Law: Human rights and civil liberties

The fundamental, inalienable rights and privileges set forth in the Bill of Rights represent the very foundations of American liberty.

The Center Holds provides an intimate look at who the Supreme Court justices are, how they have made critical decisions, and why, ultimately, the Rehnquist Revolution failed.

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

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.

In its case law on the use of lethal and potentially lethal force, the European Court of Human Rights declares a fundamental connection between the right to life in Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights and democratic society.

Examining the role of 'open remedies' in human rights adjudication, this book provides a new perspective informing comparative constitutional debates on how to structure institutional relationships over fundamental rights and freedoms.

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

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

For more than a century, the vast lands of Northern Ontario have been shared among the governments of Canada, Ontario, and the First Nations who signed Treaty No.

This book presents an argument for the existence of moral rights held by groups and a resulting account of how to reconcile group rights with individual rights and with the rights of other groups.

This book is concerned with the history of the idea of human rights.

Around the world, indigenous peoples use international law to make claims for heritage, territory, and economic development.

Jurists, historians and theologians from five faiths and three continents examine the importance of Magna Carta''s religious foundations.

This important new book provides a framework for complementarity between promoting and protecting human rights and combating corruption.

Privacy can function as an expressive, anti-subordination tool of resistance that is worthy of constitutional protection.

The Right to be Forgotten is one of the most publicised areas of the GDPR and has received massive worldwide publicity following judicial and legal developments in Europe.

This book encompasses human rights and community development, arguing that each is necessary for both understanding and practising the other.

This volume offers insights into the consequences of a growing reliance on the principle of solidarity to ''inscribe'' social policies.

This volume outlines why discrimination against older people results from a combination of age and other grounds of discrimination.

Anonymous Speech: Literature, Law and Politics discusses the different contexts in which people write anonymously or with the use of a pseudonym: novels and literary reviews, newspapers and political periodicals, graffiti, and now on the Internet.

This book is a compilation of government reports from 2018 and 2019 on secrecy and information policies and procedures.

Examines how privacy, confidentiality, consent, identifiability, safeguards and data sharing affect the pursuit of health research for the common good.

This book analyses and compares how the USA's liberal allies responded to the use of torture against their citizens after 9/11.

Francis Gurry's renowned work, Breach of Confidence, published in 1984, was groundbreaking and invaluable in the field of intellectual property as the first text to synthesise the then burgeoning case law on breach of confidence into a systematic form.

The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union enshrines the key political, social and economic rights of EU citizens and residents in EU law.

In God vs.

This book investigates the limits of the legitimate role of the state in regulating the human body.

This book analyses the horizontal effect of fundamental rights in the European Union, from a constitutional perspective.

The effect of a criminal record or arrest can be long-lasting and damaging.

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

Human rights have traditionally been understood as protecting individual freedom against intrusion by the State.

Human rights can be understood as moral or political.

By what process and mechanisms can the findings of the African Commission be implemented and that implementation monitored?

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Addresses challenges to the implementation of international human rights law from institutional, normative and practical perspectives.

An assessment of the experiences of irregular migrants and stateless people living in ''Fortress Europe''.

This book contains a global comparative study of implementation and monitoring mechanisms for national disability strategies.

Investigates how foreigners charged with capital murder in the United States are deprived of rights by police and courts.

How do bills of rights influence legislative decision-making in New Zealand and the United Kingdom?

The book explores the various and sometimes unexpected ways in which states, human rights, and private actors intersect.

An empirically rich and conceptually informed study of the politics of transitional justice in post-communist Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

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

Integrates research, theory, and practice in supported decision-making and describes implications for supports provision in the disability field.

Examining the role of 'open remedies' in human rights adjudication, this book provides a new perspective informing comparative constitutional debates on how to structure institutional relationships over fundamental rights and freedoms.

This new title covers the law surrounding freedom of press versus rights of the individual, including in depth analysis of the review of UK libel law and the draft Defamation Bill published in March 2011.

Since 1996, when new, harsher deportation laws went into effect, the United States has deported millions of noncitizens back to their countries of origin.