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Creative Media Partners, LLC Blogs v. Freedom Of Speech
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Wait a Minute
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Blogs v. Freedom Of Speech
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Understanding Searches Seizures Inspections Inventories and Individual Rights Advisement
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Understanding Searches Seizures Inspections Inventories and Individual Rights Advisement
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Catalyst Institute Lemmata for the Governance of AGI Societies
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Catalyst Institute The Harmonized Governance Model for AGI societies
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Perspectives on Islam A Civilizational Reckoning
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp The Book of Stones
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Independently Published Manual for Gorillas
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Cambridge University Press Emotions and Mass Atrocity
Book SynopsisThe study of genocide and mass atrocity abounds with references to emotions: fear, anger, horror, shame and hatred. Yet we don''t understand enough about how ''ordinary'' emotions behave in such extreme contexts. Emotions are not merely subjective and interpersonal phenomena; they are also powerful social and political forces, deeply involved in the history of mass violence. Drawing on recent insights from philosophy, psychology, history, and the social sciences, this volume examines the emotions of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders. Editors Thomas Brudholm and Johannes Lang have brought together an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars to provide an in-depth analysis of the nature, value, and role of emotions as they relate to the causes and dynamics of mass atrocities. The result is a new perspective on the social, political, and moral dimensions of emotions in the history of collective violence and its aftermath.Trade Review'This is a powerful collection, and ought to be an intellectual call to arms as the politics of the global system raises the spectre of the return of hatreds, xenophobic nationalism and othering, white supremacy and cruel fundamentalisms.' Thomas Reifer, Journal of World-Systems ResearchTable of Contents1. Introduction – emotions and mass atrocity Thomas Brudholm and Johannes Lang; Part I. Causes and Dynamics: 2. Mass exterminations and the history of emotions – the view from classical antiquity David Konstan; 3. Fear, hope, and the formation of specific intention in genocide Neta C. Crawford; 4. The proud executioner – pride and the psychology of genocide Johannes Lang; 5. Pondering hatred Thomas Brudholm and Birgitte S. Johansen; 6. Social science and the study of perpetrators Arne Johan Vetlesen; Part II. Emotional Responses: 7. 'Destroy your sight with a new gorgon' – mass atrocity and the phenomenology of horror Adriana Cavarero; 8. Perpetrator disgust: a morally destructive emotion Ditte Marie Munch-Jurisic; 9. Unravelling the meaning of survivor shame Alba Montes Sánchez and Dan Zahavi; 10. Beyond empathy and compassion: genocide and the emotional complexities of humanitarian politics Andrew A. G. Ross; Part III. Repair and Commemoration: 11. Hope(s) after genocide Margaret Urban Walker; 12. Traumatic emotions Jeffrey Blustein; 13. Embarrassment and political repair Nir Eisikovits.
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Cambridge University Press LGBTI Rights in Turkey
Book SynopsisThe LGBTI community in Turkey face real dangers. In 2015, the Turkish police interrupted the LGBTI Pride march in Istanbul, using tear gas and rubber bullets against the marchers. This marked the first attempt by the authorities to stop the parade by force, and similar actions occurred the following year. Here, Fait Muedini examines these levels of discrimination in Turkey, as well as exploring how activists are working to improve human rights for LGBTI individuals living in this hostile environment. Muedini bases his analysis on interviews taken with a number of NGO leaders and activists of leading LGBTI organisations in the region, including Lambda Istanbul, Kaos GL, Pembe Hayat, Social Policies, Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Studies Association (SPoD), and Families of LGBT''s in Istanbul (LISTAG). The original information provided by these interviews illuminate the challenges facing the LGBTI community, and the brave actions taken by activists in their attempts to challengeTable of Contents1. Islam, public opinion, and homosexuality in Turkey and the 'Muslim world'; 2. The history of human rights abuses against the LGBTI community in Turkey; 3. The lack of legal protections for the LGBTI community in Turkish law; 4. LGBTI advocacy methods and approaches: looking at the wider field; 5. The use of media in promoting sexual minority rights in Turkey; 6. Political, electoral, and legislative strategies for LGBTI rights; 7. Other forms of LGBTI rights based advocacy; 8. Challenges facing the LGBTI movement in Turkey; 9. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press SameSex Parenting and the Best Interests Principle
