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  • Diversity and European Human Rights

    Rewriting Judgments of the ECHR

    Edited by Eva Brems ...
    Through redrafting the judgments of the ECHR, Diversity and European Human Rights demonstrates how the court could improve the mainstreaming of diversity in its judgments. Eighteen judgments are considered and rewritten to reflect the concerns of women, children, LGB persons, ethnic and religious minorities, and persons with disabilities in turn. Each redrafted judgment is accompanied by a paper ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Human Rights Encounter Legal Pluralism

    Normative and Empirical Approaches

    Series series Oñati International Series in Law and Society
    This collection of essays interrogates how human rights law and practice acquire meaning in relation to legal pluralism, ie, the co-existence of more than one regulatory order in a same social field. As a social phenomenon, legal pluralism exists in all societies. As a legal construction, it is characteristic of particular regions, such as post-colonial contexts. Drawing on experiences from Latin ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • When Human Rights Clash at the European Court of Human Rights

    Conflict or Harmony?

    Edited by Stijn Smet, Eva Brems ...
    The notion of conflict rests at the heart of the judicial function. Judges are routinely asked to resolve disputes and defuse tensions. Yet, when judges are called upon to adjudicate a purported conflict between human rights, they face particular challenges and must address specific questions. Some of these concern the very existence of human rights conflicts. Can human rights really conflict with ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Shaping Rights in the ECHR

    The Role of the European Court of Human Rights in Determining the Scope of Human Rights

    Edited by Eva Brems, Janneke Gerards ...
    In fundamental rights adjudication, a court first has to determine whether the interest at stake falls within the scope of the fundamental right invoked. Whether or not an individual interest falls within the scope or ambit of one of the fundamental rights protected by the European Convention on Human Rights determines whether or not the European Court of Human Rights can decide on the merits of a ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Children's Rights Law in the Global Human Rights Landscape

    Isolation, inspiration, integration?

    Series series Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
    Children’s rights law is often studied and perceived in isolation from the broader field of human rights law. This volume explores the inter-relationship between children’s rights law and more general human rights law in order to see whether elements from each could successfully inform the other. Children’s rights law has a number of distinctive characteristics, such as the emphasis on the ‘best ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Procedural Review in European Fundamental Rights Cases

    Edited by Janneke Gerards, Eva Brems ...
    Traditionally, courts adjudicate fundamental rights cases by applying substantive tests of reasonableness or proportionality. Increasingly, however, European courts are also expressly taking account of the quality of the procedure that has led up to a fundamental rights interference. Yet this procedural review is far from uncontroversial. There still is a lack of clarity as to what 'procedural ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Experiences of Face Veil Wearers in Europe and the Law

    Edited by Eva Brems ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    One of the most remarkable aspects pertaining to the legal bans and societal debates on the face veil in Europe is that they rely on assumptions which lack any factual basis. To rectify this, Eva Brems researched the experiences of women who wear a face veil in Belgium and brought her research results together with those of colleagues who did the same in four other European countries. Their ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • International Human Rights in the 21st Century

    Protecting the Rights of Groups

    The Universal Declaration for Human Rights was approved in 1948 and yet more than fifty years later some human rights-especially the rights of groups such as women, minorities, and indigenous peoples-continue to be at risk. This book examines recent humanitarian catastrophes involving such groups and suggests how the society of states may develop a collective capacity for human rights enforcement. ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Human Rights and Civil Liberties in the 21st Century

    Edited by Yves Haeck, Eva Brems ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This volume contributes to the on-going legal discussion on pressing procedural and substantial law issues in the ambit of international human rights and civil liberties. While the 20th century has seen the true awakening of human rights, the 21st century poses new challenges to this ever-unfolding area of law. Not only do international tribunals and quasi-tribunals worldwide and domestic US and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Controversies in American Federalism and Public Policy

    Edited by Christopher P. Banks ...
    Series series Controversies in American Constitutional Law
    This interdisciplinary collection presents a scholarly treatment of how the constitutional politics of federalism affect governments and citizens, offering an accessible yet comprehensive analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court’s federalism jurisprudence and its effect on the development of national and state policies in key areas of constitutional jurisprudence. The contributors address the impact ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Why Law Matters

    by Alon Harel ...
    Series series Oxford Legal Philosophy
    Contemporary political and legal theory typically justifies the value of political and legal institutions on the grounds that such institutions bring about desirable outcomes - such as justice, security, and prosperity. In the popular imagination, however, many people seem to value public institutions for their own sake. The idea that political and legal institutions might be intrinsically ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Human Rights and Radical Social Transformation

    Futurity, Alterity, Power

    Against the recent backdrop of sociopolitical crisis, radical thinking and activism to challenge the oppressive operation of power has increased. Such thinkers and activists have aimed for radical social transformation in the sense of challenging dominant ways of viewing the world, including the neoliberal illusion of improving the welfare of all while advancing the interests of only some. However ... Read more

    $65.99 USD