Law: Human Rights Law & Civil Liberties

Edited by Tim Hayward

The notion of ‘human rights’ is perhaps the most weighty and widely recognized ethical category of our time, while environmental threats are among the greatest challenges currently facing civilization. It is unsurprising therefore that questions about and around the connection between human…

Hardback – 2017-09-25
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Critical Concepts in the Environment

By John Eekelaar

The interaction between individual rights, which are often seen in secular terms, and religion is becoming an important and complex topic not only for academic study but for practical policy. This volume collects a range of writings from journals, edited collections and individual books which deal…

Hardback – 2017-06-06
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The Library of Essays on Family Rights

Edited by Marco Goldoni, Christopher McCorkindale

The essays selected for this volume demonstrate the importance of law - conceptually, normatively and practically - to a proper understanding of Hannah Arendt’s work. Though Arendt herself was not a lawyer, and lacked any legal training, it is remarkable that in each of her guises law plays an…

Hardback – 2017-01-04
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Philosophers and Law

Edited by Stephen May

This reference volume brings together the key academic contributions that have shaped the field of language rights over the last 40 years. Work in language rights is particularly concerned with the rights of minority language speakers in modern nation-states. It also encompasses related discussions…

Hardback – 2016-12-13
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The International Library of Essays on Rights

Edited by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Robert Phillipson

Research on Language Rights has produced an enormous—and unwieldy—corpus of literature. Such work often has limitations because scholars from different disciplinary traditions have seldom coordinated their concerns or integrated the conceptual traditions of particular fields. To enable researchers…

Hardback – 2016-10-26
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Critical Concepts in Language Studies

Edited by Kieran Mcevoy, Louise Mallinder

Scholars and practitioners working in ‘transitional justice’ are concerned with remedies of accountability and redress in the aftermath of conflict and state repression. Transitional justice, it is argued, provides recognition of the rights of victims, promotes civic trust, and strengthens the…

Hardback – 2016-09-07
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Critical Concepts in Law

By Christine Bell

This collection on transitional justice sits as part of a library of essays on different concepts of ’justice’. Yet transitional justice appears quite different from other types of justice and fundamental ambiguities characterise the term that raise questions as to how it should sit alongside other…

Hardback – 2016-08-31
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New Advances in Crime and Social Harm

By Joanna Shapland, Matthew Hall

Interest in victims of crime - victimology - has always spanned both the scholarly and practical realms. This volume combines a collection of essays covering the diversity of approaches towards victimology, from the conceptual to the practical, including evaluation and scrutiny of the basis on…

Hardback – 2015-07-28
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The Library of Essays on Justice - Second Series

Edited by Theo Gavrielides

The legitimacy and performance of the traditional criminal justice system is the subject of intense scrutiny as the world economic crisis continues to put pressure on governments to cut the costs of the criminal justice system. This volume brings together the leading work on restorative justice to…

Hardback – 2015-07-28
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The Library of Essays on Justice - Second Series

By Steve Vanderheiden

This collection of scholarly articles takes as its subject matter discourses on environmental justice. The concept emerged in recent decades as an important framing concept for a wide variety of environmental movements and objectives, and has gained considerable currency due to the scope and…

Hardback – 2015-07-17
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The Library of Essays on Justice - Second Series

Edited by Ben Saul, Catherine Renshaw

While the Asia Pacific region is one of the world’s largest by population size, it has long been known for having the least developed regional and national institutional mechanisms for protecting human rights, particularly compared to the well-developed systems in Europe, the Americas, and…

Hardback – 2014-05-30
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Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

Edited by Nazila Ghanea

Hardly a week goes by without some world event relating to the burgeoning field of religion and human rights. Whether attacks carried out in the name of religion by individuals or states, violations of the rights of individuals or communities due to their religious or other beliefs, or clashes…

Hardback – 2010-03-24
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Critical Concepts in Religious Studies