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The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law between the Global and the Local by Mark Goodale 9780521865173
RRP: £70.00£63.71Human rights are now the dominant approach to social justice globally. But how do human rights work? What do they do? Drawing on anthropological studies of human rights work from around the world, this book examines human rights in practice. It shows how... -
Law and Globalization from Below: Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality by Boaventura de Sousa Santos 9780521607353
RRP: £36.99£33.95This book is an unprecedented attempt to analyze the role of the law in the global movement for social justice. Case studies in the book are written by leading scholars from both the global South and the global North, and combine empirical research on... -
Diversity and Self-Determination in International Law by Karen Knop 9780521067409
RRP: £41.99£38.34The emergence of new states and independence movements after the Cold War has intensified the long-standing disagreement among international lawyers over the right of self-determination, especially the right of secession. Knop shifts the discussion from... -
The Gacaca Courts, Post-Genocide Justice and Reconciliation in Rwanda: Justice without Lawyers by Phil Clark 9780521193481
RRP: £71.00£64.60Since 2001, the Gacaca community courts have been the centrepiece of Rwanda's justice and reconciliation programme. Nearly every adult Rwandan has participated in the trials, principally by providing eyewitness testimony concerning genocide crimes... -
Making Sense of Mass Atrocity by Mark J. Osiel 9780521861854
RRP: £62.00£55.92Genocide, crimes against humanity, and the worst war crimes are possible only when the state or other organisations mobilise and co-ordinate the efforts of many people. Responsibility for mass atrocity is always widely shared, often by thousands. Yet... -
Searching for Truth in the Transitional Justice Movement by Jamie Rowen 9781107108769
RRP: £71.00£64.20Searching for Truth in the Transitional Justice Movement examines calls for a truth commission to redress the brutal war during the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, the decades-long armed conflict in Colombia, and US detention policies in the War on... -
Peacemakers in Action: Volume 2 by Joyce S. Dubensky 9781107152960
RRP: £58.00£53.01Every day, men and women risk their lives to stop violence in religiously charged conflicts around the world. You may not know their names - but you should. Peacemakers in Action, Volume 2 provides a window into the triumphs, risks, failures, and lessons... -
Chinese Refugee Law and Policy by Lili Song 9781009305860
RRP: £21.99£19.80This book is the first to systematically examine Chinese refugee law and policy. It provides in-depth legal and policy analysis and makes recommendations to relevant stakeholders, drawing upon not only existing legal and policy scholarships but also... -
Human Rights, State Compliance, and Social Change: Assessing National Human Rights Institutions by Ryan Goodman 9780521761758
RRP: £58.00£52.41National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) - human rights commissions and ombudsmen - have gained recognition as a possible missing link in the transmission and implementation of international human rights norms at the domestic level. They are also... -
Normative Jurisprudence: An Introduction by Robin West 9780521460002
RRP: £42.00£37.96Normative Jurisprudence aims to reinvigorate normative legal scholarship that both criticizes positive law and suggests reforms for it, on the basis of stated moral values and legalistic ideals. It looks sequentially and in detail at the three major... -
Economic and Social Rights after the Global Financial Crisis by Aoife Nolan 9781107043251
RRP: £73.00£66.37The global financial and economic crises have had a devastating impact on economic and social rights. These rights were ignored by economic policy makers prior to the crises and continue to be disregarded in the current 'age of austerity'. This is the... -
Seeking Human Rights Justice in Latin America: Truth, Extra-Territorial Courts, and the Process of Justice by Jeffrey Davis 9780521514361
RRP: £62.00£55.52This book studies how victims of human rights violations in Latin America, their families, and their advocates work to overcome entrenched impunity and seek legal justice. Their struggles show that legal justice is a multifaceted process, the overarching... -
Global Justice, State Duties: The Extraterritorial Scope of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in International Law by Malcolm Langford 9781107012776
RRP: £79.00£71.68The rise of globalization and the persistence of global poverty are straining the territorial paradigm of human rights. This book asks if states possess extraterritorial obligations under existing international human rights law to respect and ensure... -
Habeas Corpus in International Law by Brian Farrell 9781107151772
RRP: £66.00£59.04Habeas Corpus in International Law is the first comprehensive examination of this subject. It looks at the location, scope, and significance of the right to a judicial determination of the legality of one's detention as guaranteed by international and... -
Race, Ethnicity, and Disability: Veterans and Benefits in Post-Civil War America by Larry M. Logue 9780521516341
RRP: £57.00£51.13Using data from more than 40,000 soldiers of the Union army, this book focuses on the experience of African Americans and immigrants with disabilities, investigating their decision to seek government assistance and their resulting treatment. Pension... -
Housing and Property Restitution Rights of Refugees and Displaced Persons: Laws, Cases, and Materials by Scott Leckie 9781107682566
RRP: £37.99£35.43The legal recognition of the housing, land, and property rights of refugees and displaced persons has expanded steadily in recent years as the realization has grown that securing these rights will be beneficial to long-term peace, stability, economic... -
Feminism in Public Debt: A Human Rights Approach by Iolanda Fresnillo 9781529237276
RRP: £29.99£23.02EPDF and EPUB available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As many developing countries are facing increasingly higher levels of debt and economic instability, this interdisciplinary volume explores the intersection of sovereign debt and women's... -
Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand by Tyrell Haberkorn 9781503639409
RRP: £23.99£20.84In 2014, after a decade of political turmoil, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) carried out Thailand's 13th coup since the country's transformation from absolute to constitutional monarchy in 1932. Though the NCPO promised to restore the... -
The Maoist Movement in India: Perspectives and Counterperspectives by Paul Santosh 9781138662926
RRP: £32.99£29.16This book presents the raging debate on one of the most brutal political realities that India has confronted in recent years: the rising conflict between Maoist insurgent groups and the Indian State. With some of the finest writings on the subject, it... -
The Struggle For Freedom & Democracy Betrayed: The making of a dictator by Miria Matembe 9789970524006
RRP: £24.99£18.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789970524006Author Miria MatembeFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print USPublisher Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP... -
Free to Believe: Rethinking Freedom of Conscience and Religion in Canada by Mary Anne Waldron 9781442645554
RRP: £61.00£50.57Free to Believe investigates the protection for freedom of conscience and religion - the first of the "fundamental freedoms" listed in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms - and its interpretation in the courts. Through an examination of... -
Conference of the Books: The Search for Beauty in Islam by Khaled M.Abou El Fadl 9780761820819
RRP: £71.00£62.10Based on actual cases, these original essays present an honest and critical evaluation of the problems and challenges that confront Muslims in the Contemporary world. Using the Muslim experience in the United States as a lens, the author examines what he... -
Reversing the Rivers: A Memoir of History, Hope, and Human Rights by William F. Schulz 9781512824032
RRP: £31.00£24.47From 1994 to 2006, William F. Schulz headed Amnesty International USA. During this time, he and the organization confronted some of the greatest challenges to human rights, including genocides in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Sudan; controversies over the prison... -
The Syrian Revolution: Between the Politics of Life and the Geopolitics of Death Yasser Munif 9780745340715
RRP: £85.00£65.36Understanding the Syrian revolution is unthinkable without an in-depth analysis from below. Paying attention to the complex activities of the grassroots resistance, this book demands we rethink the revolution. Having lived in Syria for over fifteen... -
Tell it to the Dead: Memories of a War by Donald Kirk 9781563247187
RRP: £25.99£23.03This work reports on the Vietnam war as seen by the GI in the jungles. It discusses current attitudes, views from Saigon, Hanoi and Phnom Penh, and other locales in the countryside.Book InformationISBN 9781563247187Author Donald KirkFormat PaperbackPage... -
Tell it to the Dead: Memories of a War by Donald Kirk 9781563247170
RRP: £105.00£91.26This work reports on the Vietnam war as seen by the GI in the jungles. It discusses current attitudes, views from Saigon, Hanoi and Phnom Penh, and other locales in the countryside.Book InformationISBN 9781563247170Author Donald KirkFormat HardbackPage... -
