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Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law, Third Edition
David B. Oppenheimer, Sheila R. Foster, Sora Y. Han, Richard T. Ford
This revised and updated casebook comprehensively compares the U.S. legal approach to problems of inequality and discrimination with the approaches of a variety of other legal systems around the world. Key features include: • Contribu...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The UN Human Rights Council
Eric Tistounet
‘Eric Tistounet, with precision and an extraordinary pedagogical capacity, describes the operation of the most important intergovernmental human rights body worldwide. The “Geneva atmosphere” is perfectly reflected; the text shows the ga...eBook:Find out more£76.00
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Gender, Alterity and Human Rights
Ratna Kapur
‘Ratna Kapur’s latest book Gender, Alterity, and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fish Bowl masterfully tackles a normative claim that has been gaining increasing momentum over the last few decades: the human rights agenda has hit an impasse a...eBook:Find out more£15.96
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Mega-Dams and Indigenous Human Rights
Itzchak Kornfeld
This original and insightful book explores and examines the impact that building mega-dams has on the human rights of those living in surrounding areas, and in particular those of indigenous peoples who are often most affected. Compiling...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Human Rights, Export Credits and Development Cooperation
Barbara Linder
‘This book is pioneering in empirically documenting how human rights accountability of outsourced bilateral development and export credit agencies is taking shape. It also offers a robust forward-looking legal analysis of what accountabi...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Children’s Rights
Wouter Vandenhole, Gamze Erdem Türkelli, Sara Lembrechts
‘This book provides an accessible and insightful guide to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocols. It offers an important introduction to children’s rights—examining theoretical debates, implementation challe...eBook:Find out more£140.00
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UN Reform
Stephen Browne
'Stephen Browne, himself a veteran who toiled in the UN trenches, has written an important account of the struggles within the UN to change and reinvent itself.' – Lord Mark Malloch Brown, Former UN Deputy Secretary-GeneraleBook:Find out more£25.00
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Research Handbook on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law and Religion
Edited by Russell Sandberg, Norman Doe, Bronach Kane, Caroline Roberts
Following 9/11, increased attention has been given to the place of religion in the public sphere. Across the world, Law and Religion has developed as a sub-discipline and scholars have grappled with the meaning and effect of legal texts ...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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The Turning Point in Private Law
Ugo Mattei, Alessandra Quarta
‘The Turning Point in Private Law offers a radical and clear analysis of the most fundamental legal institutions of private law and suggests a way out from the serious threat to the survival of civilization on our planet caused by the d...eBook:Find out more£15.96
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Research Handbook on International Refugee Law
Edited by Satvinder Singh Juss
In an age of ethnic nationalism and anti-immigrant rhetoric, the study of refugees can help develop a new outlook on social justice, just as the post-war international order ends. The global financial crisis, the rise of populist leaders...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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The Quest for Rights
Edited by Massimo La Torre, Leone Niglia, Mart Susi
‘The Quest for Rights explores both the meaning of, and justification for, fundamental constitutional rights. It is a quest to establish a strong meaning of the normativity of law, and its role in the social acts of positive law and lega...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Contracting Human Rights
Edited by Alison Brysk, Michael Stohl
‘Brysk and Stohl bring together a diverse set of voices and perspectives in questioning long-held assumptions about the progressive expansion of international human rights norms and enforcement mechanisms. This book is essential reading ...eBook:Find out more£24.00