The first comprehensive work on the transgender civil rights movement. With analysis from legal and policy experts, activists and advocates, this book assesses the movement's achievements, challenges, and opportunities for future action. Examining crucial topics like family law, employment policies, public health, economics, and grassroots organizing, this groundbreaking book is an indispensable resource in the fight for the freedom and equality of those who cross gender boundaries.
Using Human Rights to Counter Terrorism uses practical examples to argue that a State's lack of respect for human rights is counter-productive and hinders its fight against terrorism. Through analysing legislative developments since 2001, this book examines how and why many counter terrorism measures have so far been unsuccessful; arguing that longer term, a human rights-centric approach is required. The book's expert contributors have a wide breadth of experience at a national and internation...
Die Agb-Kontrolle Von Kreditvertraegen in Der Akquisitionsfinanzierung (Frankfurter Wirtschaftsrechtliche Studien, #95)
by Emanuel Ballo
Die Finanzierungspraxis verwendet im Rahmen der Akquisitionsfinanzierung seit Jahren ein internationales Standardvertragsmuster der in London ansassigen Loan Market Association, das Senior Multicurrency Term and Revolving Facilities Agreement. Diese Entwicklung greift der Autor auf und untersucht, ob und inwieweit sich das deutsche AGB-Recht auf die Wirksamkeit dieser Vertragsklauseln auswirkt. Er gelangt zu dem Ergebnis, dass es sich bei der Mehrzahl der Vertragsklauseln in der Regel um AGB im...
The intention of this book is to provide a better understanding of the mission of public interest lawyers and stimulate thought about ways to energize and build a movement that advances social justice. I could not have succeeded in this effort without the help and support of many individuals and institutions. I wish to express my appreciation for their assistance. I am very grateful to the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Justice for its wisdom in establishing the Alliance and for its cont...
The Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law
by Francoise Bouchet-Saulnier
Die Fristfreie Konventionalscheidung in Historischer Und Rechtspolitischer Perspektive
by Frank Roes
Das geltende Eherecht lehnt eine fristfreie Konventionalscheidung ab. Ist dies unter den Bedingungen der Moderne (noch) begrundet? Zur Beantwortung werden zunachst der rechts- und sozialhistorische Kontext analysiert, dem die Konventionalscheidung einerseits, die zwingende Trennungsfrist andererseits entstammen. Denn massgebend ist, inwieweit sich scheidungsbezogene Maximen verankert haben - namentlich zulasten eines fristlosen Scheidungsrechts. Dies wiederum erlaubt substanziierte Bewertungen,...
Columbia University began the second half of the twentieth century in decline, bottoming out with the student riots of 1968. Yet by the close of the century, the institution had regained its stature as one of the greatest universities in the world. According to the New York Times, "If any one person is responsible for Columbia's recovery, it is surely Michael Sovern." In this memoir, Sovern, who served as the university's president from 1980 to 1993, recounts his sixty-year involvement with the...
A Review of the Restrictions on Persons of Italian Ancestry During World War II
Freedom Riders (Pivotal Moments in American History (Oxford)) (Pivotal Moments in American History)
by Raymond Arsenault
They were black and white, young and old, men and women. In the spring and summer of 1961, they put their lives on the line, riding buses through the American South to challenge segregation in interstate transport. Their story is one of the most celebrated episodes of the civil rights movement, yet a full-length history has never been written until now. In these pages, acclaimed historian Raymond Arsenault provides a gripping account of six pivotal months that jolted the consciousness of America...
Honour based violence and abuse manifests itself in different forms, and this book offers a comprehensive understanding of this phenomenon. This book argues that the limits of honour crimes must be defined more widely so that they include conducts and behaviours that originate from the patriarchal notion of honour, such as honour based oppression and breast ironing. The book provides a critical analysis and synthesis of the law in England and Wales and in the international human rights sphere....
Human Rights: Questions and Answers is motivated by a strong belief in the value of human rights education. Citizens can only exercise, and claim their rights and respect and defend the rights of others, if they have sufficient knowledge of human rights norms and mechanisms for their protection. This book provides the general public with clear, concise and up-to-date information on human rights standards in an attempt to help prevent past atrocities from happening again and anticipate the emerge...
Religious Minorities, Islam and the Law (ICLARS Series on Law and Religion)
This book examines the legal conundrum of reconciling international human rights law in a Muslim majority country and identifies a trajectory for negotiating the protection of religious minorities within Islam. The work explores the history of religious minorities within Islam in Indonesia, which contains the world's largest Muslim population, as well as the present-day ways by which the government may address issues through reconciling international human rights law and Islamic law. Given the...
Investigating minority and indigenous women's rights in Muslim-majority states, this book critically examines the human rights regime within international law.Based on extensive and diverse ethnographic research on Amazigh women in Morocco, the book unpacks and challenges generally accepted notions of rights and equality. Significantly, and controversially, the book challenges the supposedly 'emancipatory' power vested in the human rights project; arguing that rights-based discourses are sites o...
Human trafficking is the reprehensible practice of physically or psychologically compelling an individual to work or provide commercial sexual services. An estimated 21-30 million people are currently enslaved worldwide, with fewer than one percent of these individuals ever identified. Attorneys have the much-needed skills, clientele, and positions to help shrink this alarming gap, by integrating identification, services and prevention strategies into their respective practices. Freedom for All...
The Educational Lockout of African Americans in Prince Edward County, Virginia (1959-1964) (Issues in Black Education)
The decade after 11 September 2001 saw the enactment of counter-terrorism laws around the world. These laws challenged assumptions about public institutions, human rights and constitutional law. Those challenges are particularly apparent in the context of the increased surveillance powers granted to many law enforcement and intelligence agencies. This book brings together leading legal scholars in the field of counter-terrorism and constitutional law, and focuses their attention on the issue of...
All Rise: Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa revives six true stories of resistance by marginalized South Africans against the country’s colonial government in the years leading up to Apartheid. In six parts—each of which is illustrated by a different South African artist—All Rise shares the long-forgotten struggles of ordinary, working-class women and men who defended the disempowered during a tumultuous period in South African history. From immigrants and miners to tram workers and washe...
Contracting Human Rights (Elgar Studies in Human Rights)
by Alison Brysk and Michael Stohl
The securitization that accompanied many national responses after 11 September 2001, along with the shortfalls of neo-liberalism, created waves of opposition to the growth of the human rights regime. By chronicling the continuing contest over the reach, range, and regime of rights, Contracting Human Rights analyzes the way forward in an era of many challenges. Through an examination of both global and local challenges to human rights, including loopholes, backlash, accountability, and new oppo...
Nach einer Bestimmung des Begriffs "Feudalismus" wird die rechtliche Umwandlung des feudalen Grundbesitzes in burgerlich-rechtliches Grundeigentum dargestellt. Die Auswertung der Originalprotokolle der Franzoesischen Nationalversammlung von 1789 bis 1793 lasst dabei das politische Ringen um Definition und Inhaltsbestimmung des Phanomens Eigentum deutlich werden. Der sich anschliessende Vergleich mit der deutschen Eigentumssicht der Gegenwart (Eigentumsregelungen im Zuge der Wiedervereinigung/Rec...
A shocking, groundbreaking oral history of Rikers Island; a brutal portrait of violence, despair, and injustice told by the detainees and officers whose lives have been forever altered. What happens when you jam almost a dozen jails, bulging at the seams with society's cast-offs, onto a spit of landfill, purposefully hidden from public view and named after the family of a judge who sent escaped slaves and free Black men to plantations in the South? Prize-winning journalists Graham Rayman and Re...