The Breadwinner: Stories of Women Forced into Modern-day Slavery and Trafficking by Sriyani Tidball 9781647184605
£13.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647184605Author Sriyani TidballFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Booklocker.comPublisher Booklocker.comWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
How to Look Good in a War: Justifying and Challenging State Violence by Brian Rappert 9780745331805
RRP: £85.00£65.36This book examines the methods used to depict, defend and justify the use of state violence. While others have shown how 'truth is the first casualty of war', this is the first to analyse exactly how pro-war narratives are constructed and normalised... -
Human Traffic and Transnational Crime: Eurasian and American Perspectives by Sally W. Stoecker 9780742530294
RRP: £106.00£92.59Human Trafficking is a growing transnational criminal phenomenon-conservative estimates put the total number of persons trafficked annually at two million. In this first in-depth study of human trafficking in Russia and Ukraine, scholars from the... -
From Cape Town to Kabul: Rethinking Strategies for Pursuing Women's Human Rights by Penelope Andrews 9780754679967
RRP: £96.99£84.05Using 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... -
The Struggles for Human Rights in Xinjiang by Roy Anthony Rogers 9789670957166
RRP: £17.00£14.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789670957166Author Roy Anthony RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Other Press Sdn. Bhd.Publisher Other Press Sdn. Bhd.Weight(grams) 463g -
The Liberal Way of War: Legal Perspectives by Robert P. Barnidge 9781409467397
RRP: £91.99£80.20Examining some of the huge challenges that liberal States faced in the decade after 11 September 2001, the chapters in this book address three aspects of the impact of more than a decade of military action.This book begins by considering four different... -
Literature and Human Rights: The Law, the Language and the Limitations of Human Rights Discourse by Ian Ward 9783110553024
RRP: £18.00£16.50The idea of human rights is not new. But the importance of taking rights seriously has never been more urgent. The eighteen essays which comprise Literature and Human Rights are written as a contribution to this vital debate. Each moreover is written in... -
Bloody Tuesday: The Untold Story of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa by John M. Giggie 9780197766668
RRP: £26.99£21.32The dramatic story of one of the most violent episodes of the civil rights movement and its role in the ongoing reckoning with racial injustice in the United States. On Bloody Sunday, activist John Lewis led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus... -
The United States and the Armenian Genocide: History, Memory, Politics by Julien Zarifian 9781978837928
RRP: £34.00£29.89During the first World War, over a million Armenians were killed as Ottoman Turks embarked on a bloody campaign of ethnic cleansing. Scholars have long described these massacres as genocide, one of Hitler’s prime inspirations for the Holocaust, yet the... -
Human Rights During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The South Asian Experience by M. Ehteshamul Bari 9789819714797
RRP: £129.99£114.15This book sheds light on the fact that the proclamation of an emergency can be a legitimate constitutional method to take prompt preventative measures in protecting the interests of the society in times of grave crises. However, the exercise of emergency... -
Historical Dictionary of Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations by Thomas E. Doyle 9781442276178
RRP: £115.00£105.57The Historical Dictionary of Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations, Third Edition defines the core concepts of human rights and humanitarian law. It relates the major international legal agreements related to human rights and names the diverse... -
Human Traffic and Transnational Crime: Eurasian and American Perspectives by Sally W. Stoecker 9780742530300
RRP: £41.00£36.08Human Trafficking is a growing transnational criminal phenomenon_conservative estimates put the total number of persons trafficked annually at two million. In this first in-depth study of human trafficking in Russia and Ukraine, scholars from the... -
The Human Rights Industry by Alfred De Zayas 9781949762525
RRP: £25.50£19.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949762525Author Alfred De ZayasFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *... -
Global Disconents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy (the American Empire Project) by Noam Chomsky 9798888901441
RRP: £19.95£12.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888901441Author Noam ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Haymarket BooksPublisher Haymarket Books