Book SynopsisThis book is written for academics, students, policymakers, practitioners, and non-governmental organisations interested in the legal recognition of LGBT+ parenting. The book presents arguments in favour of the legal recognition of gay and lesbian families that are based on consideration of the best interests of the child. In this context, ''best interests'' is informed by reference to children''s rights and to social science data. Applied in this manner, it is argued that the best interests of children can be used to demand that same-sex parenting arrangements are afforded legal recognition and protection. Suggestions are also presented as to the most appropriate manner of providing for this recognition in the areas of parental responsibility, adoption, donor-conception and surrogacy. These suggestions are drawn from comparative case studies, focusing on England and Wales, Ireland and South Africa, that are used to facilitate assessment of the best interests principle.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The best interests principle: theoretical understanding; 2. The best interests of the child: sociological and psychological research; 3. Parental responsibility; 4. Adoption; 5. Donor conception; 6. Surrogacy; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press International Human Rights Law and Practice
Book SynopsisThis unique textbook merges human rights law with its practice, from the courtroom to the battlefield. Human rights are analysed in their particular context, and the authors assess, among other things, the impact of international finance, the role of NGOs, and the protection of rights in times of emergency, including the challenges posed by counter-terrorism. In parallel, a series of interviews with practitioners, case studies and practical applications offer multiple perspectives and challenging questions on the effective implementation of human rights. Although the book comprehensively covers the traditional areas of international human rights law, including its regional and international legal and institutional framework, it also encompasses, through distinct chapters or large sections, areas that have a profound impact on human rights worldwide, such as women''s rights, human rights and globalisation, refugees and migration, human rights obligations of non-state actors, debt and huTrade Review'In a sea of human rights textbooks, International Human Rights Law and Practice by Professor Ilias Bantekas and Dr Lutz Oette stands out as a fresh explanation not only of the 'what' but of the 'why' and the 'how' of human rights. The text is unique in its detailed yet accessible practice focus. It is a key text for all students of human rights law who are interested in understanding how to apply the law to an array of practical situations … The third edition is greatly expanded with much new material, including new case studies and interviews and a new section on the human rights of vulnerable groups and persons.' Carla Ferstman, University of Essex'Professor Bantekas and Dr Oette's book on international human rights law and practice has over the years been established as an essential point of reference and as an authoritative contribution for those teaching, learning or practising international human rights. The third edition comes to enrich the topics covered in the book with yet more analysis, examples and resources, as well as to introduce the topic concerning the human rights of vulnerable groups and persons. Well-written and well-researched, the book succeeds, once again, to provide a well-rounded and in-depth analysis of some of the most contemporary global challenges concerning the protection of human rights, both in theory and in practice.' Elena Katselli, Newcastle UniversityTable of Contents1. International human rights law and notions of human rights: foundations, achievements and challenges; 2. International human rights law: the normative framework; 3. Human rights in practice; 4. The United Nations Charter system; 5. The UN human rights treaty system; 6. Regional human rights treaty system; 7. Individual complaints procedures; 8. Civil and political rights; 9. Economic, social and cultural rights; 10. Group rights: self-determinations, minorities and indigenous peoples; 11. The human rights of women; 12. Children's rights; 13. The recognition and protection of the human rights of vulnerable groups and persons; 14. The right to development and sustainable development; 15. Victims' rights and reparation; 16. The application of human rights in armed conflict; 17. Human rights and international criminal justice; 18. Human rights and counter-terrorism; 19. Human rights obligations of non-state actors; 20. Globalisation and its impact on human rights.
