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Children's Rights and the Developing Law
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 86.00Professor Jane Fortin examines how developing law and policies in England and Wales simultaneously promote and undermine children's rights. more...
A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 43-45
BRILL 2006; US$ 66.00This volume constitutes a commentary on Articles 43-45 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It is part of the series, "A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child", which provides an article-by-article analysis of all substantive, organizational and procedural provisions of the CRC and... more...
Escaping the Self-Determination Trap
BRILL 2009; US$ 73.00There is a movement in the discussion about self-determination and statehood. This monograph argues that classical self-determination, narrowly conceived in the colonial context, cannot contribute to the resolution of the self-determination conflicts. It finds that a fresh practice of addressing self-determination conflicts has emerged. more...
The Invisible Constitution
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 18.99As everyone knows, the United States Constitution is a tangible, visible document. Many see it in fact as a sacred text, holding no meaning other than that which is clearly visible on the page. Yet as renowned legal scholar Laurence Tribe shows, what is not written in the Constitution plays a key role in its interpretation. Indeed some of the most... more...
Human Rights
Edward Elgar Publishing 2009; US$ 40.00Offers an introduction and an analysis of enduring themes and issues in the contemporary theory and practice of human rights. Providing a multi-disciplinary analysis, this title engages with philosophical, political and social approaches to the subject of human rights. It is suitable for postgraduate and undergraduate students. more...
From Civil to Human Rights
Edward Elgar Publishing 2009; US$ 40.00Discusses the development of human rights as a discourse of atonement for Europeans - a discourse which has the potential to become a shared, transatlantic discourse. This book is suitable for postgraduate students and scholars within the fields of law, history, political science and international relations. more...
Human Rights as Indivisible Rights
BRILL 2009; US$ 148.00The book analyses the legal nation of human rights as indivisible, interrelated and interdependent rights by analysing case law from the European Court of Human Rights. The book concludes that the nation of human rights as indivisible right as a legal content and that aspects of several socio-economic rights are in fact protected by the Convention. more...
The Changing Face of Religion and Human Rights
BRILL 2009; US$ 110.00Clemens N. Nathan has devoted a lifetime to the pursuit of Human Rights to understanding more...
Minority Groups and Judicial Discourse in International Law
BRILL 2009; US$ 141.00Set against previous stages of minority protection under international law, this book discusses the role of courts and court-like bodies particularly in the Americas, Africa and Europe in articulating and accommodating the interests and needs of ethno-cultural minority groups as part of the human rights discourse. Conceptually, it exposes different... more...
The Genocide Convention
BRILL 2008; US$ 574.00Gathers together the records of the multitude of meetings which, in the context of the newly established United Nations, led to the adoption of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide on 9 December 1948. This work enables academics and practitioners an access to the Genocide Convention's travaux preparatoires. more...









