Civil Rights category: 2079 books
by Tom Hickman
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
It is remarkable that 10 years after the Human Rights Act came into effect, and with further reform possible, there are still no clear answers to basic questions about the relationship between the Human Rights Act, human rights principles and the common law. Such basic questions include: what is the...
Strategic Visions for Human Rights
Essays in Honour of Professor Kevin Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Strategic Visions for Human Rights takes a multi-disciplinary approach to future directions for human rights. It looks beyond what international human rights treaties have so far established and considers the context in which rights in the twenty-first century might develop to meet needs. The book...
We the People
A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
"This work will become the defining text on progressive constitutionalism — a parallel to Thomas Picketty’s contribution but for all who care deeply about constitutional law. Beautifully written and powerfully argued, this is a masterpiece." --Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School, and...
Changing Sustainability Norms through Communication Processes
The Emergence of the Business and Human Rights Regime as Transnational Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
This book traces the development of the Business & Human Rights (BHR) regime that has so far culminated with the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. It first surveys the argumentation and negotiation strategies that led to agreement on key elements of the BHR regime...
by Carlo Prisco
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This book argues that vegetarian and vegan people should be guaranteed the right to eat according to their beliefs. The author claims that the right to vegetarianism is backed by the human and civil rights recognized in the constitutions of several nations.
The first half of the book is based...
Confronting Hate
The Untold Story of the Rabbi Who Stood Up for Human Rights, Racial Justice, and Religious Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
In this biography, Gerald and Deborah Strober draw from original source materials and numerous interviews to detail the life and career of the esteemed Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, a seminal 20th century figure in interfaith relations in the US and around the world. From his position as Director of Interreligious...
Rights to Culture
Heritage, Language and Community in Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This collection brings together original, small-scale, ethnographic research on minorities and communities contesting heritage, livelihood, language, and citizenship in Thailand. The case studies included here look at the rights of communities to manage their own cultural and natural resources across...
Human Rights
A Political and Cultural Critique
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
In 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and with it a profusion of norms, processes, and institutions to define, promote, and protect human rights. Today virtually every cause seeks to cloak itself in the righteous language of rights. But even so, this universal...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
In mapping out the field of human rights for those studying and researching within both humanities and social science disciplines, the Handbook of Human Rights not only provides a solid foundation for the reader who wants to learn the basic parameters of the field, but also promotes new thinking and...
by Dr Jason NE Varuhas
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Winner of the 2018 Inner Temple New Authors Book Prize and the 2016 SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship.
Damages and Human Rights is a major work on awards of damages for violations of human rights that will be of compelling interest to practitioners, judges and academics...
Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places
Why State Constitutions Contain America's Positive Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Unlike many national constitutions, which contain explicit positive rights to such things as education, a living wage, and a healthful environment, the U.S. Bill of Rights appears to contain only a long list of prohibitions on government. American constitutional rights, we are often told, protect...
The Complete Bill of Rights
The Drafts, Debates, Sources, and Origins
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
The fundamental, inalienable rights and privileges set forth in the Bill of Rights represent the very foundations of American liberty. The Complete Bill of Rights is a documentary record of the process by which these rights and privileges were defined and recorded as law. Now in its second edition,...
Transmitting Rights
International Organizations and the Diffusion of Human Rights Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
When considering the structures that drive the global diffusion of human rights norms, Brian Greenhill argues that we need to look beyond institutions that are explicitly committed to human rights and instead focus on the dense web of international government organizations (IGOs)-some big, some small;...
The Human Rights Act and the Assault on Liberty
Rights and Asylum in the UK
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
A major objective of the Human Rights Act (HRA) was to bring about a culture of rights in the UK. Its introduction fore-grounded questions about the use of rights to advance social justice issues and was the impetus for this research. At about the same time as the Act came into effect another law,...