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Oriental Identities in SuperDiverse Britain Young Vietnamese in London Identity Studies in the Social Sciences
Book SynopsisTamsin Barber addresses the experience of the British-born Vietnamese as an overlooked minority population in 'super-diverse' London, exploring the emergence of the pan-ethnic 'Oriental' category as a new form of collective consciousness and identity in Britain.Trade Review"At a time when Britain is increasingly ethnically diverse, and yet still riven by social divisions and modes of 'othering' and prejudice, Tamsin Barber's study of the British Vietnamese is highly timely and engaging. Through an engaging and controversial 'take' on Orientalism, this book makes an important contribution to scholarship on ethnic minority experience in Britain." - Prof. Miri Song, University of Kent, United Kingdom "This book provides a much needed analysis of the experiences, understandings and social position of the British born Vietnamese as well as having a more international focus, filling in an innovative way a glaring gap in the literature. It is also an important and nuanced contribution to the area of migration and ethnic studies. It asks us to be mindful of the importance of gender and class and to the problems of culturalising minority groups, whilst at the same time paying attention to the ways in which the British born Vietnamese articulate and perform their social identities in multiple ways, in the context of diverse forms of exclusion and social participation. This book is essential reading for students, scholars and professionals who are concerned with how migrants and their descendants manage racialisation and disadvantage." - Prof. Floya Anthias, University of East London, United Kingdom "Oriental Identities makes a valuable contribution to the fields of critical postcolonial studies and the sociology of immigration by detailing the everyday experiences of under-researched second-generation British-born Vietnamese. It is a vital resource for anyone trying to make sense of changing ethnic identities and race relations in the context of an increasingly diverse Britain." - Yen Le Espiritu, University of California, United StatesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The British Vietnamese Diaspora 2. Orientalism, Counter-Orientalism and Identity in Multicultural Britain 3. 'Is it because I am Yellow?': Categorization and Difference among the 'Second Generation' in Britain 4. Black-British, White-British, Oriental-British? 5. Counter-Orientalisms and the Politics of Hair, Clubbing and Dating 6. Navigating 'The Vietnamese Community': Local and Transnational Belongings 7. Conclusions
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Assisted Suicide The Liberal Humanist Case Against Legalization
Book SynopsisThis book presents an atheistic case against the legalization of assisted suicide. Critical of both sides of the argument, it questions the assumptions behind the discussion. Yuill shows that our attitudes towards suicide – not euthanasia – are most important to our attitudes towards assisted suicide.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword by Brendan O'Neill Introduction Defining the Terms An Analysis of the Key Arguments on Both Sides The Origins of the Right-To-Die Movement Thinking About Suicide For Abortion, Against Assisted Suicide The Libertarian Case Against Assisted Suicide Notes and References Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Assisted Suicide The Liberal Humanist Case Against Legalization
Book SynopsisThis book presents an atheistic case against the legalization of assisted suicide. Critical of both sides of the argument, it questions the assumptions behind the discussion. Yuill shows that our attitudes towards suicide not euthanasia are most important to our attitudes towards assisted suicide.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword by Brendan O'Neill Introduction Defining the Terms An Analysis of the Key Arguments on Both Sides The Origins of the Right-To-Die Movement Thinking About Suicide For Abortion, Against Assisted Suicide The Libertarian Case Against Assisted Suicide Notes and References Index
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Picador USA We the People
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Flatiron Books The Moment of Lift
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St Martin's Press The Pink Line
Book SynopsisOne of TIME''s 100 Must-Read Books of 2020. Longlisted for the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize. [Mark] Gevisser is clear-eyed and wise enough to have a sharp sense of how tough the struggle has been, and how hard it will be now for those who have not succeeded in finding shelter from prejudice. --Colm Tóibín, The GuardianA groundbreaking look at how the issues of sexuality and gender identity divide and unite the world todayMore than seven years in the making, Mark Gevisser's The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers is an exploration of how the conversation around sexual orientation and gender identity has come to divideand describethe world in an entirely new way over the first two decades of the twenty-first century. No social movement has brought change so quickly and with such dramatically mixed results. While same-sex marriage and gender transition are celebrated in some parts of the world, la
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Lulu Press Go Out and Tell Your Story
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Lulu Press Operation Redlist Volume I
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Lulu.com Reclaim of the Sovereign Self
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Palgrave Macmillan State Civil Society and Apartheid in South Africa
Book SynopsisAn examination of the role played by civil society in the legitimisation of South Africa''s apartheid regime and its racial policy. This book focuses on the interaction of dominant groups within the Dutch Reformed Church and the South African state over the development of race policy within the broader context of state-civil society relations. This allows a theoretical examination and typology of the variety of state-civil society relations. Additionally, the particular case study demonstrates that civil society''s existence in and authoritarian situations can deter the establishment of democracy when components of civil society identify themselves with exclusive, ethnic interests.Trade Review"State, Civil Society and Apartheid in South Africa offers a useful contribution to ongoing debates over the relationship between civil society and democracy." - African Studies ReviewTable of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations State-Civil Society Relations Within South Africa The NGK's Development Within Afrikaner Civil Society (1910-1933) NGK-State Relations During UP Governance (1934-1947) NGK-State Relations During Apartheid's Early Years (1948-1961) NGK -State Relations During Apartheid's Height (1962-1978) NGK -State Relations During Apartheid's Demise (1979-1994) Conclusion Appendices Notes Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Translating International Womens Rights The CEDAW Convention in Context Gender and Politics
Book SynopsisThis book looks at the centerpiece of the international women’s rights discourse, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), and asks to what extent it affects the lives of women worldwide.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements.- List of tables, figures and boxes.- List of Acronyms.- Introduction.- 1. Theorizing norm translation – women’s rights as transnational practice.- 2. The creation of CEDAW within the global discourse on gender equality.- 3. CEDAW as a ‘living document’ – 30+ years of Committee work.- 4. A new tool in the toolbox: the Optional Protocol to the Convention.- 5. Creating ‘thick connections’ - translating activism in the CEDAW process.- 6. Auditing the contract partners: States parties’ connectivity with CEDAW.- 7. Some patches in the quilt – cases of impact translation.- Conclusion: How far can CEDAW reach? Lessons for a better understanding of norm translation.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Appendices.- Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Political Biography of the Indonesian Lesbian Bisexual and Trans Movement
Book SynopsisSaskia E. Wieringa is Honorary Emerita Professor of Gender and Women's Same-Sex Relations Crossculturally at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Wieringa is co-editor of The Sexual History of the Global South (Zed Books, 2013).
