Human Rights.

Studies how victims of human rights violations in Latin America, their families, and their advocates work to overcome entrenched impunity and seek legal justice.

A comparative analysis of the extent and role of transnational judicial dialogue in European refugee law, first published in 2010.

This study reinterprets a crucial period (1870s-1920s) in the history of women's rights, focusing attention on a core contradiction at the heart of early feminist theory.

This book presents a unique and comprehensive examination of the human and moral rights of artists.

This book provides the first comprehensive account of the role played by the European Convention on Human Rights during the conflict in Northern Ireland from 1968.

The criminalization of migration is heavily patterned by race.

The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union includes,in addition to the traditional 'civil and political rights', a large number of rights of an economic or social nature.

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

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

'This is history as it should be.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the wide-ranging body of law that applies to public protest activity.

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

Explores criteria determining the international responsibility of member states for failure to protect human rights in international financial institutions.

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