Human Rights & Civil Liberties Law

Bitter Harvest traces the development of Richmond Flowers, a color politician who began his career as a segregationist but who, as Attorney General...

Best known as a monumental achievement of the civil rights movement, the 1964 Civil Rights Act also revolutionized the lives of America's working w...

Federal Judge Frank M. Johnson of Alabama decided many of the most important civil rights and liberties cases in twentieth-century American history...

This book provides a new conceptual model for considering constitutional rights from a comparative perspective. A prestigious club bars women from ...

This open access collection of 17 original essays is the first volume to provide an in-depth exploration of the potential of a rights-based approac...

Highly topical collection of innovative essays on the protection of democracy by eminent contributors from the judiciary, the practicing legal prof...

Decades before the impeachment of an American president for a similar offense, Angelo Herndon was charged under Georgia law with attempting to inci...

This book examines the constitutional treatment of national security in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. These four states share their Co...

The concept of vulnerability has not been unequivocally interpreted either in regional or in universal international legal instruments. This book a...

THE FORGOTTEN FIRST chronicles the lives of four incredible men, the racism they experienced as Black players entering a segregated sport, the burd...

This textbook presents a range of classical philosophical approaches in order to show that they are unsuitable as a foundation for human rights. On...

This book addresses womens rights to work and motherhood in Libya from a legal and international human rights perspective. In an attempt to solve t...

This collection engages with current issues on equal protection in the USA, as seen from the perspectives of leading academics in this area. Contri...