Civil Rights category: 2079 books
Global Empowerment of Women
Responses to Globalization and Politicized Religions
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
The empowerment of women is a broadly endorsed strategy for solving a host of difficult problems, from child poverty to gender violence to international development. The seventeen international scholars in this multi-disciplinary volume offer thoughtful critiques of the notion of empowerment based...
Sexual Justice / Cultural Justice
Critical Perspectives in Political Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
This key volume explores the relationship between cultural justice and sexual justice in multicultural societies in a new light. The authors challenge the framing of ‘feminism and multiculturalism’ as one of inevitable conflict, as well as the portrayal of liberal sexual equality and cultural...
Neighborhood Futures
Citizen Rights and Local Control
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Two conflicting developments have recently characterized civic life in the United States. The first, the centralization of formal agencies of government, too often leads to diminishing political liberties and tyranny. The second, which is characterized by a greater amount of civic participation and...
Feeling Your Pain
The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
James Bovard is no fan of Big Government in the US and under the Clinton-Gore administration. In his new book, Bovard looks at Clinton and Gore's record on such abuses and absurdities as taxes, gun control, the Waco fiasco, AmeriCorps, and federal funding of every program from those dealing with disaster...
The Hateful and the Obscene
Studies in the Limits of Free Expression
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2004
In a series of landmark decisions since 1990, Canadian courts have shaped a distinctive approach to the regulation of obscenity, hate literature, and child pornography. Missing from the debate, however, has been any attempt to determine whether the legal status quo can be justified by reference to...
Global Perspectives on Legal Capacity Reform
Our Voices, Our Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
This edited collection is the result of the Voices of Individuals: Collectively Exploring Self-determination (VOICES) based at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, National University of Ireland Galway. Focusing on the exercise of legal capacity under Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights...
Debating Brain Drain
May Governments Restrict Emigration?
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Many of the best and brightest citizens of developing countries choose to emigrate to wealthier societies, taking their skills and educations with them. What do these people owe to their societies of origin? May developing societies legitimately demand that their citizens use their skills to improve...
Comparative Executive Clemency
The Constitutional Pardon Power and the Prerogative of Mercy in Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Virtually every constitutional order in the common law world contains a provision for executive clemency or pardon in criminal cases. This facility for legal mercy is not limited to a single place in modern legal systems, but is instead realized through various practices such as a law enforcement...
A Perilous Path
Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Huge names: Stevenson’s Just Mercy has sold over 400,000 copies, Lynch was Attorney General of the US from 2015 to 2017, Sherrilyn Ifill is the current head of the NAACP Legal Defense fund, the force behind the landmark Texas Voting Rights Act lawsuit, Tony Thompson is a well-known, well-connected,...
Voices from the Edge
Narratives about the Americans with Disabilities Act
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2004
Fear, rage, courage, discrimination. These are facts of everyday life for many Americans with disabilities. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), has made working, traveling, and communicating easier for many individuals. But what recourse do individuals have when enforcement of the law is ambiguous...
Discrediting the Red Scare
The Cold War Trials of James Kutcher, "The Legless Veteran"
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
During the Allies’ invasion of Italy in the thick of World War II, American soldier James Kutcher was hit by a German mortar shell and lost both of his legs. Back home, rehabilitated and given a job at the Veterans’ Administration, he was soon to learn that his battles were far from over. In 1948,...
Rediscovering a Lost Freedom
The First Amendment Right to Censor Unwanted Speech
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Since ratification of the First Amendment in the late eighteenth century, there has been a sea change in American life. When the amendment was ratified, individuals were almost completely free of unwanted speech; but today they are besieged by it. Indeed, the First Amendment has, for all practical...
The Law of Affirmative Action
Twenty Five Years of Supreme Court Decisions on Race and Remedies
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2000
The debate over race in this country has of late converged on the contentious issue of affirmative action. Although the Supreme Court once supported the concept of racial affirmative action, in recent years a majority of the Court has consistently opposed various affirmative action programs.
The Law...
by Robin Marty
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
The end of Roe v. Wade is coming. How will you prepare?
Handbook for a Post-Roe America is a comprehensive and user-friendly manual for understanding and preparing for the looming changes to reproductive rights law, and getting the healthcare you need—by any means necessary. Activist and...