Human Rights & Civil Liberties Law

Can harsh interrogation techniques and torture ever be morally justified for a nation at war or under the threat of imminent attack? In the afterma...

The Church is commonly spoken of as an institutional reality, but much less frequently recognized as a spiritual and heavenly reality called by God...

Free to Believe investigates the protection for freedom of conscience and religion the first of the fundamental freedoms listed in the Canadian Ch...

Why does a country with religious liberty enmeshed in its legal and social structures produce such overt prejudice and discrimination against Musli...

The relationship between Canadas Indigenous peoples and the Canadian government is one that has increasingly come to the fore. Numerous tragic inci...

With this volume, Roe v. Dobbs: The Past, Present and Future of a Constitutional Right of Abortion, we confront the remarkable beginning and end--o...

'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...

Be inspired by this grassroots civil rights lawyer's quest for democracy, equality, and justice Born in 1947 and raised in rural South Carolina, Le...

In 2014, after a decade of political turmoil, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) carried out Thailand's 13th coup since the country's ...

In 2014, after a decade of political turmoil, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) carried out Thailand's 13th coup since the country's ...

Under a pretext of humanitarian response to people seeking asylum, nation states are increasingly introducing barriers to prevent entry for those s...

Historians born during and after the Civil Rights movement have struggled to take the proslav­ery and pro-secession arguments of the eighteenth- an...

Against the backdrop of the global Black Lives Matter movement, debates around the social impact of hate crime legislation have come to the politic...

Against the backdrop of the global Black Lives Matter movement, debates around the social impact of hate crime legislation have come to the politic...

This book provides a socio-legal perspective to critical military studies by asking socio-legal questions about military conscription in Turkey: Ho...

In this seminal book, award-winning filmmaker, civil rights attorney, and television personality, Brooke Goldstein, offers a groundbreaking and pra...

Winner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the David J. Langum PrizeWinner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardWinner of the Order of the Coif Book AwardWinn...

Liberal universality is the dominant framework of human rights in the literature. This paradigm asserts that human rights norms must be interpreted...

The book 2013 marks the 60th anniversary of Irelands ratification of the European Convention on Human Rights and the 10th anniversary of the Conven...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023 The author of the bestselling Just Medicine reveals how racial inequality undermines public health and how ...

The Civil Rights Act of 1875, enacted March 1, 1875, banned racial discrimination in public accommodationshotels, public conveyances, and places of...

Based on a series of themes and case studies, this book aims to illustrate the impact of sports policies and practices on individuals and their ide...

A critical, theoretical, and empirical examination of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (LWOP) is long overdue. This book present...

EPDF and EPUB available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As many developing countries are facing increasingly higher levels of debt and econo...

[A] learned and thoughtful portrayal of the history of race relations in Americaauthoritative and highly readable[An] impressive work.Randall Kenne...

A major collection of essays and  speeches from pioneering freedom fighter Angela Y. DavisFor over fifty years, Angela Y. Davis has been at the for...