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  • Religious Offence and Human Rights

    The Implications of Defamation of Religions

    by Lorenz Langer ...
    Series Book 106 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    Should international law be concerned with offence to religions and their followers? Even before the 2005 publication of the Danish Mohammed cartoons, Muslim States have endeavoured to establish some reputational protection for religions on the international level by pushing for recognition of the novel concept of 'defamation of religions'. This study recounts these efforts as well as the ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

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  • The Rights of Indians and Tribes

    by Stephen L. Pevar ...
    The Rights of Indians and Tribes, first published in 1983, has sold over 100,000 copies and is the most popular resource in the field of Federal Indian Law. The book, which explains this complex subject in a clear and easy-to-understand way, is particularly useful for tribal advocates, government officials, students, practitioners of Indian law, and the general public. Numerous tribal leaders ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law

    by Jenny S. Martinez ...
    There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment but that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II. In this narrative, the nineteenth century's absence is conspicuous--few have considered that era seriously, much less written books on it. But as Jenny Martinez shows in ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Law and Religion in Europe

    A Comparative Introduction

    by Norman Doe ...
    Each state in Europe has its own national laws which affect religion and these are increasingly the subject of political and academic debate. This book provides a detailed comparative introduction to these laws with particular reference to the states of the European Union. A comparison of national laws on religion reveals profound similarities between them. From these emerge principles of law on ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Thomas Paine on Liberty

    Common Sense and Other Writings

    by Thomas Paine ...
    Thomas Paine is most famous for writing Common Sense, a pamphlet distributed during the American Revolution advocating for colonial America’s independence from Great Britain. Now, collected here in a beautiful gift book volume are excerpts from this important historical American document, as well as several of his other writings.Paine believed in more than just freedom in the form of revolution ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Vicarious Liability in Tort

    A Comparative Perspective

    by Paula Giliker ...
    Series Book 69 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    Vicarious liability is controversial: a principle of strict liability in an area dominated by fault-based liability. By making an innocent party pay compensation for the torts of another, it can also appear unjust. Yet it is a principle found in all Western legal systems, be they civil law or common law. Despite uncertainty as to its justifications, it is accepted as necessary. In our modern ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • 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

    $131.39 USD

  • Surveillance, Counter-Terrorism and Comparative Constitutionalism

    Edited by Fergal Davis, Nicola McGarrity, George Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Terrorism and the Law
    The decade after 11 September 2001 saw the enactment of counter-terrorism laws around the world. These laws challenged assumptions about public institutions, human rights and constitutional law. Those challenges are particularly apparent in the context of the increased surveillance powers granted to many law enforcement and intelligence agencies.This book brings together leading legal scholars in ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Practice and Theory in Comparative Law

    Edited by Jacco Bomhoff, Maurice Adams ...
    What does doing comparative law involve? Too often, explicit methodological discussions in comparative law remain limited to the level of pure theory, neglecting to test out critiques and recommendations on concrete issues. This book bridges this gap between theory and practice in comparative legal studies. Essays by both established and younger comparative lawyers reflect on the methodological ... Read more

    $54.19 USD

  • Philosophy and the Common Law

    by Christopher Alan Anderson ...
    What is the connection between philosophy and law--or, more specifically, the common law? Moreover, what actually is the specific philosophy that can hold the common law (thus our rights) in place? Author Bio: Christopher Alan Anderson (1950 - ) received the basis of his education from the University of Science and Philosophy, Swannanoa, Waynesboro, Virginia. He resides in the transcendental ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Human Rights and the United Kingdom Supreme Court

    by Brice Dickson ...
    How does the UK Supreme Court approach human rights law? This book presents the first comprehensive overview of the human rights jurisprudence of the Court, analysing the opinions expressed by the current Justices and their predecessors, both judicially and extra-judicially. It criticizes the judges for not developing the common law in a way which supplements the Human Rights Act, for not making ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • Torts and Rights

    by Robert Stevens ...
    The law of torts is concerned with the secondary obligations generated by the infringement of primary rights. This work seeks to show that this apparently simple proposition enables us to understand the law of torts as found in the common law. Using primarily English materials, but drawing heavily upon the law of other common law jurisdictions, Stevens seeks to give an account of the law of torts ... Read more

    $63.89 USD