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  • Transitional Justice, Distributive Justice, and Transformative Constitutionalism

    Comparing Colombia and South Africa

    Edited by David Bilchitz, Raisa Cachalia ...
    Emerging from national pasts marred by violence, conflict, and injustice, South African and Colombian societies have sought to establish futures founded on equality, democracy, and constitutionalism. Transitional Justice, Distributive Justice, and Transformative Constitutionalism: Comparing Colombia and South Africa offers the first dedicated scholarly comparison of the two countries in relation ... Read more

    $124.19 USD

  • Fundamental Rights and the Legal Obligations of Business

    by David Bilchitz ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
    Corporations can significantly affect the fundamental rights of individuals. This book investigates how to determine the substantive content of their obligations that emanate from these rights. In doing so, it addresses important conceptual issues surrounding fundamental rights. From an investigation of existing legal models, a clear structural similarity surfaces in how courts make decisions ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Poverty and Fundamental Rights

    The Justification and Enforcement of Socio-economic Rights

    by David Bilchitz ...
    This book addresses the pressing issue of severe poverty and inequality, and questions why violations of socio-economic rights are treated with less urgency than violations of civil and political rights, such as the right to freedom of speech or to vote? Socio-economic rights have been widely regarded as aspirational goals, rhetorically useful, but having few practical implications for government ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Equal Society

    Essays on Equality in Theory and Practice

    by George Hull, Charles Mills, Miranda Fricker, Daniel Putnam, Bekka Williams, Tom Angier, Lucy Allais, David Bilchitz, Daryl Glaser, Ann E. Cudd0, Gina Schouten1, Pierre-Yves Néron2, Thaddeus Metz3, Jonathan Wolff, University College London, UK4 ...
    Equality is a widely championed social ideal. But what is equality? And what action is required if present-day societies are to root out their inequalities?The Equal Society collects fourteen philosophical essays, each with a fresh perspective on these questions. The authors explore the demands of egalitarian justice, addressing issues of distribution and rectification, but equally investigating ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Human Rights Obligations of Business

    Beyond the Corporate Responsibility to Respect?

    Edited by Surya Deva, David Bilchitz ...
    In recent years, the UN Human Rights Council has approved the 'Respect, Protect, and Remedy' Framework and endorsed the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. These developments have been welcomed widely, but do they adequately address the challenges concerning the human rights obligations of business? This volume of essays engages critically with these important developments. The ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Building a Treaty on Business and Human Rights

    Context and Contours

    Edited by Surya Deva, David Bilchitz ...
    The calls for an international treaty to elaborate the human rights obligations of transnational corporations and other business enterprises have been rapidly growing, due to the failures of existing regulatory initiatives in holding powerful business actors accountable for human rights abuses. In response, Building a Treaty on Business and Human Rights explores the context and content of such a ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

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  • The Corporation

    A Critical, Multi-Disciplinary Handbook

    Edited by Grietje Baars, Andre Spicer ...
    The corporation has become an increasingly dominant force in contemporary society. However, comprehensive, in-depth analysis of the concept of the corporation is often restricted, or limited to one disciplinary approach. This handbook brings together the cutting-edge scholarship, expertise and insight of leading scholars in a wide range of disciplines, notably management studies, law, history, ... Read more

    $137.79 USD

  • Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy

    Participation, Politics, and Culture under Chávez

    Edited by David Smilde, Daniel Hellinger ...
    Venezuela’s Bolivarian Democracy brings together a variety of perspectives on participation and democracy in Venezuela. An interdisciplinary group of contributors focuses on the everyday lives of Venezuelans, examining the forms of participation that have emerged in communal councils, cultural activities, blogs, community media, and several other forums. The essays validate many of the critiques ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The International Human Rights Judiciary and National Parliaments

    Europe and Beyond

    Edited by Matthew Saul, Geir Ulfstein, Andreas Follesdal ...
    Series Book 5 - Studies on Human Rights Conventions
    The emerging international human rights judiciary (IHRJ) threatens national democratic processes and 'hollows out' the scope of domestic and democratic decision-making, some argue. This new analysis confronts this head on by examining the interplay between national parliaments and the IHRJ, proposing that it advances parliament's efforts. Taking Europe and the European Court of Human Rights as its ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Governance

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mark Bevir ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The word 'governance' is ubiquitous. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund make loans conditional on 'good governance'. Climate change and avian flu appear as issues of 'global governance'. The European Union issues a White Paper on 'Governance'. The U.S. Forest Service calls for 'collaborative governance'. What accounts for the pervasive use of the term 'governance' and to what does ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Political Philosophy

    A Beginners' Guide for Students and Politicians

    by Adam Swift ...
    Politicians invoke grand ideas: social justice, democracy, liberty, equality, community. But what do these ideas really mean? How can politicians across the political spectrum appeal to the same values?This new edition of Adam Swift's highly readable introduction to political philosophy answers these important questions, and includes new material on global justice, feminism, and method in ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • Monopolies and Underdevelopment

    From Colonial Past to Global Reality

    by Calixto Salomão Filho ...
    Series series New Horizons in Competition Law and Economics series
    This ambitious analysis is centered on the evolution of economic structures in colonized economies, showing the effects of these structures on today's global reality for all economies, whether they are considered 'developed or 'underdeveloped.'With a comprehensive scope encompassing economic structures and their influence on the growth of nations from past to present, Calixto Salomão Filho delves ... Read more

    $35.99 USD