How everyday forms of surveillance threaten undocumented immigrantsbut also offer them hope for societal inclusionSome eleven million undocumented immigrants reside in the United States, carving out lives amid a growing web of surveillance that threatens their and their families' societal presence.
The growth in administrative law has to a large extent mirrored the increase in the level of state involvement in many aspects of everyday life during the twentieth century, generating the need for a coherent and effective body of rules to govern relations between individuals and the state.
The promulgation of the Fifth French Republic Constitution in 1958 marked the end of a complex constitutional history that has since 1789 seen more than twenty constitutions and five Republics.
State judicial elections are governed by a unique set of rules that enforce longstanding norms of judicial independence by limiting how judicial candidates campaign.
This book presents a compelling and highly sophisticated politico-legal history of a particular security operation that resulted in one of the most high-profile torture cases in the world.
This volume engages human rights, domestic immigration law, refugee policy in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and scholarship to examine forced migration, refugee resettlement, asylum seeker experiences, policies and programs for refugee well-being in North America and Europe.
This book investigates and evaluates the indexes of Government Transparency, Judicial Transparency, Procuratorial Transparency, and Legislation by Local People's Congresses in China.
In a stinging dissent to a 1961 Supreme Court decision that allowed the Illinois state bar to deny admission to prospective lawyers if they refused to answer political questions, Justice Hugo Black closed with the memorable line, "e;We must not be afraid to be free.
Against the backdrop of the global Black Lives Matter movement, debates around the social impact of hate crime legislation have come to the political fore.
This collection analyses the place and the functioning of interparliamentary cooperation in the EU composite constitutional order, taking into account both the European and the national dimensions.
This interdisciplinary collection presents a scholarly treatment of how the constitutional politics of federalism affect governments and citizens, offering an accessible yet comprehensive analysis of the U.
The question of to what extent, manifestations of religious beliefs should be permitted in the European public sphere has become a salient and controversial topic in recent years.
This book presents a comprehensive examination of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders and provides an analysis of the level of its reflection in regional human rights systems.
Justice Antonin Scalia (1936-2016) was the single most important figure in the emergence of the "e;new originalist"e; interpretation of the US Constitution, which sought to anchor the court's interpretation of the Constitution to the ordinary meaning of the words at the time of drafting.
The 2016 presidential election campaign and its aftermath have underscored worrisome trends in the present state of our democracy: the extreme polarization of the electorate, the dismissal of people with opposing views, and the widespread acceptance and circulation of one-sided and factually erroneous information.
Die Arbeit nimmt den verfassungsgerichtlichen Kontrollmechanismus der Identitätskontrolle unter besonderer Beachtung des Spannungsverhältnisses zwischen der Auslieferung aufgrund eines Europäischen Haftbefehls und potenziell entgegenstehender strafverfassungsrechtlicher Grundsätze in den Blick.
There is almost no political question in the United States, wrote Alexis de Tocqueville, that is not resolved sooner or later into a judicial question.
This book explores the unusual and unique experience of direct democracy in the small state of New Zealand, where referendums have been a persistent feature of the political landscape for over a century.
This is a completely revised and expanded second edition, building on the first edition with two principal aims: to elucidate the role that domestic tort principles play in securing to citizens the human rights standards laid down in the European Convention on Human Rights, including the new 'remedy' under the Human Rights Act 1998; and to evaluate tort principles for compliance with those standards.
This book offers a new account of the power of federal courts in the United States to hear and determine uncontested applications to assert or register a claim of right.
Minority Accommodation through Territorial and Non-Territorial Autonomy explores the relationship between minority, territory, and autonomy, and how it informs our understanding of non-territorial autonomy (NTA) as a strategy for accommodating ethno-cultural diversity in modern societies.
El presente volumen incluye una serie de publicaciones del autor que versan sobre la protección internacional de derechos fundamentales, y su relación con su protección en los ordenamientos nacionales.
Migrant Homelessness and the Crimmigration Control System offers new insights into the drivers of homelessness following migration by unpacking the housing consequences of 'crimmigration' control systems in the US and the UK.
The Draft European Constitution was arguably both an attempt to constitutionalise the Union, re-framing that project in the language of the state, and an attempt to stretch the boundaries of constitutionalism itself, re-imagining that concept to accommodate the sui generis European Union.
