Human Rights Law & Civil Liberties

This book is aimed at what is a growing cross-disciplinary field of study and provides a comprehensive overview of human rights and related issues from a social science perspective. The text does more than discuss theory: it uses case studies and personal testimonies in the debate...

This book is aimed at what is a growing cross-disciplinary field of study and provides a comprehensive overview of human rights and related issues from a social science perspective. The text does more than discuss theory: it uses case studies and personal testimonies in the debate...

Human Rights: A Primer breaks new ground in clarifying for undergraduates the international significance of human rights. This new edition highlights current and recent developments, using themes familiar to undergraduates. For example, Americans are increasingly aware of the growing disparities in ..

This book explores how charity law is adapting to challenges presented by human rights. The book identifies the key areas where human rights and charity law intersects and their political significance. It offers a comparative analysis of selected common law countries including the UK, Ireland, the U..

This book addresses the legal issues raised by the interaction between human rights and development in contemporary international law. In particular, it charts the parameters of international law that states have to take into account in order to protect human rights in the process of development. In..

This interdisciplinary book examines the diverse concerns that people with impairments face in the context of human rights. It provides insights into new developments on important issues relating human rights to disability, and features new approaches and solutions to vital problems in the current d..

Erudite and timely, this book is a key contribution to the renewal of radical theory and politics. Douzinas, a leading scholar and author in the field of human rights and legal theory, considers the most pressing international questions surrounding the legacy and contemporary role of human rights...

Human rights, peace operations, and humanitarian intervention have emerged in recent decades as important components of international law and practice. Humanitarian intervention is often justified in the name of human rights and the rule of law, but there has been little empirical study of the insti..

Human rights, peace operations, and humanitarian intervention have emerged in recent decades as important components of international law and practice. Humanitarian intervention is often justified in the name of human rights and the rule of law, but there has been little empirical study of the insti..

This study brings research in linguistics and the way in which the body is written upon to bear on discourse on human rights and the body. Drawing on legal concepts and aspects of the law of human rights, the study argues that the proper frames for human rights are firstly the human body, seen as an..

The aim of this volume is to explore the relationship between human rights and capabilities in order to enhance the understanding of both as theoretical paradigms, as public policy frameworks and as approaches to development. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Hu..

This book examines the continued viability of international human rights law in the context of extraterritorialisation, outsourcing, and privatisation of law enforcement tasks. New forms of state cooperation raise difficult questions about divided, shared and joint responsibility under international..