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Read Books Tribal Peoples for Tomorrows World
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Augsburg Fortress Publishers Mapping Exile and Return
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Lulu Press The Road to Fascism
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Towards the Light
Book SynopsisIn Towards the Light, A.C. Grayling tells the story of the long and difficult battle for freedom in the West, from the Reformation to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, from the battle for the vote to the struggle for the right to freedom of conscience. As Grayling passionately affirms, it is a story - and a struggle - that continues to this day as those in power use the threat of terrorism in the 21st century to roll-back the liberties that so many have fought and died to win for us. Including an appendix of landmark documents, including the British and American Bills of Rights and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the Bloomsbury Revelations edition also includes a new preface by the author reflecting on developments since the book''s original publication.Table of ContentsPreface to the Bloomsbury Revelations Edition Acknowledgements 1. Setting the Scene Part I: The Demand for Liberty 2. The Reformation and the Beginning of Modern Liberty 3. Freeing the Mind 4. The Fight Against Absolutism Part II: The Extension of Liberty 5. Slaves, Workers, Women and the Struggle for Liberty 6. The Liberty Century 7. Rights Out of Wrongs 8. The Idea of Liberty and the Verge of Betrayal Postscript Appendices: Landmarks on the Road to Freedom 1. The Bill of Rights, 1689 2. The US Bill of Rights, 1791 3. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen 4. The Chartists' 'Six Points' and Petition 5. United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Religion and the Inculturation of Human Rights in Ghana Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
Book SynopsisAbamfo Ofori Atiemo is Senior Lecturer and Head of Department for the Study of Religions, University of Ghana, Legon.Trade ReviewThis is a profound, original and timely work, relating human rights to African cultures, traditions and religions as they evolve. Its conceptual and theoretical richness give it a significance far beyond Ghana. -- Paul Gifford, Emeritus Professor of Religion at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UKThis is a wonderfully researched work that takes the history and religious culture of the societies examined into account. -- David Owusu-Ansah, Professor of History at James Madison University, USATable of Contents1. Embedding Human Rights in Local Cultures: An African Imperative 2. Religion and Human Rights: Linking Tradition and Modernity 3. Inculturating Human Rights: The Localization of a Global Culture 4. Does Ghana have a Common Culture? Exploring Historical Processes of National Identity Construction 5. Locating Religion in Ghana: Exploring the Contours of Spiritual Capital 6. Human Rights in Traditional Ghana: Exploring Indigenous Ideas of Human Dignity and Rights 7. Human Rights in Contemporary Ghana: Fruitions and Possibilities 8. Translating Human Rights in Ghana: Rooting a Secular Idea in a Religious Worldview 9. Religion and the Inculturation of Human Rights in Ghana Bibliography Index
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Authorhouse Women in Law
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Polity Press Human Rights
Book SynopsisHuman Rights is an introductory text that is both innovative and challenging. Its unique interdisciplinary approach invites students to think imaginatively and rigorously about one of the most important and influential political concepts of our time. Tracing the history of the concept, the book shows that there are fundamental tensions between legal, philosophical and social-scientific approaches to human rights. This analysis throws light on some of the most controversial issues in the field: Is the idea of the universality of human rights consistent with respect for cultural difference? Are there collective human rights? What are the underlying causes of human-rights violations? And why do some countries have much worse human-rights records than others? The third edition has been substantially revised and updated to take account of recent developments, including the Arab Spring , the civil war in Syria, the refugee crisis, ISIS and international terrorism, and climate change politics. Widely admired and assigned for its clarity and comprehensiveness, this book remains a go-to text for students in the social sciences, as well as students of human-rights law who want an introduction to the non-legal aspects of their subject.Trade ReviewThis is a terrific interdisciplinary introduction to human rights. Freeman discusses history, philosophy, theory, the UN human rights system and many of the real-life human rights challenges of the modern era, including culture, corporations and global poverty. I strongly recommend his lucid survey and lively analysis. Paul Hunt, University of Essex Serious students of international human rights continue to have a range of good sources to rely on, and Michael Freeman s fine text is certainly one of them. David P. Forsythe, University of NebraskaTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements 1-Introduction: Thinking about Human Rights 2-Origins: The Rise and Fall of Natural Rights 3- After 1945: The New Age of Rights 4- Theories of Human Rights 5- Putting Law in its Place: the Role of the Social Sciences 6-Universality, Diversity and Difference Culture and Human Rights 7-The Politics of Human Rights 8-Globalization, Development and Poverty: Economics and Human Rights 9-Conclusion: Human Rights in the Twenty-first Century References
