Human Rights Law & Civil Liberties Books

New and Published Books

1. Human Rights Rhetoric

   Traditions of Testifying and Witnessing

   Edited by Arabella Lyon, Lester C Olson

   Series: Rhetoric Society Quarterly

   Rhetoric scholars have articulated diverse approaches to both civil and human rights as political, ethical, and academic discourses. “Traditions of Testifying and Witnessing” initiates important interdisciplinary conversations within human rights rhetoric concerning the construction of rights...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. Human Health and Ecological Integrity

   Ethics, Law and Human Rights

   Edited by Laura Westra, Colin L. Soskolne, Donald W. Spady

   The connection between environment and health has been well studied and documented, particularly by the World Health Organization. It is now being included in some legal instruments, although for the most part caselaw does not explicitly make that connection. Neither the right to life nor the...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Fragility of Law

   Constitutional Patriotism and the Jews of Belgium, 1940–1945

   By David Fraser

   The Fragility of Law examines the ways in which, during the Second World War, the Belgian government and judicial structure became implicated in the identification, exclusion and killing of its Jewish residents, and in the theft - through Aryanization - of Jewish property. David Fraser...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
4. The International Legal Governance of the Human Genome

   By Chamundeeswari Kuppuswamy

   Series: Genetics and Society

   The human genome is a well known symbol of scientific and technological progress in the 21st century. However, concerns about the exacerbation of inequalities between the rich and the poor, the developing and the developed states, the healthy and the unhealthy are causing problems for the progress...

   Published May 10th 2012 by Routledge
5. Transnational Crime and Human Rights

   Responses to Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Subregion

   By Susan Kneebone, Julie Debeljak

   Transnational Crime and Human Rights offers an evaluation of the responses to the transnational crime of human trafficking and governance of the issue through a case study of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), which comprises Cambodia, the People's Republic of China, Lao People's Democratic...

   Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge
6. Human Rights and the Protection of Privacy in Tort Law

   A Comparison between English and German Law

   By Hans-Joachim Cremer

   Series: UT Austin Studies in Foreign and Transnational Law

   In its case law, the European Court of Human Rights has acknowledged that national courts are bound to give effect to Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) which sets out the right to private and family life, when they rule on controversies between private individuals. Article...

   Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Right to Development in International Law

   The Case of Pakistan

   By Khurshid Iqbal

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   The Right to Development in International Law rigorously explores the right to development (RTD) from the perspectives of international law as well as the constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights and the Islamic concept of social justice in Pakistan. The volume draws on a wide range of...

   Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge
8. Reworking the Relationship between Asylum and Employment

   By Penelope Mathew

   Touching on the laws and practices of a wide array of countries around the globe, this book examines the extent to which refugees and asylum-seekers’ right to work is protected by international human rights law. The book examines a number of key international treaties, national constitutions and...

   Published May 2nd 2012 by Routledge
9. Human Rights in World History

   By Peter N. Stearns

   Series: Themes in World History

   Defended by a host of passionate advocates and organizations, certain standard human rights have come to represent a quintessential component of global citizenship. There are, however, a number of societies who dissent from this orthodoxy, either in general or on particular issues, on the basis of...

   Published May 1st 2012 by Routledge
10. Global Health and Human Rights

    Legal and Philosophical Perspectives

    Edited by John Harrington, Maria Stuttaford

    Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

    The right to health, having been previously neglected is now being deployed more and more often in litigation, activism and policy-making across the world. International bodies such as the WHO, UNAIDS, World Bank and WTO are increasingly using or being evaluated with reference to health rights, and...

    Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge