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Challenges in International Human Rights Law: Volume III

Challenges in International Human Rights Law: Volume...

Author: MennoT. Kamminga ,  Professor Stephanie Farrior
ISBN: 9781409444367
Format: Hardback
$945.00

This volume identifies and contributes to the mainstream challenges within international human rights law, such...  Read More >>

The United Nations System for Protecting Human Rights: Volume IV

The United Nations System for Protecting Human Rights:...

Author: Dinah L. Shelton ,  Professor Stephanie Farrior
ISBN: 9781409443032
Format: Hardback
$788.00

This volume brings together the leading research articles on the development of human rights law by the United Nations....  Read More >>

Transitional Justice and the Arab Spring

Transitional Justice and the Arab Spring

Author: Kirsten Fisher (University of Ottawa, Canada) ,  Robert Stewart (Interuniversity Consortium for Middle Eastern Studies, Canada)
ISBN: 9780415826365
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book presents a varied and critical picture of how the Arab Spring demands a re-examination and re-conceptualization...  Read More >>

After Legal Equality: Family, Sex, Kinship

After Legal Equality: Family, Sex, Kinship

Author: Robert Leckey (McGill University, Canada)
ISBN: 9780415721615
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Groups seeking legal equality often take a victory as the end of the line. Once judgment is granted or a law is...  Read More >>

Child Law: Children's Rights and Collective Obligations

Child Law: Children's Rights and Collective Obligations...

Author: Laura Westra
ISBN: 9783319050706
Format: Hardback
$284.60

Child Law starts with the question “Who is the Child?” In direct contrast to the CRC, which calls for putting the...  Read More >>

Family Law Reimagined

Family Law Reimagined

Author: Jill Elaine Hasday
ISBN: 9780674281288
Format: Hardback
$99.95

This is the first book to explore the canonical narratives, stories, examples, and ideas that legal decisionmakers...  Read More >>

Legal Pluralism in Action: Dispute Resolution and the Kurdish Peace Committee

Legal Pluralism in Action: Dispute Resolution and the...

Author: Latif Tas
ISBN: 9781472422088
Format: Hardback
$194.00

This book contributes to, and refocuses, public debates about the incorporation of plural approaches into the English...  Read More >>

Comparative Law - Engaging Translation

Comparative Law - Engaging Translation

Author: Simone Glanert (Kent Law School, University of Kent, UK)
ISBN: 9780415642705
Format: Hardback
$305.00

In an era marked by processes of economic, political and legal integration that are arguably unprecedented in their...  Read More >>

We Want What's Ours: Learning from South Africa's Land Restitution Program

We Want What's Ours: Learning from South Africa's Land...

Author: Bernadette Atuahene (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology)
ISBN: 9780198714637
Format: Hardback
$124.95

Under the colonial and apartheid regime thousands of people in South Africa had their property and land taken from...  Read More >>

Women and Transitional Justice: The Experience of Women as Participants

Women and Transitional Justice: The Experience of Women...

Author: Lisa Yarwood (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9781138805224
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This book discusses the evolving principle of transitional justice in public international law and international...  Read More >>

The European Court of Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era: Universality in Transition

The European Court of Human Rights in the Post-Cold...

Author: James A. Sweeney
ISBN: 9781138809659
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This book examines the case law of the European Court of Human Rights with particular reference to democratic transitions...  Read More >>

European Perspectives on Environmental Law and Governance

European Perspectives on Environmental Law and Governance...

Author: Suzanne Kingston (University College Dublin, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781138809680
Format: Paperback
$114.00

This book provides a range of perspectives on some of the most pressing contemporary challenges in EU environmental...  Read More >>

Mediating Human Rights: Media, Culture and Human Rights Law

Mediating Human Rights: Media, Culture and Human Rights...

Author: Lieve Gies
ISBN: 9780415601528
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Law and the Humanities: An Introduction

Law and the Humanities: An Introduction

Author: Austin Sarat (Amherst College, Massachusetts) ,  Matthew Anderson (University of New England, Maine)
ISBN: 9781107415362
Format: Paperback
$121.59

This book brings together a distinguished group of scholars, working...  Read More >>

Towards a System of European Criminal Justice: The Problem of Admissibility of Evidence

Towards a System of European Criminal Justice: The Problem...

Author: Andrea Ryan
ISBN: 9781138780774
Format: Hardback
$305.00

With the developing landscape of a European criminal justice sphere comes an increasing imperative for scholars...  Read More >>

A Restorative Approach to Family Violence: Changing Tack

A Restorative Approach to Family Violence: Changing...

Author: Anne Hayden ,  Loraine Gelsthorpe
ISBN: 9781472412300
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Law and Popular Culture: International Perspectives

Law and Popular Culture: International Perspectives...

Author: Michael Asimow ,  Kathryn Brown
ISBN: 9781443858106
Format: Hardback
$142.29

Commentators have noted the extraordinary impact of popular culture on legal practice, courtroom proceedings, police...  Read More >>

Shame Punishment

Shame Punishment

Author: Thom Brooks ,  Dr. Thom Brooks
ISBN: 9781409451228
Format: Hardback
$630.00

This volume examines shame punishment from various critical perspectives, including its relation with expressivism,...  Read More >>

Retribution

Retribution

Author: Thom Brooks ,  Dr. Thom Brooks
ISBN: 9781409451204
Format: Hardback
$326.00

Retribution is perhaps the most popular contemporary theory about punishment. In this volume retributivism is examined...  Read More >>

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