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  • Human Rights and Constituent Power

    Without Model or Warranty

    by Illan Wall ...
    With the emergence of modern human rights in the Universal Declaration, what remained of a radical political potential of the discourse withdrew: statism and individualism became its authorised foundations and the possibilities of other human rights traditions were denied. The strife that once lay at the heart of human rights was forgotten in an increasing juridification. This book seeks to ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • New Critical Legal Thinking

    Law and the Political

    Edited by Matthew Stone, Costas Douzinas, Illan Wall ...
    Series series Birkbeck Law Press
    New Critical Legal Thinking articulates the emergence of a stream of critical legal theory which is directly concerned with the relation between law and the political. The early critical legal studies claim that all law is politics is displaced with a different and more nuanced theoretical arsenal. Combining grand theory with a concern for grounded political interventions, the various contributors ... Read more

    $72.99 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

    $34.99 USD

  • Philosophical Foundations of Discrimination Law

    Edited by Deborah Hellman, Sophia Moreau ...
    Series series Philosophical Foundations of Law
    How do we understand and justify the particular partialities that discrimination law tries to protect against? Are different discrimination laws from around the world grounded in a single set of norms? And does discrimination law fail to treat people as individuals? The philosophical study around discrimination law in the private and public sector is a relatively young field of inquiry. This is ... Read more

    $115.19 USD

  • No Pity

    People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement

    by Joseph P. Shapiro ...
    “A sensitive look at the social and political barriers that deny disabled people their most basic civil rights.”—The Washington Post“The primer for a revolution.”—The Chicago Tribune“Nondisabled Americans do not understand disabled ones. This book attempts to explain, to nondisabled people as well as to many disabled ones, how the world and self-perceptions of disabled people are changing. It ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Fragility of Law

    Constitutional Patriotism and the Jews of Belgium, 1940–1945

    by David Fraser ...
    The Fragility of Law examines the ways in which, during the Second World War, the Belgian government and judicial structure became implicated in the identification, exclusion and killing of its Jewish residents, and in the theft - through Aryanization - of Jewish property.David Fraser demonstrates how a series of political and legal compromises meant that the infrastructure for antisemitic ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • War Crimes, Genocide, and Justice

    A Global History

    by D. Crowe ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In this sweeping, definitive work, historian David Crowe offers an unflinching account of the long and troubled history of genocide and war crimes. From ancient atrocities to more recent horrors, he traces their disturbing consistency but also the heroic efforts made to break seemingly intractable patterns of violence and retribution. ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Watching Out

    reflections on justice and injustice

    by Julian Burnside ...
    ‘When put to the test, most people have difficulty identifying what justice is, especially when there is tension between proper process and a desired result. Due process is inherent in our conception of justice. But bad process can yield the right result, just as good process can produce the wrong result. The legal system is designed to produce justice. We call it the justice system — sometimes un ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Social Rights Jurisprudence

    Emerging Trends in International and Comparative Law

    Edited by Malcolm Langford ...
    In the space of two decades, social rights have emerged from the shadows and margins of human rights jurisprudence. The authors in this book provide a critical analysis of almost two thousand judgments and decisions from twenty-nine national and international jurisdictions. The breadth of the decisions is vast, from the resettlement of evictees to the regulation of private medical plans to the ... Read more

    $90.19 USD

  • Privacy

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Raymond Wacks ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Some would argue that scarcely a day passes without a new assault on our privacy. In the wake of the whistle-blower Edward Snowden's revelations about the extent of surveillance conducted by the security services in the United States, Britain, and elsewhere, concerns about individual privacy have significantly increased. The Internet generates risks, unimagined even twenty years ago, to the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Human Rights as Social Construction

    by Benjamin Gregg ...
    Most conceptions of human rights rely on metaphysical or theological assumptions that construe them as possible only as something imposed from outside existing communities. Most people, in other words, presume that human rights come from nature, God, or the United Nations. This book argues that reliance on such putative sources actually undermines human rights. Benjamin Gregg envisions an ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Constitutional Courts and Deliberative Democracy

    by Conrado Hübner Mendes ...
    Series series Oxford Constitutional Theory
    Contemporary democracies have granted an expansive amount of power to unelected judges that sit in constitutional or supreme courts. This power shift has never been easily squared with the institutional backbones through which democracy is popularly supposed to be structured. The best institutional translation of a 'government of the people, by the people and for the people' is usually expressed ... Read more

    $44.99 USD