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Referendums as Representative Democracy
Book SynopsisIn referendums on fundamental constitutional issues, do the people come together to make decisions instead of representatives? This book argues no. It offers an alternative theory of referendums whereby they are one of many ordinary ways that voters give direction to their representatives. In this way, the book argues that referendums are better understood as exercises in representative democracy.The book challenges the current treatment of referendums in processes of constitutional change both in the UK and around the world. It argues that referendums have been used under the banner of popular sovereignty in a way that undermines representative institutions. This book makes the case for the use of referendums stronger by showing how they can support, rather than undermine, institutions of representative democracy.Understanding referendums as exercises in representative democracy has broader implications for constitutional democracy as well. Rather than see the power to constitute constitutions as something that happens occasionally in exceptional moments through referendums, this book argues instead that voters constantly have the power to constitute and reconstitute their constitutions.
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Bloomsbury Academic Referendums as Representative Democracy
Book SynopsisIn referendums on fundamental constitutional issues, do the people come together to make decisions instead of representatives? This book argues no. It offers an alternative theory of referendums whereby they are one of many ordinary ways that voters give direction to their representatives. In this way, the book argues that referendums are better understood as exercises in representative democracy.The book challenges the current treatment of referendums in processes of constitutional change both in the UK and around the world. It argues that referendums have been used under the banner of popular sovereignty in a way that undermines representative institutions. This book makes the case for the use of referendums stronger by showing how they can support, rather than undermine, institutions of representative democracy.Understanding referendums as exercises in representative democracy has broader implications for constitutional democracy as well. Rather than see the power to constitute constitutions as something that happens occasionally in exceptional moments through referendums, this book argues instead that voters constantly have the power to constitute and reconstitute their constitutions.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Cyberbullying and Sexting
Book SynopsisDrawing on two empirical studies and influential theoretical frameworks, this book provides a critical overview of the key regulatory challenges concerning cyberbullying and sexting behaviours among young people (persons under 18 years). The author explores issues such as conceptualising the behaviours, examining the prevailing presence of sexism, myths and stereotypes surrounding gender roles and identity, and the limitations of criminal law as an effective regulatory tool. In doing so, identifying peer-based sexting behaviours as part of a continuum of sexual behaviour is promoted alongside the need to consider interventions beyond the legal landscape and in line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. In the main, priority is given to non-legal responses and the need for more effective and comprehensive gender-sensitive education programmes. The book therefore provides a more developed conceptual understanding of sexting and cyberbullying behaviours among young people.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Building Bridges in European and Human Rights Law
Book SynopsisThis unique book, formed as a series of essays in honour of the memory of Paul Heim CMG, the founder of Lincoln's Inn European Group, focusses on the building of bridges between individuals and institutions in European, international, and human rights law. The book features contributions from some of the foremost current or former European and international judges; leading practitioners and officials, each with links to Lincoln's Inn, and former recipients of Lincoln's Inn's dedicated scholarship programmes. The approachable style of the book makes it readily accessible for a wide range of readers including legal scholars, practitioners, students, and those with a general interest in the application of the law and justice in today's interconnected world. Each contribution provides personal reflections and expertise on selected aspects of European and human rights law, and the personal, professional, and technical bridges involved in their development and maintenance, together with insights into their future. The book provides multi-level perspectives on the Court of Justice of the European Union, the EFTA Court, the European Court of Human Rights, and the International Criminal Court, and the interaction of their jurisprudence with domestic law and between themselves, alongside our ever-evolving societies.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Disabling Criminal Justice
