Human Rights Law & Civil Liberties

Exercising Human Rights investigates why human rights are not universally empowering and why this damages people attempting to exercise rights. It takes a new approach in looking at humans as the subject of human rights rather than the object and exposes the gendered and ethnocentric aspects of viol..

Building on David M. Engel and Frank W. Munger’s groundbreaking work analyzing the narratives of people with physical and learning disabilities, this book is based around a series of qualitative interviews of young Canadian adults with physical disabilities. Addressing the theoretical underpinnings ..

The human rights abuses are often committed by powerful non-State actors including multinational enterprises and non-State armed groups. This book examines this phenomena in resource-rich, weak governance States where these groups are involved in resource extracting industries. The book explores the..

More than merely describing the evolution of human rights and civil liberties law, this classic textbook provides students with detailed and thought-provoking coverage of the most crucial developments in the field, clearly explaining the law in context and practice. _x005F_x000D_ Updated throughout ..

This book explores the effects of institutional fragmentation in international human rights law, by comparing the rights jurisprudence of three human rights courts and bodies, namely the European Court for Human Rights, the Inter-American Court for Human Rights and the Human Rights Committee. Contri..

The essays in this volume consider questions of political and constitutional principle and theory that affect the law and regulation of content in new media that are based on digital technology. They examine a range of issues such as whether the justifications for government intervention in traditio..

Although human rights belong to all persons on the basis of their humanity, this book demonstrates that in the practice of international human rights law, the freedom to be non-religious or atheist does not receive the same protection as the freedom to be religious...

Recent events in Europe have raised questions about the limits to freedom of expression and whether this freedom can and should be restricted to protect the religious feelings of believers. This book examines the relationship between freedom of expression, freedom of religion and religious hate spee..

This volume brings together seminal articles by leading international scholars on all aspects of press freedom. Topics covered include the meaning of press freedom and its relationship to freedom of speech, the extent to which self-regulation is a satisfactory alternative to legal controls, whether ..

Using her experience of living under apartheid and witnessing its downfall and the subsequent creation of new governments in South Africa, the author examines and compares gender inequality in societies undergoing political and economic transformation. Broad in its thematic approach, the book genera..

Using her experience of living under apartheid and witnessing its downfall and the subsequent creation of new governments in South Africa, the author examines and compares gender inequality in societies undergoing political and economic transformation. Broad in its thematic approach, the book genera..

The book explores the relationship between fundamental rights and private law in Europe, a debate usually referred to as Drittwirkung or ‘horizontal effect of fundamental rights’. The work focuses on the field of tort law and looks, in particular, at the legal position of the tortfeasor. Part I of t..