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  • A General Right to Conscientious Exemption

    Beyond Religious Privilege

    by John Adenitire ...
    The book argues that there is in the US, Canada and UK, a general right to conscientious exemption available to a person who objects to any legal obligation whatsoever on the basis of a religious or non-religious conscientious belief. The book provides a liberal defence of this right and argues that it should be considered a defining feature of a liberal democracy. A general right to conscientious ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Fundamental Rights for Non-Humans

    Foundations, Flaws, and Futures

    Edited by Dr John Olusegun Adenitire, Dr Raffael Fasel ...
    Can animals, artificial intelligences (AI), and nature have fundamental rights? Do they have fundamental rights? And if they do, how do their rights relate to human rights?In this book, eminent and emerging scholars from fields as varied as legal theory, environmental studies, and philosophy, probe the theoretical foundations, flaws, and future prospects of the growing phenomenon of non-human ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Animals and the Constitution

    Towards Sentience-Based Constitutionalism

    by John Olusegun Adenitire, Raffael Fasel ...
    Series series Oxford Constitutional Theory
    Constitutionalism—the idea that constitutions should limit and direct government power—has emerged as the global standard for the exercise of public authority. Its appeal lies in the simple idea that constitutions should secure governance in the interests of the governed. Yet, its popularity has obscured a significant problem: constitutions are centred on the interests of rational human beings, ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Religious Beliefs and Conscientious Exemptions in a Liberal State

    Edited by Dr John Olusegun Adenitire ...
    The central focus of this edited collection is on the ever-growing practice, in liberal states, to claim exemption from legal duties on the basis of a conscientious objection. Traditional claims have included objections to compulsory military draft and to the provision of abortions. Contemporary claims include objections to anti-discrimination law by providers of public services, such as bakers ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • From Toleration to Religious Freedom

    Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Mariëtta van der Tol, John Adenitire, Carys Brown, E. S. Kempson ...
    Series Book 2 - Histories of Religious Pluralism
    This volume examines the knotty relationship between toleration and religious freedom. Spanning from the early modern period to the present day, it explores how discourses on toleration impact on current debates about religious freedom, and challenges assumptions about the associations between religious ideas and the law. Bringing together scholarship from the fields of history, law, political ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

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  • Animal Rights Law

    by Dr Raffael Fasel, Dr Sean C Butler ...
    Do animals have legal rights? This pioneering book tells readers everything they need to know about animal rights law.Using straightforward examples from over 30 legal systems from both the civil and common law traditions, and based on popular courses run by the authors at the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights, the book takes the reader from the earliest anti-cruelty laws to modern animal welfare ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Social and Cultural Anthropology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Monaghan, Peter Just ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do. This Very Short Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology combines an accessible account of some of the disciplines guiding principles and methodology with abundant examples and illustrations of anthropologists at work. Peter Just and John Monaghan begin by discussing anthropologys most important contributions to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Idea of Human Rights

    by Charles R. Beitz ...
    The international doctrine of human rights is one of the most ambitious parts of the settlement of World War II. Since then, the language of human rights has become the common language of social criticism in global political life. This book is a theoretical examination of the central idea of that language, the idea of a human right. In contrast to more conventional philosophical studies, the ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Animal Rights Without Liberation

    Applied Ethics and Human Obligations

    by Alasdair Cochrane ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law
    Alasdair Cochrane introduces an entirely new theory of animal rights grounded in their interests as sentient beings. He then applies this theory to different and underexplored policy areas, such as genetic engineering, pet-keeping, indigenous hunting, and religious slaughter. In contrast to other proponents of animal rights, Cochrane claims that because most sentient animals are not autonomous ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • White by Law 10th Anniversary Edition

    The Legal Construction of Race

    by Ian Haney Lopez ...
    Series Book 16 - Critical America
    "Remains the definitive work on how American law constructed a 'white' race at the turn of the twentieth century . . . A must-read." —Mae M. Ngai, author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern AmericaThe first book to fully explore the social and specifically legal construction of race, White by Law inspired a generation of critical race theorists and others interested in ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hobbes

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Richard Tuck ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Thomas Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, has long had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist, who saw human nature as inevitably evil and proposed a totalitarian state to subdue human failings. In this illuminating study, Richard Tuck re-evaluates Hobbes's philosophy and dispels these myths, revealing him to have been passionately concerned with the refutation of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Animals as Persons

    Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation

    by Gary Francione ...
    A prominent and respected philosopher of animal rights law and ethical theory, Gary L. Francione is known for his criticism of animal welfare laws and regulations, his abolitionist theory of animal rights, and his promotion of veganism and nonviolence as the baseline principles of the abolitionist movement. In this collection, Francione advances the most radical theory of animal rights to date. ... Read more

    $28.79 USD