Book SynopsisThis book considers the governance of autistic defendants and offenders in the UK courts. Utilising the social model of disability, it considers the dominant strategies of governance, including vulnerability', which the author argues obscures the rights of disabled people in the criminal justice system. In doing so it sheds light on how this group should be governed. Drawing on rigorously-researched case studies of autistic adult defendants through the court process, the book brings together relevant legal and policy literature, criminological and criminal justice theory and disability studies to provide insight into the dividing practices' that affect the governance of disabled defendants' conduct. Using interviews with elites and practitioners, textual analysis, and court observation of eight autistic adult defendants through their court process, the book investigates why the status of autistic defendants as disabled under the Equality Act 2010 has been overlooked in criminal justice policy and criminal court decision-making. It explores the impact of the collateral' effects and symbiotic harm' of the criminal justice process on family members who support these defendants through the criminal justice process.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Banning Conversion Therapy
Book SynopsisThis book looks at why and how states should legally ban LGBTQ+ conversion therapy'. Few states have legislated against the practice, with many currently considering its legal ban. Banning Conversion Therapy' brings together leading academics, legal and medical practitioners, policymakers, and activists to illuminate the legislative and non-legislative steps that are required to protect individuals from the harms of conversion therapy' in different contexts. The book considers how best to address this complex and interdisciplinary legal problem which cuts across human rights law, criminal law, family law, and socio-legal studies, and which represents one of the key contemporary problems of LGBTQ+ equality and national and international human rights activism.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Equality Before the Law
Book SynopsisThis book presents a defence of the value of equality within law which is neither purely formal nor an entirely speculative theory of justice. It does this by combining a theoretical with a doctrinal project. At the theoretical level, it argues that there is a distinct and meaningful conception of equality before the law which can be separated from concerns of distributive justice. It therefore rejects the claim that legal equality is merely formal. Rather, it is grounded in the equal moral status of all legal subjects. The demand that individuals be treated in accordance with the principle of equality before the law, then, requires that they not be treated in ways that would deny their equal moral standing. This principle of moral equality is the fundamental normative basis of the rule of law. This general claim is applied, in the second half of the book, to antidiscrimination law. It is argued here that the wrong of wrongful discrimination consists in implicit or explicit denial of the equal moral status of legal subjects. This is also a core wrong that the common law seeks to remedy via judicial review and is thus intimately tied to legality itself. In the final chapter, these two strands are brought together to defend the idea that law is a public asset which must be directed towards advancing the best interests of those it governs. This kind of equality principle, one which sets the outermost limits of the use of public power, must look beyond individual rights claims. It manifests a fundamental commitment to substantive equality manifest in a commitment to collective flourishing without tying it to group-based distributive concerns which arise from distinct social and historical contexts and require the exercise of political authority to choose among a range of plausible options for their resolution.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Business Human Rights and Natural Resource Governance
Book SynopsisRicardo Pereira is Reader in Law at Cardiff University, UK.Annalisa Savaresi is Associate Professor in Law at the University of Eastern Finland, Finland.Lee McConnell is Senior Lecturer in Law at Bristol University, UK.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Admissibility of Evidence in EU CrossBorder Criminal Proceedings
Book SynopsisThis book provides a systematic and analytical account of the problems facing transnational criminal justice.It details actual problems arising in the transnational prosecution of crimes; assesses existing obstacles on admissibility of evidence; in particular with regard to electronic evidence, assesses the impact that the impediment of free circulation of evidence has on fundamental rights of the defendants facing criminal trial; and finally drafts a proposal for the future of regulation for this complex topic.The book therefore contributes to the debate on the creation of an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice in the EU. It offers insights on how to outline the main general rules that could be adopted at EU level in a manner that adequately balances the need for efficiency in prosecution and the protection of human rights.With contributions of renowned experts in the field, the book addresses the discussion of a potential legislative proposal with the help of insight into the experience and conceptual context of the rules of evidence at the national level. The legislative proposal was adopted by the European Law Institute, who supported the work reflected in this book.
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