Civil Law category: 2427 books
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Pierce v. Society of Sisters and the Struggle over Compulsory Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
"A definitive study of an extremely important, though curiously neglected, Supreme Court decision, Pierce v. Society of Sisters."
---Robert O'Neil, Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Virginia School of Law
"A careful and captivating examination of a dramatic and instructive...
Freedom of Speech
Importing European and US Constitutional Models in Transitional Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This book considers the issue of free speech in transitional democracies focusing on the socio-legal developments in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. In showing how these Central and Eastern European countries have engaged with free speech models imported from the Council of Europe / EU and...
by Hugh Collins
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
This updated edition offers a fresh approach to the law governing employment relations, emphasising the contemporary policy themes of social inclusion, competitiveness, and the rights of citizenship in the workplace. It acts as a succinct and accessible overview for those new to the subject as well...
by Ingrid Nifosi-Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
The protection of vulnerable groups varies under international human rights law. Depending on the group at stake, protection may be more or less advanced. In some cases, the international community has deemed it necessary to adopt conventions providing for the rights of certain vulnerable groups and...
by Ilias Bantekas, Lutz Oette
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Human rights law is a complex but compelling subject that fascinates, but often confuses, students. International Human Rights Law and Practice explores the subject from a theoretical and practical perspective, guiding students to a rich understanding of the law. The second edition has been fully...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Archbishop Stephen Langton hoped with Magna Carta to realise an Old Testament, covenantal kingship in England. At the Charter's 800th anniversary, distinguished jurists, theologians and historians from five faith-traditions and three continents ask how Magna Carta's biblical foundations have mattered...
States of Emergency and the Law
The Experience of Bangladesh
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
In Bangladesh, the absence of effective constitutional safeguards for governing emergency regimes has resulted in each of the five emergencies being invoked on the imprecise ground of internal disturbance. Two of these emergencies were even continued after the alleged threat posed to the life of the...
The Rule of Law in Crisis and Conflict Grey Zones
Regulating the Use of Force in a Global Information Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book responds to ongoing calls for clarification and consensus regarding the meaning, scope and interplay of humanitarian law and human rights law in the ‘grey zones’ of unconventional operational environments such as counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations. It contributes to the...
by Ms Merris Amos
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
In this completely revised and updated second edition of Human Rights Law, the judicial interpretation and application of the United Kingdom's Human Rights Act 1998 is comprehensively examined and analysed. Part I concerns key procedural issues including: the background to the Act; the relationship...
by Yale Law Journal
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
One of the world's leading law journals is available in quality ebook formats. This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the second issue of Volume 122, academic year 2012-2013) features new articles and essays on law and legal theory, and in particular examines: the language of rights discourse, even before...
by Margaret Phelan, James Gillespie, Frances Allen
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
The tenth edition of the Immigration Law Handbook continues to bring together all the key materials relevant to Immigration and Asylum Law in one, essential reference tool for those practicing in the field. For practitioners undertaking The Law Society's Immigration and Asylum Accreditation Scheme,...
Current Problems in the Protection of Human Rights
Perspectives from Germany and the UK
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
While the legal systems of the United Kingdom and Germany differ in essential respects, the current process of 'constitutionalisation' is well recognised on both sides of the Channel. 'Constitutionalisation' manifests itself in the evolution of a constitution and the influence of existing constitutional...
Color Blind Justice : Albion Tourgee and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson
Albion Tourgée and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2006
Civil War officer Reconstruction "carpetbagger" best-selling novelist and relentless champion of equal rights--Albion Tourgee battled his entire life for racial justice. Now in this engaging biography Mark Elliott offers an insightful portrait of a fearless lawyer jurist and writer who fought...
Cheating Justice
How Bush and Cheney Attacked the Rule of Law and Plotted to Avoid Prosecution- and What We Can Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
President George W. Bush and Vice President Cheney deceived Congress and the people to drive us into a war in Iraq; they claimed the right to wiretap illegally and to eavesdrop on citizens; and they authorized torture, unilaterally upending laws and violating international treaty obligations. Yet,...