Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Civil Rights

Since World War II, a growing number of jurisdictions in both the developing and industrialized worlds have adopted progressive constitutions that guarantee social and economic rights (SER) in addition to political and civil rights. Parallel developments have occurred at transnational level with the adoption of treaties that commit signatory states to respect and fulfil SER for their peoples.

This book is a product of the International Social and Economic Rights Project (iSERP), a global consortium of judges, lawyers, human rights advocates, and legal academics who critically examine...

This book offers the first comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the provisions of the 'Malabo Protocol'--the amendment protocol to the Statute of the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples' Rights--adopted by the African Union at its 2014 Summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. The Annex to the protocol, once it has received the required number of ratifications, will create a new Section in the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples' Rights with jurisdiction over international and transnational crimes, hence an 'African Criminal Court'. In this book, leading experts in the...

In modern societies, full criminal trials are avoided on many occasions. This book is concerned with mechanisms that either divert from or speed up the proceedings.

Koen Vriend argues that the fair trial rights as established by the European Court of Human Rights under Article 6 ECHR provide a normative framework that does not only apply in a full criminal trial, but that it can also be used for diverted and shortened proceedings. He shows that the concept of fairness as derived from ECtHR case law is a fundamental principle that underlies all criminal law enforcement. It provides...

Gegenstand des Handbuchs ist die Frage nach der Relevanz des Konzepts der "Zivilen Sicherheit" fur Recht und Rechtswissenschaft.

Das ursprunglich nicht-juristischen Begriffsverwendungen entstammende Konzept ist geeignet, tradierte Diskussionen uber Neue Sicherheitsbegriffe oder die Neue Sicherheitsarchitektur in andere Bahnen zu lenken. Dadurch findet es auch Eingang in rechtspolitische, verwaltungswissenschaftliche und technikorientierte Sicherheitsdiskurse.

Das Handbuch geht zentral folgenden Fragen nach:

Welche Relevanz erlangt das Konzept der Zivilen Sicherheit im...

Conservative opponents of LGBT equality in the United States often couch their opposition in claims of free speech, free association, and religious liberty. It is no surprise, then, that many LGBT supporters equate First Amendment arguments with resistance to their cause. The First Amendment and LGBT Equality tells another story, about the First Amendment's crucial yet largely forgotten role in the first few decades of the gay rights movement.

Between the 1950s and 1980s, when many courts were still openly hostile to sexual minorities, they nonetheless recognized the freedom...

This book examines the employment arrangements of professional athletes in the Premier League football competition, the National Basketball Association competition and rugby union played at an international level. It describes the organisation and regulatory frameworks of these three professional team sports and highlights the legal, economic and regulatory factors that influence the final form of an athlete's working conditions.