Human rights, civil rights

Who has what and why in our societies is a pressing issue that has prompted explanation and exposition by philosophers, politicians and jurists for as long as societies and intellectuals have existed.

Explains why lawyers seeking gender progress from primary legal materials should start with the common law.

Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2018Thousands of Palestinians, including children, are building and working on illegal Israeli settlements.

In Drifting Through Samsara, Masoumeh Rahmani provides a fieldwork-based study of Goenka's Vipassana meditation movement in New Zealand.

This exploration of local and global conflicts over access to water provides a socio-legal perspective on transnational governance.

For more than a millennium, beginning in the early Middle Ages, most Western Christians lived in societies that sought to be comprehensively Christian--ecclesiastically, economically, legally, and politically.

Teaching Human Rights in Primary Schools delves into the important issue of Human Rights Education (HRE) implementation, exploring the nature and extent of HRE in education policy and practice in English primary schooling, and seeking to understand the reasons for deficiencies in practice in this area.

As the world looked on in horror at the Paris terror attacks of January and November 2015, France found itself at the centre of a war that has split across nations and continents.

Drawing from theories of world society and from historical-sociological theories the book studies the past, present, and future of Middle East Christianity.

During the transition to democracy, states have used various mechanisms to address previous human rights abuses including trials, truth and reconciliation commissions and internationalized tribunals.

Provides an international comparative study of the implementation of disability rights law and policy focused on the emerging principles of self-determination and personalisation.

This is an exploration of the moral and pragmatic dilemmas involved in the relationships between states in an era of change, derived from a workshop held by the Centre for International Policy Studies.

This book uses the discourse of religious liberty, often expressed as one favoring a separation between church and state, to explore racial differences during an era of American empire building (1750-1900).

This book analyzes the emergence of cyber-bullying and anti-authority student expressions through the use of cell phone and Internet technologies.

Benjamin Franklin grew up in a devout Protestant family with limited prospects for wealth and fame.

When we think of Catholicism, we think of Europe and the United States as the seats of its power.

Human rights advocacy in the West is changing.

This book is a practical guide to freeing political prisoners and provides a comprehensive review of this UN body''s 1,200 jurisprudence cases.

Newsweek, Lit Hub, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution pick Race Man by Julian Bond as one of their Most-Anticipated Books of 2020!

Following the 1948 war and the creation of the state of Israel, Palestinian Arabs comprised just fifteen percent of the population but held a much larger portion of its territory.

Based on ethnographic research by an interdisciplinary team of scholars and activists, Religion at the Corner of Bliss and Nirvana illuminates the role that religion plays in the civic and political experiences of new migrants in the United States.

The re-emergence of religion as a significant cultural, social and political, force is not gender neutral.

Are Muslims Distinctive?

Christian-Muslim dialogue grows increasingly important, but little is known about individual Muslim dialogical thinkers.

Forgiveness and politics are often assumed, both ordinarily and academically, to be unrelated and un-relatable.

This book explores the authors' legal thinking on artificial intelligence (AI), a topic of burgeoning interest in the technology sector and among the general public.

Argues that North American settler colonialism included episodes of genocide of Indigenous peoples as defined by the United Nations Genocide Convention.

Against all odds, the seeds of social change found purchase in mid-twentieth century South Carolina.

What does it mean to become religiously queer or queerly religious in one's everyday life?

This book reconstructs the connection between religion and migration, drawing on post-colonial perspectives to shed light on what religion can contribute to migrant encounters.

This book examines the origins of Australia's constitutional religious freedom provision.

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Prayer is an important religious practice that is rarely studied from the perspective of politics - and yet it should be.

This book explores what victimology, as both an academic discipline and an activist movement, has achieved since its initial conception in the 1940s, from a variety of experts' perspectives.

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.

This book examines law and religion from the perspective of its case law.

Humanitarian protection has evolved from an act of charity into a legal obligation not to remove certain categories of non-nationals.

'Extremely convincing' - Electronic IntifadaFor decades we have spoken of the Israel-Palestine conflict, but what if our understanding of the issue has been wrong all along?

Maoism and Grassroots Religion explores grassroots religious life under and after Mao in Rui'an County, Wenzhou of southeast China, a region widely known for its religious vitality.

This book offers a materialist critique of mainstream human rights discourse in the period following 9/11, examining literary works, critical histories, international declarations, government statutes, NGO manifestos, and a documentary film.

Inspired by the current political moment around the globe in which uprisings, protests, revolutions, and movements are on the rise, this book examines the intersections between the Bible and activism.

Based on official records and reports, relevant secondary sources, and observations of members of the Convention's implementary organ, The Convention on the Rights of the Child describes and evaluates the first international human rights treaty to deal specifically with the rights and freedoms of the child.

The European Union is a supranational organisation with a set of circumscribed powers.

The Preacher King investigates Martin Luther King Jr.

A powerful and personal account of the movement and its players.

Exercising Human Rights investigates why human rights are not universally empowering and why this damages people attempting to exercise rights.

Humanitarian protection has evolved from an act of charity into a legal obligation not to remove certain categories of non-nationals.