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Transnational Legal Processes and Human Rights

by Kyriaki Topidi & Lauren Fielder

This book investigates how the construction and evolution of human rights norms are transferred in transnational legal settings and asks whether law should reflect, express or control any given aspect of culture....


Informal Norms in Global Governance: Human Rights, Intellectual Property Rules and Access to Medicines

by Wolfgang Hein & Suerie Moon

Hein and Moon take up a serious problem of contemporary global governance: what can be done when international trade rules prevent the realization of basic human rights? This book recounts the remarkable story...


World Report 2013: Events of 2012

by Human Rights Watch & Kenneth Roth

“The reports of the New York-based Human Rights Watch have become extremely important. . . .  Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses. . . .”—Ahmed...


Law, Religious Freedoms and Education in Europe

by Myriam Hunter-Henin

This topical study of a highly sensitive area of education presents a valuable insight for students, researchers and academics with an interest in cultural and religious diversity, human rights and education....


Aboriginal Child Welfare, Self-Government and the Rights of Indigenous Children: Protecting the Vulnerable Under International Law

by Sonia Harris-Short

This volume addresses the contentious and topical issue of aboriginal self-government over child welfare. It focuses on Canada and Australia to examine the fundamental changes in the design, management and delivery...


Criminal Law Reform and Transitional Justice: Human Rights Perspectives for Sudan

by Lutz Oette

This book examines the nature, policy aspects and interrelationship of Sudanese criminal law and law reform in the context of an uncertain transition from conflict to post-conflict society. In so doing, it situates...


Islamic Law in Europe?: Legal Pluralism and its Limits in European Family Laws

by Andrea Büchler

Cultural and religious identity and family law are inter-related in a number of ways and raise various complex issues. European legal systems have taken various approaches to meeting these challenges. This book...


Basic Equality and Discrimination: Reconciling Theory and Law

by Nicholas Mark Smith

Basic Equality and Discrimination examines the justification, interpretation and application of discrimination law. In order to navigate the often dense and conflicted jurisprudence in this area, the work first...


Class Act: An International Legal Perspective on Class Discrimination

by Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter

Even today, class discrimination remains an important global legal issue. This book allows readers a better understanding of the issue of class discrimination and inequality, including the role of education...


Linguistic Diversity and European Democracy

by Anne Lise Kjær & Silvia Adamo

What role does linguistic diversity play in European democratic and legal processes? Is it an obstacle to deliberative democracy and a hindrance to legal certainty and the possibility of uniform law, or a cultural...


The International Criminal Court and National Courts: A Contentious Relationship

by Nidal Nabil Jurdi

This book analyzes the position of the ICC in relation to national court systems, illustrating that its relationship with the national courts under the complementarity mechanism, is much more complex in practice....


Telling It Straight

by Marina Mahathir

An outspoken commentator on Malaysia's social and political affairs, Marina Mahathir takes on the issues, ideas and institutions of the day in her latest book, Telling it Straight. She highlights unpalatable...


Healing Cambodia One Child at a Time: The Story of Krousar Thmey, A New Family

by Benoit Duchateau-Arminjon & David Rorke

After years of civil war, the bloody Khmer Rouge regime, and occupation by Vietnam, Cambodia finds itself decimated and divided.  Benoît Duchâteau-Arminjon, a.k.a. Bénito, discovers this world when he visits...


In Liberal Doses

by Marina Mahathir

Marina Mahathir is one of Malaysia's most fascinating voices: compassionate, outspoken, liberated and unabashedly liberal, usually generous, sometimes wicked, never parochial and always proudly Malaysian. Marina's...


Understanding Disability Discrimination Law through Geography

by Fayyaz Vellani

Examining the UK Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) in comparison to its counterparts in the USA and Australia, this book focuses on how it is being interpreted and acted upon in the context of higher education,...


Transnational Governance: Emerging Models of Global Legal Regulation

by Scott Mann & Michael Head

As globalization continues to spread and evolve, so nation-states attempt to govern financialization, tax evasion, corruption, terrorism, civil and military conflicts and environmental dangers, social polarization...


Most Deserving of Death?: An Analysis of the Supreme Court's Death Penalty Jurisprudence

by Kenneth Williams

This book demonstrates that it is the inconsistent and often incoherent jurisprudence of the United States Supreme Court which accounts for a system so lacking in public confidence. Kenneth Williams examines...


Crimes Against The State: From Treason to Terrorism

by Michael Head

This book presents a detailed review of the range of what are generally classified as crimes against the state or against the government- rebellion, treason, mutiny, espionage, sedition, terrorism, riot and...


The Human Rights of Children: From Visions to Implementation

by Antonella Invernizzi & Jane Williams

This volume provides a series of analyses of some of the contemporary debates in relation to the human rights of children, resituating them within visions which informed the text of the United Nations Convention...


NGOs in China and Europe: Comparisons and Contrasts

by Yuwen Li

This volume presents a comparison of the experiences of NGOs in China and Europe. The chapters on China contain the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the various types of NGOs currently active in...