Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Civil Rights

Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning are key figures in the struggles playing out in our democracies over internet use, state secrets, and mass surveillance in the age of terror. When not decried as traitors, they are seen as whistle-blowers whose crucial revelations are meant to denounce a problem or correct an injustice. Yet, for Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, they are much more than that. Snowden, Assange, and Manning are exemplars who have reinvented an art of revolt. Consciously or not, they have inaugurated a new form of political action and a new identity for the political...

Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning are key figures in the struggles playing out in our democracies over internet use, state secrets, and mass surveillance in the age of terror. When not decried as traitors, they are seen as whistle-blowers whose crucial revelations are meant to denounce a problem or correct an injustice. Yet, for Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, they are much more than that. Snowden, Assange, and Manning are exemplars who have reinvented an art of revolt. Consciously or not, they have inaugurated a new form of political action and a new identity for the political...

In contemporary pluralist states, where faith communities live together, different religious symbols and practices have to coexist. This may lead to conflicts between certain minority practices and the dominant majority, particularly around the manifestation of belief in the public domain which may be seen both by the religious and secular majorities as a threat to their cultural heritage or against the secular values of the host country. The law has to mitigate those tensions in order to protect the public from harm and preserve order but in doing so, it may where necessary have to limit...

Although human rights belong to all persons on the basis of their humanity, this book demonstrates that in the practice of international human rights law, the freedom to be non-religious or atheist does not receive the same protection as the freedom to be religious. Despite the claimed universality of freedom of religion and belief contained in article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the key assertion made is that there is a hierarchy of religion and belief, with followers of major established religions enjoying high protection and low regulation at the top,...

Dieses Buch ?widmet sich Rechtsfragen der Unternehmensbewertung. Hierzu gibt die Autorin zunachst einen Uberblick uber die diversen Unternehmensbewertungsanlasse und Bewertungsverfahren. Ferner stellt sie die Entwicklung der Unternehmensbewertung in der Rechtsprechung dar. Schlielich untersucht sie anhand von zwei Bewertungsanlassen, ob es eine allgemeingultige, fur alle Bewertungsanlasse geeignete Bewertungsmethode gibt. Die Autorin kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass es eine solche Bewertungsmethode nicht gibt. Stattdessen ?lasse sich fur jeden Bewertungsanlass eine richtige Bewertungsmethode...

​Mannliche Betroffene von sexualisierter Gewalt in Kindheit und Jugend stehen aufgrund von gesellschaftlich vorherrschenden Mannlichkeitsanforderungen vor spezifischen Herausforderungen, wenn sie ihre Gewaltwiderfahrnisse aufdecken (wollen). In diesem Band wird auf Basis von Interviews mit Betroffenen und an Aufdeckungsprozessen Beteiligten der Frage nachgegangen, was mannlichen Kindern und Jugendlichen dabei hilft, sexualisierte Gewaltwiderfahrnisse aufzudecken.

Este estudio de Gabriel Sira Santana tiene por objeto analizar en tres partes el derecho de excepciOn venezolano a la luz de la ConstituciOn venezolana de 1999 y sus implicaciones en la prActica.

En el primer capItulo, el autor repasa los antecedentes constitucionales de esta figura y las definiciones planteadas por la doctrina nacional e internacional, para luego analizar su tipologIa, principios, controles y cOmo opera la restricciOn de garantIas en un estado de excepciOn segUn el ordenamiento jurIdico interno y los tratados internacionales en la materia.

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Roe was the principal trial lawyer of the Free Speech League--a precursor of the American Civil Liberties Union. His cases involved such activists as Emma Goldman, Lincoln Steffens, Margaret Sanger, Max Eastman, Upton Sinclair, John Reed,...

This edited collection analyses the prison through the most fundamental challenge it faces: escapes. The chapters comprise original research from established prison scholars who develop the contours of a sociology of prison escapes. Drawing on firm empirical evidence from places like India, Tunisia, Canada, the UK, France, Uganda, Italy, Sierra Leone, and Mexico, the authors show how escapes not only break the prison, but are also fundamental to the existence of such institutions: how they are imagined, designed, organized, justified, reproduced and transformed. The chapters are organised...