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The Legal Limits of Direct Democracy
Edited by Daniel Moeckli, Anna Forgács, Henri Ibi
With the rise of direct-democratic instruments, the relationship between popular sovereignty and the rule of law is set to become one of the defining political issues of our time. This important and timely book provides an in-depth analy... -
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Regulating the Use of Force in International Law
Russell Buchan, Nicholas Tsagourias
This book provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the nature, content and scope of the rules regulating the use of force in international law as they are contained in the United Nations Charter, customary international law and ... -
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The Construction of the Customary Law of Peace
Cecilia M. Bailliet
This thought-provoking book explores the emerging construction of a customary law of peace in Latin America and the developing jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. It traces the evolution of peace as both an end and... -
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The Human Right to Health
Eduardo Arenas Catalán
‘In this compelling study of the human right to health, Eduardo Arenas Catalán moves beyond a common focus on access to care enforced by judges, indicting failures to challenge commercialization of life itself in our time. The results co... -
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Regulating Online Behavioural Advertising Through Data Protection Law
Jiahong Chen
This insightful book provides a timely review of the potential threats of advertising technologies, or adtech. It highlights the need to protect internet users not only from privacy risks, but also as consumers and citizens online dealin... -
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Realizing the Abidjan Principles on the Right to Education
Edited by Frank Adamson, Sylvain Aubry, Mireille de Koning, Delphine Dorsi
This insightful book analyses the process of the first adoption of guiding human rights principles for education, the Abidjan Principles. It explains the development of the Abidjan Principles, including their articulation of the right to... -
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The Changing Ethos of Human Rights
Edited by Hoda Mahmoudi, Alison Brysk, Kate Seaman
Utilizing the ethos of human rights, this insightful book captures the development of the moral imagination of these rights through history, culture, politics, and society. Moving beyond the focus on legal protections, it draws attention... -
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The Revised European Social Charter
Karin Lukas
‘In recent years, the European Social Charter has become a living instrument of European constitutional law, thanks to the practice of its Committee of Social Rights. This book offers the most complete study to date of the developing law... -
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State Sponsored Cyber Surveillance
Eliza Watt
‘Dr. Eliza Watt’s timely book explores one of the most controversial problems of the information age: state sponsored cyber surveillance and how it affects the right to privacy. The book is extremely well researched and I have no doubt t... -
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Research Handbook on the Law and Politics of Migration
Edited by Catherine Dauvergne
‘This Research Handbook is both timely and timeless – offering penetrating insight into contemporary developments in subjects as diverse as technology and migration, or the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, while also offering fresh insig... -
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Poverty and Human Rights
Edited by Suzanne Egan, Anna Chadwick
‘Suzanne Egan and Anna Chadwick have brought together a range of emergent and established voices in this collection on the tensions and contradictions inherent in the roles of human rights in combating poverty. Multidisciplinary contribu... -
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The European Court of Human Rights
Edited by Helmut P. Aust, Esra Demir-Gürsel
‘An original, unique and fundamental contribution to the widespread debate on the very idea of an international system for protecting human rights that directly affects the European Court of Human Rights, “the conscience of Europe”. In r...