Civil Rights category: 2079 books
by Douglas Hodgson
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Over the past two decades or so, legal literature has devoted much attention to various human rights issues at both the national and international levels. Yet there has been comparatively little written on the concept and importance of individual duty within the human rights discourse. This book attempts...
Human Rights Law in Europe
The Influence, Overlaps and Contradictions of the EU and the ECHR
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
This book provides analysis and critique of the dual protection of human rights in Europe by assessing the developing legal relationship between the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The book offers a comprehensive consideration of the institutional...
Protection of Sexual Minorities since Stonewall
Progress and Stalemate in Developed and Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The Stonewall Riot in New York in 1969 marked the birth of the sexual minority rights movement worldwide. In the subsequent four decades, equality and related rights on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity have been enshrined in many African, Asian, Australasian, European and North American...
Socializing States
Promoting Human Rights through International Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
The role of international law in global politics is as poorly understood as it is important. But how can the international legal regime encourage states to respect human rights? Given that international law lacks a centralized enforcement mechanism, it is not obvious how this law matters at all, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
This is volume 6 in the series Swedish Studies in European Law. Arising from the work of two well-attended seminars, this new volume concentrates on highly topical issues in European Law – current problems in the enforcement of human rights in Europe and the accession of the EU to the European Convention...
Human Rights Between Law and Politics
The Margin of Appreciation in Post-National Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This book analyses human rights in post-national contexts and demonstrates, through the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, that the Margin of Appreciation doctrine is an essential part of human rights adjudication.
Current approaches have tended to stress the instrumental value...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This collection of essays examines the promise and limits of social rights in Europe in a time of austerity. Presenting in the first instance five national case studies, representing the biggest European economies (UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), it offers an account of recent reforms to social...
Dignity, Degrading Treatment and Torture in Human Rights Law
The Ends of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Although scholars have shown longstanding interest in the boundaries of interpretation of the right not to be subjected to torture and other prohibited harm, the existing body of work does not sufficiently reflect the significance of the interpretive scope of degrading treatment. This book argues...
Reasoning Rights
Comparative Judicial Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This book is about judicial reasoning in human rights cases. The aim is to explore the question: how is it that notionally universal norms are reasoned by courts in such significantly different ways? What is the shape of this reasoning; which techniques are common across the transnational jurisprudence;...
Sisters in War
A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Caught up in a terrifying war, facing choices of life and death, two Iraqi sisters take us into the hidden world of women’s lives under U.S. occupation. Through their powerful story of love and betrayal, interwoven with the stories of a Palestinian American women’s rights activist and a U.S. soldier,...
Closing the Courthouse Door
How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
A leading legal scholar explores how the constitutional right to seek justice has been restricted by the Supreme Court The Supreme Court’s decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend those rights need something else as well: access to...
Necessary Evil
How to Fix Finance by Saving Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Finance is the evil we cannot live without. It governs almost every aspect of our lives and has the power to liberate as well as enslave. With the world's total financial assets--valued at a staggering $300 trillion--being four times larger than the combined output of all the world's economies, there...
Human Rights and the Protection of Privacy in Tort Law
A Comparison between English and German Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
In its case law, the European Court of Human Rights has acknowledged that national courts are bound to give effect to Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) which sets out the right to private and family life, when they rule on controversies between private individuals. Article...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
To celebrate Singapore’s fiftieth anniversary for its independence from Malaysia in 2015, 35 students, academics and activists came together to discuss and write about pioneering Singaporean human rights activists and their under-reported stories in Singapore. The city-state is known for its remarkable...