Law: Human rights and civil liberties

Contemporary feminist advocacy in human rights, international criminal law, and peace and security is gripped by the issue of sexual violence in conflict.

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

The root of all inequality is the process of othering - and its solution is the practice of belongingWe all yearn for connection and community, but we live in a time when calls for further division along the well-wrought lines of religion, race, ethnicity, caste, and sexuality are pervasive.

The right to demonstrate is considered fundamental to any democratic system of government, yet in recent years it has received little academic attention.

In this book, leading international thinkers take up the demanding challenge to rethink our understanding of social justice at work and our means for achieving it at a time when global forces are tearing the familiar fabric of our working lives and the laws regulating them.

North American law has been transformed in ways unimaginable before 9/11.

Este libro huye de cualquier contenido generico para centrarse en los aspectos tecnicos mas relevantes de la seguridad en el tratamiento de la informacion.

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

In a landmark decision in 1984, the Supreme Court of Canada declared that the Crown is bound by fiduciary, or trust-like, obligations to Canada's aboriginal peoples.

Focuses on understanding human rights as they really are and their proper role in international affairs.

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

Freedom of Expression as Self-Restraint provides a novel justificatory foundation for the principle of freedom of expression.

What does the right to be oneself entail?

Regardless of how the presidency of Donald J.

Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty explores the religious freedom implications of defining marriage to include same-sex couples.

In the 20 years between 1895 and 1915, two key leaders-Booker T.

This book contends that the right of access to justice (at national and international levels) constitutes a basic cornerstone of the international protection of human rights, and conforms a true right to the Law.

This collection of case studies from fourteen European legal systems analyses the legal protection of personality interests in Europe.

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

Imagining New Legalities reminds us that examining the right to privacy and the public/private distinction is an important way of mapping the forms and limits of power that can legitimately be exercised by collective bodies over individuals and by governments over their citizens.

This book documents and explains the differences in the ways Americans and Europeans approach the issues of privacy and intelligence gathering.

The overarching objective of this volume is to discuss and critique the legal regulation of human trafficking in national and transnational context.

Longlisted for the 2022 Inner Temple Main Book PrizeHuman Rights in the UK and the Influence of Foreign Jurisprudence represents the first major empirical study of the use of foreign jurisprudence at the UK Supreme Court.

The Legal Aid Society's mission is to advance, defend, and enforce the legal rights of low-income and otherwise vulnerable people in order to secure for them the basic necessities of life.

Provides an overview of the UN Convention on Migrant Workers'' Rights, including its history, content and implementation.

Academic Freedom and the Law: A Comparative Study provides a critical analysis of the law relating to academic freedom in three major jurisdictions: the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States.

What can straight people do to support gay rights?

This ambitious, innovative project examines the principle of effective judicial protection in EU law over two volumes.

En nuestro país existen problemas que necesitan soluciones serias y estructurales, es por eso que las instituciones nacionales requieren realizar reflexiones críticas sobre temas sociales, en general y temas constitucionales, en particular; así como también proponer una serie de soluciones urgentes.

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

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

As is well known the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) is a constitutionalinnovation,but can its scheme deliver?

This report, written as part of a wider review of human rights in EU foreign policy, describes and assesses the current decision-making structures and procedures for EU military, police and civilian crisis management missions throughout the world.

This book challenges the common view that the Russian Constitution is a sham or a reflection of Russia's authoritarian past.

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

In this controversial and provocative book, Mary Anne Franks examines the thin line between constitutional fidelity and constitutional fundamentalism.

In 1943, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi defied the curfew and mass removal of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, and was subsequently convicted and imprisoned as a result.

Constitutions divide into those that provide for a constitutionally protected set of rights, where courts can strike down legislation, and those where rights are protected predominantly by parliament, where courts can interpret legislation to protect rights, but cannot strike down legislation.

Explores the effects of the Strasbourg human rights system on the domestic law and politics of post-communist member states.

Practice issues surrounding the legal concept of capacity are of fundamental importance to social work.

The UK has some of the largest immigration detention facilities in Europe, holding as many as 3000 individuals at any point in time.