Law: Human rights and civil liberties

We are deeply social creatures.

Captures the essence of the multi-layered subject of human rights law in a way that is authoritative, critical and scholarly.

This collection of essays is a tribute to Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, who died aged 72 on 1 December 2020 after having retired from the UK Supreme Court just two months earlier.

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.

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

One of the most ambitious legacies of the 20th century was the universal commitment to ensure freedom from want as a human right.

The new third edition of Medicine, Ethics and the Law takes account of the numerous cases and proposed legislative changes that have taken place in Ireland since the last edition in 2011.

The importance of the rule of law is universally recognised and of fundamental value for most societies.

The book is for all readers interested in African institutions and contemporary global challenges of peace, security, human rights, and international law.

The most comprehensive and critical analysis of the application of European consensus by the European Court of Human Rights.

This book explores the powers, activities, and accountability of MI5 from the end of the Second World War to 1964.

This book brings together papers that offer conceptual analyses, highlight issues, propose solutions, and discuss practices regarding privacy, data protection and Artificial Intelligence.

An examination of the debates regarding whether judicial review is an effective and appropriate way to regulate counter-terrorism measures.

This volume addresses interrogation and torture at a unique moment.

Reconceives civil rights as a set of legal guarantees that all will be included in the legal, political, economic and social projects central to civil society.

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This volume explains the FTC''s privacy activities and how they fit in the context of the agency''s consumer protection mission.

An in-depth study of processes of judicial transformation that enabled the success of human rights trials in Latin America.

American by Birth explores the history and legacy of Wong Kim Ark and the 1898 Supreme Court case that bears his name, which established the automatic citizenship of individuals born within the geographic boundaries of the United States.

Implied constitutional principles form part of the landscape of the development of fundamental rights in common law jurisdictions, affecting issues ranging from the remuneration of judges to the appropriation of property by the state.

Quels sont les principaux discours théoriques qui justifient le contrat?

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

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.

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

The Constitution in 2020 is a powerful blueprint for implementing a more progressive vision of constitutional law in the years ahead.

"e;This collection of short meditations, written from a prison cell, captures the past two decades of police violence that gave rise to Black Lives Matter while digging deeply into the history of the United States.

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This book provides a comprehensive overview of how to attain equality in the area of disability discrimination.

The first comprehensive study of the challenges faced by children in establishing entitlement to refugee protection.

Leading academics and practitioners examine how the Human Rights Act influences private law cases in theory and practice.

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.

It was among the most notorious criminal cases of its day.

Can the concept of ''human security'' help to address the multiple challenges facing non-citizens in a new global era?

Arthur Ray's extensive knowledge in the history of the fur trade and Native economic history brought him into the courts as an expert witness in the mid-1980s.

Following the NFL's desegregation in 1946, opportunities became increasingly plentiful for African American players--but not African American coaches.

This book examines the legal nature of Islamic states and the human rights they have committed to uphold.

The first comprehensive analysis of the concept of European Public Order as deployed by the European Court of Human Rights.

Provides case studies of the intersection of diplomacy and transitional judicial processes during humanitarian crises in Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, Darfur, and Libya.

The disturbing reality of contemporary life is that technology has laid bare the private facts of most people's lives.

Originally the constitution was expected to express and channel popular sovereignty.

This work provides an authoritative survey of America's long and turbulent history of rebellion, sedition, and treason against government authority and institutions.

A demonstration of how European Court of Human Rights judgments might better accommodate the concerns of minorities.

L’art idolâtre la création autant qu’il exalte la liberté.

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

This collection examines one of the fastest growing fields of regulation: data rights.

Proposes a new way of thinking about information privacy that leverages law to protect disclosures in contexts of trust.

This book offers a thematic and comprehensive account of international humanitarian law by juxtaposing key materials and targeted commentary.