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  • Disability and Justice

    The Capabilities Approach in Practice

    by Christopher A. Riddle ...
    Disability & Justice: The Capabilities Approach in Practice examines the capabilities approach and how, as a matter of justice, the experience of disability is accounted for. It suggests that the capabilities approach is first, unable to properly diagnose both those who are in need as well as the extent to which assistance is required. Furthermore, it is suggested that counterfactually, if this ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • From Disability Theory to Practice

    Essays in Honor of Jerome E. Bickenbach

    by Christopher Lowry, Patricia Welch Saleeby, Somnath Chatterji, Tom Shakespeare, Sara Rubinelli, Alarcos Cieza, Gerold Stucki, L.W. Sumner, Christopher A. Riddle, David Wasserman0 ...
    From Disability Theory to Practice pays tribute to Professor Jerome Bickenbach’s highly influential and immensely important work. Professor Bickenbach is a scholar, policy-maker, and activist, of international stature. This volume brings together ten friends, mentors, and mentees, who have penned eight chapters engaging in topics that range, as the title suggests and as Professor Bickenbach’s work ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Human Rights, Disability, and Capabilities

    by Christopher A. Riddle ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book presents the argument that health has special moral importance because of the disadvantage one suffers when subjected to impairment or disabling barriers. Christopher A. Riddle asserts that ill health and the presence of disabling barriers are human rights issues and that we require a foundational conception of justice in order to promote the rights of people with disabilities. The claim ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • Root and Branch

    Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation

    by Rawn James, Jr. ...
    Although widely viewed as the beginning of the legal struggle to end segregation, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Brown v. Board of Education was in fact the culmination of decades of legal challenges led by a band of lawyers intent on dismantling segregation one statute at a time. Root and Branch is the compelling story of the fiercely committed lawyers that constructed the legal foundation for ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

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  • Terror in Chechnya

    Russia and the Tragedy of Civilians in War

    by Emma Gilligan ...
    Series series Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity
    A riveting history of Russia's crimes in ChechnyaTerror in Chechnya is the definitive account of Russian war crimes in Chechnya. Emma Gilligan provides a comprehensive history of the second Chechen conflict of 1999 to 2005, revealing one of the most appalling human rights catastrophes of the modern era—one that has yet to be fully acknowledged by the international community. Drawing upon ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Business of Human Rights

    An Evolving Agenda for Corporate Responsibility

    by Klaus Dieter Wolf, Doctor Fiona Harris, Doctor Keren Bright, Professor John Hatchard, Mark J. Smith, Doctor Piya Pangsapa, Olufemi Amao, Gary Slapper, Lois Muraguri ...
    In a time when multinational corporations have become truly globalised, demands for global standards on their behaviour are increasingly difficult to dismiss. Work conditions in sweatshops, widespread destruction of the environment, and pharmaceutical trials in third world countries are only the tip of the iceberg.This timely collection of essays addresses the interface between the calls for ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Ghost of the Innocent Man

    A True Story of Trial and Redemption

    by Benjamin Rachlin ...
    A gripping account of one man's long road to freedom that will forever change how we understand our criminal justice system.During the last three decades, more than two thousand American citizens have been wrongfully convicted. Ghost of the Innocent Man brings us one of the most dramatic of those cases and provides the clearest picture yet of the national scourge of wrongful conviction and of the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • The Quest for Security

    Protection Without Protectionism and the Challenge of Global Governance

    Edited by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Mary Kaldor ...
    The essays in this collection boldly confront the quest for security arising from the social, economic, environmental, and political crises and transformations of our century. Joseph E. Stiglitz and Mary Kaldor begin with an expansive, balanced analysis of the global landscape and the factors contributing to the growth of insecurity. Whereas earlier studies have touched on how globalization has ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Impact of the UK Human Rights Act on Private Law

    Edited by David Hoffman ...
    The Human Rights Act 1998 has had a profound effect in numerous private law decisions and has been the subject of extensive academic debate, in particular on the issue of the extent to which it has horizontal effect and its application in disputes between individuals. With contributions from a variety of academics and practitioners, this volume covers and contributes to the academic debate on ... Read more

    $127.09 USD

  • The New Politics of Immigration and the End of Settler Societies

    by Catherine Dauvergne ...
    Over the past decade, a global convergence in migration policies has emerged, and with it a new, mean-spirited politics of immigration. It is now evident that the idea of a settler society, previously an important landmark in understanding migration, is a thing of the past. What are the consequences of this shift for how we imagine immigration? And for how we regulate it? This book analyzes the ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Espionage and Secrecy (Routledge Revivals)

    The Official Secrets Acts 1911-1989 of the United Kingdom

    by Rosamund Thomas ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This prize-winning book, first published in 1991, provides a detailed legal account of the development of the UK Official Secrets Acts 1911-1989. In particular, the Espionage section (s.1) of this criminal law is analysed carefully, illustrated by leading cases of UK spies prosecuted under this section, particularly during the 1980’s — including MI5 officer Michael Bettaney and Geoffrey Prime who ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Damages for Violations of Human Rights

    A Comparative Study of Domestic Legal Systems

    Edited by Ewa Bagińska ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This volume analyses the legal grounds, premises and extent of pecuniary compensation for violations of human rights in national legal systems. The scope of comparison includes liability regimes in general and in detail, the correlation between pecuniary remedies available under international law and under domestic law, and special (alternative) compensation systems. All sources of human rights ... Read more

    $179.09 USD