Human Rights

How does international law impact the behavior of states? This book designed for students in multiple disciplines offers a comprehensive, accessibl...

Bruno Tesch was tried and executed for his company's Zyklon B gas used in Nazi Germany's extermination camps. This book examines this trial and the...

Reimagining the National Security State provides the first comprehensive picture of the toll that US government policies took on civil liberties, h...

Conflict economics contributes to an understanding of violent conflict and peace in two important ways. First, it applies economic concepts and mod...

This volume brings together critical legal scholarship and theories of forced migration that draw attention to the dual role of law as it pertains ...

Children's Rights and Business: Governing Obligations and Responsibility is a comprehensive legal inquiry into children's rights and business. Rely...

Provides insights into a lively field of international human rights politics the protection of children and their rights by looking at the negoti...

The question of 'humanitarian intervention' has been a staple of international law for around 200 years, with a renewed interest in the history of ...

International human rights law has expanded remarkably since the 1990s. It is therefore more important than ever to identify, beyond specific contr...

In the aftermath of mass conflict how is it possible to address violent and traumatic pasts, reconcile divided nations, and strengthen state instit...

Written by psychologists, historians, and lawyers, this handbook demonstrates the central role psychological science plays in addressing some of th...

From 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes read...

The concern over rising state violence, above all in Latin America, triggered an unprecedented turn to a global politics of human rights in the 197...

New York Times BestsellerHow far are Americans willing to go to force each other to fall in line?According to the establishment media, the intellig...

Islamophobia and the Law is a foundational volume of critical scholarship on the emerging form of bigotry widely known as Islamophobia. This book b...

Islamophobia and the Law is a foundational volume of critical scholarship on the emerging form of bigotry widely known as Islamophobia. This book b...

When refugees flee war and persecution, protection and assistance are usually provided by United Nations organisations and their NGO implementing p...

Generations of festering culture wars, compounded by actual wars in predominantly Muslim countries, the terrorism of Isis, and the ongoing migrant ...

Though much attention has been paid to different principles of justice, far less has been done reflecting on what the larger concern behind the not...

In Red Zones, Marie-Eve Sylvestre, Nicholas Blomley, and Céline Bellot examine the court-imposed territorial restrictions and other bail and senten...