Law: Human Rights Law & Civil Liberties

Edited by Rafael Ziegler, David Groenfeldt

Scholarly interest in water ethics is increasing, motivated by the urgency of climate change, water scarcity, privatization and conflicts over water resources. Water ethics can provide both conceptual perspectives and practical methodologies for identifying outcomes which are…

Paperback – 2019-03-21
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Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management

Edited by Frederick Cowell

Since its inception in 1998 the Human Rights Act (HRA) has come in for a wide variety of criticism on legal, constitutional, political and cultural grounds. More recently, this criticism escalated significantly as politicians have seriously considered proposals for its abolition. This book examines…

Paperback – 2019-03-21
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Edited by Angus J. L. Menuge

Questions of religious liberty have become flashpoints of controversy in virtually every area of life around the world. Despite the protection of religious liberty at both national and supranational levels, there is an increasing number of conflicts concerning the proper way to recognize it –&…

Paperback – 2019-03-21
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By Hans-Martien ten Napel

In both Europe and North America it can be argued that the associational and institutional dimensions of the right to freedom of religion or belief are increasingly coming under pressure. This book demonstrates why a more classical understanding of the idea of a liberal democracy can allow for…

Paperback – 2019-03-21
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Law and Religion

By Sumudu Atapattu, Andrea Schapper

The field of human rights and the environment has grown phenomenally during the last few years and this textbook will be one of the first to encourage students to think critically about how many environmental issues lead to a violation of existing rights. Taking a socio-legal approach, this book…

Paperback – 2019-03-20
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Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability

By Anna Liguori

Over the last few decades, both the European Union and European States have been implementing various strategies to externalize border controls with the declared intent of saving human lives and countering smuggling but with the actual end result of shifting borders, circumventing international…

Hardback – 2019-03-19
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Routledge Research in EU Law

By Sara M. Smyth

The use of biometric identification systems is rapidly increasing across the world, owing to their potential to combat terrorism, fraud, corruption and other illegal activities. However, critics of the technology complain that the creation of an extensive central register of personal information…

Hardback – 2019-03-05
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Routledge Research in the Law of Emerging Technologies

By Theodore Baird

The organization of human smuggling from the Middle East and Africa through Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean has become a contemporary political concern throughout Europe, receiving intense and polarised media attention. This timely book reformulates how we conceive of human smuggling,…

Paperback – 2019-03-05
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Routledge Studies in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship

Edited by Marit Skivenes, Karl Harald Søvig

Societies and states are at a crossroad in how children are treated and how their rights are respected and protected. Children´s new position and their strong rights create tensions and challenge the traditional relationships between family and the state. The United Nations Convention on the Rights…

Hardback – 2019-02-26
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Routledge Research in International Law

By Charlotte Lülf

While the 21st century bears witness to several conflicts leading to mass displacement, the conflict in Syria has crystallised the need for a solid legal framework and legal certainty. This book analyses the relevant legal instruments for the provision of a protection status for persons fleeing to…

Hardback – 2019-02-21
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Law and Migration

By Giulia Dondoli

This book asks the fundamental question of how new human rights issues emerge in the human rights debate. To answer this, the book focuses on nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and on the case study of LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) rights. The work argues that the way…

Hardback – 2019-02-14
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By Barbara Stark, Jacqueline Heaton

Globalisation, and the vast migrations of capital and labour that have accompanied it in recent decades, has transformed family law in once unimaginable ways. Families have been torn apart and new families have been created. Borders have become more porous, allowing adoptees and mail order brides…

Hardback – 2019-02-12
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