Law: Human Rights Law & Civil Liberties

By Elena Drymiotou

While every constitution includes a provision over the right to equal protection of the laws, perhaps with different terminology, this book interprets this right in a new way. Theories of the right to equal protection of the laws as the right to anti-subordination are the most influential theories…

Paperback – 2019-11-08
Routledge

By Stephen Moston, Terry Engelberg

The book explores the changing landscape of anti-doping investigations, which now largely centre on the collection of intelligence about doping through processes such as surveillance, interviews with witnesses and interrogation of athletes. It examines why and how investigative processes, hitherto…

Paperback – 2019-10-30
Routledge

By Christian P. Scherrer

This title was first published in 2003. Meticulously documenting Intra-state violence and the responses to it from a global perspective, this volume deals with a core element of future global governance within its historical and sociological context. It provides a striking analysis of the…

Paperback – 2019-10-29
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

Edited by Corinne L. Mason

Around the world lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex and queer individuals are subjected to violence and intimidation based on their real or perceived sexuality, gender identity or expression. With those most at risk of human rights violations often living in areas of low economic development,…

Paperback – 2019-10-26
Routledge
Routledge International Handbooks

By Peter Haschke

Violations of the right to the physical integrity of the person, such as torture, cruel and unusual punishment, extra-judicial executions, disappearances, and political imprisonment have long been treated as an anomaly in democratically governed societies. In the current literature on human rights,…

Paperback – 2019-10-17
Routledge

Edited by Geoff Gilbert, Francoise Hampson

The Delivery of Human Rights reflects on two overlapping issues in international human rights law: how can existing norms be better implemented and effected, and how can other branches of international law or other international actors be used so as to provide an improved delivery of those norms.…

Paperback – 2019-10-02
Routledge

By Vanessa Barker

In late summer 2015, Sweden embarked on one of the largest self-described humanitarian efforts in its history, opening its borders to 163,000 asylum seekers fleeing the war in Syria. Six months later this massive effort was over. On January 4, 2016, Sweden closed its border with Denmark. This…

Paperback – 2019-09-05
Routledge

Edited by Alan Blum, Stuart J Murray

Beginning with a focus on the ethical foundations of caregiving in health and expanding towards problems of ethics and justice implicated in a range of issues, this book develops and expands the notion of care itself and its connection to practice. Organised around the themes of culture as a…

Paperback – 2019-08-27
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare

By Ezio Di Nucci, Filippo Santoni de Sio

How does the use of military drones affect the legal, political, and moral responsibility of different actors involved in their deployment and design? This volume offers a fresh contribution to the ethics of drone warfare by providing, for the first time, a systematic interdisciplinary discussion…

Paperback – 2019-07-29
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Emerging Technologies, Ethics and International Affairs

Edited by S. Anandhi, Karin Kapadia

Through its investigation of the underlying political economy of gender, caste and class in India, this book shows how changing historical geographies are shaping the subjectivities of Dalits across India in ways that are neither fixed nor predictable. It brings together ethnographies from across…

Paperback – 2019-07-12
Routledge India

By Yvonne Mcdermott

Edited by William Schabas

This book provides a timely critical overview of both the health and trajectory of international criminal law's continuing evolution. It represents a modest collective effort to introduce an element of legal realism or critical legal studies into the academic discourse.…

Paperback – 2019-06-17
Routledge

Edited by Satvinder S. Juss

This book aims to augment the Ashgate series by taking stock of the current state of migration law literature. It also aims to sketch out the contours of its future long-term development, in what is now by all accounts a vastly expanded research agenda.…

Paperback – 2019-06-17
Routledge
Law and Migration