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The exceptionality of America’s Supreme Court has long been conventional wisdom. But the United States Supreme Court is no longer the only one changing the landscape of public rights and values. Over the past thirty years, the European Court of Human Rights has developed an ambitious, American-style body of law. Unheralded by the mass press, this obscure tribunal in Strasbourg, France has become, in many ways, the Supreme Court of Europe. Michael Goldhaber introduces American audiences to the judicial arm of the Council of Europe—a group distinct from the European Union, and much larger—whose mission is centered on interpreting the European Convention on Human Rights. The Council routinely confronts nations over their most culturally-sensitive, hot-button issues. It has stared down France on the issue of Muslim immigration; Ireland on abortion; Greece on Greek Orthodoxy; Turkey on Kurdish separatism; Austria on Nazism; and Britain on gay rights and corporal punishment. And what is most extraordinary is that nations commonly comply. In the battle for the world’s conscience, Goldhaber shows how the court in Strasbourg may be pulling ahead. more...

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This book is a detailed and comprehensive guide to the field of study, fully up-to-date with all the latest developments in UK and European legislation. more...

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This extensively revised third edition considers capital punishment in UN human rights system, international humanitarian law, European human rights law and Inter-American human rights law. New chapters address capital punishment in African human rights law and international criminal law. Includes extensive appendices and introduction by the president of the ICJ. more...

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Most conflicts are internal, yet under international law, accountability for acts committed by armed groups is unclear. These groups should be legally identified, argues Liesbeth Zegveld, in this award-winning scholarship. Of interest to academics, postgraduate students and professionals involved with armed conflict and international relations. more...

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This book is a legal analysis of the Dayton Peace Agreement and its inherent contradictions between human rights and an ethnically based political system. As a member of the EU delegation in Dayton, the author explains some of the backgrounds for the peace agreement and she points to its potential for political reform. more...

Price: $279.00