Civil Law category: 2427 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
This book is a collection of papers that address a fundamental question: What is the role of civil justice and civil procedure in the various national traditions in the contemporary world? The book presents striking differences among a range of countries and legal traditions, but also points to common...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, EEOC.
SHORT STORY #26. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
The 1964 was a historic year for American women and minority. The Civil Right Act of 1964 was created in the USA. It was the 1st time in American history when women and minority were given an equal opportunity to enter colleges, and workplaces. To enforce the Civil Right Act of 1964—Equal Employment...
Groundwork
Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
"A classic. . . . [It] will make an extraordinary contribution to the improvement of race relations and the understanding of race and the American legal process."—Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., from the Foreword
Charles Hamilton Houston (1895-1950) left an indelible mark on American...
Loren Miller
Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Loren Miller was one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights attorneys from the 1940s through the early 1960s and successfully fought discrimination in housing and education. Alongside Thurgood Marshall, Miller argued two landmark civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, whose decisions...
EU Civil Justice
Current Issues and Future Outlook
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
This seventh volume in the Swedish Studies in European Law series brings together some of the most prominent scholars working within the fast-evolving field of EU civil justice. Civil justice has an impact on matters involving, inter alia, family relationships, consumers, entrepreneurs, employees,...
Rights on Trial
How Workplace Discrimination Law Perpetuates Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Gerry Handley faced years of blatant race-based harassment before he filed a complaint against his employer: racist jokes, signs reading “KKK” in his work area, and even questions from coworkers as to whether he had sex with his daughter as slaves supposedly did. He had an unusually strong case,...
by Gilbert Kodilinye, Vanessa Kodilinye
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
This new fourth edition of a well-established book is a timely response to the continuing development of the new rules of civil procedure in force in most of the jurisdictions of the English-speaking Caribbean. The new edition has been substantially revised to cover amendments to, and recent case...
Working Law
Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
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...
Because of Sex
One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
“Meticulously researched and rewarding to read…Thomas is a gifted storyteller.” —The New York Times Book Review
Best known as a monumental achievement of the civil rights movement, the 1964 Civil Rights Act also revolutionized the lives of America’s working women. Title VII of the...
Liberty and Union
The Civil War Era and American Constitutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
“This book is about the relationship between the Civil War generation and the founding generation,” Timothy S. Huebner states at the outset of this ambitious and elegant overview of the Civil War era. The book integrates political, military, and social developments into an epic narrative interwoven...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
This Encyclopedia on American history and law is the first devoted to examining the issues of civil liberties and their relevance to major current events while providing a historical context and a philosophical discussion of the evolution of civil liberties.
Coverage includes the traditional...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
This revised and expanded four-volume encyclopedia is unequaled for both the depth and breadth of its coverage. Some 650 entries address the full range of civil rights and liberties in America from the Colonial Era to the present. In addition to many updates of material from the first edition, the...
by Ralph J. Temple
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
A memoir from one of the country’s top civil rights lawyers—from his work with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. through his career at the ACLU.
This volume comprises Ralph J. Temple’s memoirs of his life and his work on behalf of the poor and disadvantaged. After graduating from Harvard Law School...
Lincoln and Citizens' Rights in Civil War Missouri
Balancing Freedom and Security
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
During the Civil War, the state of Missouri presented President Abraham Lincoln, United States military commanders, and state officials with an array of complex and difficult problems. Although Missouri did not secede, a large minority of residents owned slaves, sympathized with secession, or favored...