Civil Law category: 2427 books
by Virginia Mantouvalou, Professor Conor Gearty
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
'Debating Law' is a new series that gives scholarly experts the opportunity to offer contrasting perspectives on significant topics of contemporary, general interest.
In this second volume of the series, Conor Gearty argues that for rights to work effectively in the wider promotion of social...
An Army of Lions
The Civil Rights Struggle Before the NAACP
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
In January 1890, journalist T. Thomas Fortune stood before a delegation of African American activists in Chicago and declared, "We know our rights and have the courage to defend them," as together they formed the Afro-American League, the nation's first national civil rights organization....
Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa
Symbols or Substance?
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
The embrace of socio-economic rights in South Africa has featured prominently in scholarship on constitution making, legal jurisprudence and social mobilisation. But the development has attracted critics who claim that this turn to rights has not generated social transformation in practice. This book...
Gender and the Jubilee
Black Freedom and the Reconstruction of Citizenship in Civil War Missouri
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Gender and the Jubilee is a bold reconceptualization of black freedom during the Civil War that uncovers the political and constitutional claims made by African American women. By analyzing the actions of women in the urban environment of St. Louis and the surrounding areas of rural Missouri, Romeo...
Whitewashed
America’s Invisible Middle Eastern Minority
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Middle Easterners: Sometimes White, Sometimes Not - an article by John TehranianThe Middle Eastern question lies at the heart of the most pressing issues of our time: the war in Iraq and on terrorism, the growing tension between preservation of our national security and protection of our civil rights,...
by Helen Fenwick, Richard Glancey
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in an exam situation. Each book contains up to fifty essay and problem-based questions on the most commonly examined topics, complete with expert guidance and...
The Sit-Ins
Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
On February 1, 1960, four African American college students entered the Woolworth department store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and sat down at the lunch counter. This lunch counter, like most in the American South, refused to serve black customers. The four students remained in their seats until...
by Tom Hickman
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
It is remarkable that 10 years after the Human Rights Act came into effect, and with further reform possible, there are still no clear answers to basic questions about the relationship between the Human Rights Act, human rights principles and the common law. Such basic questions include: what is the...
Rightlessness
Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
In this bold book, A. Naomi Paik grapples with the history of U.S. prison camps that have confined people outside the boundaries of legal and civil rights. Removed from the social and political communities that would guarantee fundamental legal protections, these detainees are effectively rightless,...
Elusive Citizenship
Immigration, Asian Americans, and the Paradox of Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Since the late nineteenth century, federal and state rules governing immigration and naturalization have placed persons of Asian ancestry outside the boundaries of formal membership. A review of leading cases in American constitutional law regarding Asians would suggest that initially, Asian immigrants...
A Conflict of Principles
The Battle Over Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
"No state . . . shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." So says the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, a document held dear by Carl Cohen, a professor of philosophy and longtime champion of civil liberties who has devoted most of...
The Attorney-Client Privilege in Civil Litigation
Protecting and Defending Confidentiality
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This edition includes updates of the attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine. Many of the previous chapters have been completely revised, while others have gone through a comprehensive rewrite. New and expanded topics include application of the revised federal rules and case law governing...
Simple Justice
The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Simple Justice is the definitive history of the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education and the epic struggle for racial equality in this country. Combining intensive research with original interviews with surviving participants, Richard Kluger provides the fullest possible view of the human and...
Lincoln on Trial
Southern Civilians and the Law of War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
In light of recent controversies and legal actions related to America's treatment of enemy prisoners in the Middle East and Guantánamo Bay, the regulation of government during wartime has become a volatile issue on the global scene. By today's standards, Lincoln's adherence to the laws of war could...