Socio-Legal Studies - International Law & Politics

Drawing on a postcolonial legal history of United States territorial expansionism, this book provides an analysis of the foundations of US global empire. Charles R. Venator-Santiago argues that the United States has developed three traditions of territorial expansionism with corresponding constituti..

Queer Necropolitics addresses the changing parameters of sexual justice that accompany the contemporary regimes of coloniality, the war on terror, incarceration, border enforcement and global neoliberalism...

Based on extensive interviews with male and female survivors in Bosnia and Herzogovina, this book addresses a gap in the current literature on rape and sexual violence in conflict situations. It demonstrates that rape and sexual violence give rise to long-term needs that, within the context of trans..

Multinational Integration, Cultural Identity and Regional Self-Government assesses the current state of the international theory and practice of autonomy in order to pursue the possibility for regional self-government in Tibet...

Transitional justice has remained relatively silent on the question of 'resistance'. In response, this book asks what can be learnt by engaging with resistance to transitional justice not just as a problem of process, but as a necessary element of transitional justice. It is the social act of labell..

In legal discourses on rights, freedom of religion occupies a pivotal position, receiving increasing attention from legal bodies. This book critically evaluates the emerging legal principles and standards that are applied to religious freedom in Europe. Focusing on religious pluralism as an interpre..

In legal discourses on rights, freedom of religion occupies a pivotal position, receiving increasing attention from legal bodies. This book critically evaluates the emerging legal principles and standards that are applied to religious freedom in Europe. Focusing on religious pluralism as an interpre..

The ‘culture of security’ ushered in after 11 September 2001 has involved exceptional legal measures and – as exemplified by the Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden leaks – increased recourse to secrecy on the basis of protecting public safety and national security. Beyond this counterterrorism and n..

The ‘culture of security’ ushered in after 11 September 2001 has involved exceptional legal measures and – as exemplified by the Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden leaks – increased recourse to secrecy on the basis of protecting public safety and national security. Beyond this counterterrorism and n..

State Violence and the Execution of Law examines how law plays a fundamental role in enabling state violence and, specifically, specifically, torture, secret imprisonment, and killing-at-a-distance...

Law tends to have a rather fixed view of the proper or valid legal subject. This collection challenges law’s inherent constructions of normality and the ‘normal’ subject. Taken together, the articles cover issues as diverse as marginalized identities and agencies, transnational families, the legal p..

Law tends to have a rather fixed view of the proper or valid legal subject. This collection challenges law’s inherent constructions of normality and the ‘normal’ subject. Taken together, the articles cover issues as diverse as marginalized identities and agencies, transnational families, the legal p..