Law: Human rights and civil liberties

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.

HarperCollins is proud to present this shocking first-hand account of one man's remarkable fight for freedom which became an award-winning motion picture in our range of timeless literary classics.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This book explores the enduring tensions between free expression and regulation in an era of disinformation, surveillance, and digital monopolies.

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.

In Glory''s Shadow explores the history of The Citadel, an institution set on preserving tradition in the face of profound change.

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 citizensAre 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.

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.

This original and provocative book looks at an important constitutional freedom that today is largely forgotten: the right of assembly.

The variety and pervasiveness of confidentiality issues today is breathtaking.

Bedouin Law from Sinai and the Negev is the first comprehensive study of Bedouin law published in English, including oral, pre-modern law.

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.

Across eighteenth-century Europe, political power resided overwhelmingly with absolute monarchs, with notable exceptions including the much-studied British Parliament as well as the frequently overlooked Hungarian Diet, which placed serious constraints on royal power and broadened opportunities for political participation.

This book examines the discourse and developments surrounding privacy and data protection in the digital realm, featuring papers and discussions from the 2024 CPDP.

La inteligencia artificial ha dejado de ser una promesa futura para convertirse en una realidad que transforma radicalmente el ejercicio del derecho y los sistemas judiciales.

Black Lives Matter and #MeToo are two of the most prominent twenty-first-century social movements in the United States.

The history and enduring legacy of a breakthrough case in criminal justice reformFlorida Historical Society Rembert Patrick AwardIn 1940, the United States Supreme Court decided in Chambers v.

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.

Offering an up-to-date and comprehensive resource for students and general readers investigating human trafficking, this book examines the phenomenon in its many forms, the factors contributing to its existence, the victims it affects, and those who perpetrate this horrific crime.

Without our consent and often without our knowledge, the government can constantly monitor many of our daily activities, using closed circuit TV, global positioning systems, and a wide array of other sophisticated technologies.

The civil rights era was a time of pervasive change in American political and social life.

Torture has lately become front page news, featured in popular movies and TV shows, and a topic of intense public debate.

The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other industrialized nation in the world-about 1 in 100 adults, or more than 2 million people-while national spending on prisons has catapulted 400 percent.

While freedom of speech has been guaranteed us for centuries, the First Amendment as we know it today is largely a creation of the past eighty years.

The gay rights question is whether the second-class legal status of gay people should be changed.

We live in an age saturated with surveillance.

With this book, Charlotte Walker-Said and John D.

It's a common complaint: the United States is overrun by rules and procedures that shackle professional judgment, have no valid purpose, and serve only to appease courts and lawyers.

In Courthouse Democracy and Minority Rights: Same-Sex Marriage in the States, Robert J.

Getting By offers an integrated, critical account of the federal laws and programs that most directly affect poor and low-income people in the United States-the unemployed, the underemployed, and the low-wage employed, whether working in or outside the home.