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  • The Economic Accomplices to the Argentine Dictatorship

    Outstanding Debts

    Edited by Horacio Verbitsky, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky ...
    Much has been written on the Argentine dictatorship and the transitional justice movement that brought its members to justice. However there has been no study to date of the economic accomplices to this dictatorship and the recent advancements in Argentina towards holding these actors accountable. What was the role of banks, companies, and individuals in perpetuating a murderous regime? To what ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

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  • 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

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  • The Death Penalty

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    by Roger Hood, Carolyn Hoyle ...
    The fifth edition of this highly praised study charts and explains the progress that continues to be made towards the goal of worldwide abolition of the death penalty. The majority of nations have now abolished the death penalty and the number of executions has dropped in almost all countries where abolition has not yet taken place. Emphasising the impact of international human rights principles ... Read more

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  • Human Rights and Climate Change

    Edited by Stephen Humphreys ...
    As the effects of climate change continue to be felt, appreciation of its future transformational impact on numerous areas of public law and policy is set to grow. Among these, human rights concerns are particularly acute. They include forced mass migration, increased disease incidence and strain on healthcare systems, threatened food and water security, the disappearance and degradation of ... Read more

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  • The Rule of Law in Crisis and Conflict Grey Zones

    Regulating the Use of Force in a Global Information Environment

    by Michael John-Hopkins ...
    This book responds to ongoing calls for clarification and consensus regarding the meaning, scope and interplay of humanitarian law and human rights law in the ‘grey zones’ of unconventional operational environments such as counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations. It contributes to the debate in this area by developing objective criteria for determining where the shift from the legal ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Courts and Consociations

    Human Rights versus Power-Sharing

    by Christopher McCrudden, Brendan O'Leary ...
    Consociations are power-sharing arrangements, increasingly used to manage ethno-nationalist, ethno-linguistic, and ethno-religious conflicts. Current examples include Belgium, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, Burundi, and Iraq. Despite their growing popularity, they have begun to be challenged before human rights courts as being incompatible with human rights norms, particularly equality and non ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Inside Immigration Detention

    by Mary Bosworth ...
    On any given day nearly 3000 foreign national citizens are detained under immigration powers in UK detention centres alone. Around the world immigrants are routinely detained in similar conditions. The institutions charged with immigrant detention are volatile and contested sites. They are also places about which we know very little. What is their goal? How do they operate? How are they justified? ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Rights for Others

    The Slow Home-Coming of Human Rights in the Netherlands

    by Barbara Oomen ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    Rights for Others is an empirical study of what happens when international human rights are applied domestically in The Netherlands. It tracks recent debates in Dutch society on citizenship and the rights of immigrants, and analyses the shift from the perception of human rights as a 'foreign policy concern' to the slow processes of homecoming in what has traditionally been a left-wing society, but ... Read more

    $112.39 USD

  • eQuality

    The Struggle for Web Accessibility by Persons with Cognitive Disabilities

    by Peter Blanck ...
    Series series Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
    Never before have the civil rights of people with disabilities aligned so well with developments in information and communication technology. The center of the technology revolution is the Internet, which fosters unprecedented opportunities for engagement in democratic society. The Americans with Disabilities Act likewise is helping to ensure equal participation in society by people with ... Read more

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  • Corruption and Human Rights in India

    Comparative Perspectives on Transparency and Good Governance

    by C. Raj Kumar ...
    The malaise of corruption has become deeply embedded in the political and social fabric of the Indian society. The increased frequency and scale of corruption have had deleterious effects on a wide range of issues. Corruption, therefore, must be viewed not just as an issue of law and order or of the criminal justice system; instead it has larger and adverse implications for development initiatives ... Read more

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  • Beyond Disagreement

    Open Remedies in Human Rights Adjudication

    by Aruna Sathanapally ...
    Examining the role of 'open remedies' in human rights adjudication, this book provides a new perspective informing comparative constitutional debates on how to structure institutional relationships over fundamental rights and freedoms. Open remedies declare a human rights violation but invite the other branches of government to decide what corrective action should be taken. Open remedies are ... Read more

    $119.99 USD