Human Rights & Civil Liberties Law

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...

Islam is a growing presence practically everywhere in Europe. In Italy, however, Islam has met a unique model of state neutrality, religious freedo...

This book provides a vital and original investigation into, and critique of, the situation facing the realisation of the childs right to play. The ...

Focused content, layout and price - Routledge competes and wins in relation to all of these factors - Craig Lind, University of Sussex, UK The best...

This book presents the first national study of the practice of polygamy undertaken amongst Malay Muslims, contextualised within the broader social,...

This book contributes to the international debate on Indigenous Peoples Law, containing both in-depth research of Scandinavian historical and legal...

While every constitution includes a provision over the right to equal protection of the laws, perhaps with different terminology, this book interpr...

This collection explores and illustrates issues arising from political approaches to human rights in contrast to the more traditional moral approac...

This book critically assesses categorical divisions between indigenous individual and collective rights regimes embedded in the foundations of inte...

The human rights issues in Japan are multifaceted. Over decades, domestic and international human rights organisations have raised concerns, but go...

In recent years, a conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court, over vigorous dissents, has developed circumventions to the Establishment Claus...

Sudan and South Sudan have suffered from repeated cycles of conflict and authoritarianism resulting in serious human rights and humanitarian law vi...

Whilst advances in biotechnology and information technology have undoubtedly resulted in better quality of life for mankind, they can also bring ab...

Linking critical legal thinking to constitutional scholarship and a practical tradition of US lawyering that is orientated around anti-poverty acti...

This volume presents a timely analysis of some of the current controversies relating to freedom for religion and freedom from religion that have do...

This book argues that the effective protection of fundamental rights in a contemporary, multicultural society requires not only tolerance and respe...

Under the influence of the global spread of human rights, legal disputes are increasingly framed in human rights terms. Parties to a legal dispute ...

First published in 2006, this book brings together some of the most innovative and important research on civil rights law and legality, this book d...

This book offers an in-depth analysis of a fundamental human freedom and a cornerstone of democracy: the Freedom of Religions or Beliefs (FoRB). Th...

From erotic labor, to the rights of people who use psychoactive substances, to reproductive health and carceralitywe are living through a political...