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  • Confronting Homophobia in Europe

    Social and Legal Perspectives

    Edited by Luca Trappolin, Alessandro Gasparini, Professor Robert Wintemute ...
    Homophobia exists in many different forms across Europe. Member States offer uneven levels of legal protection for lesbian and gay rights; at the same time the social meanings and practices relating to homosexuality are culturally distinct and intersect in complex ways with gender, class and ethnicity in different national contexts.The essays in this volume illustrate the findings of a European ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    by Glenn Greenwald ...
    In this groundbreaking exposé, Glenn Greenwald, the reporter who broke the NSA surveillance scandal, reveals the full extent of government spying and the fight to protect privacy in the digital age.In May 2013, Greenwald journeyed to Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source claiming to have evidence of pervasive government spying. That source turned out to be the 29-year-old NSA contractor and ... Read more

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  • The End of Obscenity

    The Trials of Lady Chatterley, Tropic of Cancer & Fanny Hill by the Lawyer Who Defended Them

    by Charles Rembar ...
    George Polk Award Winner: This account of American book banning and the battles against it is "a tour de force to fascinate lawyers and laymen alike" ( The New York Times Book Review).Up until the 1960s, depending on your state of residence, your copy of Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer might be seized by the US Postal Service before reaching your mailbox. Selling copies of Cleland's Fanny Hill in ... Read more

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  • The Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law

    by Françoise Bouchet-Saulnier ...
    Translated by Laura Brav, Camille Michel ...
    Now in a comprehensively updated edition, this indispensable handbook analyzes how international humanitarian law has evolved in the face of these many new challenges. Central concerns include the war on terror, new forms of armed conflict and humanitarian action, the emergence of international criminal justice, and the reshaping of fundamental rules and consensus in a multipolar world. ... Read more

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  • A Critique of Proportionality and Balancing

    by Francisco J. Urbina ...
    The principle of proportionality, which has become the standard test for adjudicating human and constitutional rights disputes in jurisdictions worldwide has had few critics. Proportionality is generally taken for granted or enthusiastically promoted or accepted with minor qualifications. A Critique of Proportionality and Balancing presents a frontal challenge to this orthodoxy. It provides a ... Read more

    $38.59 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

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  • The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal

    A Life in the Balance

    by Amnesty International ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    Mumia Abu-Jamal has been incarcerated on Pennsylvania's death row for over two decades. His case has generated more controversy and received more attention, both national and international, than that of any other inmate currently under sentence of death in the United States of America.Mumia Abu Jamal, black, was convicted and sentenced to death in July 1982 for the murder of white police officer ... Read more

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  • The Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights

    Past, Present and Future

    Edited by Malcolm Langford, Andy Sumner, Alicia Ely Yamin ...
    The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have generated tremendous discussion in global policy and academic circles. On the one hand, they have been hailed as the most important initiative ever in international development. On the other hand, they have been described as a great betrayal of human rights and universal values that has contributed to a depoliticization of development. With ... Read more

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  • Mass Incarceration on Trial

    A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America

    by Jonathan Simon ...
    For nearly forty years the United States has been gripped by policies that have placed more than 2.5 million Americans in jails and prisons designed to hold a fraction of that number of inmates. Our prisons are not only vast and overcrowded, they are degrading—relying on racist gangs, lockdowns, and Supermax-style segregation units to maintain a tenuous order.Mass Incarceration on Trial examines a ... Read more

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  • Living with Guns

    A Liberal's Case for the Second Amendment

    by Craig Whitney ...
    Newtown. Columbine. Virginia Tech. Tucson. Aurora. Gun violence on a massive scale has become a plague in our society, yet politicians seem more afraid of having a serious conversation about guns than they are of the next horrific shooting. Any attempt to change the status quo, whether to strengthen gun regulations or weaken them, is sure to degenerate into a hysteria that changes nothing. Our ... Read more

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  • Working Law

    Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights

    by Lauren B. Edelman ...
    Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, virtually all companies have antidiscrimination policies in place. Although these policies represent some progress, women and minorities remain underrepresented within the workplace as a whole and even more so when you look at high-level positions. They also tend to be less well paid. How is it that discrimination remains so prevalent in the American ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Human Rights Between Law and Politics

    The Margin of Appreciation in Post-National Contexts

    Edited by Petr Agha ...
    Series series Modern Studies in European Law
    This book analyses human rights in post-national contexts and demonstrates, through the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, that the Margin of Appreciation doctrine is an essential part of human rights adjudication.Current approaches have tended to stress the instrumental value of the Margin of Appreciation, or to give it a complementary role within the principle of proportionality, ... Read more

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