Civil Rights

This edited volume is the first collection to critically explore the role, limitations, and internal fragmentation of social activism for corporate accountability across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. It analyses a variety of NGOs, trade unions,...

This book explores the emergence of the religious use of ayahuasca as a subject of public interest and state intervention in Brazil, the United States, and France. In Brazil, since the 1980s, ayahuasca use has been permitted by the National Council on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552215784Author Robert SharpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Irwin Law IncPublisher Irwin Law IncWeight(grams) 820gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Unsurpassed in authority, reliability and accuracy; Blackstone's Statutes, trusted by students for over 30 years. Celebrating over 30 years as the market-leading series, Blackstone's Statutes have an unrivalled tradition of trust and quality. With a...

Every Supreme Court transition presents an opportunity for a shift in the balance of the third branch of American government, but the replacement of Thurgood Marshall with Clarence Thomas in 1991 proved particularly momentous. Not only did it shift the...

The Rights of Indians and Tribes explains Federal Indian Law in a conversational manner, yet is highly authoritative, containing over 2000 footnotes with citations to relevant court decisions, statutes, and agency regulations. Since its initial...

In the years following Brown v. Board of Education, countless Black citizens endured violent resistance and even death while fighting for their constitutional rights. One of those citizens, Clyde Kennard (1927-1963), a Korean War veteran and civil rights...

Freedom of expression is a fundamental right at the heart of any democratic society. It is, however, inevitably restricted by other important values, including the right to privacy: the control individuals exercise over their sensitive personal...

Jeremy Waldron has been a challenging and influential voice in the moral, political and legal debates surrounding the response to terrorism since 9/11. His contributions have spanned the major controversies of the War on Terror - including the morality...

The Cultural Defense of Nations presents a timely, thought-provoking thesis on some of the most pressing issues of our time-global immigration, majority groups, and national identity. Never in human history has so much attention been paid to human...

Since its inception, the European Convention on Human Rights has been a beacon of hope to gay men and lesbians in Europe. Going to Strasbourg: An Oral History of Sexual Orientation Discrimination and the European Convention on Human Rights provides a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566494137Author Cathy CambronFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Welcome Rain Publishers,USPublisher Welcome Rain Publishers,US

The Voting Rights War tells the story of the courageous struggle to achieve voting equality through more than one hundred years of work by the NAACP at the Supreme Court. Readers take the journey for voting rights from slavery to the Plessy v. Ferguson...

Alfredo Mirande, a sociology professor, Stanford Law graduate, and part-time pro bono attorney, represents clients who are rascuache-a Spanish word for "poor" or even "wretched"-and on the margins of society. For Mirande, however, rascuache means to be...

This seventh volume in the Swedish Studies in European Law series brings together some of the most prominent scholars working within the fast-evolving field of EU civil justice. Civil justice has an impact on matters involving, inter alia, family...

Schools need to be able to regulate sexting, but at what point are administrators infringing on students' rights? Is teenage sexting a violation of child pornography laws? This book tackles these tough issues and others.In several states, teenagers who...

Detailed yet highly readable, this book explores essential and illuminating primary source documents that provide insights into the history, development, and current conceptions of the First Amendment to the Constitution.The freedom to speak one's mind...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639365542Author Benedicta DauduFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 279gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

Chile's constitutional moment began as a popular demand in late 2019. This collection seizes the opportunity of this unique moment to unpack the context, difficulties, opportunities, and merits to enhance the status of environmental and social rights...

This book presents a unique and comprehensive examination of the human and moral rights of artists. In what is arguably the first exhaustive book-length account of artists' rights, Paul Kearns explores the problems associated with censorship, both from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735444116Author Maurice HofmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Maurice HofmannPublisher Maurice HofmannWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

First published in 1973, Wrongful Imprisonment aims to combine the human interest of individual cases of wrongful imprisonment with a general analysis of how and why they occur. It deals in detail with the English system, but also provides comparisons...

This book covers documents and related information pertaining to civil liberties in America, including the debates over arbitrary state action, due process, equal protection, freedom of speech, and privacy issues. The USA PATRIOT Act, the actions and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578801902Author Virginia O'HareFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Viaggio Christian PublishingPublisher Viaggio Christian PublishingWeight(grams)...

Same-sex marriage has become one of the most volatile issues in American politics. But if most young people support gay marriage, and if there are clear indicators that a substantial majority of the population will soon favor it, why has the outcry...

Dignity is seen, commonly, as an ethical obligation owed to human persons. The dimensions of this obligation are subject to wide discussion and defy universal agreement. Dignity is seen, commonly, as an ethical obligation owed to human persons. Dignity...

This book investigates some of the biggest challenges facing society in the twenty-first century. Research conducted in Asia and the West highlights the struggle for rights and recognition by indigenous peoples, women, migrants, and the young, as well as...

What are the premises unique to international criminal procedures that differentiate them from the domestic law of any State? International criminal procedure refers to the procedural law that governs procedures before the International Criminal Justice...

In Racing to Justice, renowned social justice advocate john a. powell persuasively argues that we have yet to achieve a truly post-racial society and that there is much work to be done to redeem the American promise of inclusive democracy.Gathered from a...

In this book a team of expert contributors address challenging issues concerning the relationship between private law and the rule of law and human rights, with specific focus on case studies from South-Eastern Europe. The book examines the broadening...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639892976Author Ada MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint States Academic PressPublisher States Academic PressWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

In Queers in Court, Susan Gluck Mezey examines the contemporary battle for gay and lesbian rights in the United States, tracing the evolution of issues from same sex marriage and privacy rights to military service and employment discrimination. By...

In Queers in Court, Susan Gluck Mezey examines the contemporary battle for gay and lesbian rights in the United States, tracing the evolution of issues from same sex marriage and privacy rights to military service and employment discrimination. By...

The Voting Rights War tells the story of the courageous struggle to achieve voting equality through more than one hundred years of work by the NAACP at the Supreme Court. Readers take the journey for voting rights from slavery to the Plessy v. Ferguson...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639873142Author Ada MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 245Imprint Murphy & Moore PublishingPublisher Murphy & Moore PublishingWeight(grams)...

Continuing large-scale migration to the United States raises the question of how best to integrate new immigrants into the American national community. Traditionally, one successful answer has been to encourage immigrants to learn our language, culture,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639892785Author Alfie ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 245Imprint States Academic PressPublisher States Academic PressWeight(grams) 644gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639873166Author Alfie ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint Murphy & Moore PublishingPublisher Murphy & Moore PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639871063Author Adrian BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Murphy & Moore PublishingPublisher Murphy & Moore PublishingWeight(grams)...

Toleration on Trial offers the only multidisciplinary study available on the issue of toleration, bringing together political psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, Islamic scholars, and political theorists to examine the most pressing debates in the...