Civil Rights category: 2079 books
The Right to Housing
Law, Concepts, Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
A human right to housing represents the law's most direct and overt protection of housing and home. Unlike other human rights, through which the home incidentally receives protection and attention, the right to housing raises housing itself to the position of primary importance. However, the meaning,...
Rights and Courts in Pursuit of Social Change
Legal Mobilisation in the Multi-Level European System
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Over the past few decades, European countries have witnessed a proliferation of legal norms concerning marginalised individuals and minorities who increasingly invoke them in front of courts to assert their rights and claim protection. The present volume explores the relationship between law, rights...
When the Letter Betrays the Spirit
Voting Rights Enforcement and African American Participation from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
When the Letter Betrays the Spirit examines the wide latitude provided to the executive branch and to the Supreme Court by the text of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Drawing from government enforcement data, legislative history, Supreme Court rulings, the 2006 reauthorization debate on the VRA, and...
by Miriam Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Lesbian and gay citizens today enjoy a much broader array of rights and obligations and a greater ability to live their lives openly in both the U.S. and Canada. However, while human rights protections have been exponentially expanded in Canada over the last twenty years, even basic protections in...
Transgender Rights and Politics
Groups, Issue Framing, and Policy Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
To date, media and scholarly attention to gay politics and policy has focused on the morality debates over sexual orientation and the legal aspects of rights for non-heterosexuals. However, transgender concerns as such have received little attention. As transgender activism has become more visible,...
The United States Bill of Rights
The Ten Original Amendments to the Constitution of the United States Passed by Congress September 25, 1789
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Collectively known as the United States Bill of Rights, these first ten amendments to the United States Constitution limit the powers of the federal government and protect the rights of all citizens, residents and visitors on United States territory. Introduced in 1789 in the First United States Congress...
The Constitutional Rights of Children
In re Gault and Juvenile Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2017
This new edition upon the 50th anniversary of In re Gault includes expanded coverage of the Roberts Court’s juvenile justice decisions including Miller v. Alabama; explains how disregard for children’s constitutional rights led to the “Kids for Cash” scandal in Pennsylvania; new legal developments...
The Morality of Gay Rights
An Exploration in Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
In The Morality of Gay Rights, Ball presents a comprehensive exploration of the connection between gay rights and political philosophy. He discusses the writing of contemporary political and legal philosophers-including Rawls, Walzer, Nussbaum, Sandel, Rorty and Dworkin-to evaluate how their theoretical...
Transitional Justice and Human Rights in Morocco
Negotiating the Years of Lead
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
This book examines the Moroccan experience of transitional justice, more specifically the negotiation of the legacy of the period commonly referred to as the Years of Lead. This period of Moroccan history roughly spans from the early 1960s to 1999 during which thousands of citizens were arbitrarily...
The Politics of White Rights
Race, Justice, and Integrating Alabama's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
In The Politics of White Rights, Joseph Bagley recounts the history of school desegregation litigation in Alabama, focusing on the malleability and durability of white resistance. He argues that the litigious battles of 1954–73 taught Alabama’s segregationists how to fashion a more subtle defense...
No Escape
Freedom of Speech and the Paradox of Rights
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2002
Conventional legal and political scholarship places liberalism, which promotes and defends individual legal rights, in direct opposition to communitarianism, which focuses on the greater good of the social group. According to this mode of thought, liberals value legal rights for precisely the same...
Human Trafficking and Slavery Reconsidered
Conceptual Limits and States' Positive Obligations in European Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
By reconsidering the definitions of human trafficking, slavery, servitude and forced labour, Vladislava Stoyanova demonstrates how, in embracing the human trafficking framework, the international community has sidelined the human rights law commitments against slavery, servitude and forced labour...
Human Rights and Foreign Aid
For Love or Money?
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2007
By trying to alleviate poverty abroad, foreign development assistance tries to meet, among other things, basic human needs, which some schools of thought classify as basic human rights. However, because development abroad has often been treated as a tool for the pursuit of donor interests, rather...
Queers in Court
Gay Rights Law and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
In Queers in Court, Susan Gluck Mezey examines the contemporary battle for gay and lesbian rights in the United States, tracing the evolution of issues from same sex marriage and privacy rights to military service and employment discrimination. By combining analyses of nearly three hundred cases from...