Human Rights & Civil Liberties Law

It''s RBG like you''ve never seen her before! Using a unique mix of first-person narrative, hilarious comic panels and essential fa...

'Nathan Law's agonising account of China's ruthless takeover of Hong Kong provides a terrible insight into Beijing's ambitions - the world needs to...

In 2008 the Canadian government apologized to the victims of the notorious Indian residential school system, and established a Truth and Reconcilia...

WINNER, NEW JERSEY STUDIES ACADEMIC ALLIANCE BOOK AWARD James Collins Johnson made his name by escaping slavery in Maryland and fleeing to Princeto...

This monograph investigates the International, European and Commonwealth Caribbean approaches to human trafficking from an Analytical Eclectic pers...

Senior judges and politicians increasingly question the role of the EU and the European Court of Human Rights. Some call for a reconsideration of t...

How can we understand and contest the global wave of violence against women? In this book, Alison Brysk shows that gender violence across countries...

Prudence Crandall was a schoolteacher who fought to integrate her school in Canterbury, Connecticut, and educate black women in the early nineteent...

When a four-year-old California girl died on March 9, 1984, the state charged her mother with involuntary man-slaughter because she failed to provi...

The AIDS Law Project (ALP) is a small legal NGO in Johannesburg that, along with its allies in the Treatment Action Campaign, fought for more than ...

As the notoriously reluctant author of the Bill of Rights, James Madison has had a profound influence on the American government and legal system. ...

The past decades have seen enormous changes in our perceptions of 'security', the causes of insecurity and the measures adopted to address them. Th...

This book on human rights practices chronicles dramatic changes and the stories of the people defending human rights in the countries of Afghanista...

This book on human rights practices chronicles dramatic changes and the stories of the people defending human rights in the countries of Algeria, E...

This book on human rights practices chronicles dramatic changes and the stories of the people defending human rights in the countries of Iran and I...

This book on human rights practices chronicles dramatic changes and the stories of the people defending human rights in the countries of Belarus, R...

On 28 February 2006, the Six Nations of the Grand River blocked workers from entering a half-built housing development in southern Ontario. They re...

This handbook provides a systematic overview of the legal concept and the meaning of human dignity for each European state and the European Union. ...

As demonstrated in any conflict, war is violent and causes grave harms to innocent persons, even when fought in compliance with just war criteria. ...

Courts in different jurisdictions face similar human rights questions. Does the death penalty breach human rights? Does freedom of speech include r...

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the law and procedure of the European Court of Human Rights. It incorporates a step-by-step approach t...

This book provides the most comprehensive and scientific assessment to date of what it means to appear before war crimes tribunals. This ground-bre...