Human Rights Law & Civil Liberties Books

New and Published Books

1. Law, Rights and Ideology in Russia

   Landmarks in the Destiny of a Great Power

   By Bill Bowring

   Law, Rights and Ideology in Russia: Landmarks in the destiny of a great power brings into sharp focus several key episodes in Russia’s vividly ideological engagement with law and rights. Drawing on 30 years of experience of consultancy and teaching in many regions of Russia and on library research...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. Law, Place and Maps

   Balancing Protection and Exclusion

   By Antonia Layard

   Law, Place & Maps: Balancing Protection and Exclusion analyse law’s distinctively normative contribution to place-making. In an original, cross-disciplinary, analysis drawing on scholarship in law, geography, philosophy and politics, Antonia Layard considers how, both formally and formally, law...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. The United Nations Human Rights Council

   A critique and early assessment

   By Rosa Freedman

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   The United Nations Human Rights Council was created in 2006 to replace the UN Commission on Human Rights. The Council’s mandate and founding principles demonstrate that one of the main aims, at its creation, was for the Council to overcome the Commission’s flaws. Despite the need to avoid repeating...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
4. State Violence and the Execution of Law

   Biopolitcal Caesurae of Torture, Black Sites, Drones

   By Joseph Pugliese

   Series: Law and the Postcolonial

   State Violence and the Execution of Law stages a provocative analysis of how the biopolitical divide between human and animal has played a fundamental role in enabling state violence, including torture, secret imprisonment and killing-at-a-distance via drones. Analyzing the complex ways in which...

   Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
5. Global Institutions of Religion

   Ancient Movers, Modern Shakers

   By Katherine Marshall

   Series: Global Institutions

   This work fills a significant gap in the current literature by providing a concise introduction to religious institutions and an insightful analysis of their role in world affairs. Focusing on formal institutions specifically dedicated to governing religious communities, the work examines the...

   Published February 27th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Maoist Movement in India

   Perspectives and Counterperspectives

   Edited by Santosh Paul

   This book presents the raging debate on one of the most brutal political realities that India has confronted in recent years: the rising conflict between Maoist insurgent groups and the Indian State. With some of the finest writings on the subject, it brings together articles and interviews from...

   Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge India
7. International Human Rights Law and Domestic Violence

   The Effectiveness of International Human Rights Law

   By Ronagh J.A. McQuigg

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   This innovative book examines the effectiveness of international human rights law, through the case study of domestic violence. Domestic violence is an issue that affects vast numbers of women throughout all nations of the world, but as it takes place between private individuals it does not come...

   Published February 4th 2013 by Routledge
8. Feminist Counselling and Domestic Violence in India

   Edited by Padma Bhate-Deosthali, Sangeeta Rege, Padma Prakash

   Mainstream counselling in domestic violence often fails to address critical issues, such as gender socialisation processes and the abuse of power that allows violence against women, and focuses primarily on the intra-psychic nature of individual women. In contrast, feminist counselling is an...

   Published December 30th 2012 by Routledge India
9. Gender, National Security, and Counter-Terrorism

   Human rights perspectives

   Edited by Margaret L. Satterthwaite, Jayne Huckerby

   Series: Routledge Research in Terrorism and the Law

   In the name of fighting terrorism, countries have been invaded; wars have been waged; people have been detained, rendered and tortured; and campaigns for "hearts and minds" have been unleashed. Human rights analyses of the counter-terrorism measures implemented in the aftermath of 11 September 2001...

   Published December 20th 2012 by Routledge
10. Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms, Strategic Framing, and Intervention

    Lessons for the Responsibility to Protect

    By Melissa Labonte

    Series: Global Institutions

    The human rights and humanitarian landscape of the modern era has been littered with acts that have shocked the moral conscience of mankind, and there has been wide variation in whether, how, and to what degree states respond to mass atrocity crimes, even when they share similar characteristics. In...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge