Human Rights

This book provides the first systematic assessment from a human rights law perspective of the landmark contributions of the renowned legal anthropo...

A LA Times Bestseller[A] compelling history of our citys last half century, as conveyed through the life of one of our most impactful leaders. Los...

A LA Times Bestseller[A] compelling history of our citys last half century, as conveyed through the life of one of our most impactful leaders. Lo...

Transitional justice studies typically focuses on how nations remember, face and deal with histories of past violence. This book, however, shifts t...

Economics plays a key role in human rights issues as decision-makers weigh the incentives associated with choosing how to use scarce resources in t...

How activist groups across the country adapted their strategies and tactics to their local contexts to keep the protests alive On January 21, 2017,...

As people become more mobile around the world, the nature of citizenship, and all its attendant rights, has become the object of intense scrutiny. ...

Biggs deftly blends historical research with creative retelling, bringing prison records to full and chilling life. - The New StatesmanCambridge Un...

Scholarship on immigration to America is a coin with two sides: it asks both how America changed immigrants, and how they changed America. Were the...

Since the 2005 publication of the highly acclaimed first edition of Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered, human trafficking has become virtual...

Germans remember the Nazi past so that it may never happen again. But how has the abstract vow to remember translated into concrete action to preve...

As people age, they are at increased risk of having their basic human rights threatened or violated. When age is perceived as incompetence, it can ...

During the first quarter-century of the Cold War, upholding human rights was rarely a priority in U.S. policy toward Latin America. Seeking to prot...

Stephen Bright emerged on the scene as a cause lawyer in the early decades of mass incarceration, when inflammatory politics and harsh changes to c...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY! An important, deeply affecting-and regrettably relevant (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a sinist...

The Ethics of Global Poverty offers a thorough introduction to the ethical issues surrounding global poverty. It addresses important questions such...