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  • The Rule of Crisis

    Terrorism, Emergency Legislation and the Rule of Law

    Edited by Pierre Auriel, Olivier Beaud, Carl Wellman ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book analyzes emergency legislations formed in response to terrorism. In recognition that different countries, with different legal traditions, have different solutions, it adopts a comparative point of view. The countries profiled include America, France, Israel, Poland, Germany and United Kingdom.The goal is not to offer judgment on one response or the other. Rather, the contributors offer ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • Human Rights

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Clapham ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Today it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. Indeed, human rights law continues to gain increasing attention internationally, and must move quickly in order to keep up with a social world that changes so rapidly. This Very Short Introduction, in its second edition, brings the issue of human rights up to date, considering the current controversies ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Clapham ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Today it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. An appeal to human rights in the face of injustice can be a heartfelt and morally justified demand for some, while for others it remains merely an empty slogan. Taking an international perspective and focusing on highly topical issues such as torture, arbitrary detention, privacy, health and discrimination, this ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Liberty in the Age of Terror

    A Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Values

    by Professor A. C. Grayling ...
    An impassioned defence of the civil liberties and the rule of law in the face of increasing pressure for ever greater 'security''A rollicking defence of Freedom and Enlightenment in the style of Tom Paine or William Godwin' Spectator'The even-handed tone of philosophy professor AC Grayling's latest book does not lessen the intensity of its polemical content ... Grayling underlines the seriousness ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Torture

    A Sociology of Violence and Human Rights

    by Lisa Hajjar ...
    Series series Framing 21st Century Social Issues
    Torture is indisputably abhorrent. Why, you might ask, would you even want to think or read about torture? That is a very good question, and one this book addresses in a compelling and enlightening way. Torture is a very important issue, not least because millions of people around the world have been subjected to this odious practice—and many are enduring torture right now as you read these words. ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Extreme Speech and Democracy

    Edited by Ivan Hare, James Weinstein ...
    A commitment to free speech is a fundamental precept of all liberal democracies. However, democracies can differ significantly when addressing the constitutionality of laws regulating certain kinds of speech. In the United States, for instance, the commitment to free speech under the First Amendment has been held by the Supreme Court to protect the public expression of the most noxious racist ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

  • Torture, Terror, and Trade-Offs

    Philosophy for the White House

    by Jeremy Waldron ...
    Jeremy Waldron has been a challenging and influential voice in the moral, political and legal debates surrounding the response to terrorism since 9/11. His contributions have spanned the major controversies of the War on Terror - including the morality and legality of torture, whether security can be 'balanced' with liberty, and the relationship between public safety and individual rights. He has ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law

    Edited by Michel Rosenfeld, András Sajó ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The field of comparative constitutional law has grown immensely over the past couple of decades. Once a minor and obscure adjunct to the field of domestic constitutional law, comparative constitutional law has now moved front and centre. Driven by the global spread of democratic government and the expansion of international human rights law, the prominence and visibility of the field, among judges ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • The Suffering of the Immigrant

    by Abdelmalek Sayad, Pierre Bourdieu ...
    Translated by David Macey ...
    This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the condition of the immigrant and it will transform the reader’s understanding of the issues surrounding immigration. Sayad’s book will be widely used in courses on race, ethnicity, immigration and identity in sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, politics and geography.an outstanding and original work on the experience of immigration ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Categorically Incorrect

    Ethical Fallacies in Canada's War on Terror

    by A. Alan Borovoy ...
    If humanity has learned anything from the horrors of the war against terror, it is that our one hope is democracy. The final goal of our country’s actions at home and abroad is the preservation of democracy. This is the lens through which our policies should be discerned, dissected, and amended.Borovoy argues that Canada has pursued an ethically cockeyed war against terror. We have been needlessly ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Content and Context of Hate Speech

    Rethinking Regulation and Responses

    Edited by Michael Herz, Peter Molnar ...
    The contributors to this volume consider whether it is possible to establish carefully tailored hate speech policies that are cognizant of the varying traditions, histories and values of different countries. Throughout, there is a strong comparative emphasis, with examples (and authors) drawn from around the world. All the authors explore whether or when different cultural and historical settings ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Treaties

    Law, Principles, and Policy

    by Dr Marko Milanovic ...
    Series series Oxford Monographs in International Law
    Questions as to when a state owes obligations under a human rights treaty towards an individual located outside its territory are being brought more and more frequently before both international and domestic courts. Victims of aerial bombardment, inhabitants of territories under military occupation, deposed dictators, suspected terrorists detained in Guantanamo by the United States, and the family ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD